On the 7th October we will be hosting the first ever 'Learning from Failure Conference'.
This conference will be the same format as The DES Conference in the same exceptional surroundings with great IT and wonderful food and company.
The concept of this conference though is very different - a group of practitioners will present aspects of their work that have not gone to plan, sometimes with devastating consequences for both patients and the practitioner themselves. It's about 20 minutes of talking about the case and 20 minutes of discussing how it might be changed and have gone better.
It's about being open and honest.
It's about showing 'intellectual honesty' as Matthew Syed puts it.
Many of us feel that the discussion of problems and complications has been censored in medicine and dentistry as a result of the high price of regulation and this is hoped to be the antidote to that.
It's unlikely that you will ever learn more from a conference than you will from here because it's unlikely that you will go to a conference where people are as happy to talk openly about the things that have gone wrong in their personal practice.
Craig Wales a Maxillofacial surgeon from Glasgow will discuss aspects of his practice which will reverberate around everyone else's practice and make them think about how to face up to mistakes and complications.
Nick Fahey from Reading (a pioneer in digital dentistry) will present a case.
Myself and Philip Hollows will present a complication and adverse outcome that occurred for a patient which was personally devastating for my practice but which we feel will allow people to identify improvements in their own practice.
Dhru Shah, who needs no introduction, will present again.
Dominic O'Hooley from Leeds will bring something from his own personal practice to become a little bit better.
Rob Dyas from Sheffield will discuss an Oral Surgery case.
We still have some other potential speakers (two non dental) who are trying their best to get there.
This is a not-for-profit event. The cost if £150 including VAT and all the profits (if there are any) will be recycled to next year for discounts for everyone who attends.
We hope it starts a little tribe of people who are happy to learn from mistakes and errors and talk about them openly in a non-threatening environment.
Please book your place here and tell all your friends. We would like to make this as successful as possible and full at it's first attempt.
Blog Post Number: 1069
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