WSR 16-17-104 PERMANENT RULES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Dental Quality Assurance Commission) [Filed August 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m., effective September 19, 2016] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: WAC 246-817-160 Graduates of nonaccredited dental schools, the adopted rule amends education requirements for graduates of nonaccredited dental schools to clarify that after July 1, 2018, education must contain clinical education and be Commission on Dental Accreditation accredited. The rule also clarifies when examination eligibility will be authorized.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 246-817-160.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 16-12-048 on May 25, 2016.
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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: July 15, 2016.
C. Madden, Chair
Dental Quality
Assurance Commission
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 14-20-064, filed 9/26/14, effective 10/27/14)
WAC 246-817-160 Graduates of nonaccredited schools.
(1) An applicant for Washington state dental licensure, who is a graduate of a dental school or college not accredited by the ((American Dental Association)) Commission on Dental Accreditation shall provide to the Dental Quality Assurance Commission (commission):
(a) Materials listed in WAC 246-817-110 (1) ((and)), (3), (5) through (8), and (10) through (13);
(b) Official school transcript or diploma with dental degree listed transcribed to English if necessary; ((and))
(c) Evidence of successful completion of at least two additional predoctoral or postdoctoral academic years of dental education.
(i) Additional predoctoral or postdoctoral dental education completed prior to July 1, 2018, must be obtained at a dental school ((approved under WAC 246-817-110(2))) in the United States or Canada, approved, conditionally or provisionally, by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
(ii) Additional predoctoral or postdoctoral dental education completed after July 1, 2018, must be obtained in a dental program in the United States or Canada, approved, conditionally or provisionally, by the Commission on Dental Accreditation and include clinical training; and
(d) An applicant for Washington state dental licensure must provide proof of successful completion of an approved:
(i) Practical/clinical examination; or
(ii) Qualifying postgraduate residency program, approved by or administered under the direction of the commission authorized in RCW 18.32.040.
(2) Upon completion of the requirements in subsection (1)(a) through (c) of this section, an applicant may be eligible to take the practical examination as ((required)) approved in WAC 246-817-120 (2) through (4).
(a) The commission may issue examination approval up to six months before an applicant has completed the two additional predoctoral or postdoctoral academic years of dental education.
(b) An applicant must provide a letter from the school where the two additional predoctoral or postdoctoral academic years is being obtained indicating expected date of education completion.
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