Croydon Section: Minds mouths and meaning

What to expect

The lecture will focus on helping delegates understand some of the fundamentals of human psychology and experience as it relates to a career in healthcare. Particular focus will be on the healthcare providers mental wellbeing and psychology and the felt experience of the patient as they meet and engage with their dentist. We will explore how this pertains to the pressures, adversity along with the benefits and advantages of a life as a dentist. We will understand how patients unconscious is making all of their seemingly rational decisions on treatment choices.

Timings

18:30 Registration 

19:00 Lecture - Richard Porter

20:30 End of lecture

20:30 Q&A

21:00 Close

Learning objectives

• Explore key pillars of human psychology, adversity, resilience, and emotional balance
• Understand how the brain predicts and shapes emotional experience
• Access tools to build emotional intelligence
• Develop long-term personal and professional growth as a dentist.

Development outcome

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Meet the speaker

Richard became a Restorative Consultant in 2007 and continued in this role for 17 years. He is a GDC registered specialist in Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontology and Restorative Dentistry.

He was care group lead for a large London trauma, oncology and deformity focussed Restorative care group for eight years whilst maintaining a solo private specialist referral practice. He is a postgraduate student in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and plans to remain so for the foreseeable future.

He left the NHS in August 2024 and is building a private healthcare centre in central London to open in 2025 with a focus on preventive medicine, wellness, advanced specialist dentistry and post graduate education.

He is also Co-Founder of the Aspire Dental Academy and has trained several consultants along with over 2000 postgraduate GDPs.