Burnout and Continuing Education in Dentistry – PDP095

This episode is deep. Burnout is a syndrome of chronic workplace stess that has not successfully been managed. It is unfortunate but it does and can affect so many of our colleagues. In this episode with Dr Emma Courtney, we discuss how to identify when someone is in a difficult patch or experiencing burnout and how to cope with it. The second half of this episode is about planning your CPD/Dental CE appropriately. https://youtu.be/0M9BocLGQBk Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Before starting on a course or program, be sure to have a patient in mind already that will benefit from you going on this course or gaining this piece of education. That way you will be able to apply what you learned ASAP and implementation is key! “One of the the components of burning out is that emotional exhaustion - that kind of depersonalizing and trying to distance yourself from things” Dr Emma Courtney In this episode we talked about: Dr Emma’s journey moving to New Zealand 7:42Dr Emmas’s personal experience with burnout 18:02Dr Emma’s source of stress and burnout 26:03How to overcome burnout  34:56How stress and burnout affects Dr Emma’s dentistry life 39:21The importance of help even outside Dentistry 50:27How to think differently about your CPD 56:04 Check out Dr Emma’s Podcast The Fang Farrier  If you loved this episode, you will like How to Win at Life and Succeed in Dentistry – Emotional Intelligence Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: The physical injury turning into complaints turning into a lack of faith in my own treatment and trying to avoid more complicated treatment leading to probably borderline supervised neglect because it was easier not to do risky treatments than to feel like I was risking a complaint... Jaz's Introduction: So we've all heard about burnout in dentistry and how it can be really catastrophic for your career. Now, the guest I have on today, Emma Courtney went through a period of burnout which was cause interestingly, by a major earthquake. So all the different things that could affect your life is fascinating her story based in New Zealand how a major earthquake rattled her life so much, excuse the pun, that it set her in a cascade of events, and she experienced a burnout and she left dentistry thinking that she would never join dentistry ever again. She's now a passionate dentist, she's a fellow Protruserati and it's great to always have Ems' support and feedback on the podcast. So Ems, thanks for being with the journey of the Protrusive Dental podcast over the last three years or so. You've been a big part of it. You've been early adopter. So thank you so much. In this episode, we discuss Ems and how she moved from UK to New Zealand to practice dentistry. And what are the cascade of events that lead to burnout and how we can look out for the signs of burnout. So if you're in a difficult patch, right now, EMS and I will hopefully discuss in a way, that'll help you to identify the signs of burnout and how you can overcome it. And it's interesting that we talk about burnout and CPD because the other theme that we're gonna explore in this episode is picking your CPD and deciding what's part of your personal development plan. And it's interesting anytime in my career, where I have felt jaded or burnt out, I've always found learning something new or going deeper and delving deeper into an area of dentistry, ie through in courses or further education has actually been the antidote for my burnout. So I find that by learning new things and keep myself interested that that's helped me to overcome the burnout. Whereas in some people, it might be that you're doing too many courses, and you're burning out. So it's it, we explore themes like that. Now, because I want to give lots of time to Ems' a story, I want to do my own little section.