‘Just in Time Learning’ and Career Development – AJ008

More brilliant questions from dental students as Jaz is joined by Dhruti Mysore from Plymouth University. https://youtu.be/APKMX2qdDQg Watch AJ008 on Youtube We covered themes of student-life balance and professional development. Jaz shared the powerful technique of ‘Just-in-Time’ learning to gain structure and purpose to post-graduate development. Jaz gave his top tips for preventing burnout and the power of a supportive network.  And of course, we discussed Occlusion and Facebows! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! For the full educational experience, our Ultimate Education Plan gives you access to all our courses, webinars, and exclusive monthly content. Join us on Protrusive Guidance, our own platform for dental professionals. No need for Facebook anymore! 😉 If you liked this episode, you will also like Occlusion Questions from Students – AJ005 Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Ask Jaz, part of the Protrusive Dental Podcast. My name is Jaz Gulati and I'll be your host and today we have a dental student, a fourth year dental student, Dhruti Mysore, who's got some questions for me, both clinical and non clinical. For example, what things did I learn during dental school that I still use today? [Jaz]And you know what? The answer just might shock you. The other thing that Dhruti asked is what happens when you qualify? Like when you qualify, what are the kind of courses and education that we should be seeking? We also discussed a little bit of the clinical stuff like occlusion, obviously, but there's once again a lot more in there about the work life balance and the journey of the career that we're in. So I hope you enjoy it and I'll catch you in the outro. Dhruti Mysore, welcome to the student's edition of the Protrusive Dental Podcast. How are you? [Dhruti]I'm good. It's nice that you could have me on. I've been such a big fan of you, I've been listening to you for the last two years. And yeah, we just finished final exams for fourth year now. So we have about a month of clinics left and then we're done for the year. [Jaz]But so if you finish your final exam, so this is at Plymouth by the way, right? So that means fifth year, is it a chilled year at your uni? Is that relatively, you can't say that now, you're shaking your head. Okay. [Dhruti]No, no. [Jaz]What have you got in store fifth year then? [Dhruti]So fifth year we have OSCEs and we have like three sets of MCQ exams. And we have sort of the SJT for our foundation year as well. [Jaz]And that's around the corner, right? That's probably September, October, November time, I think. [Dhruti]Yeah. Yeah. It's quite soon. And then we have other little modules, critical appraisal essays. It's sort of all powered on in fifth year. So, yeah. [Jaz]But do you feel a sense of relief getting fourth year out of the way? Cause it sounds like it's quite exam heavy, right? [Dhruti]Yeah. So actually our fourth year was a little bit different. So we, do you know Truro in Cornwall? [Jaz]Yeah. Yes, of course, beautiful part of the world. [Dhruti]Yeah, so we are actually, my whole year lives down here for this year. And it's sort of like we do a placement year there. So we're all down in Cornwall and then next year we're back to Plymouth. So it is nice sort of going back to like, you know, my uni city. But we're all going to miss Cornwall. And it's been really nice because clinic is only like a five minute walk because we live in the hospital accommodation. So it's really nice to be able to go home at lunchtime and then if there's no patient, sometimes we just go home and that's like, I think that's what's going to be missed as well about next year. So this year, the clinics have been more intense, but a little bit more nice because we get to have a little breather and get to go home as well. [Jaz]Me and my friends used to live right next to a dental hospital in Sheffield. So when there was no patient or when we were just up for lunch for an hour and a half break, we'd just go to the flat. And because we're the people who live the nearest, like all the other friends would come through and play FIFA and stuff. So that was fun. It reminds you of those times. But I imagine that the night life in Truro Cornwall isn't as much as it is perhaps in the big cities. [Dhruti]No, no, no. But now is probably the best time because obviously it's a lot warmer now. So beaches and things are so much nicer now. So I guess here it's more of like a south vibe, beach vibe. And then, yeah, but obviously like London and stuff, like you can't compare. [Jaz]Of course. Well, we were talking earlier about your experiences and stuff, and I just wanted to, I always like to dive into people's backgrounds and stuff. Are you, your surname is South Indian in origin, is that right? [Dhruti]Yeah. So my family's originally