Events
We aim to reach as many registrants as possible by delivering a workshop or presentation to four locations each year (Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Fraser Valley) and visiting other regions on a two- to three-year cycle.
We look forward to welcoming you at one of our upcoming events.
Safe and effective antibiotic and opioid prescribing
Friday, 25 October 2019
1:30 – 4:30pm
Presented by CDSBC as part of the
Thompson Okanagan Dental Meeting
Delta Grand Okanagan Resort, Kelowna, B.C.
Dentists are part of a larger community of prescribers, all having unique responsibilities when providing antibiotics and opioids for patients. Learn about preventive and therapeutic regimes for treating bacterial infections and pain and the role dentists must play in reducing risk to the public.
Speakers: Dr. Clifford Pau, Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC Dentistry and Dr. Edith Blondel-Hill, co-author of the Bugs and Drugs app and medical director of the Do Bugs Need Drugs? program.
For more information and to register, visit the
TODS meeting website.
Safety Net or Moral Authority? Redefining CDSBC's role in the aftermath of a government review
Saturday October 26, 2019
12:30pm (Limited to Dentists Only)*
Presented as part of the
Thompson Okanagan Dental Society Annual General Meeting
Delta Grand Okanagan Resort, Kelowna, B.C.
Join the Registrar/CEO for an overview of the journey CDSBC has been on since the Minister of Health directed the Board to make changes informed by Harry Cayton's report. Dr. Chris Hacker will discuss the changes in – and redefining of – CDSBC's specific role in public safety, and its broader responsibilities in determining standards for ethical conduct and decision-making by registrants. Where should the ethical authority and moral community for the profession rightly reside? The answer might surprise you.
* All Thompson Okanagan dentists (non-delegates or delegates of the 2019 TODS Meeting) are welcome to attend the AGM.
See a
listing of our past events >>
BACK TO TOP ^
