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Dental and Allied Dental Teaching Methodology
Course Instructor: Cynthia Biron Leiseca, RDH, EMT, MA
In this all day session, course participants receive 8 ceu's for a teaching methodology course that will prepare them to provide current classroom and clinical teaching techniques. The new content in this course includes electronic documents provided on a flash drive that include Power Point Presentations, and instructor guides to teaching and evaluating students in classroom and clinical courses. Additional sessions include group activities and interactions for dealing with student behavioral and motivational problems.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
· Describe the structure of the “ideal learning environment”, its components and methods for creating and maintaining this environment.
· List the attributes of the ideal faculty member, program administrator, and other team members.
· Describe learning style inventories and become familiar with several types on the course flash drive .
· Define and differentiate the eight types of critical thinking standards.
· Apply all eight types of critical thinking standards when constructing test questions.
· Develop fictitious cases for use in case based teaching, testing and faculty calibration.
· Conduct faculty clinical case scenarios for calibration sessions utilizing techniques learned in this course.
· Describe the phases involved in teaching psychomotor skills.
· Describe the methods for successful instruction given to students “over the top” of the patient receiving treatment.
· Describe methods of evaluation that provide a valid prediction of students with true potential for the dental assisting and dental hygiene professions.
· Using a systematic structure, describe the appropriate methods for giving written and verbal feedback to students for effectiveness as well as legal representation.
· Explain how to conduct outcomes assessments of clinical teaching and student learning.
· Plan a successful remediation system for students.
Ethics, Quality Assurance, Affiliations & Legal Issues This course contains four modules in one 8 hour day (8ceu's)
The Course Leader, Robin Matloff, RDH, BSDH, JD, is an expert in this subject area as she is an attorney and an RDH. She and her team, consisting of Christine Dominick CDA, RDH, MEd (Accreditation expert), Michele Edwards, CDA, RDH, MS (Community & Affiliation Agreement expert) and Debra Burtoft, RDH, BS, (Medical Errors Presenter) come together to provide this excellent workshop. This is an all day (8 hour workshop).
The first module is a four hour workshop that will provide the participant with the knowledge and skills to comfortably teach a course in ethics. This module will include content on the Dental Code of Ethics, jurisprudence, value determination, ethical decision making model, educational theories, dilemma resolution, ethics in the professional organization, sexual harassment and occupational burnout. A review of the ADEA Statement and Tool for Action on Professionalism in Dental Education will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to work collaboratively applying case based scenarios as a means for developing critical thinking skills for student learning.
The second session will include in-depth explanation, strategies, tools and templates of the Quality Assurance Standard of Care Plan for clinic operations in your facility and at externship rotations, all in accordance with ADACODA Standard 6-2.
The third session provides an understanding and guide to preparation of legal documents for affiliation agreements with institutions who provide extramural or externship rotations for your programs. All ADACODA standards related to this session are incorporated and further explained in this session.
The forth session includes a medical errors presentation that provides the course participants with current research and statistics on types and incidences of medical errors that have occurred in the United States and strategies for prevention of such errors.
The entire 8 hour day includes as part of its tuition, a flash drive with all course materials, templates, presentations and samples of legal documents for further enrichment with your own institutions faculty and staff members.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the workshop the participant will be able to:
The Morning Session
· Develop a course in ethics as it relates to the dental profession.
· Develop case based group activities related to the Dental Code of Ethics utilizing the ethical decision making model.
· Present course information to students on jurisprudence in a knowledgeable and organized manner.
· Teach students to apply critical thinking skills to ethical dilemmas.
· Incorporate the ADEA Statement and Tool on Professionalism in Dental Education for student self-evaluation.
Afternoon Session:
· Develop an extensive Quality Assurance Plan for Patient Centered, Evidence Based Care.
· Execute the Quality Assurance Plan by providing an excellent presentation of the plan to your faculty.
· Effectively delegate responsibilities to each faculty member making this an on-going, seamless, successful plan for your institution.
