Question for other RDHs applying...

[Feathers]

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Under Dentistry Experience on the AADSAS application, are you listing your clinical hours associated with your school's program? It's so many hours and it seems like a waste not to even list it. I'm not using it as the required shadowing experience, I have that, but you can have 10 entries so why not?

Also, did you read in the AADSAS application booklet that Dental Hygiene courses in the coursework section can be listed as "other science"? FYI.

 

[SeattleRDH]

I think clinic hours from school are assumed. I'll only be putting my work hours.

I used to have my extern sites from school listed on my resume but as I've gotten more volunteering and work experience they have slowly been deleted. I haven't decided yet whether they're going on my app.

 

[DentalDiva RDH]

Ladies..I am not applying this cycle, however, when I do I will be loading my application with everything that hygiene school has put us through despite the fact that it is assumed, because every hygiene school is run differently even though they have similar requirements. The experiences are different and in some cases the clinical hours vary. Anyways the bottom line, you have to make yourself look good, period. The committee isn't going to sit there and assume what you've done, you have to make sure they know what you've done, that you know what you're doing and that you do it very very well. Your a product, so go out there and sell yourself 😉. Good Luck!

 

[FreeFallin]

I just included my work experience, but I'm very proud of my RDH education. I'm writing quite a bit about it on my personal statement. But as far as AADSAS, I'm just including work experience hours, as well as volunteer work. I'm just so relieved that I took my DAT yesterday and am done! Whew!

 

[Atticus]

I just included my work experience, but I'm very proud of my RDH education. I'm writing quite a bit about it on my personal statement. But as far as AADSAS, I'm just including work experience hours, as well as volunteer work. I'm just so relieved that I took my DAT yesterday and am done! Whew!

You're putting your time in the clinic during your RDH program as volunteer work?

 

[SeattleRDH]

You're putting your time in the clinic during your RDH program as volunteer work?

That's not what they said.

 

[Atticus]

Ahh I see. I was reading it incorrectly!

 

[desiby]

Ladies..I am not applying this cycle, however, when I do I will be loading my application with everything that hygiene school has put us through despite the fact that it is assumed, because every hygiene school is run differently even though they have similar requirements. The experiences are different and in some cases the clinical hours vary. Anyways the bottom line, you have to make yourself look good, period. The committee isn't going to sit there and assume what you've done, you have to make sure they know what you've done, that you know what you're doing and that you do it very very well. Your a product, so go out there and sell yourself 😉. Good Luck!

Absolutely agree with you!!! and that's exactly what I intend to do after hygiene school. They need to know what we did and what we're going through, and they need to know that our program is as rigorous as Dental School (just shorter) In my hygiene school if you get a grade below a C in any of the core courses they kick you out! NO REPEAT! period. I've checked some dental schools syllabus, and some allow repeats. So DO NOT sell dental hygiene and yourself short when filling out applications or when going to interviews...TELL THEM EVERYTHING

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a future RDH, Florida

 

[Feathers]

Yeah, I don't really see there being any harm in listing it under dental experience especially since you can have so many entries. I also used two of the faculty members who are DDS for LOE - one to count as someone in dentistry and another for counting as apart of my major. Now just on the hunt for a bio prof but they all seem to be on summer holiday.

@FreeFallin: Congrats on completing the DAT. I'm imagining it to be 20x harder than National Boards and am taking it Jul 28th.

 

[Toothfairy26]

I placed my work experience under Dentistry Experience it only seemed logic to me because they had a option for "paid". I went back in forth about it but I just submitted my application and its all under dental experience.

 

[Feathers]

You should definitely put it under dental experience and as long as you marked paid, there's nothing wrong with it there. I think I read in the AADSAS info guide that it should go there.

 

[FreeFallin]

Yeah, I don't really see there being any harm in listing it under dental experience especially since you can have so many entries. I also used two of the faculty members who are DDS for LOE - one to count as someone in dentistry and another for counting as apart of my major. Now just on the hunt for a bio prof but they all seem to be on summer holiday.

@FreeFallin: Congrats on completing the DAT. I'm imagining it to be 20x harder than National Boards and am taking it Jul 28th.

Thanks Feathers. Yeah, it was not easy, but I actually did much better on the real DAT versus the practice tests. Let's just say that I was as relieved to be done with the DAT as I was with being done with National Boards! Haha!