Verbal Skills For Dentistry
Our verbal skills programs help you prepare talks, defuse professional conflicts and establish useful contacts. We offer books, online resources, workshops and appointments to help you become better speakers and communicators.
Prepare and Practice an Oral Presentation
Through workshops featuring communication professionals and experienced faculty and staff, you can learn how to compose clear and informative slides or posters, how to engage your audience and how to speak with confidence.
Prepare for a Challenging Professional Conversation
Ever fretted before asking a professor for a recommendation letter? Finding it difficult to communicate with a member of your clinical team? Wondering how to negotiate your workload with your manager? That's understandable. Stress, power imbalance and a lack of experience can make it challenging for trainees to ask for what they need and get what they want.
- Through appointments and workshops, we help you clear your head and develop a strategy to rationally prepare for an important conversation.
- For additional support in conflict resolution, contact the UCSF Problem Resolution Center.
Learn to Network and Find Mentors
Good mentors and a strong professional network are key to your success. They help you develop your professional skills, find good residency programs or jobs and make career decisions.
- Whether you're a dental student or a doctoral or postdoctoral researcher in dentistry, we can help you personalize a strategy to identify and approach potential contacts and mentors and maintain your professional network.
- Make an appointment or come to one of our workshops.
Practice your Interview and Negotiation Skills
- Visit the Dentistry Job Search section to learn more.