· Prepare appropriate legal documents as Affiliation Agreements for off campus extramural and externship clinic.
· Become a liaison to your dental community through the establishment of extramural and externship clinics.
· Effectively conduct research on medical errors and create a plan and presentation to provide an in-service for your own faculty.
The Complete Case Based Workshop for DA & DH Educators
Course Leader: Debra Burtoft, RDH, BS
This course has been expanded to a full 8 hour workshop.
The morning session of the course includes electronic copies of a case based course syllabus, schedule of classes and clinics, and completed cases that include national board type test questions. Learning activities for the attendees will include constructing cases and writing critical thinking questions utilizing all critical thinking standards. The course is designed to prepare allied dental educators to teach students using an investigative case based format. The format provided is a systematic approach in methods of teaching students to apply the concepts in constructing and presenting periodontal case studies. This is not a complete course in periodontology. It is a case based course with periodontology as the subject. It would be considered a co requisite clinic or lab for a didactic periodontology theory course. The case based templates could be applied to any allied dental course. As part of the course activity, each course attendee will develop cases for their own subject area in dental assisting, dental hygiene or dental laboratory technology. Two types of case based formats will be included as examples, one from actual patient experiences, and another from fictional cases that require students to conduct a critical review of the current literature on specific patient conditions and situations. In addition to the completed cases that are provided in electronic format as part of the course tuition, all cases developed by the course attendees during the activities will be placed on the flash drives. Each attendee will also prepare critical thinking questions for their cases.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this session, the participant will be able to:
· Develop a case based course for the allied dental curricula.
· Develop a bank of cases and case based questions for student exams.
· Prepare students to compile patient case information and present findings in classes.
· Plan small group activities that include internet research for case construction and presentation.
· Teach students to develop the skill to investigate individual cases presented in testing sessions.
· Teach students to interpret and prepare critical thinking test questions.
The afternoon session of the course is dedicated to extensive faculty calibration through the use of case based teaching scenarios and clinical simulations provided through videos, and manikins. Break out sessions for DA and DH will allow for an emphasis on the needs for calibrating faculty in their specific disciplines.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this session the participant will be able to:
· Teach their own program faculty how to prepare simulated cases for teaching, testing and calibrating.
· Plan an effective calibration workshop for their own program faculty.
· Lead their own program faculty through the methodical calibration workshop using case based scenarios.
· Lead their own program faculty through the steps of preparing additional calibration sessions in the subject areas in which they teach.
Dental Assisting & Dental Hygiene Accreditation Workshops
Course Leader: Christine Dominick, CDA, RDH, MEd
Presenter 2: Michele Edwards, CDA, RDH, MS
The course descriptions for both dental assisting and dental hygiene accreditation workshops are the same, but various sections of the workshops are separated into break out groups to allow focus on each discipline with specific needs addressed standard by standard:
Accreditation Workshop AM
This four hour morning session is designed to assist educators with the accreditation process, and it provides detailed instructions on demonstrating compliance with accreditation Standards 1 through 2. An emphasis is placed on the standards that are most frequently cited. Updates and changes in standards are compared with previous accreditation standards to assist attendees in providing what is now expected for each standard. The course includes a flash drive with electronic documents which serve as templates for exhibits that can serve as supportive documentation in their self-study documents. The first set of exhibits contains an outcomes assessment matrix, outcomes assessment tools, and visual presentations of program findings and performances for immediate analysis. Information on the curriculum, including the Curriculum Management Plan and all aspects of these standards, including the clinical education, are addressed in this course. Electronic exhibits provide supportive documentation for the clinical education portions of Standard 2. The course does not provide participants with entire electronic self-study documents or guarantee one's success at preparing a self-study document or a recommendation free report from their visiting site team.
Learning Outcomes:
At the completion of the course the participants will be able to:
· Define accreditation Standards 1 through 2 and methods for demonstrating program compliance with each standard.
