The Presenting Complaint

The Presenting Complaint

By Dr Adam Naughton and Dr GEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Presenting Complaint episodes

  • Week 14: London DFT Experience, Final Year Student Advice and Building Confidence saying 'No' to patients with Dr Hadeel Al-Najafi

    Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic.

    In this epsiode we discuss:

    • How to get a second opinion without losing the pateints trust
    • Using the time in FD to experiment and optimise steps of treatment and new techniques
    • Keeping up hobbies even with demands of work
    • Standing up for yourself against patients who demand treatment you disagree with
    • De-skilling during DCT?
    • Advice for final year dental students
    • 59 min
    • Week 12+13: Milestone Cases and Finding Purpose In Teaching

      Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic.

      In this epsiode we discuss:

      • Learning from the mistakes of early FD and DCT
      • Recognising your progression
      • Finding purpose in teaching
      • Embracing discomfort... again
      • Tips for Milestone 1 DFT cases from Sina
      • 43 min
      • Week 11: Path Of Most Resistance, Careers Day, Non-Clinical Opportunities

        Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic.

        In this epsiode we discuss:

        • Embracing your weaknesses and tackling them head on
        • Recognising actual burnout vs just needing a rest and how this can help rationalise your thoughts when feeling burntout
        • Opportunities as going forward we have discovered in practice, hospital, mixed and non clinical roles
        • 47 min
        • Week 10: Back To Basics, Reducing Stress and Reading Dental Literature

          Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic.

          In this epsiode

          • Adam goes back to basics with understanding caries identification and management
          • We discuss how understanding dental literature from reading books and scientific papers helps to reduce stress with clinical decision making
          • We discuss the future of technology and 3D printing especially in prosthodontics
          • 53 min
          • Week 9: Sina's New Job, Claiming UDA's For Perio Management, Feeling Lost In Dentistry

            Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

            In this epsiode

            • We discuss the Healthy Gums Do Matter Toolkit and how it has given us confidence and strucutre in managing periodontal patients in an NHS setting
            • Sina's new job in private practice
            • Doing dentsitry your way and doing good
            • 42 min
            • Week 8: Goals - Revisiting, Reconnecting And Breaking Them Down

              Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

              In this epsiode

              • We discuss the importance of speaking to people just ahead of you in the career paths you might be considering
              • We discuss the importance of revisiting our goals, how to reconnect with them and how to break down our goals to take the next step towards them
              • How to best manage our thoughts, time and finances based on our values
              • 42 min
              • Week 7: Photography Skills, Moving Into Private Dentistry, Better Not Quicker with Dr Harry Craig

                Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

                In this epsiode

                • We are joined by special guest Dr Harry Craig
                • We discuss the importance of taking clinical photos for reflection, litigation, creating a portfolio and more
                • How Dr Harry Craig was able to move into a private job immediately after FD year
                • Harry's advice for dental students and FD's
                • Managing the imposter syndrome and the mental stresses of being a young dentist
                • 1 hr 6 min
                • Week 6: Improving At Oral Surgery, Emotional Intelligence, Our Stupidest Dental Moments

                  Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

                  In this epsiode:

                  • We share oral surgery tips we've learnt recently
                  • We discuss the importance of emotional intelligence and connecting with patients on an emotional level
                  • Rubber dam advice
                  • Our stupidest moment as dentists
                  • 54 min
                  • Week 5: Burnout, Consequences of Hard Work?, Presenting Treatment Options

                    Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

                    In this epsiode:

                    • We discuss control of working environment and considerations for DCT
                    • Our experiences of London Dentistry Show and Tubules Conference
                    • Is the idea of work hard now for an easy life later true, and is it worth it?
                    • Presenting gold standard treatment options
                    • 41 min
                    • Week 4: FD Year Advice, Human Factors and Enjoying it with Dr Luke Levy

                      Welcome to the newest dental podcast aimed at giving value to dental professionals in their early careers🦷🪥. Hosted by @drgilannejad and @dr.adamnaughton. Each episode we will reflect on our weeks as a DFT and DCT1, sharing our experiences, learnings, challenges both inside and outside the clinic. Episodes will be published weekly in September, with guests featuring in special episodes!

                      In this epsiode:

                      • We are joined by special guest Dr Luke Levy
                      • Luke tells us what he wishes he knew at the start of FD year
                      • What to look for in a practice for your post-FD associate job
                      • The importance of enjoying your work
                      • 1 hr

                      About The Presenting Complaint

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                      Join Adam and Sina as they reflect on their weeks as current DFT and DCT Dentists together and occasionally with Special guests.