RA Course Report 24th March 2012

Relaxing on a beautiful spring day at home in Newbury following our 29th RA course, it is time to reflect and check the feedback.

This time the one-day course was held in our new education suite and so everything was different for us and in truth, only just ready in time with plumbing still going on the day before.  

We decided to use both rooms with one set up for the interactive, didactic teaching 

and the other with a massage bed , doubling as a dental chair, for the practical demonstrations, using a mobile stand for the equipment.

I must say that on reflection, although this arrangement did work and allowed us to demonstrate the technique very nicely, talking it over with Chris, we feel that using my treatment room with a bona fide dental chair and our neat, fixed installation, is probably more akin to what delegates would be used to.  In that respect, as well as others, it differentiates our offering from that which SAAD are able to provide.

So for future courses, we will revert to using my treatment room for the practical demonstrations, including the one with a patient, which will still be patched through to the new seminar room via a-v links.

For me, one of the highlights of these demonstrations is when I offer the patient the opportunity to speak unscripted to the delegates . They only have a few seconds to say yes or no and invariably ( so far) accept the invitation.

This allows the patient to say how they felt about the experience immediately afterwards and also for the delegates to fully appreciate both the effectiveness of technique and just how rapidly the patient recovers and how lucid they are within, a few minutes of " switching off" the nitrous
oxide.

Feedback Results

We had 9 delegates. 6 dentists and 3 dental nurses.
3 dentists from different practices in Ireland and 2 from Leeds with 2 of their dental nurses.
None of these have used sedation or have seen patients treated under conscious sedation.
Finally, 1 GDP and his nurse from Hereford, who is experienced in IV sedation and had tried but gave up on RA some years ago.

Of the 9, 5 chose to give additional comments: Here they are, warts and all, in no particular order.
 

1) "The course was very informative, interesting and fun. Looking forward to practicing it"
 

2) "Thank you very much for an extremely informative day"
 

3) Please do not use yellow or light colour on the slides which are to be printed as it doesn't show up"
( My sincere apologies to any delegate whose handout was unclear, we did have some printing issues beforehand and I will of course be sending better copies to any delegate who requires it)
 

4) "Really enjoyable course. Enjoyed both the theoretical part and the hands-on element. Dr. Charon makes RA seem very straightforward. Chris and the other nurses were very kind also.
 

5) I was very impressed with what I felt was a unique course, small group size and 'special interest' experience from Richard, Chris and the team. I would and shall gladly recommend to colleagues interested in R.A.

Feedback scores:

Venue Excellent, 2: v .good 7 (Need to improve central heating. Too cool at the start and a tad warm by the end of the day)
Relevance: Excellent 8, v. Good 1
Audio-Visual: Excellent 5, v. Good 4 ( a fair reflection. We had a couple of minor glitches)
Speaker: Excellent:8 v. Good 1

So room for improvement on the audiovisuals. A few of the 490 slides to be edited. I'll be seeking further clarity on this from the delegates.

Summative assessment results

 All delegates completed a short MCQ by way of a summative assessment of the day's teaching.

7 delegates scored 83%
1 delegate scored 91%
1 delegate scored 100%

So all in all a pretty successful day's learning and vCPD and very helpful feedback too.

The next course is on May 12th, in Newbury. There has been much interest already. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so if you are interested, please e-mail me (richard@the-ra-coach.co.) to request more information for course No. 30 in the series.

and finally via e-mail:

" Hi Richard

I just want to thank you, Chris and the rest of your team for a great course last Saturday. It was hugely informative and has greatly increased my confidence and enthusiasm for using RA.

Kind regards 

Lotte"

 

The Dentistry Show 2012

"You and your Anxious Patients (Inhalation Sedation,         
   Scope of Practice and you)"

Last Friday (2nd March 2012) I presented to the Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists Symposium as part of The Dentistry Show, at the NEC.
Only others can say how my presentation went  but I didn't dry up, stumble over the stage or otherwise make an idiot of myself,  so that was a good start.

My thanks to Mhari Coxon, Dental Hygienist extraordinaire, for the invitation to speak. I very much enjoyed the experience and was very pleased that I had an audience of close to 100. It was also flattering that a dentist traveled from 1200 miles from Macedonia to hear my 45 min talk and that another dentist , who has already been on one of my courses  now wishes to have additional mentoring.

So here I have gathered some tweets written during, shortly after and a few days after my presentation.

@RichardCharon saw your lecture at the dent show. Very interesting and great lecture. Fear & phobia is an area I want to learn more about.

Marie Fitt = @bengal128

@RichardCharon You're welcome, very much enjoyed your lecture @ The Dentistry Show :-)

@RachaelEngland

@OnlineDentalCPD & Sedation experienced RDN with CDNS can mentor and certify GDP competence, If I understood correctly. Will check this.

