The Schuster Center for Professional Development was founded in 1978 by Dr. Michael Schuster. His mission is now the same as it was back in 1978 - to provide dentists with all the information they didn't get in dentistry school, but need if they're going to thrive. Making this information available with online classes for dentists has been one of his greatest accomplishments for the profession.
Being a good dentist and being a good owner of a successful private practice - two very different things. Two very different skill sets. That is one of the reasons the Schuster Center offers courses on managing a dental office.
Unfortunately, it's also necessary. Dentists have to eat, just like everyone else. The problem of course, is that while jumping in and trying to build your practice is highly illuminating in the sense that it very quickly reveals to you the skills you don't currently have, but desperately need in order to make your practice a success, it's also a bit of a trap. Now you're "in business," and being in business without all the skills you need to do it well and successfully means that your business takes up huge amounts of your time.
Work-life balance? You're probably working 70 hours or more a week, and the notion of any sort of balance at all seems like a distant dream. That's the trap, because working those kinds of hours makes it all but impossible to attend conferences, lectures or classes designed to teach you the skills you're lacking. Again, the value of online dental business training can be easily seen here. Even if you found one somewhere, would you be able to go? Would you be able to attend all the sessions, and if you did, what would happen to your practice while you were gone? Would you have anything to come back to? It's risky.
That's why it's so important that these courses are offered online. It provides you a way to get the knowledge and information you need, without the rigid structure of a classroom. It enables you to fit your continuing education into your life and your schedule, which makes it far more useful than a class in some other city with set hours and attendance policies.
So how do you go about doing it?
http://schustercenter.com/about/dental-practice-management/
Being a good dentist and being a good owner of a successful private practice - two very different things. Two very different skill sets. That is one of the reasons the Schuster Center offers courses on managing a dental office.
Unfortunately, it's also necessary. Dentists have to eat, just like everyone else. The problem of course, is that while jumping in and trying to build your practice is highly illuminating in the sense that it very quickly reveals to you the skills you don't currently have, but desperately need in order to make your practice a success, it's also a bit of a trap. Now you're "in business," and being in business without all the skills you need to do it well and successfully means that your business takes up huge amounts of your time.
Work-life balance? You're probably working 70 hours or more a week, and the notion of any sort of balance at all seems like a distant dream. That's the trap, because working those kinds of hours makes it all but impossible to attend conferences, lectures or classes designed to teach you the skills you're lacking. Again, the value of online dental business training can be easily seen here. Even if you found one somewhere, would you be able to go? Would you be able to attend all the sessions, and if you did, what would happen to your practice while you were gone? Would you have anything to come back to? It's risky.
That's why it's so important that these courses are offered online. It provides you a way to get the knowledge and information you need, without the rigid structure of a classroom. It enables you to fit your continuing education into your life and your schedule, which makes it far more useful than a class in some other city with set hours and attendance policies.
So how do you go about doing it?
http://schustercenter.com/about/dental-practice-management/
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