Grow your career.

Level up for the future.

Schulich ExecEd
Prep Doctors Internationally
Trained Dentists Upskilling
Program
An Advanced Leadership Program Designed for
Internationally Trained Dentists Completely Online:
• November 17, 2022
through to March 9, 2023
• 18 workshops over 6 months
• Tuesday and Thursday
evenings from 6-9pm
Program Insights Include:
Schulich ExecEd, Schulich School of Business, York University
and Prep Doctors are pleased to offer the Internationally Trained
Dentists Upskilling Program to 25 dentist leaders. The
Internationally Trained Dentists Upskilling Program is designed to
help foreign trained dentists learn new practice management and
business skills that they can implement throughout their
professional career to improve their dental clinic service, customer
care and patient outcomes.
This program will augment the leadership, management and
administrative skills of internationally trained dentists and dental
industry professionals from across Ontario.
Please note: This program is for internationally trained dentists only.
Evidence of a degree from an international educational institution is
required to be enrolled in this course.

Grow your career.

Level up for the future.
18 workshops over 4 months
The program will allow you to attain competencies relevant to
dentistry in Ontario, while benefitting from the expertise that has
made the Schulich MBA the #1 program in Canada and our EMBA
one of the best in the world.

Sessions include:

• Change and Innovation • Financial Management

• LeaderGENE Leadership • Project Management

• Strategic Management • Succession Planning

• Digital Fluency
• Marketing and Brand Strategy
• HR Management
• Effective Communication
Skills
• Negotiation Strategy/Conflict
Resolution

The tuition fee of $18,000 is being covered by the Ontario

Government, which has provided 100% funding of all tuition and
program costs.

18 workshops over 4 months

Prep Doctors is collaborating with Schulich
ExecEd on this unique project customized
for internationally trained dentists employed
in different roles in the dental field in
Ontario.
Schulich ExecEd is a world-class learning
partner and has extensive experience
developing leaders at all levels through custom
and open enrolment programs. Currently,
Schulich ExecEd delivers more than 160
customized development programs to
approximately 250 clients in Canada and
globally on an annual basis. Schulich ExecEd
has delivered a number of custom training
programs for top organizations in all sectors,
including healthcare, financial services,
government, retail, manufacturing,
pharmaceutical, media and not-for-profit.
Graduates of the Schulich ExecEd – Prep
Doctors Internationally Trained Dentists
Upskilling Program will receive a certificate
from Schulich ExecEd, Schulich School of
Business at York University, Canada’s #1
business school.
This leadership development initiative is open
to all communities and regions within Ontario
and is facilitated virtually to minimize
geographic barriers and travel requirements.
Action Learning Project
A unique program feature of Schulich ExecEd –
Prep Doctors Internationally Trained Dentists
Upskilling Program is our Action Learning
Project, a condensed version of the Schulich
MBA capstone project, the Strategy Field
Study.
Dentists will work in small groups to complete
an Action Learning Project, which focuses on
relevant topics which will require participants to
implement innovative thinking practices and
solutions to resolve issues affecting dentistry in
Ontario. The projects are designed to allow
Dentists to apply the learning from the course
directly back to their current roles, as well as
prepare them for future leadership roles in the
complex fiscal environment of public and
private sector dentistry.
Dentists will receive executive group coaching
as part of the Action Learning Project to
develop the project and finalize project
recommendations and the presentation to guest
“Dragon’s Den” adjudicators.
Sample group project topics include:
• Utilizing change management strategies to
achieve a desired goal within an
organization
• Novel business ideas to achieve optimal
outcomes within a constricted fiscal
environment
• Implementing effective Human Resources
techniques and approaches to strengthen
recruiting, training and retention of talent
• Utilizing digital technology to monitor data for
quality improvement
Here’s what makes this program ideal for
any busy Dentist who is looking to enhance
their skill set in anticipation of a leadership
role in dentistry in Ontario:
• Relevant, state-of-the-art subjects tailored to
international dentists in Ontario
• Convenient virtual classroom sessions:
Attend 18 online modules over a six-month
learning journey.
• Access to world-class faculty. Interact with
and learn from top-rated Schulich’s MBA and
EMBA instructors, consistently ranked
among the world’s best
• Instant enrolment into our Action Learning
Project: Apply and synthesize your newly
acquired skills to a challenging project that is
modeled after the renowned Schulich
Strategy Field Study and get feedback from
professional experts, and
• Networking opportunities with highly
experienced leaders and dentists: Connect
with and learn from peers.
Course Modules
November 17, 2022 November 24, 2022 December 1, 2022 December 6, 2022 December 8, 2022

