title: The next step.
abstract: Following on from three articles published in the BDJ earlier last year, Leonard D'Cruz has made the transition from vocational trainee to associate. He has chosen to remain in the same practice, and here discusses his reasons for doing so, whilst also indicating how his life metamorphosed.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: D'Cruz
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010318:Partnership Practice, Dental; D011231:Preceptorship