California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 10 - Dental Board of California
Chapter 2 - Dentists
Article 1 - Dental Schools
Section 1024.1 - Institutional Standards
Universal Citation: 16 CA Code of Regs 1024.1
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) Institutional Mission, Purposes, and Objectives.
(1) An institution shall have a
clearly stated written purpose or mission statement that reflects the
institution's goals and objectives, and that addresses teaching, patient care,
research, and service to the community.
(2) The institution shall have a formal and
ongoing outcomes assessment process, including measures of student achievement
based on the institution's mission/purpose, goals and objectives.
(3) The institution shall have an ongoing
planning process, which is broad-based and systematic, for the evaluation and
improvement of educational quality.
(b) Educational Program (Admissions Policy).
The institution shall have and shall follow specific written criteria, policies, and administrative procedures for student admissions. The institution shall not admit any student who is obviously unqualified or who does not appear to have sufficient pre-professional education in basic sciences to complete the professional program.
(c) Educational Program (Curriculum).
(1) The curriculum shall
include at least four academic years of instruction or its
equivalent.
(2) The institution
shall define the competencies needed for graduation, which shall be focused on
educational outcomes.
(3) The
institution's curriculum shall ensure an in-depth understanding of the
biomedical principles, consisting of a core of information on the fundamental
structures, functions, and interrelationships of the body system.
(4) The curriculum shall provide biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical knowledge that is integrated and is of sufficient
depth and scope for graduates to apply advances in modern biology to clinical
practice and to integrate new medical knowledge and therapies relevant to oral
health care.
(5) The educational
program shall be designed to ensure that graduates are at a minimum competent
in:
(A) Behavioral sciences
(B) Practice management
(C) Ethics and professionalism
(D) Information management and critical
thinking
(6) The
educational program shall be designed to ensure that graduates are at a minimum
competent in providing all of the following types of oral health care within
the scope of general dentistry to all types of patients:
(A) Patient assessment and
diagnosis
(B) Comprehensive
treatment planning
(C) Health
promotion and disease prevention
(D) Informed consent
(E) Anesthesia, sedation and pain and anxiety
control
(F) Restoration of
teeth
(G) Replacement of
teeth
(H) Periodontal
therapy
(I) Pulpal
therapy
(J) Oral mucosal
disorders
(K) Hard and soft tissue
surgery
(L) Dental
emergencies
(M) Malocclusion and
space management
(N) Evaluation of
the outcomes of treatment
(7) The institution shall provide to
students, in advance of instruction, the goals and requirements of each course,
nature of course content and methods of evaluation.
(8) The institution shall employ student
evaluation methods that measure the defined competencies.
(9) The institution shall have a system of
ongoing curriculum review and evaluation, including a curriculum management
plan that assures evaluation of all courses relative to competency objectives,
elimination of outdated, unnecessary material, and incorporation of emerging
information.
(10) The institution
shall ensure that students have adequate patient experiences to achieve the
institution's stated goals and competencies within a reasonable
time.
(d) Faculty and Staff.
(1) The institution shall employ
qualified faculty sufficient in number to meet the institution's stated
mission, purposes, and objectives.
(2) The institution shall have a form of
governance that allows the faculty to participate in the institution's decision
making process.
(3) The institution
shall have a formal ongoing faculty development process.
(4) The institution shall have a defined
process to objectively measure the performance of each faculty member in
teaching, patient care, research, scholarship and service.
(5) When contracting for educational
services, the institution shall maintain control of, and responsibility for,
all academic matters, and shall assure that the instruction and faculty satisfy
the standards established in this division.
(6) The faculty shall have sufficient
expertise to support the institution's awarding of a degree in
dentistry.
(7) The institution
shall maintain records documenting that each faculty member is qualified to
perform the duties to which the faculty member was assigned, including
providing instruction, evaluating learning outcomes, and student
projects.
(e) Resources (Plant and Facilities).
(1) The institution
shall have sufficient facilities and necessary equipment to support the
achievement of its mission, purpose, goals and objectives.
(2) The institution shall, as part of its
curricula, require that students use available library and other learning
resources.
(3) An institution shall
have a library and other learning resources focused on dentistry and its
related sciences in order to meet the teaching and research needs of the
institution.
(4) The library shall
be a learning center that is administered by a professionally qualified staff
and that has an adequate budget.
(f) Patient Care Services.
(1) The institution shall have a formal
system of quality assurance for its patient care program that includes all of
the following:
(A) Standards of patient
centered care with a focus on comprehensive care, including measurable
assessment criteria;
(B) A process
of ongoing review of patient records to assess appropriateness, necessity and
quality of care provided;
(C)
Mechanisms to determine causes of treatment deficiencies;.
