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Panelists: Dr. Dugoni School of Dentistry Ms. What Should I Know? Presenters: Ms. Students also often learn about how to care for a diverse array of populations and may interact with patients to provide very basic oral health care. Most of their training outside of the core classes in the first two years involves practicing procedures on models of the mouth and teeth.
The last two years of dental school mostly involve clinical study direct patient care and some practice management instruction. Students will learn to care for chronically ill, disabled, special care and geriatric patients as well as children to ensure they have a wide variety of experience caring for all types of people.
At many schools, students often rotate through various clinics, hospitals and other off-campus community settings, and work under the supervision of a clinical instructor. Whether it was waxing crowns or building dentures, it was enough to drive this dental geek insane. I know there is some good stuff out there, so please help! Like this: Like Loading Related Spread the love Tags: board exams career change dental school dentist dentistry lab work Comments Share 1 Comments Leave your reply.
Good on you for seeing it all through. It certainly would of taken a bit of courage and determination. In fact, there were many days! I never skipped class in college even though it was so easy. But when I was in dental school, I definitely skipped out a few times ;. Thanks for your kind words! How about dealing with some of the most ridiculous patients on the planet and not being able to get rid of them?!!
I had some great ones too. I had my share of them. One woman tracked me down and called me at home. That one still kills me! But there were also many great ones that I was sad to leave. Pregnant for 14 years? A friend who was really cute had a patient who was married and lived about 2 hours away. He told her all about his marital problems, in waaayyyy too much detail, and invited himself to stay at her house whenever he was in town for dental work. She uninvited him:.
I agree about the patients. While most of them were great, I had a few that I would have gladly drop kicked off the roof. One of my very first patients, during our first meeting, grabbed me in the hallway and asked if I was going to heaven or hell. Ummm… why? Am I going now?! Did I look like that much of a heathen?
LOL Another one totally took advantage of me knowing that all of her work needed to be paid for in order for me to get credit and thus graduate. Yep, I got to pay her bill! I actually needed to take out a loan to be able to afford to graduate! Laura—nice post. We learn no people skills in dental school. Actually we learn to be more competitive, envious and greedy. This gets extended to practicing dentists…the real world.
Dentistry is a flawed profession at many levels. Run by technophiles who know nothing about what makes people tick. Thanks for the great post. Thanks, Barry! I totally agree— well said. Which is why I contacted you to thank you for your post 10 Reasons Why My Patients Love Me There were several commentaries about me on other blogs by well-known dental leaders in our community. While I found their commentary to be a bit judgmental, and the humor and the point of my blog was lost on them, your commentary showed empathy, compassion, and humor.
All qualities that are missing from some in our profession among others. OMG I love your blog!! Thanks, Courtney! It sure is. Feel free to come back to this post and vent any time. Many of us will definitely appreciate any funny memories you might bring back. A breath of fresh air. I would add patients. While I was there, I had a patient physically threaten me. In my office, any of these behaviors will earn you a one-way trip out the door, and, in the case of physical or sexual assault, a call to the police.
In school, you had to suck it up, unless a professor took up for you my professor did, bless him. I had some truly wonderful patients, and I loved working with them. And barry, I can see how dental school would bring out the worst in some people.
Too often, it was made clear that it may not matter how intelligent, conscientious, or competent you were. Some female students found they could get extra help in some classes by flirting with the male professors. I think the system for educating dentists could use a serious overhaul. I once had a patient chase me around my dental office looking for her crown because I refused to seat a crown for her that another dentist prepped.
When I walked into the room, she was nasty from the start. There is something very wrong with that. Our college was on the honor system. The cheaters had frat brothers doing their home work and freely looked up answers during tests.
I once saw a student in the bathroom stall with 5 books. Incidentally, these were the ones who had the great practices when they exited school. Now that I am a preacher fifty some years later I know that the teachers and cheaters will have a reckoning at some point. The residents could be a bit arrogant, but the instructors were pretty cool. I did have to laugh when one of my female classmates told us one of the oral surgery residents told her female students were only in dental school to find husbands.
Yes, we are going to pay crazy tuition to be abused for 4 years by patients, instructors, residents, and administrators, just to try to find a husband in a pool of arrogant, misogynistic tools. Funny— our perio people were pretty nice.
I think because the department was headed up by a really sweet guy. Thanks for your list, it was really therapeutic for me to read. To add to the weird patients, I had some: 1. Chanel No. He also wanted me to give him my teeth!!! He said we would take me on an all expenses pain trip to his homeland.
Thanks, Lauren. The profession will be lucky to have another woman in it. Good for you! Thanks for contributing! I think the worst in our school were the pros instructors.
The ones who knew what they were doing were mean and condescending. There were a few nice, knowledgable instructors, but most were one or the other, and not both. I hope when you teaching you are not going to give hard time for ………………. Reading your article was like reading about my life the past 5 years! And consider the fact that I am a student in a dental school in Greece! Ddent, I love to hear about the similarities with other cultures!
I always thought many of these things I write about were typical American qualities. Your lists are the best! Man, dental school days were fun but man did I get in some trouble! Thanks, Natalie! Once again you depicted it with incredible words! We only had to do lab things before going into clinic! Thanks, Sofia! So, more of the same in Portugal, huh? Amazing that they would make you do an entire year over for one class.
Not sure if that happened at our school, but some people did have to repeat a year. Nursing school is even more mean… The best experince I had was recently getting my social work degree.. They wanted me to succeed and made sure I had all I needed to do that.. Dental School does not have to be that stressful …its like how shitty can we be to you because we can…..
My friend ask me the other day why do you only clean kids teeth and not adults anymore.. I said think about it…. I said yep…. Wow, Donna! Must be my love of potty humor. I never understood why they felt they needed to berate us in order to allow us to succeed.
I would hope in a field like that, but then again, I would hope any field that teaches people to care for others would be positive!!!! All by example! Maybe they are so mean in nursing school to get them used to a life of being treated poorly by patients and doctors.
Oh no Donna, not you too with the hair in the mouth, sometimes embedded in calculus an inch thick? Secretaries who were on waaayyy too much of a power trip. Not a male student willing to flirt with me? No patients for you! So very true! Forgot about them. They really made all the rules.
Not my thing. Unfortunately, there were too many instructors in dental school who had a complete lack of self awareness that they were in fact assholes. During my time in clinical training, there was always one instructor who spent his entire day reading the paper. Who knows??? So true, Mike. How boring would that be to sit and read the paper? I never understood how some of these people were so uninterested in helping us. The reasons you mentioned are true, and I will add also that classmates in general sucked as well.
Dental school was, overall, one of the most juvenile environments where gossipping, backstabbing, scheming-behind-the-back, and competing-like-crazy existed. There were some classmates who evidently enjoyed this like some sort of reality TV show, but personally I hated it.
Yes, it was such a weird culture in school. I completely agree. I hate dental school mainly because of the classmates i have. It really scares me how competitive and crazy they all can be. I hate to say it, Natasha, but I think in some ways they all get worse out in the real world. I actually liked my classmates, and I also really like the majority of my colleagues, but you see a lot of big egos being competitive even after school.
Thanks, dent. I take it you are in dental school? I have written a lot of posts on it here if you want the full scoop. Hope it goes well for you. When do you graduate? As much as it seems like it would be boring, it really is not at all. I can definitely relate…. Dentistry is like any other form of work. Most people have issues with work. What about the ready? Students and mentors keep this in mind! Contact the Student Research Office for more information. All rights reserved. Privacy Statement.
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