Program Kickoff, Change

Strategic Dental Equivalency, Strategic
and Innovation, Action LeaderGENE Leadership
Management I Certification and Regulation Management II
Learning Project

December 13, 2022 December 15, 2022 January 19, 2023 January 24, 2023 January 26, 2023

Payers, DSOs and Marketing and Brand The Culture of

Digital Fluency HR Management
Digital Technologies Strategy Dentistry

January 31, 2023 February 2, 2023 February 7, 2023 February 9, 2023 February 16, 2023

Risk Management Financial Taxes and Real Estate

Project Management Succession Planning
in Dentistry Management for Dentists

February 23, 2023 March 2, 2023 March 9, 2023

Final Group Project

Effective Communication Negotiation
Presentations, Graduation,
Skills Strategy/Conflict Resolution
Closing
Program Faculty

Megan Mitchell Firas Abu Saleh, BEng, Meng

Co-Program Director Co-Program Director
Schulich ExecEd, Schulich Prep Doctors
School of Business,
York University

Tracey Levison Sandi Martyn Lesia Waschuk, DDS, MEd

Wissam AlHussaini, PhD Gail Levitt, PhD Melissa Calway

Shane Saunderson David Morelli Ahmed Youssef

Ajay Sirsi Tatiana Astray, PhD Shafin Jadavji, CPA, CA, CBV

Stephen Friedman Marwan Al Rayes, BSc, DDS Sina Amiri

Beppino Pasquali
Program Content
DAY 1 - November 17, 2022 DAY 2 - November 24, 202

Program Kickoff, Change and Innovation, Action LeaderGENE Leadership

Learning Project
Tracey Levison
Megan Mitchell
Set the context for transforming yourself and your organization/clinic.
Welcome, Introduction and Program launch. Co-Program Directors Understand your own talent and leadership makeup through
will outline the 6 month learning journey, including the Action LeaderGENE assessment. With a focus on self-awareness and
Learning Projects. Session will also discuss Change and Innovation, natural style tendencies, participants will be taken through a debrief
exploring the entrepreneurial landscape in dentistry, the role of of their results, leadership norms will be shared, as well as ideas for
disruptive technologies, innovation, new business models. Dentists how to leverage and shift style to meet the needs of your practice.
will be engaged and active as they discover leadership frameworks
and techniques to pursue the best version of themselves and ideate
about their Action Learning Project.
Program Content
DAY 3 - December 1, 2022
Strategic Management I
Wissam AlHussaini, PhD
Examine strategic roles played by hospitals, governments, and
regional authorities, as well as their decision-making and
accountability structures. This module also examines costs and
financing; stakeholders; consolidation and clinical integration;
challenges and threats. Strategic concepts in various management
and multi-disciplinary settings, changing technologies and methods
of health delivery will be illustrated.
DAY 4 - December 6, 2022
Dental Equivalency, Certification and Regulation
Dr. Marwan Al Rayes, Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer, Prep
Doctors
Dr. Lesia Waschuk, Compliance & Education Specialist, Prep
Doctors
This module provides an overview of the equivalency and
certification processes for internationally trained general dentists and
dental specialists and explains how dental practice is regulated in
Canada. With a focus on the regulatory framework for Ontario, you
will learn what you need to do to become licensed, who you are
accountable to, and what the limitations and restrictions are on your
clinical practice. You will learn about the laws that govern dental
practice and the operation of a dental office as well as the guidelines,
standards of care, and best practices for patient care.
Program Content
DAY 5 - December 8, 2022
Strategic Management II
Wissam AlHussaini, PhD
Continuation of Strategic Management session. Examine strategic
roles played by hospitals, governments, and regional authorities, as
well as their decision-making and accountability structures. Strategic
concepts in various management and multi-disciplinary settings,
changing technologies and methods of health delivery will be
illustrated.
DAY 6 - December 13, 2022
Payers, DSOs and Digital Technologies
Sina S. Amiri, Vice President of Revenue, Zentist
Dr. Lesia Waschuk, Compliance & Education, Prep Doctors
This module discusses how dental care is delivered and paid for in
Canada relative to other countries such as the United States. We will
discuss dental insurance plan design, government funded dental
programs, the rise of dental support organizations (DSOs) and how
regulatory changes have affected the current economics of independent
practice ownership. Practice networks enable dentists to centralize and
standardize business functions such as Human Resources
management and Procurement with the goal of achieving economies of
scale that ultimately reduce overhead expenses and clinical enterprise
risk. Regardless of whether you plan to build or acquire a solo practice
or emerging DSO, this module will teach you how integrating digital
dental recordkeeping and electronic practice management tools, and
implementing online enrolment and internet-enabled patient relationship
management can improve the patient and provider experience leading
to better clinical as well as financial outcomes.
Program Content
DAY 7 - December 15, 2022
Digital Fluency
Shane Saunderson
This module provides participants with strategies and techniques to
enable the digital transformation to gain and maintain traction in their
organization. The session will explore data and Artificial Intelligence
challenges prevalent in business today, compare disruptive start-up
versus enterprise tech strategies, methodologies to execute like a
tech-enabled start-up and Design Thinking in the Age of Big Data.
DAY 8 - January 19, 2023
Marketing and Brand Strategy
Ajay Sirsi
Explore leading empirical evidence and practices today for
conceiving and executing a marketing strategy as well as building
strong brands and businesses. Describe how behavioural economics
and neuroscience inform our knowledge of how to positively impact
consumer buyer behaviour today. This session will also examine
some of the world’s top companies and how they successfully
executed their marketing and brand strategy. We will explore
opportunities for Dentists to increase their marketing and brand
presence in their own marketplace.
Program Content
DAY 9 - January 24, 2023 DAY 10 - January 26, 2023

