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Seeds for the future

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 22/05/20 18:00

Today and in a couple of Fridays time myself and my friend Jason Wong are lecturing to the Trent Dental Foundation Trainees.

These are the guys that qualified as Dentists last summer which was a huge sense of achievement and excitement about their future careers, only to draw to the end of their DFT year with 33% less Clinical experience than they should have and dark prospects for their immediate future in Dentistry.

These are guys, some of whom have significant six figure debts to push them into Dentistry with no prospect of earning a living in Dentistry for the immediate future.

Dentistry has been shut since the end of March and the industry has shrunk and people who own Dental practices are liable to see the patients much quicker and for much longer hours than the guys they have to pay to do it.

The DFT's sit at the bottom of the chain and how are they going to get jobs? 

Some of them will have a line into a Hospital job and other might have managed to secure an Associate position but in the ‘new world’ how are they going to learn how to do anything.

By the time I was three years out of Dental Foundation Training I had done thousands of extractions, what is the likelihood of that happening to a single one of these guys?

By the time I was out of Dental Foundation Training I had done presentation cases in Restorative Dentistry, made Dentures, done extractions, made mistakes and learnt from them. I had exposure to almost every aspect of Dentistry and then was dropped into an NHS job where I was seeing 30-40 patients a day and ‘getting my feet wet’.

How’s that going to happen?

I’m supposed to talk to these guys about complex Implant Dentistry but what I really need to talk to them about is hope for the future.

I have a responsibility to try to encourage these guys to come to our place to see us, to give them free education, to give them inspiration to show them a path through so that they can become the people that first prop up our profession and then move onto lead it.

There are a thousand DFT’s about to hit the streets in August.

I think there are 10,000 Dental practices.

We need 10% of those practices to give these guys a job and to train them, help them and to nurture them so that there is a profession for them in 5 years time and also a profession for the patients.

 

Blog Post Number - 2376 

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