As the UK’s leading provider of online postgraduate dental courses, our world-class faculty delivers outstanding dental courses, CPD-certified training, and prestigious online events.
But that’s not all we’ve got under our scrubs!
Our syllabi are packed with practical training, clinical research, and skill-led tuition that prepares the modern clinician for a life-long career.
In this blog post, we’ll dive into five unexpected things our students learn on every postgraduate course at the London Dental Institute, and discover how you can enrol on a course this year.
1. Clinical Research Skills
Top of the list of unexpected things to learn at the LDi is clinical research skills.
While it’s guaranteed that a postgraduate dental course will be rooted in up-to-date clinical literature, as dentists, it’s often expected of us to keep relevant on our own. Staying well-informed with new research and medical best practices is important for clinicians to maintain their knowledge base and skills. But it’s time-consuming and a skill that we may lose following graduation.
At the LDi, we prioritise clinical research by offering summarised snippets of bitesize round-ups so you can catch up easily on vital developments. In addition, each of our postgraduate courses offers a clinical research module so you can brush up on your skills.
2. Clinical Photography
A picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why studying at LDi helps you perfect the ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos that document your clients’ journey.
Photographs are essential for communicating with patients. They often help reveal what the patient is unable to see with the naked eye.
LDi will support you in understanding the fundamentals and equipment selection from start to finish. We will discuss the importance of choosing the right kit, understanding the science of the camera system, framing, shooting, and post-processing and image preparation for presentation, analysis, and submission.
3. Digital Dentistry
Dentistry is no exception in the transition towards implementing digital methods instead of traditional techniques and procedures.
Digital technology is revolutionising dentistry, from radiography to e-scriptions, computerised presentation to CAD/CAM restorations, and digital ‘surgical guides’ for imaging during implant placement. These advancements in digital dentistry techniques are enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of dental procedures, and we at LDi are at the forefront of this technology, helping you learn to use and implement it into your practices.
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4. Marketing a Dental Practice
In the competitive world of dentistry, it is important to stand out in the crowd. But as dentists, it can be difficult to transition from professionals to business people.
As a result, all of our courses offer a module on marketing, a vital action necessary to build a practice, create a personal brand, and attract more revenue.
Maybe you’re already running your own practice? Or maybe you’re looking to open the doors to your own empire in the near future? LDi will help you navigate the world of marketing at whatever stage in your career you find yourself.
5. Live Cases
See one, do one, teach one was once the leading teaching style, but now LDi offers its students the next best thing: the Orthodontic Clinical Case Forum.
The Clinical Case Forum is designed for LDi members to upload their clinical cases, receive advice and mentoring from our expert faculty, and review existing cases from your colleagues and peers. This means you can take on live cases from day one of your postgraduate diploma, increasing your revenue immediately.
By submitting as much detail and evidence as possible to the Forum, you can interact with personalised feedback and support directly from your tutors, who are also practising clinicians. This first-hand feedback can prove invaluable as you embark on or expand on your clinical journey.
Final Thoughts
The LDi offers its students much more than just the postgraduate course materials. As standard, it will offer you the clinical research skills you need to stay up-to-date with new treatments and patient care; it will provide you with the mastery of dental photography, allowing you to document client journeys perfectly; assist you in understanding the importance of marketing and aid you in the development of a marketing strategy for your current, or future, practices; and lastly, it will give you access to the Clinical Case Forum providing you with mentorship from the expert faculty and your peers.
Enrolling for any of LDi’s internationally accredited postgraduate dental courses is easy. Why not check out what courses are on offer here, and get access to a world of knowledge at the end of your fingertips with one simple click.