from Bangalore. And then I don't know if you've heard of Mysore, but it's a little like- [Jaz]Karnataka, right? [Dhruti]It's in Karnataka. Karnataka, yeah, yeah. So it's the state next to Bangalore. And my parents actually met there, so that's why it's our surname. [Jaz]Very nice. Very nice. And so I always look at the, I like a Dosa. and then, so when you go to the dorsal place, they said Mysore Dosa, right? [Dhruti]Mysore Dosa, yeah. Yeah. [Jaz]So that's a reminder. When I saw your name card, I was like, okay, this woman reminds you of I li dorsal. There we are. [Dhruti]Very nice. [Jaz]But anyway, we're not talking about Dosa today. We're talking about all the things that you'd like to talk to as is from a student perspective. So what kind of questions can me and the community, sometimes I don't have all the answers, but we have a really thriving community of the nicest and geekiest dentists in the world in Protrusive Guidance. So if there's anything that you know what I think we need more input for, we'll definitely put that to community. So, what would you like to know? [Dhruti]I think I want to start off with more like non clinical questions. Just talk about things like when you were in sort of my position, both in dental school, what do you wish that you had sort of started doing, is there any regrets you had that like, you should have done some extra stuff during university, not in terms of dentistry, but just in terms of, did you wish you had sort of more time to do other hobbies, anything that you'd wanted to take on now that maybe later on during your career you didn't have time to do? [Jaz]When I was in Sheffield, we were right next to the Peak District, right? And I really wish I actually enjoyed it more in that regard. So I was doing more things in Sheffield. I did plenty of nights out and stuff, especially first and second year and stuff. So that was good. Very social, very good, very fun. We did with social scene I kept up with, but I wish I enjoyed the beauty of nature. So I really hope for you, like being in such a nice part of the world, make sure you get into the whole surfing scene and enjoy the beauty of Truro Cornwall. So definitely. I wish I can go back in time and enjoy that because I was so fixated especially in my final year on doing so well in the exam. Like really, when you look at it, your exam results will not dictate your success. I know it's probably something you don't want to hear as a student, right? Because you can't actually imagine life beyond your final exam. Like it doesn't, it's very difficult. I found it very difficult to imagine anything beyond the 6th of July when I knew it was my final exam. So whilst it's difficult to imagine life beyond it. You have to remember that this is not the be all and end all. And your exam results have zero correlation with your success. Now, we owe it to ourselves, because as dentists, we're high achievers, we come from like in high A levels and that kind of stuff. And we want to do the best we can. And the values of applying yourself and doing the best you can should be expressed, but it should not consume you. So you lose the sort of fun element of it. And so really make sure, Dhruti, that as you go into fifth year, you don't lose that little spark, little fun. Don't sacrifice those special last few moments as a student, because you'll miss being a student, right? Don't sacrifice that for an extra one or two percent for, especially if it's not going to be super relevant for the real world. [Dhruti]Yeah, that's amazing. Thank you. I'll definitely keep that in mind. What have you sort of retained from university? Do you think like in terms of even dentistry, what is there anything even like, I don't know, ways that you crown prep ways that you do, composites or something like that. Is there anything that you have, like a key memory of your supervisor telling you something? Do you have any moments like that? [Jaz]I was smiling when you're asking that question, right? Because the more questions you ask me, Dhruti, the more you're going to wish you hadn't asked him, right? Let me tell you why. Okay. So recently I did a little episode, like a little segment of an episode where I really looked into the techniques that I use now, like 11 years after dental school now. And I think back at my time as a dental student, very few, if any, thing that I learned as a dental student. I do in the real world. So this seems a bit very abstract and stuff and seems very scary as a student. But let me back that up scientifically and give you some hardcore evidence here. Okay. So extractions. When you extract teeth, Dhruti, what have you been taught to do? Just roughly what instruments you use. How you approach an extraction, the use of forceps, the use of whatever. Just give me a flavor of how many extractions you've done. [Dhruti]So my uni is really clinical.