Advancing your dental career – Our tips & advice

If you are looking for ways to advance your career, you most certainly have the motivation required to do so if you are reading this article. Not every dental professional actively seeks to push their career forward. To do this, it is essential that you build your skill set by completing continuing education.

As with any healthcare job, there will be regular changes in the way we treat patients as new and exciting treatments become available. To keep up-to-date with these changes and to ensure we have the skills required to use these new treatments, we need to complete continuing education credits. These credits allow you to complete hands on courses and lectures to bring you up to speed.

Improving Skills

Continuing education allows you not only to learn new skills, but practice your existing skills to ensure you are able to become the best dentist you can be. As you develop your skills, you can increase your level of experience, which will allow you to take on more responsibilities in your job as a result. At your salary review, you can then push for a higher wage because of these new responsibilities you complete.

Opens the Door to New Opportunities

It could be argued that the more skills and techniques that you improve on and learn, the more opportunities that will come your way to take your career in a new direction. I’ve lost count of the number of connections I have made at continuing education classes. It offers a great opportunity to network and get to know new people in the industry. Lots of dental jobs are on offer when you network with others, so get chatting!

Use Your Initiative & Take on Responsibility

When you have finished your tasks, or have a spare half hour, you may wish to help with other aspects of the running of the dental office. It could be as simple as interacting with the patients. Your efforts will quickly be noted by the dental office at large, and they will grow to rely on your work ethic and will be more inclined to keep you. This sort of work ethic will show that you care about the running of the practice and shows that you are a team player. This can also be brought up at a salary review.

If you are looking for new opportunities, you may wish to use the dental jobs near me tool on DentReps to find exciting new challenges.

Joanne is a vet with 12 years experience, who is an advocate for alternative medicine.