Professional Courtesy Thomas Giacobbi, DDS, FAGD, Editorial Director, Dentaltown Magazine

 
Learning with Purpose
– by Thomas Giacobbi, DDS, FAGD, Editorial Director, Dentaltown Magazine

I have the privilege of attending many dental meetings across the country each year and I can always spot the dental practices that come to the meeting as a team. You will see them paired off attending a course together or gathering as a group for lunch. Sadly, there are always many more dentists in attendance alone, on a quest to obtain required continuing education credits or to learn something new.

Each year, when the Western Regional Dental Meeting (www.westernregional.org) rolls around we close our office so our entire team can attend. This is our "local" meeting and it has the key components of every meeting – exhibit hall and CE classes. Everyone on our team will select courses appropriate to his or her area of responsibility and then we all meet for lunch. This is a terrific tradition and one I look forward to every year because it is an opportunity to get outside of our routines and find new ideas to invigorate the practice.

Everyone on my team completes a continuing education report that I have created to facilitate sharing of new things learned (and it also accounts for attention). We review these forms at our staff meeting and we always find something new to work on in our practice.

In the spirit of sharing this concept, I will provide my continuing education report on one of the courses that I attended.

When your entire dental team attends a dental meeting with the goal of completing this form in each course they attend, you empower them to make suggestions for improving your business and they remember more from the lecture.

Do you have a question that needs to be answered or an idea to share? Send me an e-mail: tom@dentaltown.com.



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