Standard Format:
1) Name of Your Dental School
2) What is your examination schedule like? Block Schedule (midterms and finals week) or several every week?
3) What is the hardest class? Why?
4) What is the easiest class? Why?
5) Are your classmates generally gunners and try to sabatoge each other? If not, is the culture one where everybody tries to help everybody out?
6) Are the class notes based primarily on textbooks? or based on lecture powerpoints made up by professors?
7) Are there any classes taken with medical students? If so, which ones?
8) What is the grading system? Pass/Fail/Honors? Letter Grades? Percentages?
9) Is there a notetaking service for lecture available?
10) Is class attendance mandatory?
11) In general, are teachers approachable for questions? Or are they for the most part very busy and unreachable (research, etc...)?
12) Is there a big brother/big sister program that pairs you with an upperclassman or professor who "mentors" you?
13) What is the % first time board pass rate? What is the average score?
14) When do you take the NDBE? 1st year or second year?
15) Do you get a block of time off before boards to study? If so, how long? If not, do you have to study simultaneously with classes?
16) Do most people study in the University Library? Or does the place clear out right after school and everybody studies on their own?
17) Are patients readily available to fulfill clinical requirements or do you have to do a lot of work to get them in?
18) Is it a hassle to get a chair once you get patients in? In your opinion, does your school have enough chairs?
19) What are the clinical requirements to graduate? (number of crowns, fillings, etc...) Is it reasonably attainable or pretty difficult?
20) Are there opportunities for different off-site dental clinic rotations? If so, what are they?
21) Are there opportunites for outreach trips to underserved areas or countries? If so, what are they and for how long?
22) Is there sufficent preparation for practice management? What career placement opportunites does your school offer?
23) What is the dress code at your school? Scrubs? For what years?
Please feel free to add any other potentially helpful information about your dental school below! Multiple posts about each school are definitely appreciated if there is something new you feel is worth adding!
Crap load of questions.
1. colorado
2. tests all the time
3. microbiology, it's so boring
4. there were lots
5. my class, not so many gunners. but in the year behind me, yes
6. mainly powerpoints, but they like you to read
7. i think when i took physiology, we were with some other students, not sure if they were medical. we had to do an ethics class with everybody. that was some funny stuff.
8. letter grades
9. no
10. no
11. yes
12. yes
13. ?
14. after first year
15. i don't remember
16. we have moved campuses so there are places for people to study now, back when i studied, there really wasn't anywhere but the library.
17. yes and no
18. chairs aren't the problem, having enough faculty can be sometimes
19. attainable, nothing too extreme
20. we do rotations the second semester of fourth year for 12 weeks.
21. yes, but not affiliated with the school
22. somewhat
23. scrubs, they say no jeans, but everybody in my class wears jeans when not in clinic, i guess there is one perk to being a senior
