Feedback from those already in dental schools

[shoppingbuddy]

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I am seeing some pattern in the interview feedback section where people are complaining about how there aren't enough chairs for each student after they had their tour of whichever dental school they had their interviews at. I have heard one acquaintance of mine complaining about that and that it can get you stressed sometimes.

Dear current dental students:
Is that much of a big deal for you guys?
Does that really stress you out to the point you
just want to rip out the chair and throw it out of the window?
Is that something you would just accept it as a burden you must carry on through dental education?

I guess I am focusing too much on not-so-much important aspect
of dental educatino. But it's something to think about it.

 

[howui3]

I am seeing some pattern in the interview feedback section where people are complaining about how there aren't enough chairs for each student after they had their tour of whichever dental school they had their interviews at. I have heard one acquaintance of mine complaining about that and that it can get you stressed sometimes.

Dear current dental students:
Is that much of a big deal for you guys?
Does that really stress you out to the point you
just want to rip out the chair and throw it out of the window?
Is that something you would just accept it as a burden you must carry on through dental education?

I guess I am focusing too much on not-so-much important aspect
of dental educatino. But it's something to think about it.

try posting in Dental forum.

what do we know? we're just applying.

 

[Sprgrover]

try posting in Dental forum.

what do we know? we're just applying.

I agree - I'm moving this thread to the dental forum.

 

[Comet208]

What does availability of a chair after your initial interview have to do with your dental education that you see it as a "burden you must carry on through dental education"?

If you are going to obsess over these little things, you will never make it through the years. If you dont see a chair there waiting for you, you can always ask for one like a grown up!

 

[Biogirl361]

What does availability of a chair after your initial interview have to do with your dental education that you see it as a "burden you must carry on through dental education"?

If you are going to obsess over these little things, you will never make it through the years. If you dont see a chair there waiting for you, you can always ask for one like a grown up!

i disagree, i think it's a perfectly valid concern - who wants to deal with fighting for chairs in the preclinic the day before a practical or schedule appointments around when there will be chairs open in the clinic? i remember the night before our first composite practical, there were about 15 curing lights for 50 students trying to practice and I had to wander around the lab looking for one until someone finished up. With all the stress related to dental school, even the little things that make it run smoother can count. Don't base your whole decision on availability of chairs or supplies, but it's definitly something you can add to the list of considerations.
Anyway, i don't know anything about the chair situation because my school has it set up where each first year shares a chair with a second year and each third year with a fourth year, and the classes are scheduled to be in the lab/clinic at different times, so you are basically guaranteed to have your chair available when you want it 🙂 in the occasional event that you and your partner are both there, it is pretty easy to use someone else's chair (in preclinic) or one of the 5 or so unassigned chairs (in clinic). 🙂

 

[phremius]

stress in dental school?? speak for yourself... I've yet to have any.... *knock on wood* 🙂

 

[Biogirl361]

stress in dental school?? speak for yourself... I've yet to have any.... *knock on wood* 🙂

ya... it's been kinda tough here 😳 mostly just the pure volume of stuff you have to do in a short time...

 

[crazy_sherm]

I am seeing some pattern in the interview feedback section where people are complaining about how there aren't enough chairs for each student after they had their tour of whichever dental school they had their interviews at. I have heard one acquaintance of mine complaining about that and that it can get you stressed sometimes.

Dear current dental students:
Is that much of a big deal for you guys?
Does that really stress you out to the point you
just want to rip out the chair and throw it out of the window?
Is that something you would just accept it as a burden you must carry on through dental education?

I guess I am focusing too much on not-so-much important aspect
of dental educatino. But it's something to think about it.

I'm only a first year, but what I hear from the upper classmen is that it sucks at first, but really teaches you to be efficient with your time and learn patient management skills. After they get the hang of it, it's not too bad. Just gotta learn how to play the musical clinic chair game.

I hear at Case, every student gets their own operatory. Seems pretty nice.

 

[gryffindor]

I'm only a first year, but what I hear from the upper classmen is that it sucks at first, but really teaches you to be efficient with your time and learn patient management skills. After they get the hang of it, it's not too bad. Just gotta learn how to play the musical clinic chair game.

I hear at Case, every student gets their own operatory. Seems pretty nice.

Blah the musical chair game. I had my own chair and an unassigned empty chair next to me for clinic. I definitely utilized both chairs to the max. It was great. I hate sharing. I picked a chair far away from the main clinical section because I didn't even want to share my counter space with the student next to me. Thy had more than enough chairs for us at our school, why share when you can have your own? I sure didn't want to add the stress of finding a chair on top of all the other headaches involved in clinic -paperwork, supplies, models & labwork, stress of doing the procedure, moody faculty, moody staff, frazzled students, angry patients, etc. And with my own chair, I had a space with locked cabinets where I could keep my stuff and not have to haul it around in a tackle-box and airport-luggage-carrier-wheelie (models, loupes, supplies, paperwork, burs, pens, etc.).

I read an article on how colleges are moving away from shared dorm rooms to singles because the incoming students all grew up in their own rooms with TV and internet and then freak out when they get to college and have to share a bunk bed in a room the size of their closet at home. Maybe as these students get to dental school, having your own chair will be demanded and the days of fighting for chairs will be long gone.

 

[NileBDS]

I'm only a first year, but what I hear from the upper classmen is that it sucks at first, but really teaches you to be efficient with your time and learn patient management skills. After they get the hang of it, it's not too bad. Just gotta learn how to play the musical clinic chair game.

I hear at Case, every student gets their own operatory. Seems pretty nice.

Hey Sherm
I noticed you're attending UOP ! Sounds cool. I actually interviewed there this past november for the IDS, and am now on the waiting list.
So if you don't mind, what do you think of the school ? Would it be Pacific, NYU, UFlorida, Temple, UMinnesota or UColorado ? And why.
You have no idea how much your feedack would help me out here.
Actually, if anyone can give me their experience ...
Thanks.