Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B5 - Board of Dentistry › Chapter 64B5-12 - CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION › Section 64B5-12.0175 - Standards for Approved Providers

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Approved continuing professional education providers and
				  providers authorized pursuant to paragraph
				  64B5-12.013(2)(b),
				  F.A.C., shall comply with the following requirements:
(1) All courses shall reflect appropriate
				didactic and clinical training for the subject matter and shall be designed to
				meet specifically stated educational objectives.
(2) Instructors shall be adequately qualified
				by training, experience or licensure to teach specified courses. Because
				domestic violence courses must contain information specifically appropriate
				for, directly pertinent to, and useful in, dentistry, all domestic violence
				instructors shall be familiar with dental injuries indicative of domestic
				violence, reporting obligations under Florida and federal law, and incidence
				statistics in the dental profession. Instructors who have had a professional
				license revoked, suspended, or otherwise acted against, in Florida or in
				another jurisdiction, shall be disqualified when the nature and number of
				disciplinary actions indicate a conscious disregard for the laws, rules and
				ethics of the profession.
(3) Any
				clinical dental hygiene course in which patients are treated during instruction
				must be supervised by a licensed dentist.
(4) Facilities and equipment for each course
				in which patients are treated during instruction shall be adequate for the
				subject matter and method of instruction.
(5) Course length shall be sufficient to
				provide meaningful education in the subject matter presented. One half hour or
				one hour of continuing education credit shall be awarded for each 25 or 50
				minutes of actual classroom or clinical instruction, respectively. No
				continuing education credit shall be awarded for participation of less than 25
				minutes.
(6) Providers shall
				provide written or electronic certification to each participant who completes a
				continuing education course or portion of that course which consists of at
				least 25 minutes of instruction. Certification shall include the participant's
				name and license number, the provider's name and number, the course title,
				instructor, location, date offered and hours of continuing education credit
				awarded and validation through the signature of the provider, official
				representative or instructor.
(7)
				Providers' courses shall be subject to Board review. Failure to maintain the
				standards set forth in this rule shall subject the provider to the suspension
				or rescission of the providership.
(8) The provider number shall not be used on
				any advertisement or certification for a course that does not meet the
				requirements of Rule 64B5-12.016, F.A.C.
(9) A licensee who has been approved as a
				provider may not give more than 12 hours of continuing education credit in
				subjects other than cardiopulmonary resuscitation to office staff, employees,
				or fellow employees during a biennium.
Rulemaking Authority
					 466.004(4),
					 466.014 FS. Law Implemented
					 466.0135,
					 466.014
					 FS.
New 1-18-89, Amended 7-9-90, Formerly 21G-12.0175,
					 61F5-12.0175, 59Q-12.0175, Amended 10-3-99, 10-29-00, 3-7-02,
					 6-2-22.