Coping with Professional Burnout: A Roadmap for Overworked Dental Therapists

About This Course

Learn how to prevent and manage burnout in dental practice with this course. Topics include stress reduction techniques, interpersonal skills, and building a resilient workplace culture.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses a common problem faced by many UK dental professionals – burnout. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress and overwork. Dental professionals often work in high-pressure environments, which can lead to burnout if not managed properly. This course provides them with the tools and techniques needed to identify stressors, reduce stress, and build a burnout resilient practice. It also emphasizes the importance of effective communication, conflict resolution, and creating a healthy workplace culture, all of which can go a long way in preventing burnout.

The course is beneficial because it covers various aspects of burnout and stress management in dental practice, including identifying stressors, techniques for stress reduction, interpersonal skills, and building a resilient practice. It also addresses the anatomy and impact of burnout, workplace stressors, mindfulness, effective communication, conflict resolution, leadership’s role in preventing burnout, and creating a healthy workplace culture.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
#REF!	1: Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to demonstrate improved deescalation and conflict resolution skills, enabling them to handle stressful patient situations effectively.
	2: As a result of this course, learners will likely adopt better self-care and wellness practices, fostering a healthier work-life balance and more robust stress management strategies.
	3: The course should lead to an increase in the learners’ competency in managing a dental practice under high-stress conditions, equipped with enhanced leadership and decision-making skills.
	4: In the wider context, the course aims to contribute to a healthier work environment in dental practices, as professionals become more adept at handling stress, improving their interactions with both colleagues and patients.
	5: Following the course, the expectation is that attendees will incorporate mindfulness techniques into their daily routine, enhancing their resilience to stress in high-pressure professional environments.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 90 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course covers understanding and defining burnout, identifying stressors in dental practice, techniques for stress reduction, interpersonal skills for managing stress, and building a burnout resilient practice. It includes topics such as the anatomy and impact of burnout, workplace stressors, mindfulness, effective communication, conflict resolution, leadership’s role in preventing burnout, and creating a healthy and positive workplace culture.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of this course covers understanding burnout, identifying stressors in the workplace, techniques for stress reduction, interpersonal skills for managing stress, and building a burnout resilient practice. Topics covered include the definition of burnout, stages and symptoms, the impact on personal and professional life, workplace stressors, difficult patients and colleagues, overwork and unrealistic expectations, mindfulness, physical activity, work-life balance, effective communication, conflict resolution, setting boundaries, building a supportive network, leadership in preventing burnout, creating a healthy workplace culture, implementing effective work policies and encouraging work-life balance in dental teams.

Section 2

This section of the course focuses on understanding burnout, identifying stressors, techniques for stress reduction, interpersonal skills for managing stress, and building a burnout resilient practice in the dental profession. Topics covered include the anatomy of burnout, workplace stressors, mindfulness, effective communication, creating a positive workplace culture, and more.

Section 3

Section 3 of the course focuses on understanding burnout, identifying stressors, techniques for stress reduction, interpersonal skills for managing stress, and building a burnout resilient practice in the dental profession.

Section 4

Section 4 of this course focuses on interpersonal skills for managing stress, including effective communication, conflict resolution, setting boundaries, and building a supportive network in a dental office setting.

Section 5

Section 5 of this course teaches how to build a burnout resilient practice by understanding the role of leadership in preventing burnout, creating a healthy and positive workplace culture, implementing effective work policies to prevent overwork, encouraging work-life balance in dental teams, and coping with professional burnout.

Course Reviews

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The course provided me with valuable insights on how to identify and manage workplace stressors, which will undoubtedly benefit my practice.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The course offered a comprehensive understanding of burnout and showed me effective techniques for reducing stress and building resilience in my practice.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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I found the course to be highly informative, particularly in its exploration of the anatomy and impact of burnout and the role of leadership in preventing it.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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