Retweeted by Emma Male

@richardcharon Any time - if anyone needs a good RA coach, we know who to recommend :)

Missed @richardcharon - You & your Anxious Patients? Come to stand N50 & find how how you can catch up using the #icpdplayer! #dentistryshow

@RichardCharon 'fear is logical and natural. Anxiety may be illogical. Phobia is irrational' - watch this talk again with #icpdplayer

@richardcharon thank you so much for an inspiring talk on helping nervous patients....

&

#DENTISTRYSHOW newsflash. Never mind zingy white teeth come and hear the amazing @richardcharon share how you can help your nervous patients

@karenthedentist

yfrog.com/esgvkwvj the amazing @richardcharon speaking at Dentistry Show

from @Markoborn

Watch this space for future developments!

Richard Charon

RA course March 2012

Decision made. The next available RA course will be in Newbury on 24th March 2012, 3 weeks after my appearance at The Dentistry Show. I know that some of you who have shown an interest will have been awaiting this announcement. Please let me know if this date is suitable for you.
Please e-mail richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk or call 01635 47757

RA course on 26th November in Saddleworth- Now Full

This image is just for illustration, showing our Dental Therapist treating a patient sedated by me.

The course on November 26th at Apollonia House in Saddleworth, near Oldham, is now fully booked.

We have 2 dentists and their Dental Nurses from different practices from London attending. They will be joined by 2 GDPs flying in from Aberdeen, a group of 4 GDPs from Barnsley. This will be the practice owner's 3rd visit to my courses. Also our first GDP and her DN from N.Wales & another GDP from Nottinghamshire plus Andy Boon from Apollonia House and last but certainly not least, my SAAD and DSTG colleague from Liverpool, Roy Bennett. A full-house indeed and a great mix of people. I am very much looking forward to meeting everyone.

Richard Charon

SAAD Autumn Conference 2011

Well this will be a different blog post. I am on the train to London for the SAAD confeeence at the Royal Society of Medicine. The conference title is "Beyond the basics"

The program includes the following topics.

Morning sessions
Intra-nasal Midazolam, which is mainly used for special needs patients. 1 hour

Sedation Dentistry in Spain. This will be interesting as I have recently had interest from a Spanish dentist wishing to travel to Newbury for my RA courses. 25 mins.

An update on the SAAD training coures for Therapists and Hygienists "What next" 30 mins.

CPD recommendations for practitioners.20 mins.

Training for advanced Sedation techniques 20 mins

Presentations 5 mins

Lunch: Time to network!

Baby Boomers: The challenges for sedation Dentistry 1 hour

Evaluation Benefits for Clinical Governance & CQC 30 mins

Anxiety management without drugs. An Update: 30mins

So that is what is in store for me this Saturday.

I'll write a brief summary on each presentation later.

Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist's article

Thanks to Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist, for her article on the RA course she attended with us in Newbury, in February 2010.

RA course Nebwury Feb 6th 2010

I am just recovering from yesterday's Hands-on RA course in Newbury. A diverse and wonderful bunch of people attended from all over the UK.  From Inverness, Dave and Barbera Naisby, something  of a celebrity couple in the world of dental practice marketing and just a 75 min flight to Bristol then a 1 hour drive away from  Newbury.

We also had Peter Winter-Moore and his team from the Midlands. He has been threatening to attend the course for about 3 years now and finally made it yesterday and Ruth Lovering, a Dental Therapist from Croydon attended too. We had a fantastic day of sharing knowledge and interactivity. I will blog some of the comments and feedback soon.

Here we all are at the lunch break in Prezzos, just a step away from my practice, built in the town's old library and retaining many of its old features. It just adds some extra colour to the day and a chance for more discussion over lunch.

Dental Angels Newsletter article

Dental Angels are the most innovative and forward thinking dental recruitment Agency based in London.

Who are they? Well I am delighted to have been invited by Alex Kremer and Kelly Haggett to write an article on the subject of Inhalation Sedation/ Relative Analgesia for the very first issue of their Newsletter.

Today Kelly Haggett said " Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks from Alex and I for writing such a brilliant article - it makes for a great read."

So here is the article

The RA Coach Website

Dr.Ashley Davenport's Testimonial

Thinking about attending one of my RA courses?

If you are considering attending one of my

Realtive Analgesia/Inhalation Sedation teaching courses,
please read on

From Dr. Ashley Davenport, Balsall Common Dental Practice.

Here is what he said in his own words:

"Dear Richard,

We attended your Relative Analgesia course in December 2006. I am writing to say a big thank you to you and your team for making the day so interesting and enjoyable.I am particularly grateful to you for all your help and advice regarding the installation and set up of the equipment.We gained a great deal of knowledge about Inhalation Sedation and have since started offering Relative Analgesia to our own patients.We have been using Inhalation Sedation in our practice for 3 months now and have found it a great help to our patients.
Thanks again, we couldn't have done it without your help!

Yours Faithfully

Rebecca Kilmurray Clinical Manager
Dr.Ashley Davenport Practice Owner "



You will find more testimonials from past course delegates by following these links

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/
andhttp://racoursedelegateupdate.blogspot.com/