Question for Columbia,Ucla.Upenn and Tufts

[sheri]

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--Columbia,Ucla,Tufts,and Upenn students please answer the following questions
it will help me a great deal in making my decision:
1-How much you pay for rent?
2-What is your grading system? pass/fail or grade
3-what is your class size?
4-When does your clinical starts?
5-What is your school board performance rating?
6-Are your finals cumilitive?If some, how many?
7-What are your hours the first two years? When your day starts and ends?
8-Can you send out your lab work or do you have to do it yourself?
9-Do they teach you implant or invisigline or cerec?
10-Do you have clinical requirement in operative and crown and bridge?
11-Do you have enough patient loads?
12-How do the professors treat the students?
13-Is your equipment state of the art or old?
14- Is your patient chart computerized?
15. Do you have digital xray machines?
16.Do you have your own operatories?
17. What is your patient load?

 

[joyride]

--Columbia,Ucla,Tufts,and Upenn students please answer the following questions
it will help me a great deal in making my decision:
1-How much you pay for rent?
2-What is your grading system? pass/fail or grade
3-what is your class size?
4-When does your clinical starts?
5-What is your school board performance rating?
6-Are your finals cumilitive?If some, how many?
7-What are your hours the first two years? When your day starts and ends?
8-Can you send out your lab work or do you have to do it yourself?
9-Do they teach you implant or invisigline or cerec?
10-Do you have clinical requirement in operative and crown and bridge?
11-Do you have enough patient loads?
12-How do the professors treat the students?
13-Is your equipment state of the art or old?
14- Is your patient chart computerized?
15. Do you have digital xray machines?

wow lot of questions -
1. rent varies, but the typical back bay rent per person is around well more than $1000 a month - boston is an expensive city
2. number grading
3. class size at matriculation - 161, now its 156, people drop out, fail out, etc
4. clinical starts in may of 2nd year
5. tufts usually ranks in the top 10 for part 1 of NBDE
6. some finals are cumulative, maybe a third??
7. my days are neverending - 16, 18 hours (thats everywhere though)
8. lab work - not sure
9. there is a full course on implants and cerec is part of the crown and bridge course
10. we do take clinical operative and crown & bridge, its a separate grade from the theory part
11. not sure about patient loads
12. student treatment is good for the most part
13. equipment is state of the art - brand new simulation lab with great lighting and water in the handpieces with suction and air syringe
14 & 15. tufts is 100% digital - patient records and radiographs

 

[drhobie7]

--Columbia,Ucla,Tufts,and Upenn students please answer the following questions
it will help me a great deal in making my decision:
1-How much you pay for rent?
2-What is your grading system? pass/fail or grade
3-what is your class size?
4-When does your clinical starts?
5-What is your school board performance rating?
6-Are your finals cumilitive?If some, how many?
7-What are your hours the first two years? When your day starts and ends?
8-Can you send out your lab work or do you have to do it yourself?
9-Do they teach you implant or invisigline or cerec?
10-Do you have clinical requirement in operative and crown and bridge?
11-Do you have enough patient loads?
12-How do the professors treat the students?
13-Is your equipment state of the art or old?
14- Is your patient chart computerized?
15. Do you have digital xray machines?

1. $1100 for a studio
2. P/NP
3. 88 + 12 PPID in years 3 and 4
4. students go into clinic 1st year, operative starts 2nd year
5. we're usually #2 behind Harvard
6. Some yes
7. 40 hrs a week, ~8-5
8. Fixed yes, removable no
9. implant - yes, cerec i think is in esthetics course, invisalign - no
10. yes
11. yes
12. fairly
13. several years old
14. computerized and paper
15. no
16. we will be sharing our clinic cube with the other member of our treatment team, but we stay in the same cube which will be nice.
17. my patient load is pretty big. I've got 20 patients and nearly all have major prosthetic needs.

 

[WestCoast]

1. $1100 for a studio
2. P/NP
3. 88 + 12 PPID in years 3 and 4
4. students go into clinic 1st year, operative starts 2nd year
5. we're usually #2 behind Harvard
6. Some yes
7. 40 hrs a week, ~8-5
8. Fixed yes, removable no
9. implant - yes, cerec i think is in esthetics course, invisalign - no
10. yes
11. yes
12. fairly
13. several years old
14. computerized and paper
15. no

you guys are pretty nice answering the laundry list of questions

 

[drhobie7]

you guys are pretty nice answering the laundry list of questions

yeah, now I'm waiting to be frisked....

 

[sheri]

drhobie and joyride Thank you for answering my questions. Hope somebody from UPenn and Columbia answers too.

 

[Sprgrover]

1-How much you pay for rent?

That all depends on if you want to live on campus or off. If you want to live in university housing (E.g. Sansom East) then you can expect to pay around $600 for a shared apartment or around $1000 for a single. Many units have a small kitchen - or none at all - and it is in the end a dorm (paper thin walls, etc.) If you want to live off campus there are many good apartments just as close as Sansom to the dental school. For a studio prices range from $650-800 and for a one bedroom you're looking at $750-1100.

2-What is your grading system? pass/fail or grade

It's a letter grade, H/+/- system

3-what is your class size?

114

4-When does your clinical starts?

By clinical I assume you mean seeing patients: that starts your third year after you have passed the first part of your boards.

5-What is your school board performance rating?

I don't have specific numbers, but it's pretty good. A lot of people don't have a hard time trying to specialize.

6-Are your finals cumilitive?If some, how many?

It all depends on the course director and what he/she wants to do. So far none of our finals have benn cummulative.

7-What are your hours the first two years? When your day starts and ends?

Our schedule isn't traditional in the sense that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays you have classes X, Y, and Z. There are some days in which I'm in class from 8-5 and then there are others that I'm only at school for two hours. During the first two years, like most dental schools, things are pretty hectic. I spend a lot of my time at the library and hitting the books. That's not to suggest that I don't go out and blow off some steam. It took me a while to find my stride, but know I know when I can take a night or a day off or two and go out.

8-Can you send out your lab work or do you have to do it yourself?

I believe we send it out.

9-Do they teach you implant or invisigline or cerec?

Penn has a huge implant research arm (I'm trying to do some research in this area over the summer, actually) and they do teach this aspect of dentistry. With Penn's selectives program students have the option of gaining further education in implants in their fourth year if they want to deepen their skills.

12-How do the professors treat the students?

The professors here are very approachable and they respect the students and treat them as colleagues. I have never felt put down nor have I been given the impression that I'm inconviencing a professor when I stop by his/her office to ask a question or seek help.

13-Is your equipment state of the art or old?

It's about medium, and it depends on the clinic.

14- Is your patient chart computerized?

No

15. Do you have digital xray machines?

Not that I have seen

16.Do you have your own operatories?

No