This webinar focuses on a fundamental pillar of student well-being: mental health. Through exploration of the mental health continuum in professional education and factors impacting trainee mental health, experts will discuss institutional supports creating an environment and culture that normalizes help-seeking.

In this webinar, you will explore how mindfulness enhances both clinician well-being and patient care. You will gain foundational knowledge of mindfulness and meditation practices, distinguish formal and informal techniques and understand their impact on stress, anxiety and pain management. Presenters will share creative, real-world examples (including videos) of how mindfulness can be taught to dental students and residents, as well as applied during patient procedures. You will leave with creative, actionable strategies and resources to integrate mindfulness into your educational and clinical settings, advancing wellness and health access in dental care.

This webinar delivers a comprehensive, evidence‐based roadmap for integrating digital dentistry into predoctoral education. Through a detailed, three-phase approach, it explains how to start with contained pilot projects, gradually scale up digital modules across the curriculum and ultimately transition into a fully mature digital environment with robust IT support, continuous faculty training and systematic quality improvement.