The Culture of Dentistry HR Management

Melissa Calway, Founder & Principal, Enspire Opportunities Stephen Friedman

Dr. Lesia Waschuk, Compliance & Education Specialist, Prep Learn HR from a managerial standpoint with new perspectives on
Doctors actively managing your own clinic. How do we attract and recruit staff
and manage support staff issues? This module will also examine
As the demographics of the dental professions change so do our group development in the workplace to achieve organizational
expectations for a healthy and respectful workplace culture that success at a higher level.
supports work-life balance and professional growth. Learn about how
overlapping scopes of practice, expanded team roles in the dental
office, and new referral patterns between independent clinics have
changed how we communicate about the care of patients we share.
In today’s competitive dental marketplace, the public is better
informed and empowered to demand a better patient experience and
a collaborative relationship with the dental team. . In this module we
will also talk about how to ensure culturally appropriate care for a
diverse clientele and a safe environment for all oral healthcare
workers.
Program Content
DAY 11 - January 31, 2023 DAY 12 - February 2, 2023

Risk Management in Dentistry Financial Management

Dr. Marwan Al Rayes, Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer, Prep Beppino Pasquali
Doctors
This session provides an opportunity to learn about dental clinic
Dr. Lesia Waschuk, Compliance & Education Specialist, Prep accounting, finance and investment. The investment decision
Doctors allocates scarce resources to projects in an organization and
involves asset valuation, capital budgeting, risk management,
This module will cover best practices in clinical and financial working capital management and performance assessment. Ethical
recordkeeping and documenting informed consent to help you to considerations/management in a global context are integrated into
‘stay out of trouble’ and avoid complaints and regulatory reports. each topic.
Learn from your clinical failures and misunderstandings by planning
your continuing education and remediating when necessary. We will
cover how to respond to requests for records, refunds, and bad
reviews. Learn how to follow up on critical incidents to manage risk,
what kind of experts you may want to consult with in different
situations, and when it’s best to arrange for all the different kinds of
insurance coverage you need.
Program Content
DAY 13 - February 7, 2023 DAY 14 - February 9, 2023

