Inside California Dentistry: Dental assistant training programs are successfully addressing staffing shortages

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Inside California Dentistry

May 19, 2023

Your weekly source for trusted dentistry news and insights to support your practice.

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Dental assistant training programs throughout California address staffing shortages

Local dental societies and dentists are successfully implementing CDA’s Dental Assistant Training curriculum to provide effective, accelerated training to the labor force in their areas. Learn more about these local programs and CDA’s upcoming Smile Crew CA Dental Assistant Training Bootcamp. Also, join our training experts 1-2 p.m. Friday, May 19, at The Spot in Hall D at CDA Presents in Anaheim for a session on how to execute our in-house DA training programs in your own practice.

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HIPAA security training is the law: Free resources can help you comply

Dentist employers have a new, free option for providing their staff and security team with part of the federally required training on the HIPAA Security Rule.

Knowledge on Demand, released last month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was designed specifically for the health care sector and includes five trainings to improve cybersecurity awareness.

CDA members have additional resources to assist with HIPAA compliance:

Complete CDA’s latest Practice Health Check to test your office’s compliance with HIPAA policies and procedures.
View over a dozen HIPAA resources, including an overview of privacy and security officers’ responsibilities.
Access streamlined HIPAA compliance with Abyde software solution, a CDA Endorsed Service.

See full rules.

CDA poll

The federal MATE Act requires DEA registrants to complete eight hours of opioid use disorder training before initial DEA registration or by the first renewal of registration occurring on or after June 27.

When do you plan to complete the required training?

As soon as I can but before the end of this year.

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Next year or the year after, closer to when my DEA registration expires.

Select

I have confirmed that I’ve already completed the required hours.

Select

I do not have a DEA registration, so I am not required to complete the training.

Select

Remembering Frank A. Brucia, DDS

CDA has learned of the passing on May 12 of Frank A. Brucia, DDS. At age 106, Dr. Brucia was CDA’s oldest member and is the oldest graduate of the Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry according to news shared with the school’s community this week.

Dr. Brucia was a “leader in organized dentistry with a great deal of pride in his dental school and his dental career,” wrote Dean and Vice President Dr. Nader Nadershahi. The Brucia Loyalty Society was named for his generosity and, in 2000, Brucia received the alumni association’s Medallion of Distinction for his service to the school, community and profession.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. on May 30 at Green Street Mortuary in San Francisco.

Learn more about Brucia in a 2017 profile in the school’s alumni magazine.

In case you missed it

You still have time to act on dental plan reform: Tell your legislator to vote ‘yes’ on CDA-sponsored bills that address egregious loopholes

Dentists should review C.E. rules and requirements as dental board resumes audits

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