Written by DTC Miami
Created 01/22/2018
The dental field is always transitioning into newer and more advanced technologies and procedures. Considering the constant advances in the dental field, one aspect of a dentists’ career is staying up-to-date with the latests technologies. Continuing education courses are one of the best ways that dentist can learn, improve, practice, and perfect the skills and techniques they have. What are the pros and cons of participating in continuing dental education courses?
PROS
Professional Growth
Knowledge Acquired
Pacing Yourself
Support and Guidance
Networking
Teamwork skills
Staying Informed
Confidence in Your Own Practice
CONS
Time
Investment
As you can see, the pros exceed the cons because like with many professions, once you start to learn, the learning never stops as knowledge is always increasing.
Professional Growth and Confidence in Your Own Practice
Besides the fact that for many dentists, continuing dental education is required for license renewal, it also helps dentist grow professionally and obtain more confidence in their own practice. How?
We must first understand what professional growth is in the field of dentistry. Professional growth can be defined in many different ways by many different professionals in many different fields. However, in the field of dentistry, professional growth is about being the best dentist you can to reach your professional goals and aspirations. Many aspects play in the importance of professional growth such as patient care and patient treatments.
Continuing dental education courses help shape and build professional growth through the inclusion of hands-on, new concepts, new technologies and new techniques. CDE courses provide different and complex tools that assist the growth of a dentist. While dentist flourish by taking CDE courses, their dental practices also flourish alongside them. We hope that this blog post provides some guidance for dentists who are unsure of whether to participate in CDE courses.