Kan. Admin. Regs. § 71-4-2 - Approved continuing dental education
The following general standards shall be used by the board in determining which courses will qualify for continuing dental education credits required as a condition for the annual renewal of dental and dental hygienist licenses:
(a) Eligibility. Only those courses which increase the
dentist's or dental hygienist's clinical and theoretical dental knowledge or
ability to provide care and treatment to patients shall qualify for credit in
computing the required hours of continuing dental education. Any person or
organization may apply in writing to the board for approval of any courses.
(b) Courses. Subject to the eligibility standards set forth in
paragraph (a) above, all courses, both within and without the state of Kansas,
offered by any of the following organizations shall be approved for credit:
(1) any college or university;
(2) the American dental association, the national dental
association, or their component and constituent societies and associations;
(3) the American dental hygienists association and national
dental hygienists association or their component and constitutent societies and
associations;
(4) the academies and specialty organizations recognized by the
dental board;
(5) local dental society and dental hygiene society meetings;
(6) dental or dental hygiene study club meetings; and
(7) programs that are sponsored by the veterans administration
or the armed forces and given at a United States government facility. One hour
of credit shall be given for each hour in actual attendance at such courses.
(c) Advanced study. A waiver of continuing dental education
requirements shall be granted if a licensee is engaged as a full-time student
in graduate study, internships or a residency program in dentistry, any of the
specialties of dentistry recognized by the board, or dental hygiene.
(d) New graduates. A waiver of the continuing dental education
requirements shall be granted for the first year after a licensee graduates and
becomes licensed.
(e) Lecturing, presenting papers, or clinics, teaching. Any
licensee may receive a maximum of 10 hours of credit annually for any
combination of lecturing, presenting papers or clinics or teaching subjects
related to dentistry and dental hygiene. Credit for teaching courses involving
repeated presentation of similar subject matters shall be limited to the time
spent in one presentation.
(f) Commercially sponsored courses. Continuing dental education
courses sponsored by any person, corporation, association or other entity on a
profit-making basis shall be approved by the board for continuing dental
education credit subject to the eligibility standards set forth in paragraph
(a) above.
(g) Credit for programs of home study shall be allowed for
eligible courses based upon the hours of continuing dental education credit
established by the sponsor or producers of the course, subject to prior review
and determination of the allowable hours of credit by the board.
(h) Credit may be granted, upon the application of any
licensee, for authorship of published dental articles or books or for teaching
any approved dental education course. The hours of credit to be allowed shall
be determined by the board. The maximum number of hours allowed shall be:
(1) 10 hours for any single article;
(2) 20 hours for any book; and
(3) five hours for teaching a course.
(i) Disabled or retired dentists.
(1) The dental education requirements shall be waived for
licensees who are disabled or retired, as those terms are defined by statute.
In order to return to active practice, after a period of disability or
retirement, each licensee shall complete continuing dental education credit
hours according to the following schedule:
(A) Licensed dentists:
(i) five or more years disability or retirement 100 hours
(ii) four years disability or retirement 80 hours
(iii) three years disability or retirement 70 hours
(iv) two years disability or retirement 60 hours
(v) one year disability or retirement 30 hours
(B) Licensed dental hygienists:
(i) five or more years disability or retirement 50 hours
(ii) four years disability or retirement 40 hours
(iii) three years disability or retirement 35 hours
(iv) two years disability or retirement 30 hours
(v) one year disability or retirement 15 hours
(2) Upon application of a licensee, all or any portion of the
continuing dental education hours required of a licensee returning to practice
may be waived if the licensee passes an examination determined by the board.
Such an examination may be required in addition to completion of the continuing
dental education hours required above. The examination may be written, oral or
clinical, or all of these, at the board's determination.
Notes
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