r/FQHCDentistry

For those of you working in FQHCs in Florida (especially dental), what clinic do you work for and what’s it really like there/ what’s the tea?

Do you genuinely recommend your workplace or would you avoid it? How’s the culture, leadership, support, workload, mentorship, PTO, scheduling, pressure/productivity expectations, and overall work environment?

Basically — if you could go back, would you choose the same place again? Feel free to be as honest as you’re comfortable with (good, bad, or in between). You can message me and I can reach out privately too if you don’t want to post publicly!

I'm burnt out. Haven't been doing this long. Feels like patients don't care, feel underappreciated, our org going through a weird transition period too

Not experienced enough to be confident in things I didn't do well on in d school. Idk. Some days I come home and wonder when it'll all be over

Our senior leadership wants to look into possibly partnering with another organization that sees a lot of autistic children. That organization currently has built a dental program for their autistic clients, but I believe it may not be going well. Mind you we don’t see a lot of children in our existing clinic. Most of our patient s are adults with behavioral health needs. I am open to learning more about the organization that sees a lot of autistic children. If your clinic sees a lot of children with developmental disorders can you provide a day to day for the provider? Is it a pediatric provider or a general dentist who has a lot experience with children? Our existing providers do not work with children often so management is fine with bringing on docs who do if we move forward with this. Are you all offering nitrous or any sort of in office sedation services?