2012 Welcome from Director of CPD

The School is proud to present to the dental profession our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program for 2012, which builds on our past work in this important activity but extends it in some new directions. I wish to acknowledge the work done by previous CPD Directors and CPD staff in the School who have built our operations and brand to their current level of quality.
 
In keeping with our School’s mission to present quality educational opportunities for all members of the dental team, we have a number of courses to suit dental assistants, practice managers, dental prosthetists, oral health therapists, dental therapists and dental hygienists.
 
Our radiology programs are of outstanding quality and I would recommend that staff from dental practices with OPG or cone beam equipment attend these to gain the best from this technology. We also offer radiology certification for intra- and extra-oral radiology within the framework of our CPD program.
 
We are expanding in 2012 the range of courses we offer for certification and expansion of scope of practice, and we will be taking some of these programs interstate during the year as well as making some available for self-paced learning to suit dental team members who are outside major centres.
 
We will be offering the highly popular tooth whitening course interstate as well as in Brisbane at intervals during the year. This Dental Board approved course has been very popular and has created a cohort of well trained and highly informed dental practitioners who are able to offer this treatment safely and effectively.
 
A new course for oral health therapists which focusses on the 0-4 year old age group has been developed, and in the latter half of 2012 we will bring this into our CPD program in both delivered lecture mode and flexible modes – with a companion hands-on course another first!
 
With considerable change in some of the regulatory frameworks of dental infection control, we are pleased to offer two new courses - the first to help practice owners and practice managers come to grip with their obligations, and the second targeted at dental assistants and concentrating on practice audits in infection control. We will continue to offer our foundation training in infection control (a weekend course which gains credit within the ADAQ Certificate 3 in Dental Assisting course) as well as the popular one day update in contemporary infection control for all members of the dental team.
 
With impending national harmonization of radiation safety regulations in the coming years we are taking a leading role by offering our laser training courses not only in Brisbane but also interstate as well as in flexible delivery mode. The suite of courses includes a course for diode laser users, a course for other class 4 laser users, and a course specifically designed for oral health therapists. The latter course was launched in 2011 and was heavily subscribed.
 
I would like to thank our 2012 sponsors for their support of the UQ CPD program, and express my gratitude to our presenters, both from our own staff and those from outside the university. We are grateful for the time and effort our presenters put into delivering courses and I personally thank them for their support.
 
I hope you enjoy the CPD activities provided to you by our UQ School of Dentistry CPD program, and I look forward to seeing you at a course (or two) during 2012.
 
Professor Laurie Walsh
Director of CPD and Head, UQ School of Dentistry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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