Every picture tells a story

Only this morning I received an email from the regional orthodontic training programme director, wanting to know if their trainees could attend the Zoom webinars that Alison and I run every year for new trainees, on ‘orthodontic photography’, and ‘twin block’ treatment. I replied that we would be absolutely delighted to have the trainees join all those from the Northern Universities Consortium, indeed ‘the more the merrier’ as many postgraduates contributing to the lively question-and-answer session makes it more interesting for me and Alison, and hopefully for all the participants. This training programme director also offered to pick up any costs for the trainees attending these teaching sessions.

After discussion with Alison, we declined a fee for them joining, but suggested that if the training programme director could ensure that all of the trainees, in each of their units, had access to a dedicated camera system, to enable them to take photographs of every patient, every visit, this would probably be the single biggest contribution they could make to the quality of the postgraduates' training.