Penn Dental Medicine Working to Improve Care for Patients With Disabilities
Penn Dental Medicine is establishing a new continuing education (CE) series with the support of a $50,000 grant from the Delta Dental Foundation to fund an online professional development program designed to help dental teams better understand and care for patients with disabilities.
Penn Dental Medicine is establishing a new continuing education (CE) series with the support of a $50,000 grant from the Delta Dental Foundation to fund an online professional development program designed to help dental teams better understand and care for patients with disabilities.
The funds will support the creation of a series of free, online CE courses aimed at building awareness of the barriers to equitable oral health for individuals with disabilities and developing competency among clinicians to provide care to this population. Developed through Penn Dental Medicine’s Office of Continuing Education, the series will be open to all U.S. licensed dentists and their support personnel.
Clinicians who complete 18 or more of the courses within a three-year period will receive a certificate of completion from Penn Dental Medicine as a Disabilities Dentistry Clinician Expert. The first courses to launch the series are already available at www.dental.upenn.edu/disabilitiescare.
