Comments on: The cost of private dental education https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/the-cost-of-private-dental-education/ Independent dental news, views and reviews Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:44:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Editor https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/the-cost-of-private-dental-education/#comment-240536 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:38:01 +0000 https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/?p=6435#comment-240536 In reply to What the future holds.

I think you’re right, in that no-one wants a profession more focussed on selling stuff than building their clinical skills. And you’re right that there are a lot of questionable CPD courses out there. But given the emphasis on clinical skills learnt from accredited providers, do you think you’re assuming the worst? And I don’t believe the guys at ACDE, for example, have any sales barrow to push, beyond the desire to fill a knowledge gap they saw in their years at universities and in the private sector.

]]> By: What the future holds https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/the-cost-of-private-dental-education/#comment-240424 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:29:44 +0000 https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/?p=6435#comment-240424 People with a positive outlook tend to gloss over the details. The future as I see it is lots of dental students graduating and using sub par CPD providers as opinion leaders. Students in dentistry are seeing dermal filler lectures and listening to tutors who graduated and recently went to tony robinns latest “conference” while blatently discounting the importance of peer review and a comprehemsive undrestanding of the theory behind the practice. Cpd providers have a vested interest in undermining traditional forms of professional education as they benefit when their clients subscribe to their world view. Unfortunately not everyone is as good at what they do as their mentors are. The tools they are provided with dont always work so well in a novices hands. Sometimes growing up means you learn the hard way you are not good at everything. When you are brought up being told you can do anything and are groomed by your parents to succeed you may believe you can when the reality is far from thw truth. The most horrifying things I’ve seen in dentistry are students who are good at “communicating” with patients and horrible with treatment. One day you will pull up at the lights next to one of these people and wonder whether you had it all wrong, maybe being a better salesman is better than being a good dentist.

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