Welcome to the 2008 joint Melbourne Dental School/ADAVB Continuing Professional Development program
A Message from the Director
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the 2008 joint Melbourne Dental School/ADAVB Continuing Professional Development program.
2007 proved to be another successful year of CPD in Victoria. The School program was able to run new courses in Orthodontics, Dentoalveolar Surgery and Recency of Practice for dentists, as well as Local Analgesia and Orthodontics courses for therapists and hygienists. Along with two new one-day lecture and lab based programs on Directly Placed Tooth Coloured Restorations and Combined Orthodontic/Restorative Management of Complex Cases.
Several important changes have been made to the 2008 School program. In conjunction with the ADA and Melbourne Business School, we are offering an exciting new course focussing on management strategies in dental practice. This course has been driven by a specially formed steering Group to ensure that the needs of dental practitioners are met.
Replacing some of the existing dental implant courses is a new modular implant training program. This course will emphasise the importance of the restorative dentist in treatment planning and maintenance of dental implants.
The long prosthodontic program has been redesigned to emphasise issues in treatment planning and provision high quality conventional prosthodontics. The proportion of hands-on training in this course has been significantly increased.
Subsequent to participant feedback the Ceramic Veneers course has been redesigned and expanded to provide a two-day pracie of Ceramic Restorations in practice.
The School program is to offer new courses emphasising the changes in radiographic techniques using the dedicated facilities available at the Melbourne Dental School. Also two new one-day programs on Directly Placed Tooth Coloured Restorations and Combined Orthodontic/Restorative Management of Complex Cases are being offered.
In conjunction with industry the School program is offering a one-day program entitled “21st Century Endodontics” on which some of the pre-eminent speakers in Australia will discuss the hot topics in Endodontics.
Dr Gerard Clausen has retired from the Continuing Professional Development Committee and we would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to him for his 20 years of service to the Committee. Dr. Clausen has been generous with his time and knowledge which has had a significant impact on the development of Continuing Professional Development at the School.
The 2009 CPD program offers an exciting and stimulating array of courses which I am sure will all enjoy.
Dr Roy Judge
Director – CPD Program
Melbourne Dental School