December 11, 2023
Resident Safety Curriculum Now Available!
Safety in Pediatric Dental Care: Curriculum for Pediatric Dentistry Residency Programs is designed to support pediatric dentists – trainees and veterans, individually and collectively – as they strive to create the safest possible environment for dental care delivery to protect the health and well-being of patients, their teams, and themselves as providers.
It provides foundational information about safety science and principles of safety, and guidance on fostering a safety culture. It is based on the latest knowledge on safety in healthcare, while also offering resources specific to dentistry to promote safety training and advance safety culture in pediatric dentistry work settings.
Visit the curriculum at https://www.aapd.org/research/safety-in-pediatric-dental-care-curriculum-for-pediatric-dentistry-residency-program/ to learn more.
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Resources
Safety in Pediatric Dental Care: Curriculum for Pediatric Dentistry Residency Programs
This curriculum is designed to support pediatric dentists – trainees and veterans, individually and collectively – as they strive to create the safest possible environment for dental care delivery to protect the health and well-being of patients, their teams, and themselves as providers.
Achieving Safety Culture in Dentistry and Why it Matters
Quad A Pediatric Dentistry Accreditation Program
OSAP: Dental Infection Prevention & Safety Association
Dental Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (DAIRS)
Reporting is anonymous. All reports to DAIRS are maintained as privileged and confidential. DAIRS self-reporting system is used to collect and analyze anesthesia incidents in order to improve the quality of dental anesthesia care. (Examples of incidents include laryngospasm, cardiac event, equipment failure, drug interaction, and other serious incidents that cause permanent harm.)