3rd Party Online Courses

Today's food environment can make it challenging for Canadians to make healthier food choices, but using labels can help. Health Canada's Food and Nutrition Directorate developed the Nutrition Labelling Online Course for health professionals and educators to improve their understanding of food labels. Completing this course will increase your knowledge of the latest nutrition labelling information.

This course is offered by the University of British Columbia. It is designed to assist dentists, dental hygienists, certified dental assistants, dental technicians, denturists, dental therapists, dental office staff, and anyone interested in dentistry to learn practical and useful strategies on how to support autistic and neurodivergent clients of all ages in the dental setting.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainability in Dentistry was developed by the FDI World Dental Federation to help oral health professionals understand the importance of sustainable practice and their own role in tackling sustainability issues.

The VEGA Family Violence Education Resources include interactive how-to videos, educational scenarios, and infographics to support oral health care professionals, including students, in addressing the needs of those who may have experienced family violence.

The Lifelong Smiles for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities online course is designed to help you, the oral health professional, more effectively connect with and support clients with ID in maintaining good oral health over their lifetime.

The course has eight modules of which seven are simulated negotiations that you will conduct with animated computer characters. The characters make statements, ask questions, use a wide variety of negotiation tactics, express strong emotions, and otherwise create challenges for you.

The Difficult Conversations course is designed to help you have the difficult, but necessary, conversations that we all have to face.