So I will be attending MWU-AZ this fall and I was wondering if you actually start doing procedures on patients or if you start with fellow classmates?
Practicing On Fellow Classmates? MWU-AZ
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You poke around each other first. Second year. Probing. Some supragingival scaling. Polishing. You'll have a couple rotations with a D3 or D4 with a real patient. And of course you'll stab each other with needles before you go live. Kind of seems like not a whole lot. I guess some other schools let you do this and that earlier or let you assist earlier. Seems like we hit sim skills pretty heavy D2 before we unleash. But then you have 2 full years of clinic 4.5 days a week with no lack of chairs or patients. And you're not just assisting or doing prophies D3. I know I'll have less exciting days. But two weeks in my extractions + restorations > cleanings and molar endo tomorrow afternoon. I'm content with the 1 year mostly basic sciences, 1 year dental/sim/pharm, 2 years clinic setup.
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I'd say year 1 is 80% basic science 20% dental (including a day in sim each week). Year two is opposite that. 85% dental and sim and 15% pharm. And pharm is only 2 quarters. By dental, I mean dental lectures. So no basic science stuff D2 at all.
First year, you will adapt quickly. It's actually two tests per week at 7am. Tuesdays are basic science; Thursdays are dental (not a big deal, but you still need to study for them). But you quickly get in a groove and find out what works for you (sit in every lecture and take notes, don't go to lecture at all, attend some and rely just on ppts for others, etc.). It'll fly by. D2, it's just Wednesday at 7am. But instead of studying a dozen or so hours of basic science lectures, it's a dozen or so hours of dental lectures.
First year, you will adapt quickly. It's actually two tests per week at 7am. Tuesdays are basic science; Thursdays are dental (not a big deal, but you still need to study for them). But you quickly get in a groove and find out what works for you (sit in every lecture and take notes, don't go to lecture at all, attend some and rely just on ppts for others, etc.). It'll fly by. D2, it's just Wednesday at 7am. But instead of studying a dozen or so hours of basic science lectures, it's a dozen or so hours of dental lectures.
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