Seminars & eLearning

This course focuses upon essential risk management strategies, empowering dentists with the skills and resources to address key factors that optimize patient outcomes and mitigate potential liabilities. Through evaluation of actual TDIC cases, Shaping a Safe Future: Optimizing Care with Patient Education and Team Training explores the importance of establishing protocols to enhance patient safety. It also provides best practices for obtaining current health histories, insights on essential staff roles and training, and steps for responding to office emergencies.  Attendees earn a 5% Professional Liability premium discount upon seminar completion.*

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the significance of establishing and adhering to protocols and the importance of staff training in medical emergencies.
• Recognize your role in providing patient education to achieve optimal levels of care and patient compliance.
• Incorporate controls and procedures to reduce the potential for errors in documentation and increase patient safety.

Speakers: 

Arthur Curley, Esq.

Mr. Curley is a senior trial attorney in California. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with honors in 1970, he obtained his J.D. in 1974 from the UC College of Law, San Francisco. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Dental Jurisprudence at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco and an Adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. As a trial attorney, he has been defending doctors for over 49 years and has presented risk management courses throughout the United States and Canada. He is an associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Curley has published several articles on risk management and authored chapters in numerous text books on oral surgery, endodontics and periodontics.

Daniel C. Freeman, DDS

Dr. Freeman earned his dental degree in 1984 from the University of the Pacific, Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco. From 1989 – 2018, he held various professional positions, including Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee, Dental Care Committee, Consultant/Instructor Basic Life Support Committee and as a Board Member at Large, with the Marin County Dental Society. For 38 years Dr. Freeman maintained a successful private solo general practice, while also dedicating his time to volunteering in organized dentistry at both local and state levels. Dr Freeman was concurrently on the dental faculty at the University of the Pacific school of Dentistry for twenty-two years. He continues to nurture his passion for teaching and education. Since 1994, he has served as an expert consultant, educator, and dental mentor.

*THIS DISCOUNT IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SOLICITING SALES OF INSURANCE PRODUCTS. Void where prohibited. Not available in all states. For full rules, visit tdicinsurance.com/RMdiscount