CPD guidelines – Continuing Professional Development
CPD guidelines – Continuing Professional Development
The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (National Law) came into effect on 1 July 2010 whereby all dental practitioners in Australia have to meet the CPD requirements set by the Dental Board of Australia’s Registration Standard.
In summary, the CPD Registration Standard requires all dental practitioners to:
- complete a minimum of 60 hours of CPD activities over three years
- ensure that 80% of the minimum 60 CPD hours are clinically or scientifically based
- make a declaration of their compliance with CPD requirements at the time of annual renewal
- maintain their own records detailing their CPD activities for audit purposes
- produce evidence of their CPD activities when requested to do so by the Board.
The CPD guidelines provide detail explanations of these terms, as follows:
For an activity to be recognised as clinically or scientifically based, it must relate to the scientific, clinical or technical aspects of oral health care. Activities about infection control, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or patient record keeping, for instance, would be classified as clinical/scientific, as would topics relating to oral health or particular dental procedures such as endodontics, caries treatment, crown preparations etc. Non-scientific activities are those that are indirectly related to but supportive of dental care, and include courses about practice management and dento-legal responsibilities. Subjects that relate to a dental practitioner’s financial wellbeing (such as marketing or personal finance) would not be considered to be clinically or scientifically based. The activities need to contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of a dental practitioner’s knowledge, skills and performance of oral health care.
The subject matter of CPD may also include activities in dentistry outside the dental practitioner’s usual practice, for example dental prosthetists may undertake study about implants, drug therapies and digital radiography; dental therapists and hygienists on prosthetics and occlusal therapy or orthodontics. This type of subject matter would be considered a scientific activity.
What has been known as “Continuing Education, or CE credits” will in most cases translate to hourly CPD credits. In general, attending a course for seven hours would be equivalent to 7 hours of CPD hours, provided that the time is invested in CPD programs that meet the Board’s guidelines.
CPD guidelines - Continuing Professional Development
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The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (National Law) came into effect on 1 July 2010 whereby all dental practitioners in Australia have to meet the CPD requirements set by the Dental Board of Australia's Registration Standard.
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