Learning Path
Own a practice
Opening a clinic is not one big course. It is finance, employment, leadership, marketing and compliance, learned separately and in an order that makes sense.
The map
What this destination asks of you.
Seven competencies sit between treating patients well and running the place. None of them are dentistry, which is why most dentists meet them for the first time on the day they matter.
Leadership
You will be the person others look to when something goes wrong. That is a skill, not a job title.
1 course available
Communication
Ownership multiplies the conversations you cannot avoid: fees, complaints, resignations.
2 courses available
Finance
Cash flow decides whether a good clinic survives its second year. Read the numbers before you sign anything.
No course yet
HR
Employing people brings contracts, rotas, absence and dismissal. Getting this wrong is expensive and slow.
No course yet
Compliance
Regulators inspect the practice, not the dentistry. Records, consent, indemnity, and being able to prove it.
No course yet
Marketing
Attracting the right patients honestly, and explaining treatment without overselling it.
No course yet
Cybersecurity
You hold medical records. The obligations when they leak are not optional and not forgiving.
No course yet
The route
The steps, in order.
Start with the people, because you already have them. The business competencies come next, in the order they will actually hit you.
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01
Lead the team you already have
Available nowLeadership
Before you own anything, you will be leading. Direction, standards and the awkward middle ground between colleague and boss.
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02
Handle the conversations that decide who stays
Available nowCommunication
Most people leave a practice over a conversation, not a salary. This is the one that goes before the finance.
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03
Read the numbers before you sign
Coming soonFinance
Overheads, associate percentages, lab bills, surgery utilisation. Enough to judge whether a practice for sale is worth what is being asked.
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04
Become an employer
Coming soonHR
Contracts, working time, absence, performance and the correct way to end an employment. The part that produces tribunals when it is improvised.
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05
Meet the duties the practice carries
Coming soonCompliance
Record keeping, consent, indemnity, and inspection. What must exist in writing, and where it must be.
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06
Explain your work without overselling it
Coming soonMarketing
Attracting patients you can genuinely help, and describing treatment in a way that survives a complaint.
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07
Protect the records you hold
Coming soonCybersecurity
Patient data, your obligations when it goes wrong, and the practical steps that stop it going wrong.
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