A New Skill at the Dentist

Today when I went to the dentist I started to file the patient files like always but Dr. Patel told me that I was going to do something a bit different. Se taught me how to electronically organize the patients names, insurance, and their payment bills and more. I also was answering the phone while I was doing this. The phone part was pretty simple but the computer part was a bit tougher. After about an hour, I was called by Dr. Patel because she needed help with the patients. She also told me that I should get familiar with all the tools and the tool names so when she asks for a tool I can easily find it and give it to her when she asks for them. I also scheduled my second interview today. Overall, today was a very productive day.

Research and Working EQ

1. What are the steps needed to be taken in order to become a profitable dentist?

2.  EQ. What makes a dentist successful?

• the best way for a dentist to be successful is to obtain a good education by graduating from dental school and applying what he/she has learned into real life situations.
• by building a relationship with his/her patients to help them get to ease so he/she could fix their teeth.
• by learning how to operate using both hands and getting used to working through mirrors.
• taking extra training classes outside of dental school for more practice.

3. The most important source, other than my mentor, is the American Dental Association (ADA). The ADA is an organization that has lots of information about dentistry and also a lot of resources to loo at. This is my strongest source so far.

4. My mentor is Dr. Patel (Doctor of Dental Surgery, DDS) and I am doing my mentorship at the General Dentistry at Montclair. The stuff I am doing at the dentistry and all the stuff I am learning helps me answer my working EQ by giving me real life experience and hands on learning by watching and engaging in more dental activities with the supervision of Dr. Patel.

Blog 7: Independent Compontent 1 Approval

1. I  plan to do my 30 hours at my mentorship place. I am going to do additional mentorship hours for my independent component. During my mentorship and my additional hours for the independent component, I shadow an expert in Dentistry in my field all day helping her out with patients and observing what goes on in a day of a dentist's life. I also do some technical things like filing, organizing patients information in the computers, doing an "inquiry" on a patients history, and more.

2. Too show evidence that I completed my extra hours and what I have learned, I can provide proof though picture and logs.

3. What I am doing will help me go more in depth by getting a chance to view more situations for the patients, get a better and more thorough experience of what a dentist goes through in a normal and abnormal days, and get more used to the environment.