Students / New Graduates
Students and New Graduates
The New Graduates track prepares new dental hygiene professionals with the toolkit to build interpersonal relationships, learn about emerging technology to improve health outcomes, how to navigate the interviewing process, team communication, and patient advocacy. All the things you didn’t learn in hygiene school. Everything we wish we would have known before. Lessons learned
- Learn about different roles that you can grow into
- Build strong relationships with your patients, staff members, and the dental team
- How to talk about treatment findings and prepare the patients for the care that they need
- Negotiation skills/Interviewing skills
- Conflict management & resolution/advocacy for your patients
- Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills
- Career Planning: Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Interview Strategies
- How to Navigate Tone, Formality, and Directness in Emails
- Importance of joining ADHA
- How to select technology and new instruments
- Student mentoring/discussions
- Monthly student documentary from graduation to clinical practice
