Continuing Education
October 21, 2016 at 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Pricing
| Member | $475.00 |
|---|---|
| Non-Member | $550.00 |
| Staff/Auxiliary | $250.00 |
| Resident/New Dentist | $250.00 |
General Information
| Course Number | 0036 |
|---|---|
| Provider | New York State AGD Learning Center |
| Speaker | Dr. Ross Kerr |
| Type/Category | Participation |
| Credits | 7 |
"Oral Medicine"
Dates: Friday, October 21 2016
Location: NYSAGD Learning Center, Whitestone, NY.
Registration 8:00 am, Lecture 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
7 MCE Participation Credit Hours
Course Code: 160
Presentation by Dr. Ross Kerr - Friday, October 21, 2016
Dr. Ross Kerr received his DDS from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and his MSD and certificate in Oral Medicine at the University of Washington. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine and Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Radiology & Medicine at New York University College of Dentistry where he is the director of the Oral Mucosal Disease Service and an attending at the NYU Oral Cancer Center. He is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Oral Medicine and a steering committee member of the World Workshop on Oral Medicine. His private practice is focused on the management of patients with oral mucosal disease, dry mouth, and the dental management of medically complex patients.
Course Decription - Oral Medicine
Introduction: This full day course will cover the foundational knowledge and will include a series of cases which will be presented interactively. At the end of the day, attendees will each receive an assignment of one or more cases which they will work-up and present at the 2017 Case Presentations in April.
Goals:
- Provide attendees with foundational knowledge about the epidemiology, underlying disease processes and classification systems for oral and maxillofacial diseases.
- Provide attendees with the skills to evaluate patients presenting with a range of oral and maxillofacial diseases: data collection from a detailed patient history, physical examination, laboratory investigations and imaging.
- Provide attendees with the skills to formulate diagnoses and manage patients presenting with a range of oral and maxillofacial diseases.
Objectives:
Attendess should be able to:
- Appreciate the spectrum of oral soft tissue diseases based on underlying disease processes, such as traumatic, immune-mediated, infectious (bacterial, fungal, and viral), neoplastic (benign and malignant), and hereditary.
- Appreciate the spectrum of oral soft tissue diseases based on clinical presentations (ie signs, symptoms and clinical course).
- Understand the basis for and be able to perform the steps of eliciting a patient history, including the chief complaint, history of chief complaint, medical history, social history, and dental history.
- Understand the basis for and be able to perform the steps of the physical examination and imaging (dental photography and using various medical imaging modalities), and how to document abnormal findings.