One of the things we're always asked for is an easy way to earn verifiable CPD and update your skills at a time, and a place, that suits you. A private study course is the perfect solution; you download a series of slides and view the training, wherever and whenever, it fits in with your busy lifestyle.
CPD:
20 hours
Cost:
Free to download and view; £50 to have your project validated and gain the CPD hours
The Secret of Success
This online course (providing 20 hours of CPD) explores the evidence base for the fundamental key to running a successful dental practice. In fact, there is no ‘secret’. The evidence is very clear. However, with the considerable day to day pressures of running the modern dental practice the immediate, and sometimes urgent, issues facing us can cause us to lose sight of the fundamental truth.
You will cover:
- The meaning of success and the role of profit
- The importance of our patients’ oral health to our success
- How job satisfaction for the whole dental team works towards our success
- The issues most important in achieving patient satisfaction
- How to set up a concise patient survey designed to measure practice success
Suitable for:
Dentists and practice managers (Denplan member practices only)
Download the training:
Download the project and conduct the assessment of learning exercise and the patient leaving rate audit. Also conduct the patient feedback audit. Draw up a Team Development Plan informed by the results of these audits.
Follow the Leader
This online course (providing 20 hours of CPD) explores the importance of leadership in dental practice. John Kotter, writing in the Harvard Business Review, suggested: ‘More change always demands more leadership’. This session will propose three pillars for good leadership in dental practice, and, through private study, supplemented by a downloadable workbook, take you through some ideas on how to develop your leadership skills.
You will cover:
- What leadership means and why it matters in a dental practice
- Three leadership styles and three pillars of effective leadership
- How to define a clear vision for the future of your practice
- The importance of your own motivation and behaviour in inspiring your team towards success
- How we deliver on our key intended outcomes
Suitable for:
Dentists and practice managers (Denplan member practices only)
Download the training:
Complete the practice project workbook containing personal assessments and action plans.
Pillars of Clinical Management
This online course (providing 20 hours of CPD) is designed to help you use management techniques to maintain clinical success.
You will cover:
- Management and clinical success
- The three management pillars supporting clinical success
- The value of policies in managing the team towards clinical success
- The channels of communication required to make policies work
- Understand the importance of measuring outcomes
Suitable for:
Dentists and practice managers wanting to explore the role management can play in continuing clinical success (Denplan member practices only)
Download the training:
Outline your practice oral health policy on the template provided and submit it for validation
