Renewal’s due in March, and I’m hunting for pediatric-focused CE that offers practical scripts for coaching parents and gentle, kid-friendly behavior guidance beyond tell-show-do. If you’ve taken a great course covering MI with parents plus minimally invasive options like SDF/Hall for our 3–6 year olds, which provider changed your chairside routine?
AAPD’s Behavior Guidance plus Dr. Jeanette MacLean’s SDF/Hall session on Viva Learning gave me real parent scripts — felt like chairside cheat codes for wiggles. We laminated the “choices menu” and a quick yes/no SDF flow to speed consults; MI was a bit light, so I added dentalcare.com’s short MI module. If you want one place to start, try AAPD here: AAPD | Education Homepage — do you prefer live or on‑demand?
Building on @cjones82, Josh Wren’s Dentaltown pediatric series tightened up my Hall workflow and gave me parent MI lines like ‘Would you be open to SDF today and we recheck in 6 months?’ Kinda like training wheels for tricky visits. Print a one-page ‘If this, say this’ for the cart; do you want live or on-demand recs?
And on new regs like CBAM/UFLPA, I pick one CLE with a clear ‘what changes on Monday’ section and turn it into a one-page checklist we pilot on two live matters — same trick helped me translate OSHA updates in our hygiene CE into quick chart-audit steps. If it lacks forms or cites, I skip it and find a live session with hypotheticals; @JasonL, those stick better.
Quick example: I got my best parent scripting from a non-dental MI intro via MINT; we built one-liners like “On a scale of 0–10, how ready are you to try SDF today?” and it smoothed my Hall consent chats overnight… I paired that with Dr. Carla Cohn’s minimally invasive pedo session on CDEWorld for the workflow; small caveat: the Hall segment assumes you’ve got the crown sizes dialed.
I’d look at AAPD’s Education Passport for the Behavior Guidance modules and pair it with Dr. Jeanette MacLean’s SDF/Hall content — the combo felt like training wheels for tough 3–6s and gave me a parent line: “We can paint and monitor or place a cap without drilling or numbing; which feels right for your child?” If you want a single source, AAPD alone is solid and not salesy: https://education.aapd.org. @cjones82, a live role-play segment is what moved the needle most for me.