3rd year repeat

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wjs010

wjs010

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Hi I’m usually on the medicine side but had a question. My sister goes to a dental school with insane requirements. I’ve heard of multiple people having to repeat 3rd year for patients not showing up to clinic toward the end of the year and thus the student not fulfilling the requirements. Is this really a common theme among dental schools? I can’t imagine this EVER happening at the Med school I went to. I guess I should mention that at this school, you schedule your own patients (which is also ridiculous). This is a name brand state school and I’m quite frankly surprised that this happens ever.
 
sjv said:
Very rare, there are usually a couple stragglers but usually you just stay a semester/trimester or so later. Not graduating students on time looks poorly upon the school.
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Interesting. This school has held back multiple students, one two years in a row
 
wjs010 said:
Hi I’m usually on the medicine side but had a question. My sister goes to a dental school with insane requirements. I’ve heard of multiple people having to repeat 3rd year for patients not showing up to clinic toward the end of the year and thus the student not fulfilling the requirements. Is this really a common theme among dental schools? I can’t imagine this EVER happening at the Med school I went to. I guess I should mention that at this school, you schedule your own patients (which is also ridiculous). This is a name brand state school and I’m quite frankly surprised that this happens ever.
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Theres usually more to the story than just being a couple fillings or extractions short. We had one in my class who had to re-do D3, but it was a culmination of disciplinary issues failing a couple classes in D1/D2, and not meeting clinical requirements.
 
Not common but happens more often than you think. Ranges from 5-20% of dental students depending on the dental school. Harvard likely zero but USC ~30 students out of ~140. My school only holds back 2-3 students out of ~90 per year.

Some clinical requirements are difficult to complete as some procedures take 10(!) appointments e.g. Mx/Mn complete dentures. A student 2 years above me had to stay and extra 3 weeks after graduation b/c patient passed away before the final delivery appointment for dentures.

Also, students can be held back because too many patients leave or switch to a different student due tompoor clinical efficiency and/or poor communication skills.



wjs010 said:
Hi I’m usually on the medicine side but had a question. My sister goes to a dental school with insane requirements. I’ve heard of multiple people having to repeat 3rd year for patients not showing up to clinic toward the end of the year and thus the student not fulfilling the requirements. Is this really a common theme among dental schools? I can’t imagine this EVER happening at the Med school I went to. I guess I should mention that at this school, you schedule your own patients (which is also ridiculous). This is a name brand state school and I’m quite frankly surprised that this happens ever.
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redhotchiligochu said:
Not common but happens more often than you think. Ranges from 5-20% of dental students depending on the dental school. Harvard likely zero but USC ~30 students out of ~140. My school only holds back 2-3 students out of ~90 per year.

Some clinical requirements are difficult to complete as some procedures take 10(!) appointments e.g. Mx/Mn complete dentures. A student 2 years above me had to stay and extra 3 weeks after graduation b/c patient passed away before the final delivery appointment for dentures.

Also, students can be held back because too many patients leave or switch to a different student due tompoor clinical efficiency and/or poor communication skills.
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Huge difference between staying 3 extra weeks versus repeating an entire year. If what you said is true with 30 out of 140 repeating years, that is absurdly disgusting. These people are spending about 600k preinterest for a diploma. Jeez.
 
So 30 students at USC leave with 750K in debt just from dschool? That is absolutely criminal and the administration has to be at fault here.


Likkriue said:
Huge difference between staying 3 extra weeks versus repeating an entire year. If what you said is true with 30 out of 140 repeating years, that is absurdly disgusting. These people are spending about 600k preinterest for a diploma. Jeez.
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