Lecturer Details: Managing the transition from Orthodontic Trainee to Consultant – The art of problem-solving post examinations

Lecturer nameAndrew Flett MOrth RCS Eng
Lecturer profileAndrew qualified from the University of Liverpool in 2006, winning the Malcolm Foster Silver medal for the best undergraduate research project. After a year in General Dental practice, he returned to Liverpool Dental Hospital to complete a year of general professional training, which involved oral surgery, special care dentistry and paediatric rotations. From 2008, he then spent the next 2 years as a maxillofacial senior house officer moving around the Merseyside region and engaged in caring for patients with head and neck cancer and skeletal abnormalities. In 2010, he began his Specialist Registrar training in Orthodontics at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield and the Royal Chesterfield Hospital. Andrew was awarded a Masters with Merit in 2012 from the University of Sheffield and completed his specialist training in 2013, achieving his MOrth from RCS Eng. Since 2013, he has been working towards completing his training as a Consultant Orthodontist at Sheffield and Chesterfield. Andrew is an honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield responsible for the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate clinics, and provision of selected seminars and lectures.

His main research interests included orthognathic surgery and patient centred outcomes of treatment.