 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental L if you haven't yet, please click like to this video I really appreciate it, it just shows me that people are actually watching and it does help me out as well. So in the video today, I want to talk to you guys about if you are a dental hygienist in Ontario and you have been audited, do you want to take the quality assurance exam or do you want to do the portfolio route okay. With both of those you still have to fill out your practice profile if you need help, I will leave links down below for everything, so I do have a course for the quality assurance exam prep. I do have a course for how to write complete do your portfolio and I have another course separate for if you just need help with your practice profile, so I do all of that. Because i've been through all of that i've been audited twice. In my career apparently dental hygienists get chosen at random but it's common to be audited every five to six years and that's exactly what happened to me. i've also been through the onsite audit as well when I started my mobile dental hygiene practice so if anybody has experience I do and I can help you guys. But talking about the quality assurance exam versus portfolio so people ask me all the time what I suggest they do it's truly up to you. When I was audited I chose to do the portfolio just because I take courses often and i'm very organized so throughout the year i'm. writing notes on the courses that I take I save all of the links I go into my smile portal and kind of like write all of that down. I formulate kind of goals that I want to do for the year, so I do all of that anyway, so I didn't mind submitting my portfolio. But I also have a thing where you have to pay to take the quality assurance exam I don't like paying for something if I can choose another way and not have to pay for it, I know it sounds silly but it's true. um but it's really up to you, if the idea of keeping track of courses you take writing things down formulating. goals talking about what you had learned changes you made to your practice, because you have to do all of that if you submit your portfolio it's a very lengthy. report that you have to do for the CDHO on every course that you decide to use for a goal. If that is overwhelming to you and you're thinking I don't keep track of my courses, nor do I want to take more courses than I have to. Then the quality assurance exam might be better for you, you basically study for the exam, I do have a prep course, like I said, I can help you study for that exam. You take the exam and hopefully pass that's it you don't have to submit a portfolio, none of that with both options, though you do have to submit your practice profile it's not as hard as you might think. I actually have a video on YouTube as well, if you do a search. type in practice profile and you will find it where I go through it with you, if you need more help, I can help you just send me a message and i'm more than happy to help you. So if taking the exam, though, on the other side of things really is scary for you overwhelming you don't want to take the exam you don't have to want to worry. about not passing the exam, then you might want to do the portfolio, but it's a lot more work, in my opinion. I did the portfolio, like I said, just because I kind of had the work done for me, all of that so. What do you guys think think about it if you have more questions comment below i'll leave the links down below for all of the courses that I do offer if you need help with either one. i'm here to support you, I know it's a stressful time i'm here to support you, this is what I do, this is my passion, so please reach out to me okay. Good luck, please click like if you guys haven't yet, make sure to click subscribe so you get all the videos that are coming up there are some exciting ones coming and i'll talk to you guys very, very soon.