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Council sends proposal to shift program approval to accrediting bodies back to working group for more study
Summary
Board staff proposed moving oversight of dental assisting program and course approvals to recognized accrediting agencies to address repeated noncompliance, but council members and stakeholders cautioned that accreditation costs and access impacts require more study; the council sent the proposal back to the working group for further stakeholder engagement.
Board staff presented a proposal to the Dental Assisting Council asking whether the board should transfer program and course approval, evaluation and reevaluation responsibilities to recognized accrediting agencies such as the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) or regional accreditors.
Staff said the board’s reevaluations had found major noncompliance across many providers: missing clinical instruction hours, insufficient student records, missing performance evaluation criteria, improper sequencing of instruction, failure to report program changes within 10 days and reports that many providers were conducting didactic instruction electronically but outsourcing clinical training to employer dentists without adequate documentation. Staff reported that of 21 reevaluations completed in the…
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