An Intensive Course in Intravenous Conscious Sedation

 Class Offerings Are Now Being Planned
If you are interested in registering for this course, please call
Continuing Education at 706-721-3967 or 800-221-6437.

Presented By
Medical College of Georgia Division of Continuing Education and School of Dentistry, Augusta, Georgia

Purpose
This course is designed to prepare the dentist to incorporate the techniques of intravenous conscious sedation into the dental practice. To accommodate American Dental Association Guidelines, the course is designed to extend over ten days, with a total of 119.5 hours of continuing education credit: 62.5 hours of didactic instruction and 57 clinical hours.

Objectives
At the conclusion of this educational activity, the participant should be able to:

• Be prepared for the type of examination required to achieve your certification.
• Train office staff and prepare for office emergencies
• Role play the scenarios you may have to manage.
• Practice drug and sedation emergencies and airway management utilizing mannequin simulation.
• Train on an IV simulator as well as administer patient sedations.
• Provide sedation, monitoring and if indicated, treatment of patients.
• Start and place the IV catheter, administer the appropriate drugs and monitor sedated patients.

Course Structure

1. The course is 119.5 credit hours. These credit hours include 64.5 credit hours of didactic instruction and 55 hours of clinical training. The clinical training occurs over ten days with clinical rotations in the oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic, the general practice residency clinic and pediatric dentistry clinic.
2. Participants will be required to successfully complete a written examination at the completion of the didactic portion of the course.
    

Prerequisites For The Course
Each participant must hold a D.D.S. or D.M.D. degree, be licensed to practice dentistry in your state and have malpractice insurance. Current Cardiac Life Support certification must be obtained by each participant prior to beginning the clinical portion of the course.

Credit
Upon completion of the didactic sessions and the mini-residency, you will receive a letter stating your hours of attendance. American Dental Association Guidelines prohibit awarding a certificate or diploma for completion of a course such as this. You should receive a certificate from your state dental board once you pass your state's examination in sedation.
 

The Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry is a recognized ADA CERP provider, member of ACDE, AGD accepted National Sponsor, FAGD/MAGD Credit. 01/01/-6 - 12/31/09.

Course Schedule
To view the detailed 10 day course schedule, go to this page:
IV Conscious Sedation Course Schedule
 

Course Co-Directors
Henry W. Ferguson, DDS, Col. Ret., Vice Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of Post Graduate training, received his dental degree in 1980 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, Pittsburgh PA. He entered active duty service with the United States Army Dental Corps and completed a residency program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon GA. Dr. Ferguson retired from active duty at the rank of Colonel in March 2004. In April 2004, Dr Ferguson received a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the MCG Medical Center Department of Surgery and the MCG School of Dentistry as an Associate Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Ferguson is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a member of the ADA, a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the National Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology.

Lee Getter, DDS, MSD, Col. Ret., Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, received his BA, DDS from New York University and his MSD in Oral Surgery from Baylor University in Dallas. Dr. Getter is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology. He served 21 years in the U.S. Army Dental Corp including a tour as the Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Research in the USAIDR at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and a tour as the Chief Dental Consultant of the Surgeon General of the Army and to the Asst. Surgeon General for Dental Services. He was a Professor at Howard University College of Dentistry for 25 years and retired after also serving as Director of Pain Control and Chair of the  Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for a portion of that time. Dr. Getter was a visiting faculty member at Montefiore Hospital in New York, where he taught an IV Sedation course for 29 years.

Medical College of Georgia Faculty
Solon Kao, DDS,  received his BE in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1994. He then earned his dental degree, with honors, from the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry in 1998. Dr. Kao completed his externship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Vanderbilt Medical Center in 1997; his internship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Louisiana State University in 1999; and his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in 2002 and at MCG in 2005.

Thomas P. Osborne, DDS, Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, received his DDS from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Roy A. Rockman, DDS, Diplomate and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and Director, Pediatric Residency Program at the Medical College of Georgia, received his DDS from the State University of New York at Buffalo and did his Pediatric Dental Residency at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. He is retired from the United States Army Dental Corps with the rank of Colonel.

Lori Schumacher, PHD, RN, MS, Interim Chair of Physiological and Technological Nursing and Assistant Professor in Advanced Practice Nursing at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing, received her PhD from Duquesne University and her MS from the University of Minnesota. Her teaching forus is on Critical Care and Neuroscience Nursing.

Registration Information
The registration fee for this course is $10,500. A $5,000 deposit will hold your place. The balance of $5,500 will be due the first day the course begins. The textbook, S. Malamed's Sedation, is included in this fee as well as some lunches. The fee (or your deposit), less a $300 administrative charge, is refundable if notice of cancellation is received six weeks prior to the beginning of the course. Because of limited availability, there will be no refunds if you cancel less than two weeks before the course begins.

Note: During the clinical portion of the course (the last 5 days), the dentist may bring auxiliary personnel for that 5 day session at a cost of $1,250 per person.

Due to the limited class size, please call Continuing Education at  706-721-3967 or 800-221-6437 if you are interested in registering for this course

Location
Sessions will be held in the School of Dentistry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia. We will send a map of the MCG campus upon receipt of your registration.

Comfort Zone
Although every effort is made to have a comfortable temperature in the meeting rooms and labs, individual comfort levels differ. Please bring a jacket or sweater in case the room is too cool for your comfort.

Special Needs
The Medical College of Georgia Division of Continuing Education complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please notify the conference coordinator with any special requirements at 800-221-6437 or 706-721-3967.