DENTISTS LEADERS IN HEALTH
Key learnings:
- Because there have been so many changes in the last four decades, dentists have had to invest enormous resources in learning all that is new in dentistry and to focus intensely on restoration.
- There is an important discrepancy in perception of value and trust between dentists and the general public. This fact calls for dentists and their teams to look with new eyes at what they do every day in their clinics and see how conditions of high value and trust can be created.
- The traditional classroom or lecture hall may be the right setting for acquiring new technical skills but not when we need to address the deeper changes our profession needs from us.
- The need to go beyond teaching and telling along the learning continuum if we want to move into 21st century health leadership.
Key process elements:
- A video presentation with companion BLOG posted on the Canadian Dental Association's JCDA.ca web site
- A compelling invitation to leaders in the profession to experience first hand a deep dive and U Process which ultimately leads to a
- New way of convening that puts a leader in every seat: participatory leadership where
- Well crafted questions serve as containers for our collective higher purpose
- Using conversations from an open mind, open heart and open will as core processe
Success looks like:
IN THER NEXT 5 YEARS
- Participatory leadership sessions are offered in many smaller venues as well as large national and international gatherings of oral health professionals
- The emergence of a movement: dentists hosting conversations with stakeholders in their communities, connecting with people and organizations to help raise awareness of oral health and its undeniable connection with general health
- The birth of a collaboration between dentists and educators to design the integration of a comprehensive oral health continuum of learning for all levels of primary and secondary schools
- Observable new conditions of lasting value and trust in health created by dentists and their teams.
Help needed:
Assistance in developing capacity to
- bring the project to scale
- host large groups
Group posts
Health
Ottawa, Canada
Moderated by Marielle Pariseau
Project leader:
Dr Marielle Pariseau
Organization:
Shaping the Future of Dentistry
Big idea:
Dentists are uniquely positioned to impact health.
Our ability to shift our awareness of health and and of the nature of our responsibility in sharing oral health knowledge in our clinics and beyond will have a significant impact on health and ultimately, the economy.
