IN Dental Juris study plan
IN Dental Juris · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Indiana Dental Practice Act: statutory structure and definitions
Map the Indiana Dental Practice Act's structure by outlining its articles, board composition, and rulemaking authority in your own words
Define every statutory term in the Act's definitions section and flag terms that differ from common clinical usage
Identify which statutory provisions cross-reference other Indiana Code titles or administrative rules and note where to look them up
Distinguish statutory text from board-adopted administrative rules and explain why the distinction matters for exam questions
Your checkpoint
A one-page annotated outline of the Act's structure plus a glossary of at least 25 statutory definitions with citations
Indiana Dental Practice Act: statutory structure and definitions & Scope of practice, supervision levels, and delegation to auxiliaries
Trace how the Act delegates scope-of-practice detail to the board and rules, listing three examples
Compare the statutory scope of dentistry against the statutory scope of dental hygiene
Categorize tasks as dentist-only, delegable with supervision, or delegable without supervision based on the Act and rules
Explain how the Act defines and limits the practice of dentistry by unlicensed persons
Your checkpoint
A scope-of-practice matrix listing at least 20 procedures with the required level of supervision and a citation for each
Scope of practice, supervision levels, and delegation to auxiliaries & Licensure, renewal, and continuing education requirements
Define each supervision level (direct, indirect, general, and any others recognized) and state what must be present for each
Outline licensure pathways, application requirements, and grounds for license denial
Summarize renewal cycles, late-renewal consequences, and reinstatement steps
Audit the continuing education requirement: hours, categories, documentation, and audit risk
Your checkpoint
A supervision-level cheat sheet plus a CE compliance checklist with the statutory or rule basis for every item
Standards of care, patient records, and informed consent & Infection control, sterilization, and occupational safety
List the required elements of a complete patient record and the retention period
Apply the informed-consent standard to three hypothetical scenarios and identify what documentation would prove consent
Sequence the instrument-processing steps from transport through storage and name the monitoring methods for each
Identify occupational safety obligations including exposure control, immunization, and post-exposure protocols
Your checkpoint
A records-and-consent checklist and a sterilization workflow diagram, each with rule citations
Professional conduct, unprofessional conduct, and disciplinary grounds & Prescribing, controlled substances, and prescription monitoring
Enumerate the statutory and rule-based grounds for discipline and sort them into categories
Distinguish unprofessional conduct from conduct that is merely poor practice
Outline prescribing authority, controlled-substance registration, and prescription-monitoring query obligations
Identify red flags for diversion or inappropriate prescribing and the reporting duties they trigger
Your checkpoint
A discipline-grounds table with at least 15 entries and a prescribing compliance one-pager
Patient abandonment, referral, and termination of the dentist-patient relationship & Advertising, fee splitting, and business practice restrictions
Define abandonment and distinguish it from lawful termination of the dentist-patient relationship
Draft the steps a practice must complete before terminating a relationship, including notice and records transfer
Explain referral obligations and the limits on fee splitting and percentage-based arrangements
Identify advertising and solicitation restrictions, including any limits on claims and testimonials
Your checkpoint
A termination-of-relationship procedure with a sample notice letter and a fee-splitting do/don't list
Mandatory reporting, impairment, and peer review & Licensure, renewal, and continuing education requirements
List mandatory reporting duties, who must report, and the timelines involved
Describe impairment programs and the balance between treatment and discipline
Explain peer review protections and how they affect what a practitioner may disclose
Revisit renewal and CE rules to close gaps identified in earlier self-quizzing
Your checkpoint
A reporting-obligations flowchart plus a peer-review confidentiality summary
Indiana Dental Practice Act: statutory structure and definitions & Scope of practice, supervision levels, and delegation to auxiliaries & Standards of care, patient records, and informed consent & Professional conduct, unprofessional conduct, and disciplinary grounds
Reconstruct the Act's structure from memory and correct errors against your week 1 outline
Re-run the scope matrix against 10 new scenario questions and score at least 80 percent
Complete two timed mixed-domain practice sets and log every missed item with its citation
Convert your weakest three topics into one-page summaries you can review in the final days
Your checkpoint
A scored 100-question mixed practice exam with a written error log and three final review sheets
Milestones
Week 2: You can explain the Act's structure and the dentist-versus-hygienist scope boundary without notes, and your scope matrix covers at least 20 procedures
Week 4: You score at least 75 percent on a self-made 30-question quiz covering domains 1 through 5, and your sterilization workflow matches the rule step by step
Week 6: You can recite the termination procedure and the fee-splitting limits from memory, and your discipline-grounds table is complete enough to answer scenario questions
Week 8: You score at least 80 percent on a timed 100-question mixed set and have a one-page summary for each of your three weakest topics