Originally posted by Calculus1
To answer your question about "bouncing around". When I interviewed at Baylor they asked how many dental offices I had seen. A lot of the reason for this was that my mom is an associate at a practice and they wanted to make sure that I had seen other facilities. The follow up to that question was, "What did you like or dislike about each different practice?" I would also recommend observing in a variety of specialties, as well. As far as the 20 hrs, 30 hrs, 50hrs, etc. it's all crap if you don't have the grades and DATs. And the way they "check" your hours is they will ask you in your interview what procedures you have observed. If you go to a variety of specialties but it only adds up to 15-20 hours, you'll come off better in your interview than going to a GP for 50 and seeing a lot of the same stuff over and over. You'll have way more to talk about. Hope this helps, good luck!