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How strongly does Creighton emphasize the clinical aspects of their curriculum? They mention that clinical experience starts in the first year. How big of a city is omaha?

 

[Superhuntress]

How strongly does Creighton emphasize the clinical aspects of their curriculum? They mention that clinical experience starts in the first year. How big of a city is omaha?

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do. The pace in Omaha is slow, the people are friendly, simple Midwestern folks. You won't see as many interesting cases in their dental school as you would in a real city because the patient pool is smaller. I lived in Nebraska for a year, and my family currently lived there. If you like the simple, slow, small town life, you will like Nebraska.

 

[2quik]

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do. The pace in Omaha is slow, the people are friendly, simple Midwestern folks. You won't see as many interesting cases in their dental school as you would in a real city because the patient pool is smaller. I lived in Nebraska for a year, and my family currently lived there. If you like the simple, slow, small town life, you will like Nebraska.

Question: "So where did you get that shirt?"
Reply: "Oh, the sky is blue..."

haha...i thought it was funny how the OP asked a straight forward question and got that obscure answer.

Anyway, I am just entering creighton as a D1 and from what I can tell they really do want you to be great clinicians and pride themselves on having no specialty programs thus giving students the oppurtunity to do more. In our first year, from what I've heard, we will assist the D3s starting our 2nd semester to get familiar w/ everything.

 

[mochafreak]

I'm a D2 at Creighton. Creighton puts great emphasis on clinical skills, and has very high expectations for students' clinical development. That makes sense, because as 2quik pointed out there are no residents at Creighton. The D3's and D4's are expected to handle whatever walks through the door. I was told during my interview in 2005 that our scores were second in the country on the NBDE part 2...

Last year our D1 clinical/community experience consisted of visiting neighboring schools and talking with 2-3 elementary school kids/student about dental hygiene, a short perio class where we worked on each other, and clinical rotations which were mostly observational (although I took around 7-8 patient x-rays during the radiology rotation...we have radiology 1st semester as D1's).

They change the curriculum often. This year D2's will be assisting in the clinic and I think that's new. So, if 2quik said the D1's are assisting the D3's, then I guess we'll be assisting the D4's...maybe??

As far as Omaha goes, I think it's a really cool little city. In fact, I really don't feel like I'm in the midwest when I'm in Omaha (there are actually steep hills in Omaha...who knew ). I grew up in upstate NY and I've lived in Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs in CO, New Orleans and near Indianapolis. I really don't like the midwest, but I like Omaha a lot more than Indy...and when you take traffic into account Omaha gives Denver and Colorado Springs a run for their money. If you want Chicago, NYC, or LA you're SOL. But, there are lots of cool bars, microbreweries and restaurants. The zoo is really nice. There's a casino if you're into that. There are some big-time concerts/events, but the local music scene and the mid-size venue music scene aren't half as good as Denver. We can get student tickets to UNO mavericks hockey games (they're Div.1). Creighton's B-ball team made the NCAA tourney last year. I think Omaha hosted part of the NCAA men's b-ball last year too, and they host the college world series every year.
There's biking and jogging paths (my class does taco rides, which has something to do with beer, tacos, and riding 20 miles...). Notice how I didn't say anything about NE football, I found that it wasn't that hard to ignore last year.

And no, I'm really not in love with Creighton or Omaha. I'm just procrastinating from reviewing the first 114 pages of operative which we'll be going over in our first class... 😳 Seriously, if you want a great clinical education Creighton will make you earn it and in your pathetic amount of free time there's fun stuff to do in Omaha and you don't end up in stop and go traffic trying to get to it.

 

[Superhuntress]

Question: "So where did you get that shirt?"
Reply: "Oh, the sky is blue..."

haha...i thought it was funny how the OP asked a straight forward question and got that obscure answer.

Anyway, I am just entering creighton as a D1 and from what I can tell they really do want you to be great clinicians and pride themselves on having no specialty programs thus giving students the oppurtunity to do more. In our first year, from what I've heard, we will assist the D3s starting our 2nd semester to get familiar w/ everything.

2quik- You don't need to be snotty and rude. Perhaps you have not had your lecture on professionalism yet. The post asked how big of a city Omaha is, so I answered that! Answering a direct question on size with a direct answer on size is anything but obscure! I then went on to expand the answer to include what Omaha is like. Of course I don't know exactly how the clinical aspects are there since I chose a better school (for me at least), with a much large, more varied patient pool.

 

[2quik]

Sorry, I wasnt trying to be snotty and rude😕. I was being sarcastic, but SDN doesnt have a sarcastic smiley.

 

[jfitzpat]

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do. The pace in Omaha is slow, the people are friendly, simple Midwestern folks. You won't see as many interesting cases in their dental school as you would in a real city because the patient pool is smaller. I lived in Nebraska for a year, and my family currently lived there. If you like the simple, slow, small town life, you will like Nebraska.

You make it sound like Omaha is a town of 10,000 people. While it sure isn't New York or Chicago, I'm not sure I would called it "rural". I've lived in Chicago, St. Louis, and Dallas and don't really think that my day to day life is any different between the four. When I wanted to do something interesting, however, clearly a city like Chicago has alot more to offer.