Taxes and Real Estate for Dentists Project Management

Ahmed Youssef, CPA, Financial Controller, Prep Doctors Sandi Martyn

Shafin Jadavji, CPA, CA, CBV, President & Broker of Record, Learn how to plan, execute, monitor, control and close all types of
Cubecom projects – on time and on budget. It is applicable to projects across
dentistry and is key to operating more efficiently. You will come away
In this module you’ll learn about the most common form of business from the session with techniques and templates you can use right
relationship between dentists and how you can minimize the tax you away.
pay at all stages of your career by incorporating your professional
practice. Keeping your real estate in mind can help you strategize
your retirement plans as early as when you open or acquire your first
dental practice. We will show you the ins and outs of owning your
own property sooner and picking the right property to operate
from. In real estate we say that the number one rule is location,
location, location and we can help translate that into a meaningful
plan for your dental practice and career.
Program Content
DAY 15 - February 16, 2023
Succession Planning
Gail Levitt, PhD
Is your clinic facing the prospect of a lack of qualified people to fill
roles critical for ongoing success? As more and more people with
mission critical knowledge, insight and experience retire, leaders
today are increasingly aware that the ability to successfully execute
strategic plans depends on their ability to fill these senior roles with
qualified people from their internal ranks. Learn a step-by-step
methodology to develop a succession management plan that will
ensure you have the resources for execution of your longer-term
strategic plans.
DAY 16 - February 23, 2023
Effective Communication Skills
David Morelli
Critical communication skills accelerate career success and are
essential to the cohesive and prosperous operation of any
organization. With this effective business communication course, you
will learn to embrace a professional approach to improving your
communication style, both written and verbal, and learn to take
advantage of the different ways that your communication choices
impact colleagues, client and vendor relationships – and your overall
professional success.
Program Content
DAY 17 - March 2, 2023
Negotiation Strategy/Conflict Resolution
Dr. Tatiana Astray
Few skills are as important to dental leaders as the ability to
negotiate, persuade and influence others. In this session, we
examine evidence-based approaches to building agreement between
parties. This session will describe how to best prepare for a
negotiation, how to Identify whether potential agreements are good
or bad, and how to be most persuasive when presenting offers.
DAY 18 - March 9, 2023
Final Group Project Presentations, Graduation, Closing
Dr. Sarah Hull, Megan Mitchell, Firas Abu Saleh
Dragon’s Den with Dr. Sarah Hull, Megan Mitchell, Firas Abu Saleh
and Executive Panel
Deliver an Action Learning Project presentation featuring guest
adjudicators, plus graduation and closing ceremonies.
Registration Details
Program Fee
Free to qualified applicants. $18,000 per
person program cost is funded entirely by the
Government of Ontario.
Application Requirements
Applicants must meet the following
requirements for consideration in the program:
• Must be an Internationally Trained Dentist
(BDS, DDS, DMD) intending to register and
practice dentistry in the Province of Ontario
• Must reside in the Province of Ontario
• Must commit to attending online sessions in
the evening
• Applicants must fill out the course
application form and upload documents by
Nov 7 here. Enrollment is limited to 25
applicants
Online Program Dates & Times
• Nov 17, 2022 – March 9, 2023
• 18 modules over 6 months
• Completely online: Tuesday and Thursday
evenings 6pm – 9pm
Technical Requirements
See: Schulich ExecEd.online/techreq
Administrative Inquiries
Firas Abu
Saleh firas.abusaleh@prepdoctors.ca
Reserve your seat in this dental executive
education program from Canada’s #1
business school. Class size is limited so
please register early.
About
At Schulich ExecEd, the professional development arm of the world class Schulich School
of Business, all our programs are non-degree, mid-career acclaimed qualification that
employers recognize and that you can add to your CV.

We provide:
• Short courses building an individual business skill have industry recognized credentials
for that skill
• Certificate programs build a wider skill set with a number of key skills
• Masters Certificates are an intense dive into Leadership, Management or specific
Business skillsets. This is our highest mid-career professional development business
school certification

Key stats:
• Ranked #1 business school in Canada
• Ranked #12 in global MBA ranking
• Educated over 80,000 professionals across the world.
• Delivered over 4,000 programs virtually and in-person
• 96% of our graduates used knowledge or skills from the program on the job
• 87% of our graduates reported improved job performance
• Worked with over 500 companies worldwide

Over 450 leading faculty in areas of management, leadership, communications, finance,

marketing, business development and strategy
About Prep Doctors
Prep Doctors is Canada's largest private dental training institute.

We provide:
We offer first-class preparatory courses that target dental equivalency exams in North
America.

We also offer continuing education courses aimed at professional development and helping
all dentists improve their skills, maintain their licenses and ultimately provide excellent
patient care.

Our team:
Since 2011 when the direct route to dental equivalency opened, we’ve been leading the
way in preparing dentists for NDEB exams. Over the past ten years, we’ve trained over
7,000 dentists! Of course, an effort like that requires a big team and luckily, we’ve got a lot
of great people.

Prep Doctors is made up of exceptional dental instructors surrounded by a diverse group of

professionals, all dedicated to helping you succeed as a dentist in Canada.
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