Dentists work very hands on with patients and therefore need many of the skill-sets required by doctors, nurses and other front line healthcare staff. And with places at university quite difficult to obtain, your character to do the job is even more important than usual. Some helpful attributes for the role of dentist include
- Enjoy working with people, a helping and caring nature
- Excellent interpersonal skills and good communicator
- Demonstrably want to make a difference to patient lives
- Ability to listen, empathetic attitude to alleviating patient fears
- Problem solving, scientific nature
- Adaptable to new techniques and sophisticated equipment
- Organisational skills to safely collate patient information and data
- Managerial talents to manage a professional team
- Ability to use their own initiative as well as the ability to work as a team member
- Reliability, honesty and trustworthiness
- Enthusiasm, dedication and determination
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