I am currently shadowing a dentist and I go to her office twice a week (they are open 4 days a week) and stay 3-4 hours each time.
I already have ~100 hrs of shadowing so I am not asking about how many hours we need to apply or anything but asking how many hours/how often other students shadow a dentist.
I am asking this because I feel like my dentist doesn't like it that I am only shadowing her 6-8 hrs a week(Seeing 1-2 patients a day and helping dental assistants like cleaning, sterlizing, develping x-rays and etc). She never expressed this to me, but it is my feeling that she doesn't think that I want to "learn." It has been about a month since I started shadowing her and during the first 2 weeks, I shadowed her about 6-8 hours (almost the whole day) and it got too tiring (since I am standing most of the time) and got jobs, so I cut down the hours.
With my other dentists, I used to shadow them once or twice a week, from anywhere 2-5 hours a day and they didn't seem to have any problem..
What do you say?
Thanks in advnace for any input!!
I already have ~100 hrs of shadowing so I am not asking about how many hours we need to apply or anything but asking how many hours/how often other students shadow a dentist.
I am asking this because I feel like my dentist doesn't like it that I am only shadowing her 6-8 hrs a week(Seeing 1-2 patients a day and helping dental assistants like cleaning, sterlizing, develping x-rays and etc). She never expressed this to me, but it is my feeling that she doesn't think that I want to "learn." It has been about a month since I started shadowing her and during the first 2 weeks, I shadowed her about 6-8 hours (almost the whole day) and it got too tiring (since I am standing most of the time) and got jobs, so I cut down the hours.
With my other dentists, I used to shadow them once or twice a week, from anywhere 2-5 hours a day and they didn't seem to have any problem..
What do you say?
Thanks in advnace for any input!!