(D) Patient review policies, procedures,
outcomes and corrective measures
(2) The institution shall ensure that
student, faculty and support staff are proficient in basic life support and are
able to manage medical emergencies.
(3) The institution shall have and enforce a
mechanism to ensure adequate preclinical, clinical and laboratory asepsis,
infection control, and disposal of infectious waste.
(4) The institution shall ensure the delivery
of comprehensive patient care to individual patients.
(g) Research.
(1) The institution shall ensure that
research is an integral component of its purpose, mission, goals and objectives
and that the dental school faculty engage in research and other forms of
scholarly activity.
(2) The
institution shall also provide students with the opportunity to participate in
these research activities in order to fulfill its purpose, mission, goals and
objectives.
(h) Ownership and Management.
Each owner, corporate director, and chief executive officer, of an institution has the duty to act in the utmost good faith to expend or authorize the expenditure of the institution's assets and funds in a diligent and prudent manner to assure that students receive the education and student services which were represented to the students and which meet the requirements of this article.
(i) Administration.
(1) The institution shall employ
administrative personnel who have the expertise to implement activities to
achieve the institution's mission/purposes, goals and objectives and the
operation of the educational programs.
(2) The duties and responsibilities for
administrative personnel shall be set forth in a personnel manual or other
writing maintained by the institution.
(3) An institution with one or more locations
shall establish written institutional policies regarding the division and
sharing of administrative responsibilities between the central administration
at the main location and the administration of the other locations.
(4) The administrative staffing at each
location shall reflect the purposes, size, and educational operations at that
location.
(j) Catalog.
(1) The institution shall publish a current
catalog either in printed or electronic format.
(2) The catalog shall contain all of the
following:
(A) The specific beginning and
ending dates defining the time period covered by the catalog.
(B) A statement of the institution's
mission/purpose and the objectives underlying each of its educational
programs.
(C) The institution's
admissions policies.
(D) The
institution's policies regarding the acceptance of units of credit earned by
the student at other institutions or through challenge examinations and
standardized tests.
(E) The
curriculum for each year of the educational program in dentistry.
(F) A list of the courses offered and a brief
description of each course.
(G) The
institution's standards for student achievement.
(k) Student Records.
(1) The institution shall maintain a file for
each student who enrolls in the institution whether or not the student
completes the educational program.
(2) The file shall contain written records
and transcripts of any formal education, training, or testing that are relevant
to the student's qualifications for admission to the institution or the
institution's award of credit or acceptance of transfer records documenting
units of credit earned at other institutions that have been accepted and
applied by the institution as transfer credits toward the student's completion
of an educational program
(3) The
file shall contain records of the dates of enrollment and, if applicable,
withdrawal from the institution, leaves of absence, and graduation.
(4) The transcript shall contain all of the
following:
(A) The classes that were
completed, or were attempted but not completed, and the dates of completion or
withdrawal.
(B) The final grades or
evaluations given to the student.
(C) Credit for courses earned at other
institutions.
(D) Credit based on
any examination of academic ability or educational achievement used for
admission or college placement purposes.
(E) Degrees and diplomas awarded the
student.
(F) Copies of any official
advisory notices or warnings regarding the student's progress.
(G) Complaints received from the
student.
(l) Maintenance of Records.
(1) An institution
shall maintain all records required by this article that relate to the
institution's compliance with this article for at least five years, except,
however, that student transcripts shall be retained indefinitely. These records
may be maintained in either printed form or on computer disk so long as they
are available for inspection.
(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1) above, a record that is less than five years old
may be stored on microfilm, microfiche, or any other method of record storage
only if all of the following apply:
(A) The
record may be stored without loss of information or legibility for the period
within which the record is required to be maintained by this article.
(B) The institution maintains functioning
devices that can immediately reproduce exact, legible printed copies of stored
records. The devices shall be maintained in reasonably close proximity to the
stored records.
(C) The institution
has personnel scheduled to be present at all times during normal business hours
who know how to operate the devices and can explain the operation of the
devices to any person authorized by the board to inspect and copy
records.
1. Editorial
correction of subsection (j) filed 7-17-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 85, No. 29).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending
subsections (d) and (i)(4) and relettering subsections (h)-(j) to subsections
(g)-(i) filed 9-11-89 pursuant to Section
100, Title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 89, No. 37).
3. Repealer and new section filed
10-15-2001; operative 11-14-2001 (Register 2001, No.
42).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1614 and 1636.4, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 1614 and 1628, Business and Professions Code.
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