How does your school keep up w/ clinical reqs?

[cmc372]

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I've just started my D3 year, and my school has come up with a system for clinical requirements that, in my opinion, really stinks.

Basically, our grade for D3 clinic (73 semester hours) is based on 50% attendance and 50% production. Every procedure has a Service Unit value. To pass, you need 300 SU's, to get an A, you need 450. To give some examples, most fillings are worth 1.5-2 SUs, crowns are 4, molar endo is 4, and prophys are 2. The scale is not very equitably distributed. On top of that, we can only have about 30 patients and half of those are perio maintenance, so you get at most 8 SUs per year from them. Account for the no show factor and your lack of control over what patients you are assigned to manage and what procedures they need and it gets pretty frustrating. I feel like I have very little control over my grade. The admin claims that they have been running these SU's in the background for the last 5 classes, and that we should all be able to pass based on past numbers. We are the first year that it's actually being factored into the grade though.

At any rate, how does your school grade your D3 clinical time? I know there's got to be a better way out there.

 

[txaggie03]

I can answer this more specifically in a week ( i dont have my 'essential experiences' sheet with me. But it is very similar.

 

[goffdent]

My college has multiple MEE's minimal essential experiences. For example, to graduate 3rd year you need 5 major removable units, at least one of them being a partial. you need at least 3 crowns, you have to do multiple perio competencies, a couple restorative competencies, so many points of endo (at least one molar), at least 25 extractions etc.

to graduate school altogether, 4th year you need at least 3 more root canals, with one being a molar, more removable units, a certain number of crowns, a bridge, cast post and core, single implant or implant retained denture restoration, and a certain number of clinic "units" on top of that. There are additional requirements such as perio board-scale cases and surgeries etc that you also have to do.