2020

Oregon Board of Dentistry Rules for Clinical Board Exams

In 2019 Senate Bill 824 amended the Oregon law to allow the Oregon Board of Dentistry to accept results from “board-recognized” testing agencies. This change would allow the Board to accept results from clinical board examinations that did not include a live patient component. In 2020 the Oregon Board of Dentistry proposed rule changes that would have required a psychomotor skills component with a manikin or live patient for clinical board examinations accepted for dental & dental hygiene licensure in Oregon. The ODHA worked together with the Oregon Dental Association, the OHSU School of Dentistry & the Oregon dental hygiene program directors to oppose these proposed rule changes. The ODHA send the Board an opposition letter, signed on to a coalition opposition letter & sent an Advocacy Alert to ODHA members with a link to an automated system that allowed them to quickly & easily send opposition letters to the Board. These proposed rule changes did not go into effect, so Oregon continues to accept clinical board examinations that do not include a manikin or live patient component.

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