Are Dental Courses ‘Broken’? – IC021

Is every dental CPD/CE really awesome? I think the best investment I ever made was in postgraduate courses, but with escalating costs and ever-expanding choices for courses, how does the confused Dentist pick a course? Is there a toxic culture whereby Dentists are afraid to give less than perfect reviews for a course? https://youtu.be/Idgy1YfXaTY Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! The highlights of this episode: 7:07 Importance of Feedback on Dental Courses23:17 Too Many Positive Reviews!27:22 What kind of learner are you?30:11 How to Choose the Courses you should take Check out the book recommended by Druh Shah called The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark If you enjoyed this episode, you will also like Being Unstoppable with Ferhan Ahmed Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Are you six months later still using stuff from that course, right? Are you still, have you changed your practice because of that course? How was the after support, how's everything like that? Jaz's Introduction:You know how we always moan that dental education at dental school is kind of letting us down and we come out qualified. And we feel underprepared. This episode is kind of moaning not about undergraduate dental education, which I'm actually, I'm not moaning I want to say but we're debating okay, because I've got Dhru Shah and Niall Hutchinson, we're debating about the current state of art when it comes to dental CPD or dental CE, so that's continuing education, continuing professional development, all the courses that we go on, after dental school, there is kind of like a toxic culture. And I spoke about this, in the previous episode #AskJaz. And this is what sort of stimulated or created this debate because in that episode, I kind of answered a key question where people are saying, Should I do this course or should I do that course, this course because it's a significant investment. And all the reviews are really confusing. I don't know which one to pick. And I kind of said, well, it kinda doesn't matter. Because from all these reviews, you're probably very unlikely to go wrong. But then after the episode, I've had two of the Protruserati who I really respect and really loved, they messaged me, and they said, Jaz, I'm really regretting, they said, Thanks for tackling that topic it's not really spoken about enough. But they said, I'm doing this course, one is a restorative course very well known UK. And the other one is a very well known orthodontic course in the UK. And these two guys, these are like course junkies, that course connoisseurs, they're no like spring chickens that are just doing their first course they've done several courses. And they reached out say, You know what Jaz, you had a point because I kind of went by the hype of this course and the reviews. And I'm extremely disappointed after investing, probably in five figure course here we're talking about, so not a cheap course. And education is worth every penny, I think. And we can go on and on talk about value and the importance of implementation to gain the most out of courses. But essentially, these two guys who are really great dentists, they were left disappointed. And I think that stems from the fact that whenever we search about reviews of courses, we always hear that this course is amazing. That course amazing. This course is life changing. So how do you know which one to pick? Well, the way I think about it, everything in life, everything in life, okay, that's the quality of dental care that we give, or the quality of the lawyers or teachers or the quality of food that's out there in the world. Like it's everything follows a bell curve. There's most of it, which is average and maybe above average. And then there's a 5% outliers on either side, which are just abysmal and absolutely awesome. But when he read the reviews for courses, apparently,