 

[jfitzpat]

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[endoking]

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do. The pace in Omaha is slow, the people are friendly, simple Midwestern folks. You won't see as many interesting cases in their dental school as you would in a real city because the patient pool is smaller. I lived in Nebraska for a year, and my family currently lived there. If you like the simple, slow, small town life, you will like Nebraska.

I'm a D4 at Creighton and this is about half right--Omaha is pretty laid back, but there is still a fair amount of crime here, so I wouldn't say it is "simple, slow, small town life", but this is only my perspective as I grew up in a town of 2000. There are 435,000 people in Omaha according to the latest census and you WILL see as many interesting cases here as you will anywhere else, because as another poster said, the students take everything here, no specialty programs. It is clinically oriented, so be prepared to study a lot on your own to ace Part I boards, but it is doable. I wouldn't say its the best d-school around, but you'll get a well-rounded experience and I would definitely go here again if I had to do it over.

 

[jswizdent]

Your patient pool of people would be sufficient, Omaha with surrounding suburbs is around 1 million in population. I know this because I grew up their and lived their for 24 years.

 

[endoking]

Your patient pool of people would be sufficient, Omaha with surrounding suburbs is around 1 million in population. I know this because I grew up their and lived their for 24 years.

Exactly right--I have several patients who drive from 90+ miles away, including one from South Dakota.

 

[H0pe]

Sorta off topic, but does anyone know if there is public transportation (shuttle/bus) from the airport to Seville Best Western near Creighton? I have an interview next month and would love the info. Thnx

 

[bass for less]

Yes it does. Seville Best Western has shuttle service to the airport, I think the last one departs at 10pm though. It also has shuttle to other parts of the town. I called them last week.

 

[Shermanmurman]

🙂

 

[endoking]

Sorry I started a whole new thread for this... but does anyone know if you can still schedule your own interview for Creighton? I have read in the interview feedback that some have done this... but I dont know if it is still offered???

If only there was someone you could call to find out👍

 

[Omahahahaha]

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do. The pace in Omaha is slow, the people are friendly, simple Midwestern folks. You won't see as many interesting cases in their dental school as you would in a real city because the patient pool is smaller. I lived in Nebraska for a year, and my family currently lived there. If you like the simple, slow, small town life, you will like Nebraska.

Superhuntress,
Did you get rejected from Creighton? Or are you just bitter about your time living in Nebraska? Anyways, I applaud your use of stereotyping all people that don’t live in a high crime city like Detroit as “slow, simple hicks”. However I don’t agree.



Now, I’m not from Nebraska, but Omaha has its positive qualities. To answer the original poster, the Omaha metro population is a little short of 1 million and Creighton puts the strongest emphasis on clinical skills.

As for patients, we have an assessment clinic where patients are either accepted or rejected to help filter out and narrow down the number of people who what to be seen in our clinic. I understand the argument that a larger city would theoretically have more available patients, but depending on each school’s class size and the volume of their clinic, there is only a finite number a patients that can seen in a given week, month, or year. Creighton has a waitlist a mile long for patients that want to be seen. Believe me, it’s not like we are anxiously waiting by the front doors of our clinic waiting and hoping for new patients to walk in the door.

As for not having any residency programs, it is a big advantage. I have been able to treat every patient without having to “give up” the procedure so a resident can get experience…instead I got the experience of doing more difficult cases that were worthy of a resident program.

Interested in going into a specialty? Now this isn’t scientific data, but I believe approximately 85-90% of my classmates who wanted to go to a specialty/residency were accepted into one. Programs know what schools stress clinical skills and want residents who actually have experience in the field. Just my two cents.

 

[thunderdome]

Hey it's GREAT to hear from you guys at Creighton. I'm really excited to get started next year as a D1. Just had a quick question: would you recommend taking a Dental Anatomy or Histology class during the summer at UNMC? Dr. Ayers gave me a very neutral answer, but I want to try and be as prepared as possible for the material. I want to do well to keep the option, if I choose so, to specialize in the future. Let me know what you think.

 

[nuhskr06]

Omaha is a rural city, with rural people. Native Nebraska people think Omaha is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and think they live in the "big city" Most Nebraska people are obsessed with the Nebraska football team, but there isn't much else to do.

HAHA - not sure the Big Red needed to be brought up in the thread but native Nebraskans DO pride themselves in tradition which is the heart and soul of Nebraska Football. No worries though - most avid fans will live in Lincoln .

Thanks for bringing fball back early this year Superhuntress!

And to the OP - Creighton is a great school - I know students who have gone there and they loved it. Good Luck!

 

[dgaillard]

Hey it's GREAT to hear from you guys at Creighton. I'm really excited to get started next year as a D1. Just had a quick question: would you recommend taking a Dental Anatomy or Histology class during the summer at UNMC? Dr. Ayers gave me a very neutral answer, but I want to try and be as prepared as possible for the material. I want to do well to keep the option, if I choose so, to specialize in the future. Let me know what you think.

it is certainly not necessary (particularly for dental anatomy, which isn't very complex), but it probably wouldn't hurt either. i have found that a lot of people with previous history in a given subject didn't find it to be all that big of an advantage.

if you're going to take something, take histology. you might also consider starting to familiarize yourself with the basics and terms of gross anatomy, as that gets to be some pretty big chunks of memorization. it would probably be best though to just take it easy for the summer, as you'll have the whole school year to study your *** off, regardless of your level of preparation.