Staff profile

Ms Colleen McCarthy

1st Year Coordinator, Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Dentistry and Oral Health

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Membership of professional Associations

Registered and practicing Dental Therapist with the Dental Board of Australia Licensed dental radiographer Dental board of Australia Accreditation team

Area of study

Oral health

Brief Profile

Colleen is a lecturer and coordinates the first year Bachelor of Oral Health Science course. She has a solid background in training and education, particularly in the dental, health & curriculum development field with additional roles in professional development programs and workforce planning consulting. The past thirteen years have focussed on the education, training & curriculum development for dental auxiliaries at both Higher Education and TAFE levels.

Teaching Units

ORH1CPA INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PRACTICE A ORH1CPB CLINICAL PRACTICE B DEN2DPA DENTAL PRACTICE A DEN2DPB DENTAL PRACTICE B

Recent Publications

Chapters in books

Chapter 12 (2010) Oral Health Therapy Programs in Australia and New Zealand Knowledge Books and Software 239-256

Chapter 1 (2008) In Health for Total Wellbeing Oral Eye & Ear Care Elsevier 8 - 31

Papers in refereed journals

Article (2011) Oral Health Reflections from the 2010 National Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health Conference Australian Journal Rural Health 19, 105-106

Conference papers

Smoking Cessation- Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation for Oral Health Professionals Conference 2007 presented Resources for Oral Health Professionals with a lead role in an educational video on smoking cessation for QUIT Victoria

Presentation to participant members of dental therapists, hygienists and school dental therapists from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia 9th World Congress on Preventive Dentistry Phuket, Thailand September 2009 on the curriculum and training of Oral Health Therapists in the Bachelor of Oral health Science Latrobe University.