Cost: ADPA members $935.00
Cost: Non-member $1735.00

Developed by Dr Amar Sholapurkar for ADPA

'Please read carefully' during the enrolment process

• You are required to complete the course within 3 months. 
• There are pre-recorded lectures for you to complete in your own time. Once registered, you will have access to the course for 3 months only.
• There are 10 training modules to complete, and the total amount of video content is approximately 5 hours.
• After completing all the 10 modules, you will be directed to an exam link where you will have 35-40 multiple choice questions (MCQs) to answer, and you need to score at least 75% marks in order to obtain the certificate of successful completion. 
• Once you are done with the exams, Dr Sholapurkar will mark your papers and grant you the certificate of successful completion with 6.00 scientific CPD hours.
• Unfortunately, you will not be provided with lecture handouts for copyright reasons. Therefore, we would recommend you have a paper and pen handy and make your notes while you are watching the presentations.
• If you have any questions relating to this course content, we can organize a Q and A session for a group of participants if necessary.  

Purpose and outcome for dental prosthetists

• This course will provide you with a coherent knowledge in dental radiology, especially relating to 2D radiographs.
• The primary purpose of this course is to equip dental prosthetists to interpret radiographs, assisting you with appropriate treatment planning and the ability to recognize where a referral to a suitably qualified practitioner is required. 
• To maintain, improve, and broaden your expertise, experience, and competence and develop the personal and professional qualities you will need throughout your career.
• Additionally, it is also to align previously qualified Dental Prosthetists(DP) with newly graduated DPs.
• This is in line with the competencies of a DP. Australian Dental Council (ADC) - 6.1.3 Clinical information gathering, select necessary clinical, pathology, and other diagnostic procedures and interpret results.
• This course is not to increase your scope of practice. It fits into the scope, and it enhances an individual’s scope within the scope of practice of the profession.
• This training will enable members to be trained and competent to use radiographic interpretation as a diagnostic tool, as many DPs already are.
• This course is more about identifying areas which may need a referral to dentists and not about the DP actually diagnosing. 

Important note relating to exam link
Once you have completed the full course, it is a mandatory requirement that you complete the exam. This exam consists of about 35-40 MCQ’s and you need to score at least 75% marks in order to obtain the certificate.

• Please enter your correct full name as it appears in your Ahpra registration and your email address before you start the exam. Your name and profession (dental prosthetist) will appear on the certificate based on what you enter in the exam link. Please be careful while writing these details. The software picks what you enter. 
• At the end of the exam, please provide feedback about the course in at least 35-40 words or more. The exam link is set in such a way that you cannot submit the exam without writing feedback of at least 35-40 words.
• We would recommend you do the exam in one go. However, there is no time limit for the exam. 
• While you are doing the exam, you have the option of going “BACK” to the previous question and confirm your answer. Keep on pressing “NEXT” to go to the next question. Please be careful and don’t press “FINISH” button somewhere in the middle of the exams. Please press “FINISH” only at the end of the exam.

• Please give Dr Sholapurkar 3-4 days to mark your papers. 

• Participants will be provided with certificates which mean that they have passed the examination.
Dr Sholapurkar will not be revealing the marks to the participants (it is just PASS or FAIL) and not providing the answer sheets to the participants.

• In case the participant fails the exam, they will have the opportunity to re-do the exams only once with no cost. If the participant fails the second time, then he/she needs to pay $100 plus GST and then re-do the exams.

• You will be granted 6.00 scientific CPD hours for completing the course and examination.

Dr Amar Sholapurkar, BDS, MDS (Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal University, India)

Dr Amar Sholapurkar is a Discipline lead of Oral Radiology and Senior lecturer (Clinical Dentistry and Oral Radiology) at College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University (JCU), Cairns. Australia. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at few universities in India. He has more than 20 years of global teaching (for both undergraduates and postgraduates) and research experience till date. Dr Sholapurkar is presently doing a part-time PhD at JCU, Cairns Campus. In the year 2021, Dr Amar has received the JCU Dean's learning & teaching award for his outstanding teaching at JCU. In addition to this he recently received the 2022 James Cook University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Award' for his radiology teaching.

He has completed his Masters in Oral Medicine and Radiology at the prestigious Manipal University, India. His career started in Manipal University as an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) followed by Reader where he served as a specialist in Oral Medicine and Radiology. He also worked as Assistant Professor at University in the Middle East for couple of years.

Over the past few years, he has received approval from various state Radiation health authorities and running the Cone-beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) licensing course and OPG/Lat Ceph licensing course across Australia. He is also actively involved in conducting two highly interactive Dental Radiology lectures titled “Interpretation of CBCT – What a dental practitioner should know”? and “2D radiography interpretation course” across Australia and NZ. These interpretation courses are verified by the NZ dental association.

He has published more than 50 articles in reputed peer reviewed dental journals; have contributed 11 chapters in book and has extensive conference presentations. He has published (edited) a book titled: “Publish and Flourish – Practical Guide for effective scientific writing” and selected in the editorial board/peer review committee of about 5 Dental Journals. He has delivered Guest lectures/keynote lectures in Dental conventions/ specialty conferences/CPD activities in Australia and abroad.