"Oral Cancer Diagnostics: Practicing for Life" is an exciting interactive web-based continuing education course about oral cancer for oral health care providers. Enrollees will be introduced to three patients: During your encounter with the first patient, you observe the components of an oral cancer screening, including video of the extra-oral and intra-oral examination. The second patient has a suspicious lesion. To help you develop your diagnostic skills, you will learn about cancerous and precancerous lesions, and contemporary diagnostic techniques, including the brush biopsy. The third patient presents following treatment for oral cancer with a number of oral complications. Dental considerations for patients with oral cancer will be discussed, with clinically applicable information to help you provide treatment to these patients. After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Appreciate the responsibilities of oral health care providers in early detection of oral cancer.
• Identify those patients at risk for oral cancer and offer educational information to promote risk factor prevention.
• Define the steps of the oral cancer screening.
• Describe the appropriate diagnostic procedures for oral cancer and precancerous lesions.
• Evaluate and provide dental care to patients who have a history of oral cancer.
• Understand the process of both making referrals and communicating with appropriate health care providers.

A grade of 75 or higher is required on the final exam to receive 3 CDE credits for this course.

Faculty

A. Ross Kerr DDS, MSD
Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine
Director of Special Patient Care & Hospital Dentistry

Robert Glickman, DMD
Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Division of Basic Science, Medicine and Surgery

Minimum Requirements 166 MHz Pentium class PC Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT operating systems 32 MB RAM 56 K Modem 4 MB Video card Soundcard with headset or microphone and speakers Monitor resolution 800 x 600 with 16 bit high color Free Real Player Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 4.6 or higher AOL/CompuServe Users - If you access the internet via AOL or CompuServe, it is essential that you launch your IE browser separately after logging on to AOL or CompuServe. Using the browsers internal to AOL or CompuServe will prevent you from navigating freely through the course and may lead to browser crashes.

Problems or Questions If you are having registration and/ or password problems, contact Continuing Dental Education at 212-998-9757 or by email at dental.cde@nyu.edu between 9am- 5pm, Monday- Friday. If you have Technical Support Problems contact 877-698-5601. They are available from 8 am to 10 pm, Monday- Friday, and 12pm - 5pm Saturday and Sunday. Oral Cancer Course Instructions & Help Information (Please review before starting this course)

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