Dr. Dhru Shah built Dentinal Tubules over 17 years into the UK's largest dental professional development community — 60,000 users, a decade of data about how dental professionals actually learn, and a platform now in deliberate strategic transition from providing education to curating it.
In this episode we cover what AI actually does to the relationship between a dental professional and their own development, why the compliance market for dental CPD is heading for commoditisation, what DSO operators are getting wrong about professional development at the group level, and the concept Dhru closes with that the industry has not properly processed: the professional growth passport.
This is not a CPD platform story. It is a profession story.
What you will learn:
— Is AI making the development plan more meaningful or automating away genuine reflection?
— Why the compliance ceiling is approaching faster than most platforms realise
— What 60,000 users of actual learning data tells you about how dental professionals engage
— Why AI literacy is a clinical competency, not a technology topic
— The professional growth passport and what it means commercially
Key timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
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Connect with Dr. Dhru Shah:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhru-shah-981b9620/
Dentinal Tubules on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dentinal-tubules.com
Website: https://www.dentinaltubules.com/
TechDental:
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