During Becker's Healthcare recent The Future of Dentistry Roundtable, Joe Broyles, Senior Vice President of Product at Spear Education, and Kimberly Kwiecien, Director of Enterprise Sales, led a group of dental practice and DSO leaders in an interactive session focused on how to pursue clinical excellence through continued dental education.
Key takeaways from the session:
1. The challenges faced by DSO organizations in the dental industry include consistency in the patient experience, case acceptance, productivity, compliance and managing patient dissatisfaction. Recruitment and retention of high-quality doctors and team members are also major challenges for dental organizations.
2. Education and mentorship are an important part of recruiting good talent and achieving consistent practice growth. In addition, finding ways to differentiate their patient experience and brand from other DSO to patients as well being consistent and intentional about tracking the effectiveness of their strategies are also key to growth.
3. Measuring the effectiveness of education and growth strategies can be done through tracking clinical performance, patient outcomes, productivity goals and other metrics. Integration of data and analytics can help identify areas for improvement. However, the dental industry is currently fragmented, making integration challenging.
4. Spear Education offers tailored education and team training opportunities specificially for DSOs. This experience is focused on advancing clinical skills and supporting clinicians and their teams throughout their careers. In addition, Spear’s range of tools tools and products include in-person and on-demand continuing education, patient education tools, and team training.
To learn more about how Spear Enterprise helps DSOs achieve their goals visit https://content.speareducation.com/spear-enterprise
About Spear
Known for high-caliber dental education, Spear Education is the industry leader in dental education and practice management solutions. With nearly 11,000 members and 700+ Study Clubs, Spear offers the full spectrum of in-person and online education and practice management resources designed to help dental practices provide the best quality of care to their patients and love what they do.