ADA.org: CODA Minutes July 2009 - American Dental Association

examination, the DANB may be creating an unfair bias and advantage for students who complete
DANB’s educational courses. The review committee believes that by becoming an educational
provider, DANB may be creating a conflict of interest and may be acting beyond their defined
scope as a testing and certifying agency. Accordingly, the review committee believed that the
Commission should express its concern to the CDEL that the DANB may be acting beyond its
defined scope as a testing and certifying agency and may be creating a conflict of interest in
providing dental assisting educational courses. The Commission concurred with the
recommendations of the DA RC.
Commission action: The Commission expresses its concern to the Council on Dental
Education and Licensure that the Dental Assisting National Board’s proposed Pathway V
pilot study demonstrates a lack of commitment by DANB to the Commission’s
accreditation process and that the DANB may be in violation of the ADA’s Criteria for
Recognition of a Certification Board for Dental Assistants. (Trans.1989:520)
Commission action: The Commission expresses its concern to the Council on Dental
Education and Licensure that the Dental Assisting National Board may have a conflict of
interest in serving as the educational source for a special segment of students for the
examination it develops and administers.
Report of the Review Committee on Dental Hygiene Education: Committee chair: Ms.
Kathy Leonard. Committee members: Dr Susan Crim, Ms. Susan Ellis, Dr. Paula Friedman, Dr.
Timothy Halligan, Dr. Laura Joseph, Mr. James McKernan, Dr. Reuben Pelot and Mr. Mark
Schorr, Esq. Staff Member: Ms. Gwen Welling, manager, Dental Hygiene Education, CODA.
Commissioners: Dr. James Koelbl chair, CODA and Dr. Les Tarver, vice-chair, ex-officio;
Guests: Ms. Catherine Elliott and Ms. Colleen Schmidt, representatives of the American Dental
Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) attended the policy portion of the meeting. The meeting of the
Dental Hygiene Education Review Committee (DH RC) was held July 14-15, 2009 in the
Association Headquarters Building.
Consideration of Comments on the Proposed Revisions of Dental Hygiene Accreditation
Standard 2-17: At its February 2008 meeting, the Commission on Dental Accreditation directed
that the Dental Hygiene Review Committee (DH RC) consider Resolution 39-H from the
October 2007 American Dental Association House of Delegates Annual Session. The resolution
urged the Commission to reconsider the use of the term “dental hygiene diagnosis” within DH
Standard 2-17 and to revise the Standard to more accurately reflect the scope of training and
licensure of the dental hygienist in providing dental hygiene care to patients.
At its July 9-10, 2008 meeting, the DH RC carefully reviewed the current Standard and
developed proposed revisions. The proposed revision to Standard 2-17 was considered at the
July 31, 2008 Commission meeting. After careful deliberation, the Commission directed a
further change in the wording from “dental hygiene treatment plan” to “dental hygiene treatment
needs.” Additionally the Commission directed that the newly proposed revisions to the Dental
Hygiene Education Accreditation Standard 2-17 be circulated to the communities of interest for
review and comment by July 1, 2009. Accordingly, the proposed revised standard was
distributed to the communities of interest for comment.