Renewal is open

Don’t leave registration renewal to the last minute! This year, the deadline for renewing your registration for the 2020/21 year is at 11:59pm on Saturday, February 29, 2020. You can renew through the online system - available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - by accessing your personal CDHBC profile at https://registrant.cdhbc.com/Login.aspx. Your username is your email address and the you should have previously set-up a password . If you forgot your password, you have the option of resetting it. If you require assistance with your registration renewal, the CDHBC Registration Office staff are available to help during regular business hours, Monday through Friday.

The College also wants to remind all registrants they will now be able to print their own registration cards through their registrant profile immediately after renewing. Receipts for the last few years will also be available to registrants at no additional cost.

All CDHBC registrations expire on the last day of February each year; your renewal must be completed by then in order to have a valid license to practice on March 1st, 2020. Failure to renew your registration by February 29, 2020, will result in removal from the register effective March 1, 2020 and the revocation of your license to practice dental hygiene in BC. It is illegal to practice dental hygiene in BC without being registered with the CDHBC and is considered a serious breach of the CDHBC Regulations and Bylaws as well as the Health Professions Act.

Payments for your renewal can be paid by Visa, Visa Debit, Mastercard and Interac Debit. Please note in order to utilize the Interac payment option, you must have online banking set up with your banking institution. 

Like last year, registrants will be paying their registration fees to the College at the same time as membership fees are collected on behalf of the BCDHA and CDHA. By aligning the renewal year of the associations with the College and collecting all professional fees from all dental hygienists in BC during the College’s renewal period, all dental hygienists in BC will automatically have access to comprehensive and continuous professional liability insurance coverage effective March 1, 2020.

Before you can begin your renewal, you will be asked several questions pertaining to your current practice setting(s). Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.

If you have a pre-paid deposit plan for the 2020/2021 registration year, you will still need to log into your CDHBC profile to renew and apply your deposit plan to this year’s fees. Don’t forget that you can plan ahead for next year’s renewal period by setting up your pre-paid refundable deposit plan now and start contributing on March 1, 2020.

If you are currently registered in a practicing class and would like to renew in the Non-Practicing class for 2020/21, you must contact the CDHBC Registration Office to request a class change before renewing. If you are registered in the Non-Practicing class and wish to renew your registration in a practicing class, please contact the CDHBC Registration Office for assistance.

Please click here to visit the Renewal page on the College website for more information on how to prepare to renew.

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Have you voted? 2020 Board Elections

On January 14, 2020, Registrants of the Okanagan district should have received an email from Big Pulse, the company engaged by the College to host the 2020 online Board Election. Registrants voting in this Board Election (Okanagan) are reminded that they will have until 4:00 pm on Saturday February 8, 2020 to submit their vote online; if you are a registrant living in this district who did not receive an email with a link to vote, please contact the College.
 
Please ensure that you add the Big Pulse domain name: mail1.bigpulse.com to your “Safe Senders” list in your email security settings to ensure that you receive your Online Election Email.
 
The College would like to congratulate Amber Ariss (Lower Mainland) on her re-election to the CDHBC Board. The College would also like to congratulate and welcome Michelle Worton (Cariboo North) on her election by acclamation to the CDHBC Board.

Please click here to read the bios of the Okanagan candidates.

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Public Consultation: New Proposed Practice Standards

On August 30, 2019, the BC Ministry of Health posted proposed amendments to the Dental Hygienists Regulation for public consultation.

The proposed Dental Hygienists Regulation amendments require that enhanced standards, limits, or conditions be established in order for dental hygienists to apply radiographs and engage in private dental hygiene practices.

Should the proposed amendments to the regulation move forward, and in order to met this new requirement, two additional sections have been added to the existing practice standards to specifically address radiographs and private dental hygiene practice.  The focus and purpose of these standards, limits, and conditions are to ensure the public receives safe, competent, and ethical care
 
Please click here to read the proposed new CDHBC Practice Standards.

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Proposed Bylaw Amendments

On August 30, 2019, the Ministry of Health posted the proposed health regulatory changes first submitted by CDHBC in 2016. The College Board recently passed proposed Bylaw changes for public consultation. These proposed changes are designed to further enhance public safety and align the Bylaws with the proposed amendments to the BC Government’s Dental Hygienists Regulation. The proposed Bylaws are posted for consultation for the required three-month period
 
It is very important to note that these changes are only proposed at this time. As such, the current regulations, including the 365-day rule, are still in effect. The College welcomes feedback via email, cdhbc@cdhbc.com, by Friday, February 7, 2020.
 
Please click here to view the Registrant FAQs on the Proposed Changes to College Bylaw

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MLA Steering Committee Consultation Paper on the Cayton Report

In April 2019, the College shared a link to the BC Government’s public review of health professions regulation by Harry Cayton entitled “An Inquiry into the performance of the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia and the Health Professions Act”. Part 2 of that review contained several recommendations related to modernizing how all health professions are regulated in BC.
 
In order to foster continued transparency with Registrants, the College is sharing the BC Government’s follow up to this earlier review entitled “Modernizing the provincial health regulatory framework: A paper for consultation”. It is important to underscore that this is a paper developed and released by the MLA Steering Committee tasked with considering Part 2 of the Cayton Review.  While the College has and will continue to participate in the Government’s consultation processes, the College was not involved in the creation of the paper. A copy of the report is available at https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/578/2019/11/Modernizing-health-profession-regulatory-framework-Consultation-Paper.pdf
 
Please note that no changes have been made at the College at this time. All College programs and projects continue and are proceeding as usual. When considering the future of health regulation, like with all our work, we will do so in a manner that reflects the College’s mission of protecting the public through regulatory excellence and embraces our values of ethics, leadership, collaboration and transparency. We will continue to update Registrants on this topic as it develops.

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QAP and PDC Courses: Link to Learning Goals

The College has again collaborated with the Pacific Dental Conference (PDC) staff to include a coding system within the PDC program to assist with identifying links between your learning goals and the PDC sessions. In the PDC program you will notice that each dental hygiene-related session has been coded with a letter-number code (e.g. D.3.) corresponding to one or more specific CDHBC QAP content categories (e.g. Non-surgical dental hygiene therapy).

It is important to note that these codes are suggestions only, based on the limited information provided within the session outlines. You are required to use your professional judgment when selecting courses and determining which QAP content categories the course addresses.

Click here to view the full list of CDHBC Content Categories.

Please refer to this list to assist you in determining which content categories are represented by each letter-number code in the program. We hope you find this initiative of benefit to your continued professional development.

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Moving?

It is a bylaw requirement that registrants of the College ensure that their mailing address is always current on the CDHBC register. Incorrect or out-of-date addresses can lead to missed mailings that may include important notices and documents.
 
Address changes can be done by logging in to your registrant profile, clicking on the “Profile” tab and editing “Your Contact information”. Please contact the College if you require any further assistance at cdhbc@cdhbc.com.

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