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Many complaints and dentolegal claims relate to poor communication between dentist and patient, or between colleagues.

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Workshops


Our regular events provide practical tools and tips to help you manage clinical risk and deliver improved patient care.

Mastering your risk

Feb 6, 2015, 09:50 AM
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Mastering your risk


This workshop gives you a thorough grounding in the issues surrounding managing risk through communication. It introduces proven preventative skills and techniques you can implement immediately to reduce your exposure to litigation and complaints, improving patient safety.

An excellent course. I thought this was extremely powerful.

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Overview


The fundamentals of risk management:

  • Find out why patients take action against dentists
  • Discover how to set realistic patient expectations
  • Master the five principles of good communication with C.L.E.A.R
  • Understand how to collaborate as a healthcare team
  • Learn how to best handle patient concerns about colleagues.

Dental Members - FREE

(benefit of membership)

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SUITABLE FOR

  • Dental practitioners
  • Specialists
  • Oral hygienists
  • Specialists
  • Therapists
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FORMAT

  • Two or Three-hour workshop
  • Short lectures
  • Reflective exercise
  • Small group-facilitated discussions
  • Rehearsal of skills
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CPD

  • 2 or 3

  • Earn 1 ethical CEU per hour
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  • South Africa

Case studies


Explore our collection of case studies bringing to life real examples of clinical negligence.

Media support


Should you attract adverse publicity, we can issue press statements and act as a spokesperson to the media to shield you as far as possible from having to deal directly with the press.

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Online learning resources and webinars


Dental Protection members can access the following material by logging into our e-learning platform PRISM.

Digital Future: Teleconsultation Series

  • Module 1: Essentials of teleconsulting communication
  • Module 2: How to tackle tricky patient scenarios when teleconsulting
  • Module 3: Teledentistry - Overcoming risky interactions with colleagues remotely
  • Module 4: Ask the experts - Your teleconsulting questions answered

More recent webinar recordings:

  • Remote consulting during COVID-19
  • Medicolegal and dentolegal issues during lockdown