· Describe the requirements for conducting outcomes assessments and analyzing them for program changes.
· Describe the curriculum requirements and an effective curriculum management plan.
· Describe the ADACODA standards for the dental hygiene clinical education.
· Utilize electronic exhibits provided on your flash drive and edit them for individual program use.
· Utilize strategies for delegating portions of Standards 1 and 2 to various faculty members.
Accreditation Workshop PM Session
The four hour afternoon session is designed to assist educators with the entire accreditation process, and it provides detailed instructions on demonstrating compliance with accreditation Standards 3 through 6. An emphasis is placed on the standards that are most frequently cited. Updates and changes in the standards are compared with previous accreditation standards to assist attendees in providing what is now expected from the standards. This course includes a flash drive with electronic documents which serve as templates for exhibits that can serve as supportive documentation in self-study documents. The electronic documents on the flash drive include a Radiation Safety Plan, Exposure Control Plan, Medical Emergency Plan, and Quality Assurance Plan.
Finally, this course provides a step by step guide to organizing and preparing your self-study document. We will have complete self-study documents at the end of the day for your review to assist you with planning the format of your own school's document. Guidelines for conducting a successful site visit are provided in this course. The Do's and Don'ts of the site visit will be clearly explained to the attendees. This course does not provide participants with entire self-study electronic documents or guarantee one's success at preparing a self-study document or a recommendation free report from their visiting site team.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
· Describe the content necessary for demonstrating compliance with Standards 3-6 in your self-study document.
· Plan your radiation safety manual using the document on your flash drive as your guide.
· Plan your Medical Emergency Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide.
· Plan your Exposure Control Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide.
· Plan your Quality Assurance Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide.
· Plan your self-study document with the step by step guide included in this course.
· Plan for a successful site visit using the step by step guide included in this course.
Radiology Educator's Workshop
Course Instructor: John W. Preece, DDS, MS
This course provides participants with advanced training in radiology for credentialing to teach radiology in dental schools as well as allied dental programs. The 20 hour workshop includes teaching methodology specific to radiology instruction. (20 ceu's)
Lecture & Workshop Instructional Objectives - in brief
Radiation Biology
· A review of fundamental principles of radiation biology, radiation units, and radiation risks associated with diagnostic dental radiographs. There will also be a discussion of current concepts associated with repair of radiation damage and how these concepts reduce the underlying risks associated with diagnostic imaging.
Quality Intraoral Image
· A review of fundamental principles in producing and maintaining diagnostically acceptable radiographic images will be presented. Quality assurance principles, along with the simple tests required to evaluate x-ray unit function and film processing will be included.
Grading and Scoring Strategies for intraoral radiographs
· The importance of establishing specific criteria for grading student radiographs in a pre-clinical and clinical environment. Grading strategies will be discussed.
Digital imaging
· A review of current concepts in digital imaging - photostimulable phosphor and charge coupled devices will be discussed, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each system type.
Principles of Panoramic Radiography
· A review of panoramic imaging theory, along with a comprehensive analysis of the panoramic image will be presented. Normal anatomy, ghost & artifact shadow formation will be emphasized as they relate to the diagnostic process.
Teaching Radiographic Interpretation to Beginners
· An overview of the visual system and strategies to help students begin to recognize and describe common radiographic anomalies that they may encounter during review of patient radiographic records. The emphasis here is on common radiographic findings, NOT the rare & unusual.
NCRP Report 145, the Good, Bad & the Ugly
· NCRP Report 145, Radiation Protection in dentistry contains 106 recommendations intended to change the practice of dental radiography in the U.S. Recommendations of the report will be summarized along with their implications. Systematic errors in the report's analysis of radiobiological principles will be presented for discussion.
