Course Video Lessons
Accounting Basics (How to accurately keep score)
Objective: Gain an understanding of the basic tenets of accounting and the tools that will help you measure the financial health of a practice. autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy and other autoimmune autonomic disorders.
Strategy Basics (Understanding Competitive Forces to help you form a Strategy)
Objective: Exposure to foundational business concepts helping you understand your position in the market.
Financial Basics and Funding Options to Start, Purchase or Buy Into a Practice.
Objectives:
1) Exposure to various ways you can secure funding for Startups, acquisitions or buy-ins.
2) Understanding loan calculations and amortization tables
3) Time Value of money
Orthodontic Insurance 101
Objective: Gain an overview knowledge of the varying types of orthodontic insurance plans patients use and how to navigate decisions for the practice.
CORE Leadership Lessons
Objective:
1) Learn the difference between leaders and managers
2) How to organize your most important asset, people.
The Art of Patient Management
Objective:
1) Learn how to create a fine-tuned service business
2) How to guide patients through treatment.
Accounting Basics (How to accurately keep score)
Objective: Gain an understanding of the basic tenets of accounting and the tools that will help you measure the financial health of a practice.
Strategy Basics (Understanding Competitive Forces to help you form a Strategy)
Objective: Exposure to foundational business concepts helping you understand your position in the market.
Financial Basics and Funding Options to Start, Purchase or Buy Into a Practice.
Objectives:
1) Exposure to various ways you can secure funding for Startups, acquisitions or buy-ins.
2) Understanding loan calculations and amortization tables
3) Time Value of money
Orthodontic Insurance 101
Objective: Gain an overview knowledge of the varying types of orthodontic insurance plans patients use and how to navigate decisions for the practice.
CORE Leadership Lessons
Objective:
1) Learn the difference between leaders and managers
2) How to organize your most important asset, people.
The Art of Patient Management
Objective:
1) Learn how to create a fine-tuned service business
2) How to guide patients through treatment.
The purpose of this course of study is to prepare you for life after residency in the non-clinical arts. Whether you are starting your own practice, buying a practice or joining a corporate team, the lessons in this course are designed to increase your knowledge and chances for the success you desire.
Meet Your Instructor
Dr. Bill and his team are just passionate about delivering orthodontic care in the most efficient way possible for the patients we serve. We are humbled every day that patients place their trust in our team to accomplish their orthodontic goals. It is an honor that we do not take lightly.
Raised in a small Virginia farm town, Dr. Bill worked during high school as a farmhand, mowed church lawns, and was a full service gas attendant.
After graduating from The Citadel with a Bachelor of Science in biology, Dr. Bill served as a paratrooper with the Army’s 82nd Airborne. While in dental school at the Medical University of South Carolina, he was elected and served four years as class president while earning his Doctorate of Dental Medicine. As an orthodontic resident at Vanderbilt University, he was part of the 5-person hospital wide team to implement electronic medical records from 2001-2004. Dr. Bill has recently completed his Masters of Business Administration at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he received the Ben Franklin award. The Ben Franklin award is voted on by one’s peers as the student recognized for their leadership contributions to the class.
Dr. Bill has lived and worked in Clearwater since opening Straighten Up Orthodontics in 2005. He and his wife Andrea have a son who is now attending Tulane University. Dr. Bill and his wife love to be outdoors and stay active by practicing yoga/pilates and hiking.