How to Survive Dental Performance Difficulties offers an authoritative guide for successfully navigating and overcoming dental performance issues. This practical manual takes a preventative approach, outlining the factors that are most likely to lead to fitness to practise issues with clear explanations of how these issues can be avoided. The book also thoroughly describes the fitness to practise processes and reviews all the major dental organisations involved in the performance process within the United Kingdom, detailing their role and function.

The book provides the essential information needed, should you or a colleague find yourself the subject of a GDC or local investigation, and will also be of help to those who support professionals under investigation, whether with a regulator or commissioning organisation. The author draws on her experience working with performance issues and developing dental training programmes for coaches, mentors, educational supervisors, trainers, and appraisers to offer a concise and useful reference for dental professionals. This important resource:

• Offers a practical guide for preventing and overcoming dental performance issues
• Highlights case studies of dental professionals who have direct experience of being referred for fitness to practise issues
• Includes information on the support available to dental professionals, the requirements that need to be met, and how to meet them
• Contains information on the effective use of evidence, improvement practice tools such as personal development plans, continuing professional education, reflective diaries, and audits
• Offers guidance on how to increase self-awareness and insight

Written for dental professionals and non-dental professionals in a supportive role, How to Survive Dental Performance Difficulties is a compassionate and practical guide to working through the often complex and daunting fitness to practise process.

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Contents

Chapter 1 The basics of performance
Chapter 2 Background and contributory factors: How performance issues can arise
Chapter 3 Professionalism
Chapter 4 Regulation of dentistry and dental professionals
Chapter 5 Organisations that play a supporting role
Chapter 6 The anatomy of a fitness to practise case
Chapter 7 The registrant’s journeypersonal statements and case studies
Chapter 8 Building self‐awareness and insight
Chapter 9 Tools that can help
Chapter 10 Supporting colleagues who struggle Being non‐judgemental