Radiology Group Activity Objectives
· [Group activities are provided to compliment the corresponding lecture component and provide practical understanding of theoretical concepts and their application to dental radiography]
Group activity - Panoramic Radiographs
· [Compliments Principles of Panoramic Radiography & Teaching Radiographic Interpretation to Beginners lectures] Hands on experiences evaluating panoramic radiographs with regard to identification of normal anatomy, ghost & artifact shadows, with an emphasis on enhancing participant's ability to recognizing a wide variety of common dental radiographic anomalies as seen on panoramic radiographs.
Group activity - Panoramic Trouble shooting
· Compliments Principles of Panoramic Radiography lecture] Hands on experiences evaluating panoramic radiographs with an emphasis on enhancing participant's ability to recognize the cause of a wide variety of technique & processing errors.
Radiology Curriculum - teaching strategies & issues
· A three hour workshop on dental radiology curriculum design and sequencing, assessing competency in radiography, teaching strategies to help make teaching various "theoretical principles" understandable to students from a wide variety of educational backgrounds. This workshop deals with a wide range of topics with some group participation & discussion. A lot of "How do you teach…" "What do you do if/when…." types of issues. Making radiation physics fun and other challenges.
The Complete Nutrition Course for Allied Health Educators
Course Leader: Becky Sroda RDH, MS
Associate Dean of Allied Health/Director of Dental Education at South Florida Community College. Author of the textbook “Nutrition for a Healthy Mouth”
This half-day presentation will benefit participants who wish to:
· Teach a didactic Nutrition course in Dental Education
· Are responsible for grading processes on clinical nutritional counseling
· Clinical dental assistants and dental hygienists wishing to incorporate more nutritional counseling into their daily practice
Using the textbook “Nutrition for a Healthy Mouth”, topics are organized into teachable units that include PowerPoint Presentations, classroom activities, and suggestions for online assignments. The course instructor will impart helpful tips for patient compliance during nutritional counseling, developed over the past 20 years. Participants will have the opportunity to work with diet diary forms and simulate a counseling session using the most effective talking points and communication skills. All materials will be provided in electronic format on flash drives for each attendee.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
· Develop a complete Nutrition course for Dental Education according to ADEA guidelines, beginning with basic knowledge and terms and ending with skillful counseling techniques.
· Set up MyPyramid accounts for patients to balance their energy input and output.
· Incorporate classroom and online activities into a nutrition course that will accompany units of instruction.
· Analyze completed diet diaries to determine if a dietary change is needed to prevent oral disease.
· Identify unhealthy eating habits and make suggestions for improvement.
Complete Pharmacology Course
Course Instructors: Cynthia Biron Leiseca, RDH, EMT, MA Cathleen Korondi, RDH, MS
This course includes the entire contents of a pharmacology course for dental hygiene students. The course includes the course manual, syllabus, power point presentations, class activities and case based quizzes and exams. The entire course is placed in electronic format on a flash drive for each course attendee. The instructors will direct course attendees in the methods of teaching pharmacology to dental hygiene students. Ways of simplifying the complex topics of pharmacology are clearly explained so that seasoned and novice educators will be well prepared to deliver the information in their own pharmacology courses. The course can be applied in conjunction with any of the pharmacology textbooks currently available for dental hygiene education.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
· Develop a complete pharmacology course for dental hygiene education, beginning with basic knowledge of bodily handling of drugs and the classes of drugs and concerns of those drugs in dentistry.
· Present class lectures in pharmacology and have the tools and ability to help students understand the information and apply it to the clinical setting.
· Incorporate classroom and online activities into a pharmacology course that will accompany units of instruction.
· Incorporate critical thinking through case-based teaching and testing of the principles of pharmacology .
Complete Dental Materials Course
Course Instructor: MaryAnn Butler, DDS
This course includes the entire contents of a dental materials course for dental assisting and dental hygiene students. The course includes the course manual, syllabus, power point presentations, dental materials laboratory sessions, quizzes and exams. The entire course is placed in electronic format on a flash drive for each course attendee. The instructor will direct course attendees in the methods of teaching a dental materials course that includes an introduction to the chemical and physical handling characteristics of materials commonly used in dentistry. These materials include precious and non-precious metals, ceramics, dental amalgam, acrylic plastics, filled and non-filled resins, porcelains, implants, and various waxes.
