Continuing Professional Development (CPD) may be defined as an individual’s further education in relation to their chosen field of work, after completion of their formal schooling or training. Members of such professions as medicine, dentistry and law are encouraged to participate in CPD programs, with the ultimate goal of maintaining the standard of professionalism in providing service to the public. Over the years, regulatory boards of such professions have recognized the value of CPD and
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Every registered dental practitioner is required by Australian law to seek further education after initial licensing in order to assure that the service one provides is of good quality and based on updated knowledge of the profession. This requirement is tracked or recorded through the accumulation of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) hour, a minimum number of which is necessarily completed prior to renewing one’s license to practice dentistry. For the dental practitioner whose ti
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Some people finish their formal university education with a focused attention or mindset on what they want to do for a living, who they want to be and what role they want to play in society. Other people finish university with just a general notion of their position in life and depend on work experience to guide them further in finding where their passion lies. This is the case for some dental professionals.

While in university, dental students are introduced to the different subjects or a
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Dr. Martin is a dentist practising in Adelaide since 1995. One of the requirements in the renewal of a practise is that she first obtain CPD in various subjects related to dentistry. Before she enrolled, she researched on the different institutions in Adelaide offering dental CPD and realized that she has many options, ranging from brick and mortar institutions such as universities and colleges to online and distance courses being offered by a number of board-accredited CPD websites.

There ar
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The word percutaneous is of Latin descent which means „by way of the skin‟, pertaining to something that is effected through the skin. In the generality of the medical field, the term percutaneous exposure incidents, or PEI, pertains to blood-borne infections that are due to cuts caused by sharp objects (such as needles and other tools used in medical practice) or any non-intact skin or mucous membrane that become exposed to potentially infectious b
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