Foundations: Building the Safest Dental Visit
What you'll learn
Across three interactive modules you review the infection prevention and control principles behind CDC dental guidance, how to protect patients and yourself, and how to sterilize instruments and disinfect the dental environment.
- Foundations of Infection Prevention and Control
- Protecting Patients, Protecting Yourself
- Sterilization, Disinfection, and the Dental Environment
Source: the provider's official page ↗
Is this right for you?
- Level
- Beginner People new to this. You can start today with no experience.
- What you get
- A certificate from a name employers know, ready to add to LinkedIn and your résumé the day you finish. It costs nothing to take.
- How you learn
- Online, self paced, about 3 hrs.
- How to use it
- Add it to LinkedIn under Licenses and certifications, post it with one thing you learned, and name the exact skills on your résumé. Then bring it up in interviews and show how you use AI to get more done.
- Why it's worth it
- Fast, practical proof that you are ahead on AI. It shows initiative, gives you skills you can use the same day, and hands you something concrete to talk about with every hiring manager.
- Time
- 3 hours (three modules)
- Before you start
- Free CDC TRAIN account (add the CDC group if your TRAIN account is from another affiliate). For CE, may need to register on the Academy of Dental Sciences (ADS) site; ADS membership not required.
- How you are tested
- Online, self paced; progress saved between sessions
- Renewal
- None stated
- Full cost details
- $0. CDC calls it a free resource with three free ADA CERP CE units.
- Where it applies
- Open online; United States dental infection control (CDC) context. Not a DANB credential and not state dental assistant registration.
Sources and what we verified
CDC course page: free, 3 hours, certificate of completion through TRAIN, 3 ADA CERP CE, audience includes dental assisting students ↗CDC: CDC TRAIN is a free online learning platform with free CE for many courses ↗What we verified: CDC page states 'Foundations is a free resource', 'three free ADA CERP Continuing Education Units', 'Learners who complete the Foundations training will receive a certificate of completion through CDC TRAIN', course length 3 hours, start link TRAIN course 1092544. Whether a given state board or DANB accepts the CE for renewal must be checked by the learner.
Fees and eligibility can change. Confirm current terms with the issuer before you pay.
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