Learning Outcomes:
At the completion of the course the attendees will have the ability and course materials to teach dental assisting and dental hygiene students to:
· Describe how the oral environment is a hostile environment to any dental material.
· Explain the means by which dental materials are described, defined & understood.
· List the various materials used under permanent restorations and what role they perform.
· Explain what materials are used in directly placed esthetic restorations.
· Explain what materials are used in posterior teeth as directly placed restorations.
· List the materials used as cast restorations and their properties.
· List the various impression materials and their physical, chemical, and utilization differences.
· Discuss the various materials used as temporary restoratives and their strengths and weaknesses.
· Describe what different polymers are used in dentistry and how.
· Describe metals and their uses in Orthodontics. Pediatric Dentistry and Prosthodontics.
· Describe the various materials used in finishing and polishing restorations and appliances.
· List the types of dental implants, the materials used in them, and the strengths and weaknesses of each kind.
· Demonstrate competency in handling a variety of dental materials, some in the laboratory exercises and others clinically.
· According to the specified criteria, produce acceptable temporary crowns, alginate impressions, stone study models, bleaching trays, mouth guards and night guards, acceptable sealants, temporary restorations and crowns, polished amalgams, custom trays and polished dentures.
· In the clinical setting, correctly place sealant materials when indicated, both self cure and light cure.
How to Teach Periodontal Instrumentation
This course provides the words and the ways for teaching and critiquing instrumentation. To ascertain that each participant’s individual needs are met, there is a low ratio of one instructor to every six course participants. The course is limited to 30 participants. Typodonts containing our unique calculus are used for this workshop. Hu-Friedy instruments are loaned to the attendees for the workshop. Dental hygiene students will perform instrumentation for attendees to conduct a corroborative error calibration session. Our instructors will show you how to critique and help any students to correct their instrumentation errors. This course will help you meet accreditation Standard 3-7 for teaching methodology for clinical instructors. The course tuition includes two DVD's, Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation, 2nd Edition and A Focus on Fulcrums, and The Sharpening Horse for the latest instrument sharpening technique.
Part I How to Teach Basic Instrumentation
Cynthia Biron Leiseca, RDH, EMT, MA
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to perform and demonstrate methods of calibrating and teaching:
· The latest concepts in instrumentation that include the ergonomic techniques taught in these camps.
· The ability to use a methodical approach to teaching self-evaluation of instrumentation skills and mechanisms for perfecting skills.
· The advanced fulcrum finger grasp and the rationale for advancing the fulcrum finger.
· The stretching exercises for the development of the hand and finger flexibility and coordination necessary to perform the latest techniques.
· The relationship of handle placement to clock position.
· The latest leverage and physics in opposition fulcrum and "Facilitated Fulcrum" techniques for effortless hand instrumentation.
· The difference between scaling strokes from shaving/smoothing strokes!
Part II How to Teach Advanced Root Instrumentation
Course Leader: Christine Dominick, CDA, RDH, MS
Participants will be shown a wide variety of instruments specifically designed for advanced root instrumentations. One-on-one sessions with a 1:6 instructor to participant ratio will afford the opportunity for selecting specific instruments for each aspect of the tooth roots, and perfecting the techniques for thoroughly instrumenting each area.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of Part II of the course, the participant will be able to perform and describe methods of calibrating and teaching the following:
· Naming the various instruments designed for root instrumentation.
· The design of the various instruments and how they adapt to each aspect of the roots.
· The techniques for thorough root instrumentation.
· The advantages of the "Facilitated Fulcrums" for use with the instruments designed for advanced root instrumentation.
· The Self-assess instrumentation techniques by using the videos as well as step by step directions for self-assessment.
· Instrument sharpening.
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