AAP Oral Health Risk Assessment Training
for Pediatricians and Other Child Health Professionals
This training is based on the AAP policy statement "Oral Health Risk Assessment Timing and Establishment of the Dental Home" and provides an overview of how to perform an oral examination and conduct an oral health risk assessment for infants and young children. Although general information about oral health disease in
children is presented, the primary focus is on early childhood dental caries. This online training is free, and CME credit is available.
AAP Protecting All Children's Teeth (PACT): A Pediatric Oral Health Training Program
The online PACT training
aims to educate pediatricians,
pediatricians in training,
and others
interested in infant, child, and adolescent health about
the important
role
that oral health plays in the overall health of patients.
The
13-chapter module is free, and CME credit is available.
ADA Straight-from-the-Mouth Video Podcast
"Straight from the Mouth" is a new series of video podcasts produced by the ADA. Hosted by Drs Ruchi Sahota and Eric Grove, each podcast episode will cover a topic related to oral health. Episode 1 of the monthly series addresses dental anxiety.
Dental
Health Screening and Fluoride Varnish Application
This training is designed
to provide the knowledge and tools needed to provide oral health prevention education
and treatment to children at risk for tooth decay.
Early
Childhood Caries: A Medical & Dental Perspective
This interactive
program includes multiple-choice and true/false questions that provide immediate
feedback to allow a person to assess his or her knowledge of the topics presented.
Early Childhood Oral Health Training
Presented by the Child Care Education Institute this course offers child care professionals the opportunity to discover the importance of oral health in early childhood. This 1-clock-hour online course provides early childhood professionals with information on the importance of early and consistent oral health care for young children (birth to age 5). Students will learn classroom and home strategies for teaching children good oral health habits and the factors that contribute to tooth decay. Students completing the course will be awarded 0.1 IACET CEU and receive a certificate of completion. This course is free in February 2010! To take advantage of this opportunity, use the promotion code 020110 when prompted.
Health Literacy Training
The purpose of this training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to educate public health professionals on the importance of health literacy and their role in providing health information and promoting public health literacy.
Healthy Smiles Through Child Care Consultation
This distance learning course is designed to help child care consultants assist child care facilities in improving their oral health practices and policies. Topics include tooth development, oral diseases, prevention, access to care, oral health promotion, and children with special health
care needs. Healthy Smiles is a project of the National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants and is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Medical
Providers Oral Health Education Project: New Hampshire
2002-2005
This
resource describes a project to educate physicians and dental hygienists about
dental caries in infants and children ages 3 and younger. Materials include age-specific
forms and handouts such as questionnaires, assessment and recommendation forms,
and protocols.
A
Health Professional’s Guide to Pediatric Oral Health Management
This program provides a series of 7 self-contained online modules designed to
assist health professionals in managing the oral health of infants and young children.
Ohio Dental Safety Net Information Center Training Program
The Ohio Dental Safety Net Information Center now offers 3 curricula for free continuing education (CE) credit to dentists and dental hygienists licensed in Ohio. The modules in this curriculum provide a framework for assessing patients' risk for dental caries and determining subsequent prevention, treatment, and education strategies. The modules also include information about dental caries prevention, examination, restorative treatment, and recall intervals. This curriculum was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts with funding from the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Oral Health Services. It was designed and is hosted by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center.
Opening the
Mouth
This Web-based training program provides non-oral-health professionals
with an introduction to oral health and tooth decay in infants and toddlers. This
program discusses the prevalence of tooth decay among children, tooth decay as
a chronic disease, unmet oral health care needs among children, and the consequences
of these unmet needs.
Open
Wide: Oral Health Training for Health Professionals
A series of 4 self-contained
online modules designed to help health and early childhood professionals working
in community settings (eg, Head Start and WIC staff) promote oral health in the
course of promoting general health for infants, children, and their families.
This curriculum offers health and early childhood professionals information to
help them prevent tooth decay, which still afflicts many U.S. children, especially
children from families with low incomes, children in certain minority groups,
and children with special health care needs.
Oral
Health Tutorial Providing a Brief Overview of Early Childhood Caries for Non-Dental
Professionals
This tutorial is designed for non-oral health professionals
who work with infants and young children and children with special health care
needs.
Planning
Guide for Dental Professionals Serving Children with Special Health Care Needs
Developed by the University of Southern California University Affiliated Program,
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, this manual promotes a framework within which
oral health professionals can communicate and work with families to ensure that
appropriate, quality oral health care is provided both at home and in the dental
office.
Promoting
Children's Oral Health
This curriculum is written for those working in
the field of early care and education with an interest
in promoting oral health,
including health and Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals,
such as
Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs), school nurses and Child Care Health Advocate
(CCHAs). This curriculum provides up-to-date information and strategies to promote
oral
health that are specific to infants and young children. It also provides
effective and practical
lesson plans for child care providers, parents and
children.
School-Based Dental Sealant Programs in Ohio
This series of modules is designed to ensure that school-based dental sealant program staff have a thorough understanding of the history, operations, and underlying principles of programs funded by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). Although targeted to programs in Ohio, much of the information is applicable nationwide. The modules provide detailed guidelines for infection control in school-based programs; discuss tooth selection and assessment for dental sealants; review the dental sealant application process; and provide information about program operations, with an emphasis on the specific requirements that apply to programs funded by the ODH.
Smiles for Life
Smiles for Life is a comprehensive oral health curriculum for physicians developed
by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Oral Health and reviewed and accepted for up to 12.5 prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. It is designed to be implemented in Family Medicine residency training programs to allow educators to meet requirements mandating education of physicians in oral health; however, the materials can also be easily implemented in the medical school setting and in medicine, pediatric, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner graduate education programs. The curriculum is based on
seven
45-minute
PowerPoint
modules covering core areas of oral health, including the relationship of oral and systemic
health; child oral health; acute dental problems, fluoride varnish, and the oral health examination. Also included
are a comprehensive
set of educational objectives based
on the ACGME competencies,
test questions, resources for further
learning, and an implementation guide that
includes
a detailed outline
of the modules.
Smile Smarts: An Oral Health Curriculum for Preschool-Grade 8
This curriculum
provides oral health instruction for students in preschool through eighth grade.
Contents include modular lesson plans, support materials, hands on classroom demonstrations,
student activity sheets, and suggestions for additional oral health activities.
Special Care: An
Oral Health Professional's Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care
Needs
This curriculum provides oral health professionals with information
to ensure that young children with special health care needs have access to health-promotion
and disease-prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in
a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner.
TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN)
A free service of the Public Health Foundation, TRAIN is an educational resource for professionals who protect the public's health.
Learners can use TRAIN to search or browse the nationwide database for onsite or distance learning courses, sign up for e-mails about new courses, create a personal learning record of competency-based training, provide and view course feedback, register online for courses, and earn continuing education credit (often at no cost).
University
of Connecticut Oral Health Web-based Curriculum
The University of Connecticut Health Center's
Oral Health Web site is designed to improve the oral health of infants and children
through the improvement of effective oral
health education of physicians, residents,
and
medical students.
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