Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Skill Set for The Dental Professional and How to Increase Your EQ
1.0 Hrs CE credit
September 07, 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
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About this event
”Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Skill Set for The Dental Professional and How to Increase
Your EQ.”
With Bhumika Patel, RDH MSDH
Course Description:
The dental practice can be a fast-paced, efficient, highly stimulating, and running-on-tight-schedule environment. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) helps strengthen communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal relationships among the dental care team. The four core competencies of EQ can help every team member stay calm when working under pressure and effectively resolve conflicts while being empathetic towards coworkers and leading a work-life with kindness.
Course objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the participant will be able to:
About the presenter:
Bhumika Patel is a Professor at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. In her role, she teaches dental hygiene courses and provides supervision for clinical practice. Additionally, she holds the positions of CDHA Journal Editor, responsible for overseeing the publication of the journal of the California Dental Hygienists' Association, and President of the Delta Pacific Dental Hygienists' Association, where she leads the local segment of the professional organization. Bhumika also maintains an active role as a current clinical practitioner at a private practice situated in San Francisco.
She has over eight years of experience as a Registered Dental Hygienist, working in private family and pediatric practices, and U.S. Army Dental. She holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene with an emphasis in Dental Education from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where she also completed her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene. She has a postgraduate certificate in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Riverside.
Her skills include dental education, laser dentistry, health prevention, and dental research. Her
core competencies are communication, collaboration, leadership, and innovation. Her mission is
to advance the dental hygiene profession through education, research, and advocacy. Bhumika’s field of expertise is the oral health promotion, especially those from underserved and diverse communities and understanding the role of psychology and mindset in the practice of dentistry. Her current research studies involve investigating the incorporation of leadership training in the curriculam and the role of emotional intelligence (EQ) for clinical success of dental professionals.
Instructor: Bhumika Patel
# of CE: 1
Location: Virtual
AGD Code= 770
About this event
”Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Skill Set for The Dental Professional and How to Increase
Your EQ.”
With Bhumika Patel, RDH MSDH
Course Description:
The dental practice can be a fast-paced, efficient, highly stimulating, and running-on-tight-schedule environment. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) helps strengthen communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal relationships among the dental care team. The four core competencies of EQ can help every team member stay calm when working under pressure and effectively resolve conflicts while being empathetic towards coworkers and leading a work-life with kindness.
Course objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the participant will be able to:
About the presenter:
Bhumika Patel is a Professor at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. In her role, she teaches dental hygiene courses and provides supervision for clinical practice. Additionally, she holds the positions of CDHA Journal Editor, responsible for overseeing the publication of the journal of the California Dental Hygienists' Association, and President of the Delta Pacific Dental Hygienists' Association, where she leads the local segment of the professional organization. Bhumika also maintains an active role as a current clinical practitioner at a private practice situated in San Francisco.
She has over eight years of experience as a Registered Dental Hygienist, working in private family and pediatric practices, and U.S. Army Dental. She holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene with an emphasis in Dental Education from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where she also completed her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene. She has a postgraduate certificate in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Riverside.
Her skills include dental education, laser dentistry, health prevention, and dental research. Her
core competencies are communication, collaboration, leadership, and innovation. Her mission is
to advance the dental hygiene profession through education, research, and advocacy. Bhumika’s field of expertise is the oral health promotion, especially those from underserved and diverse communities and understanding the role of psychology and mindset in the practice of dentistry. Her current research studies involve investigating the incorporation of leadership training in the curriculam and the role of emotional intelligence (EQ) for clinical success of dental professionals.
Instructor: Bhumika Patel
# of CE: 1
Location: Virtual
AGD Code= 770
Registration for this event is now closed
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