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Board staff recommend shifting dental-assisting program approval to accrediting agencies after widespread compliance problems
Summary
Staff told the board that reviews of dental-assisting programs found major compliance failures and proposed moving approval and oversight of programs and courses to recognized accrediting bodies; the board received the report and agreed to further stakeholder work.
Board staff reported extensive compliance failures among dental-assisting educational programs and courses and proposed shifting approval and oversight to accrediting bodies that routinely review educational programs.
Tina Valerie, chief of licensure and program compliance, said staff have “found major compliance issues with the majority” of programs after doing standard and complaint-driven reevaluations. Valerie listed problems including programs offering far fewer clinical hours than regulatory minimums (regulation requires 265 clinical hours), incomplete student records, missing or superficial performance evaluations, lack of documented sequencing for infection-control…
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