Continuing Education

Continuing education opportunities

At the Indiana University School of Dentistry, education doesn’t stop at graduation. In the Office of Continuing Education we offer a variety of professional education opportunities for dentists and allied dental professionals to expand their knowledge and meet their requirements for continued licensure.

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Office of Continuing Education

Phone: 317-278-9002
Email: rfuentes@iu.edu

ACDE Provence and Cote d'Azur CE

Indiana University School of Dentistry has joined forces with dental schools around the country to offer you this incredible opportunity. Member schools of the Association for Continuing Dental Education have put together this program featuring wine tasting, exquisite food and a land tour of Provence and Cote d'Azur... and of course, CE!

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2024 Course Calendar

January 26, 2024	Vapes and Novel Tobacco Products: Use and Cessation and Indiana Jurisprudence and Ethical Decision Making DETAILS REGISTER
January 27, 2024	CPR; Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers DETAILS REGISTER
March 29, 2024	Emerging Concepts in Periodontics: Classification, Technology and Treatment and The How, Why and What-to-do of Oral White Lesions DETAILS REGISTER
April 19, 2024	Hine Scholarship Lecture and Laskin Lectureship Series: Digital Dentures and Sustainability in Dentistry DETAILS REGISTER
May 20, 2024 - May 24, 2024	Curso en Español - Mini Residency Bajale a la Fresa - Odontología de Mínima Intervención DETAILS REGISTER
Ongoing	Nitrous Certification for Dental Personnel DETAILS REGISTER
Ongoing	2024 Spring Coronal Polishing (Dental Assistants) DETAILS REGISTER
Ongoing	Radiology Certification (Dental Assistants) DETAILS REGISTER
Ongoing	2024 Spring Fluoride Application (Dental Assistants) DETAILS REGISTER
More to come!

General Information

The Mission of the Indiana University School of Dentistry Office of Continuing Education is to provide exceptional, comprehensive and diversified postgraduate educational opportunities to all dental professionals, manufacturers and researchers.

Our goal is to promote quality lectures, workshops and presentations that will equip you with the information, skills and tools necessary to enhance your personal and professional growth.

We will accomplish this by maintaining educational quality and integrity at all IUSD CE programs.

We are committed to providing our alumni and all oral health care professionals the latest technologies, techniques, and the highest quality of learning opportunities.

Registration for all continuing education events is handled online via IU Conferences. You’ll find details and a registration link on each specific event’s page.

If you have a question regarding a current program registration, call IU Conferences at 800-933-9330.

There will be no refunds issued within 7 days of a lecture or 14 days of a workshop unless specifically stated otherwise. See individual course descriptions for more information or contact the Office of Continuing Education with any questions. A $30 refund fee will apply to any cancellation unless otherwise indicated.

We reserve the right to change or cancel program offerings without notice. Should a significant change occur, every effort will be made to notify registered participants.

For disability assistance, please call the Office of Continuing Education at 317-278-9002.

Sponsorship of a continuing education program by Indiana University School of Dentistry does not necessarily imply endorsement of a particular philosophy, procedure, or product, nor does it necessarily reflect the philosophies of the university or its programs. Some presentations may include controversial materials and commercial references. Be advised of the potential risk of using limited knowledge when incorporating new techniques and procedures into your practice, especially when the program has not provided you with supervised clinical experience in the technique or procedure to ensure that you have attained competency.

Speakers must disclose any relevant financial interests or other relationships with manufacturers of any commercial products or providers of commercial services that are discussed in any continuing education program. Unless otherwise stated, there is no commercial support for continuing education programs at Indiana University School of Dentistry.

By registering in any School of Dentistry Continuing Education program, you explicitly grant permission for photographs and video of you to be taken at the event and used in Indiana University publications and communications.

Travel and Parking

Travel information can change depending on what course you are attending, however, our home base is downtown. Depending on availability, most hotels in the downtown area will offer a discount if you say that you are attending an event at IUPUI. The IUSD CE office will be happy to provide you with any information you may need to assist in planning your visit to Indianapolis, just send us an email at dsce@iupui.edu.

Find out what’s happening and where to go for good food and fun in Indianapolis. Visit the Indianapolis Tourism website at www.visitindy.com.

Indianapolis International Airport
Official Indianapolis Tourism
IUPUI
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
IU Alumni Association
DowntownIndy.org

Policies

IUSD CE requires that all registrations be completed online through IU Conferences. If you have questions regarding the registration process, please contact the office of IU Conferences at 800-933-9330.

There will be no refunds issued within 7 days of a lecture or 14 days of a workshop unless specifically stated otherwise. See individual course descriptions for more information or contact the IUSD Office of Continuing Education with any questions. A $30 refund fee will apply to any cancellation unless otherwise indicated. All no-shows will forfeit tuition.

We reserve the right to change or cancel program offerings without notice. Should a significant change occur, every effort will be made to notify registered participants. If a course must be canceled, full tuition will be refunded.

Commercial fiscal support can contribute significantly to the quality of certain continuing education activities. A conflict of interest may be considered to exist if a continuing education program speaker is affiliated with or has financial interest in any organization(s) that may have a direct interest in the subject matter of the presentation. When such situation occurs, the audience must be made aware of the affiliation/financial interest via an acknowledgement in the faculty listing in program materials. Indiana University School of Dentistry has adopted a policy to provide guidelines for the use of commercial support in continuing education programs.

