NOVA requirements

[Atombomb]

Can anyone tell me about the clinical requirements for students at NOVA, and how the patient pool and overall clinical training, when I interviewed there I felt it was pretty strong but I want to make sure I didn't get the wrong impression

 

[mike3kgt]

Can anyone tell me about the clinical requirements for students at NOVA, and how the patient pool and overall clinical training, when I interviewed there I felt it was pretty strong but I want to make sure I didn't get the wrong impression

This is based upon the class of 2008 (year below me) and is the trend at Nova.

Restorative: 85 restorations & various competencies
Fixed: 7 units crown, 1 bridge, 2 implant crowns, 1 onlay, nightguard, cast p&c/4 fiber posts
Removable: 7 "dentures" (immediate, traditional, repairs), 3 cast rpds
Perio: 13 quad SRP & comps
Endo: 7 cases

Pedo, OS, Comm. Dentistry, etc. all on rotation. Seems like not a lot of requirements, but at Nova, these take most of your time here. Some get done early, some don't. It all depends on the student and most important, quality of patients (if you don't know, you'll know at one point what this means).

Clinic training is good if you put in lots of effort...you get out what you put in.

Hope this helps.

-Mike

 

[12YearOldKid]

Wow. Those do seem kind of like a bare minimum. But I guess we're all going to double or triple our schools requirements in the first few weeks or months of practice. Within a year of graduation, I bet the number of procedures completed in school probably isn't going to make that much difference.

 

[mike3kgt]

Wow. Those do seem kind of like a bare minimum. But I guess we're all going to double or triple our schools requirements in the first few weeks or months of practice. Within a year of graduation, I bet the number of procedures completed in school probably isn't going to make that much difference.

Yeah, I do feel pretty confident in regards to operative & perio (not that perio mounts to much... I'm glad I am extremely proficient in scaling.... hopefully I won't do any scaling after dental school!)

I wish we got more prosth experience, both removable and fixed. We have many roadblocks to performing more than that. Perio has historically been a major roadblock to prosth but clinic size and lack of chairs/appointment times also affect that. Nova has always been a very perio strong school tho. Too much removable and prosth lab work!

One thing, however, is that we can get a good experience with implants. Our perio/os depts do so many procedures. Some students can graduate with 10 or so implant single units cemented (which compared to our other requirements is a boat-load).

Now it would be nice to have graduated having cemented 30 crowns, but our curriculum could not support that... some of the best of the best students to go through nova have only cemented 20 crowns.

-Mike