Richard Porter

Title: Maintaining skills, mental health and interest in a career in prosthodontics

Aims:

• To help delegates understand some of the fundamentals of human psychology and experience as it relates to a career in healthcare.
• To explore how this pertains to the pressures, adversity along with the benefits and advantages of a life as a dentist.

Objectives:

• Delegates will be shown the foundational pillars of human psychology to understand how adversity, resilience play out in our lives.
• Delegates will understand the balance between positive and negative emotion and how the human brain makes felt experience based on future predictions of these.
• Delegates will be shown resources and given opportunities to understand themselves better, to develop their own emotional intelligence and how to flourish in the longer term as a person and as a dentist.

Biography:
Richard became a restorative consultant in 2007 and continued in this role for 17 years. He was care group lead for a busy trauma, oncology and deformity focussed Restorative care group for eight years whilst maintaining a single hand private specialist referral practice.

He is a post grad student in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and plans to remain so for the foreseeable future.
He left the NHS in August 2024 and is building a private healthcare centre in central London to open in 2025.

He is CoFounder of the Aspire Dental Academy and has trained several consultants along with over 2000 post graduate GDPs.