Continuing Education

Director: Keith W. Groves, DMin, MPC

The School of Dentistry is committed to the lifelong learning of oral health professionals in Maryland and neighboring states of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Continuing Dental Education for dentists and dental hygienists is among the missions of the dental school, for today’s many and frequent advances in science and technology impose a greater and sustaining need for timely accession of new information.

In order to fulfill its commitment to lifelong learning, the School of Dentistry provides courses designed to meet the needs of dental and dental hygiene practitioners. Based upon research in the basic and clinical sciences, the Continuing Dental Education Program offers participants educational courses which reflect contemporary professional knowledge of direct benefit to the practice community. These courses are conducted in clinics, laboratories, and simulation facilities of the dental school as well as other regional settings of convenience to course participants. In addition, future courses may be offered through such distance learning media as the Internet.