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FutureDoc1014

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So I'm a pre-med convert and am now pre-dental. I see that dental schools expect MUCH more shadowing of dentists than medical schools do of physicians. Do most people shadow a single dentist for all this time? What do you do all of this time shadowing - anything in the scope of volunteering, or is it just all actual shadowing as in just watching dentists for 100+ hours? Still learning the ropes of the whole dental school process vs. med school process.
 
PerioDont said:
I did about 100 hours at one dentist office. Then went for a day at a time to a few other offices basically all the specialist he used to refer to
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Just seems weird idk how to go about it. I shadowed my dentist for a day but do I ask him to shadow him regularly? Or do I just ask him every time I want to shadow? Does it matter if it's with one dentist for several hours or multiple dentists for less hours each?
 
FutureDoc1014 said:
Just seems weird idk how to go about it. I shadowed my dentist for a day but do I ask him to shadow him regularly? Or do I just ask him every time I want to shadow? Does it matter if it's with one dentist for several hours or multiple dentists for less hours each?
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Yep just ask him to do it regularly it’s not weird at all. Make a schedule
 
FutureDoc1014 said:
So I'm a pre-med convert and am now pre-dental. I see that dental schools expect MUCH more shadowing of dentists than medical schools do of physicians. Do most people shadow a single dentist for all this time? What do you do all of this time shadowing - anything in the scope of volunteering, or is it just all actual shadowing as in just watching dentists for 100+ hours? Still learning the ropes of the whole dental school process vs. med school process.
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I did like 2/3 of my hours with a couple general dentists, but also did like 50+ hours with several different specialists too. This was brought up in every single dental school interview I had, they all seemed impressed with shadowing several different people instead of just doing them all with one or two dentists.
 
PerioDont said:
Yep just ask him to do it regularly it’s not weird at all. Make a schedule
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I'm new to my college town should I just email a dentist here and ask him to start shadowing or would you recommend scheduling an actual appointment and asking then?
 
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