Specific Responsibilities

The committee supports and strives to improve patient care and health care outcomes by maintaining, developing and enhancing the following which are necessary to provide services for patients, the public and the profession:

• medical/dental knowledge
• interpersonal and communication skills
• practice-based learning and improvement
• professionalism
• patient care
• systems-based practice

AO has established a quality program of CE/CPD activities that is independent, fair, balanced and objective and provides opportunities for delivering and improving the quality, safety, cost-effectiveness of patient care and outcomes. AO encourages the development of professional lifelong learning values and individual self-assessment and self-directed learning repertoire.

The content areas of primary importance in considering CE/CPD topics at the AO are driven by systematic on-going needs assessments that lead to higher standards of patient care and services consistent with the current health care environment. Educational programs promote excellence in interdisciplinary practice, education, research, teaching, patient and community health care education and public awareness.

• The purpose of the committee shall be to monitor and regulate all AO sponsored CE activities to ensure they are in accordance with ADA CERP Recognition, Standards and Procedures.
• The committee will conduct a periodic review and reappraisal of the AO’s continuing education goals and its effectiveness in providing CE. The committee will provide input to the Board of Directors and committees to identify needs and interests of the AO that include educational endeavors.
• The committee will be charged with overseeing the creating, planning and executing of all AO continuing education initiatives for which ADA CERP credit is provided, including but not limited to: 1) Annual Meeting; 2) webinars; 3) symposia; 4) charter chapters/global outreach and regional courses in agreement with the ADA CERP standards.
• This committee will initiate periodic assessments of the effectiveness of the AO’s continuing dental education program.
  The committee will evaluate program content and take steps to protect against conflicts of interest that CE activity planers, course directors and instructors/authors may have.
• This committee must provide input regarding the goals, objectives and content of all CE programming. A majority on the advisory committee must be dentists who are independent from other Academy responsibilities. This committee must broadly represent the intended audience or constituency, including the members of the dental team for which the courses are offered. The committee is required to maintain minutes from its meetings as per ADA CDE requirements.
• The committee will consult the Board of Directors regarding the needs and interests of potential audience for CE related activites.
• The committee will consult the Board of Directors regarding the needs and interests of the potential audience for CE related activities.
• The committee will manage the needs assessment method, provided it serves the purpose of consulting (or otherwise gaining insight into) the needs and interests of the potential audience. Surveys may be conducted by mail, phone or electronic media or during specific CE activities.
• Develop a report to the Board of Directors as requested.

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Active Members and Affiliate Members

Composition

The committee shall be comprised of the Chair and as many members as deemed necessary to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Committee. Members are selected by the chair in consultation with the President-elect and approved by the Advisory Committee on Committees.

A majority on the advisory committee must be dentists who are independent from other responsibilities for the Academy. The committee must be broadly representative of the intended audience or constituency, including the members of the dental team for which the courses are offered (i.e. Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon, Prosthodontist, Periodontist, General Practitioner, Lab Technician, Oral Hygienist, etc.)

Term

• Three-year term for the chair
• No limit on consecutive three-year terms for members

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