All continuing education programs offered by the Indiana University School of Dentistry must adhere to the following standards:

Each course must offer a balanced view of all diagnostic and therapeutic options regardless of the amount of fiscal support.
The ultimate decision regarding finding arrangements for the planned course will be the responsibility of the Office of Continuing Education. Funds from a commercial source must be in the form of an unrestricted educational grant made payable to Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUSD). Payment for expenses incurred for the course will be made through the CE Department account.
Commercial support must be acknowledged in printed announcements and brochures and handouts. References to specific products or services will not be allowed.
Commercial exhibits should not in any way affect the educational content or integrity of the course activities.
Commercially supported social events or meals held in conjunction with the educational courses must in no way take precedence over the educational events.
All attendees at a continuing education course with commercial support must pay a reasonable registration fee, although subsidies may reduce the required registration fee.
Full disclosure of any potential conflict of interest is required. Potential conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: research funds, holding stock in the company lending fiscal support, receiving fees, etc.
The IUSD CE Office and the commercial supporter or other relevant parties should each report to the other on the expenditure of funds each has provided, following each subsidized continuing dental education activity.
If IUSD CE receives commercial support, a written statement or letter of agreement outlining the terms and conditions of the arrangement and/or relationship between our office and the commercial supporter.
Product-promotion material or product-specific advertisement of any type is prohibited in or during continuing dental education (CDE) activities. Live promotional activities (staffed exhibits, presentations) or enduring promotional activities (print or electronic advertisements) must be kept separate from CDE. The juxtaposition of editorial and advertising material on the same products or subjects must be avoided during CDE activities.

(a) For live, face-to-face CDE, advertisements and promotional materials cannot be displayed or distributed in the educational space immediately before, during, or after a CDE activity. Providers cannot allow representatives of commercial interests to engage in sales or promotional activities while in the space or place of the CDE activity.

(b) For print CDE activities, advertisements and promotional materials will not be interleafed within the pages of the CDE content. Advertisements and promotional materials may face the first or last pages of printed CDE content as long as these materials are not related to the CDE content they face are not paid for by the commercial supporters of the CDE activity.

(c) For electronically mediated/computer based CDE activities, advertisements and promotional materials will not be visible on the screen at the same time as the CDE content and not interleafed between computer ‘windows’ or screens of the CDE content.

(d) For audio and video based CDE activities, advertisements and promotional materials will not be included within the CDE activity. There will be no ‘commercial breaks.’

(e) Educational materials that are part of a CDE activity, such as slides, abstracts and handouts, cannot contain any advertising, trade name or a product-group message.

(f) Print or electronic information distributed about the non- CDE elements of a CDE activity that are not directly related to the transfer of education to the learner, such as schedules and content descriptions, may include product promotion material or product-specific advertisement.

Commercial support shall be limited to:
- The payment of reasonable honoraria.
- Reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses for faculty.
- The payment of the cost of modest meals or social events held as part of an educational activity.

Adapted from ADA CERP/ Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support

ADA CERP providers must ensure that programs they sponsor are scientifically sound. In accordance with this standard, IUSD Office of Continuing Education has the following policies in place:

The IUSD CE office will provide oversight to ensure that educational content is evidence-based, references best practices that are supported by peer reviewed published articles and guidelines, and is free of commercial bias.

Speakers must provide the IUSD CE office a Curriculum Vitae. The IUSD CE office will determine if the speaker is qualified and holds the appropriate expertise in the educational content.

The IUSD CE office is responsible for ensuring that clinical and technical continuing education activities have a sound scientific basis and proven clinical efficacy in order to promote public safety.

Speakers must support clinical recommendations based on scientific evidence that is available as well as present risks and benefits associated with the material presented.

It is the responsibility of the IUSD CE office as well as the speaker to caution participants about the potential risks of using limited knowledge when integrating new techniques and/or technologies into their practice.

Speakers must attest that the images used in the CE activity have not been falsified to misrepresent treatment outcomes.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) states that patient records and photos used in teaching must be stripped of all “direct identifiers” such as name, address, social security number, patient ID number, identifiable photographic images, etc or that you have written authorization from the patient to use his/her directly identifiable health information in this way. This program requires presenters participating in an IUSD CE event to verify that the presentation materials meet these HIPAA standards. Presentation materials include, but are not limited to, handouts, slides, PowerPoint presentations, videos and reproductions of journal articles.

Access to your personal information is strictly controlled by a limited number of Continuing Dental Education staff. Staff are required to keep your personal information confidential and to use that information only to carry out services on behalf of the IUSD Office of Continuing Education such as to contact you regarding your registration or upcoming events.

The IUSD Office of Continuing Education will maintain program attendance information for continuing education credit for no more than ten years from the date of the course. It is up to participants to maintain their own records and for reporting their CDE activities to all appropriate bodies for licensing or membership requirements. In the event of lost CDE certificates, please contact the IUSD CE office to reissue by emailing dsce@iupui.edu.

The IUSD Office of Continuing Education will follow IUPUI campus severe weather policy. In the event of severe weather, please go to https://protect.iu.edu/emergency-continuity/index.html to see if campus is open or closed.

IUSD is an ADA-CERP provider

The IU School of Dentistry is an ADA-CERP approved continuing education provider, meaning that the courses we offer can be credited toward CE requirements for dental licensure.

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