{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Protrusive Dental Podcast","title":"How to Write a Dental PDP That Isn’t a Tick Box – PDP292","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2247,"description":"When did you last open your personal development plan — and was it December, the night before you worried the regulator might ask?\nAre you spending hours typing out course titles, aims and objectives, and calling that a plan?\nWhat would change if you held a short board meeting with yourself every three months?\nAnd should your PDP have room for your finances, your family and your wellbeing — not just your dentistry?\nMy guest is Dr Callum Connick — general dentist, special-interest in endodontics, undergraduate teacher and one of the most helpful members of the Protrusive Guidance community. He’s also someone who, by his own admission, averaged eight hours a day of World of Warcraft for part of his first year at dental school and once planned his way out of dentistry altogether. What brought him back was learning to shape his own career pathway, and the planning system he built along the way. This isn’t the sexiest topic, but it might be the most useful thing you do this November — which, fittingly, is PDP month on Protrusive Guidance.\n\nProtrusive Dental Pearl: Reflect More, Type Less: EZPDP\n\nThe valuable part of a PDP is the thinking: where you are in your career, your goals for next year, what you struggled with clinically and non-clinically, and what you’re going to do about it. The least valuable part is the admin — typing course titles, hours, aims, objectives and instructors into little boxes, which on some platforms takes hours. Protect the first; minimise the second.\nThat’s why we built EZPDP inside Protrusive Guidance. This is available on the Ultimate Plan.\nYou fill in a short form about your clinic, what you enjoy, your struggles, work-life balance, wellbeing and the procedures that still scare you, and upload any external certificates. Your Protrusive certificates — complete with the reflections you wrote when you claimed them — are pulled in for you. Within 72 hours Team Protrusive sends back an editable document that is roughly 90% done: your CPD in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hLSIeRiYSp0oTfIk0BzEukFutShD18hH3f6fq4QHsWw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZmM0/ZTNjYzdiZDJhNGFj/MzBiYmU2NTUwNmM2/NzQ2My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}