Recording Observation Hours? / Amount of Hours?

[hlr287]

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I have just started my observation hours for dental school. I am wondering how to record my hours? My dentist told me to keep a detailed record of what I observed that day and he will sign off on it. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I should format my log, what I should include on it, etc.? I was also wondering about the amount of hours I should observe. The school I am interested in requires 150 hours, but if I decided to do more (such as 200+), would that make me seem like too much of an over-achiever?

Thanks! 🙂

 

[duckdds]

You don't need a log. Most schools don't even care about it. There's one place on AADSAS for shadowing and all you enter are the # of hrs and the dentist's name.

 

[tayloreve]

I have just started my observation hours for dental school. I am wondering how to record my hours? My dentist told me to keep a detailed record of what I observed that day and he will sign off on it. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I should format my log, what I should include on it, etc.? I was also wondering about the amount of hours I should observe. The school I am interested in requires 150 hours, but if I decided to do more (such as 200+), would that make me seem like too much of an over-achiever?

Thanks! 🙂

I created a "log" when I started shadowing. It was nothing fancy though. I just use Pages on my Mac and write the date, total # of hours I shadowed, and what I observed. It's totally for my own purposes though, because I know by the time I apply to dental school I'm not going to remember how many hours I spent shadowing. And I think the more hours you have the better..schools aren't going to look at you and call you an over achiever just because you went beyond the required hours.

 

[Riz0791]

The more hrs the better. In my opinion it shows your commitment.

 

[PreDent321]

Use excel spreadsheet.

 

[avangusva]

I think it's more important to build a good relationship with that dentist so he/she can write you an exceptional letter of recommendation. So whatever he/she asks of you, I would do it.

 

[PreDent321]

I think it's more important to build a good relationship with that dentist so he/she can write you an exceptional letter of recommendation. So whatever he/she asks of you, I would do it.

It's important to build a good relationship with the dentist so he/she will allow you to write the recommendation. That's what I did and boy was it an exceptional recommendation!

 

[Philippines03j]

I kept a simple log of the hours I spent at each dental office shadowing and wrote down anything that I thought was a unique experience. By writing down your unique experiences you will have a good list of experience to draw upon when writing your personal statement. Good luck 👍