COURSE OVERVIEW:

"Oral Cancer Diagnostics: : Practicing for Life ^sm" 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. Participant progress is monitored weekly. Participants failing to receive the necessary exam score will be contacted about re-taking the exam. Upon successful completion of the course, the Office of Continuing Dental Education will forward appropriate documentation to the address provided at the time of registration.

Faculty

A. Ross Kerr DDS, MSD
Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine
Director of Special Patient Care & Hospital Dentistry
212-998-9885 or

Robert Glickman, DMD
Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Division of Basic Science, Medicine and Surgery
212-998-9672 or

Minimum Requirements 233 Mhz Pentium class PC Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT operating systems 64 MB RAM 56 K Modem 4 MB Video card Soundcard with headset or microphone and speakers Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 with 16 bit high color Free Macromedia Flash Player Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 6.1 or higher NOTE: If you do not have Flash Player and/or the correct version of either Internet Explorer or Netscape, we recommend that you download the programs prior to launching the online course as the program installations will require you to restart your computer at least once. 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. Note: If you do not have Flash Player and/or the correct version of either Internet Explorer or Netscape, we recommend that you download the programs prior to launching the online course as the program installations will require you to restart your computer at least once

Problems or Questions If you are having registration and/ or password problems, contact Continuing Dental Education at 212-998-9757 or by email at between 9am- 5pm, Monday- Friday. Your interaction with our subject matter experts is welcomed and encouraged. If you would like to ask questions about the course content or to obtain additional information about oral cancer, please contact the course instructors via phone or e-mail as indicated: Robert Glickman, DMD 212-998-9672 or A. Ross Kerr DDS, MSD 212-998-9885 or

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