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When it comes to continuing dental education, over half of dentists say they plan to do more clinical CE this year. The average dentist expects to complete over 50 hours of clinical dental CE in 2010.
Even in the present economic climate, dental marketing and management education is somewhat less important to dentists. Only about one in three dentists plans to do additional dental management and/or marketing CE this year.
Here are some comments from dentists about dental continuing education:
- "I always do more than I plan and I have never been sorry about CE." (Illinois dentist)
- "No more cosmetic dentistry CE! It is getting redundant and boring." (California dentist)
- "There will be some overlap between the managing and the marketing education. I need a more inviting dental website presence on the web." (Oklahoma dentist)
- "With the economy in the dumpster and the recession clearly STILL in progress, there is no time better than the present to increase our marketing and management education at my office." (Ohio prosthodontist)
- "Dental marketing CE includes two-hour monthly training with The Wealthy Dentist University marketing materials and TWDU marketing meeting in October." (Texas dentist)
Read more: Dental CE: Dentists' Continuing Education Plans
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January 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I am continung giving my 2 day sleep apnea treatment course that fills because we limit enrollmet to 6 doctors and teach them how to close cases. We are planning a “SLEEP APNEA: CLOSING THE CASE” seminar that will cover marketing but more importantly how to sell the case and convert patients into other services. I do a significant number of full mouth rehabilitations that start as sleep appliance patients.
I am amazed at how many doctors take courses but never do proceedures because they are unable to achieve patient acceptance.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Discus Dental’s Extravaganza will be a great opportunity to get up to 15 CE in one place. The course offerings include Aesthetics, Practice Enhancement, Soft-Tissue Diode Lasers, Endodontics and Oral Hygiene. It will be at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, May 28-30 and have some great Keynote Speakers (Tom Brokaw, Marcus Allen, Fred Joyal). It will be the CE event of the year.