4. The Future of CPD in Dentistry Look to the Past – published 10.12.2011
This was published on the 10th December 2011 and made me laugh out loud when re reading as I’ve been going back through them all.
You will see if you’re a referring dentist or local dentist to us, in the next few weeks you will see the launch of our new ‘Study club’ format that we’ve called Peer Review with The Campbell Clinic.
(At least I do walk my talk over time even if I don’t realise I do)
The future of CPD is personal face-to-face contact and it was the same in 2011 as it is now. It seems only a few minutes ago that we did that ITI congress in Liverpool where I was on the scientific programme committee and I thought that I would always be on those committees and have never been on one since.
Peer Review with The Campbell Clinic is essential not only for good CPD in dentistry but also for dental mental health.
You may have seen from my social media outlets that I was at the ITI UK and Ireland Congress in Liverpool last week. The benefits of attending these national and international meetings are massive to anybody in clinical dentistry and probably to anybody in any profession.
The opportunity to see exceptional clinicians and lecturers present, the opportunity to walk around trade shows to see new developments in dentistry and the opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones is fantastic.
I had a busy congress as I was lucky enough to be involved with the organisation of it and therefore didn’t get to see as many of the lectures as I would have liked. I came away from Liverpool thinking that the educational experience had been no less for the fact that I had missed some lectures because some of the conversations I had at the coffee breaks and in the bars were fantastic, enlightening and better than any lecture I could attend. This, is what I believe makes these congresses so important and the essence of a congress and the meeting of people is the concept of peer-review.
Back in the late 1990’s I was privileged enough to be involved in a fantastic peer-review group in Derbyshire and I think that this was the best type of post-graduate education I had come across. The peer-review groups didn’t really have a register, they didn’t have aims and objectives and they didn’t have the chance to feedback in any formal way. That said, I think it was probably one of the best learning experiences I have had and when I go to congresses the discussions are the best way to learn.It is a shame we can’t put these down in our verifiable CPD logs and it would be terrible if we lost the opportunity to do this with the onset of lots of different ways of earning our CPD in the future. I still feel that it is a far better way of learning about advances and changes in dentistry than reading an article, answering some questions and posting it back to a machine.
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