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Tomorrow I will be on my way to my month-long OMFS Externship with Louisiana State University, School of Dentistry, Health Science Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans, LA. I will be driving from South Florida to NO, the drive is forecast to be a 15+ hour drive. My official dates of participation is from Monday, June 7th through Sunday, July 4th.
Although I was initially placed in the on-call room at the hospital for the entire month as my "home" during my externship, I have gotten a dorm room literately right across the street from the hospital where I will be at most of the time. The hospital and the dorm building is connected by a Skyway. I was very fortunate to find such dorm room available and now I can be close to the hospital and I don't have to worry about getting my stuff stolen if I were to be living in the on-call room.
With my own dorm room, I now can bring my desktop computer (also serves to be my TV since I have a TV tuner installed in my desktop) and actually get rest if I do actually get to rest for the month. The dorm room will cost me $480 for the month and that includes all utilities, high-speed internet, an assigned garage parking space, and basic cable TV. The dorm is called Stanislaus Hall and it is BRAND NEW! No one has ever lived in it yet and it was just recently remodelled and opened. This dormatory is for medical students and residents. For more info and pictures, visit:
http://www.is.lsuhsc.edu/reshall/stanislaus.htm
Now from what I know, I will be at the hospitals, but I'm not sure if I will get to be going to the dental school/building at all, but I hope to. The dental school building is actually 20 or so blocks north of the hospital that I will be externing at and where I live. The hospitals that I will be extern at are CHARITY HOSPITAL AND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. I know Charity is right in downtown connected to my dorm building, but not sure where University hospital is located.
I applied to this externship back in October 2003 (Fall semester of my 2nd year) and was accepted/offered the opportunity in the same month. I looked at 3 other externships which are the following, but only applied to one (LSU in NO):
UCLA
Michigan
Baylor
I will be missing 3 weeks of scheduled clinic days at Nova which will be excused, but hopefully this will not come back and hunt me since these are very first weeks of my clinical days and my "graduation requirement clock" is ticking! Obviously the more clinic days I have the more I'll get to work on my patients and the more grad. requirements I will get done! I guess these month-long externships will require sacrafices! For my LSU externship application requirements, visit:
http://www.pbhs.com/omsnet/block/dept/1mth/index.html
Although I've visited University of Minnesota OMFS for two consecutive spring breaks the last two years which I call them "mini-externships", this month-long externship will be my first OFFICIAL one. I really don't know what to expect, but a lot of hard work and fun learning more about the praticing scope of OMFS. I will be checking in with the Chief Resident on Sunday when I arrive and I start at 7 AM at Charity with morning rounds on Monday.
As usuall, I plan to share my experiences with you all, but we'll just have to wait to see what an OMFS externship is all about when you participate in a month long journey. I probably won't get my internet connected in my dorm room until mid week next week so.....
Alright peeps, I'm about to embark on another chapter in my book of dental school experiences. 👍
Although I was initially placed in the on-call room at the hospital for the entire month as my "home" during my externship, I have gotten a dorm room literately right across the street from the hospital where I will be at most of the time. The hospital and the dorm building is connected by a Skyway. I was very fortunate to find such dorm room available and now I can be close to the hospital and I don't have to worry about getting my stuff stolen if I were to be living in the on-call room.
With my own dorm room, I now can bring my desktop computer (also serves to be my TV since I have a TV tuner installed in my desktop) and actually get rest if I do actually get to rest for the month. The dorm room will cost me $480 for the month and that includes all utilities, high-speed internet, an assigned garage parking space, and basic cable TV. The dorm is called Stanislaus Hall and it is BRAND NEW! No one has ever lived in it yet and it was just recently remodelled and opened. This dormatory is for medical students and residents. For more info and pictures, visit:
http://www.is.lsuhsc.edu/reshall/stanislaus.htm
Now from what I know, I will be at the hospitals, but I'm not sure if I will get to be going to the dental school/building at all, but I hope to. The dental school building is actually 20 or so blocks north of the hospital that I will be externing at and where I live. The hospitals that I will be extern at are CHARITY HOSPITAL AND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. I know Charity is right in downtown connected to my dorm building, but not sure where University hospital is located.
I applied to this externship back in October 2003 (Fall semester of my 2nd year) and was accepted/offered the opportunity in the same month. I looked at 3 other externships which are the following, but only applied to one (LSU in NO):
UCLA
Michigan
Baylor
I will be missing 3 weeks of scheduled clinic days at Nova which will be excused, but hopefully this will not come back and hunt me since these are very first weeks of my clinical days and my "graduation requirement clock" is ticking! Obviously the more clinic days I have the more I'll get to work on my patients and the more grad. requirements I will get done! I guess these month-long externships will require sacrafices! For my LSU externship application requirements, visit:
http://www.pbhs.com/omsnet/block/dept/1mth/index.html
Although I've visited University of Minnesota OMFS for two consecutive spring breaks the last two years which I call them "mini-externships", this month-long externship will be my first OFFICIAL one. I really don't know what to expect, but a lot of hard work and fun learning more about the praticing scope of OMFS. I will be checking in with the Chief Resident on Sunday when I arrive and I start at 7 AM at Charity with morning rounds on Monday.
As usuall, I plan to share my experiences with you all, but we'll just have to wait to see what an OMFS externship is all about when you participate in a month long journey. I probably won't get my internet connected in my dorm room until mid week next week so.....
Alright peeps, I'm about to embark on another chapter in my book of dental school experiences. 👍