Should I mention dental office work interviews in my application?

[Dentistry's lover]

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Hi guys,

I have done a couple of work interviewes both as an assistant and receptionist candidate at different dental offices (2-3 days each). I got accepted by almost all offices I was interviewed at. Ultimately, I picked one office. The only reason I would like to include all of them is to basically increase my dental shadowing/work experiences hours and show different things I learned from them. To be honest, two of the offices rejected me because they knew I am a pre-dental student and I will probably be leaving within 1-2 years, so they didn't want to invest time and money on me since they had other candidates as well. Also, I worked at another dental office for two weeks and I didn't like the way their manager was treating me; even though the doctor and her husband liked my personality and performance (don't worry wouldn't mention these details on app).

Need your advice, as if to include these experiences in my app or not?

 

[FeralisExtremum]

Include offices you interviewed for but didn't actually work at? No, you should not include that on your app. It's not actual experience.

 

[doc toothache]

About as effective as elaborating on the recurrent dreams of being a dentist.

 

[Dentistry's lover]

Include offices you interviewed for but didn't actually work at? No, you should not include that on your app. It's not actual experience.

Thanks FeralisExtremum.

 

[Dentistry's lover]

About as effective as elaborating on the recurrent dreams of being a dentist.

You may not believe me doc toothache, but I learned about 40% of dental assisting just by working 2 days in a general practice as a dental assistant. I helped the doctor through, at least 4 filling procedures, 3 permanent crown cementation, and one extraction. The amount of information I learned from that one work interview, worth way more than 8 weeks of shadowing another general dentist because I wasn't able to see what she was doing from 2 feet distance.

 

[doc toothache]

You may not believe me doc toothache, but I learned about 40% of dental assisting just by working 2 days in a general practice as a dental assistant. I helped the doctor through, at least 4 filling procedures, 3 permanent crown cementation, and one extraction. The amount of information I learned from that one work interview, worth way more than 8 weeks of shadowing another general dentist because I wasn't able to see what she was doing from 2 feet distance.

Well, in that case, you might be able to graduate from ds lickety-split.

 

[knewstance]

I learned about 40% of dental assisting just by working 2 days in a general practice as a dental assistant. I helped the doctor through, at least 4 filling procedures, 3 permanent crown cementation, and one extraction. The amount of information I learned from that one work interview, worth way more than 8 weeks of shadowing another general dentist because I wasn't able to see what she was doing from 2 feet distance.

This can be listed as shadowing/assisting hours as voulnteering.

 

[jbarnett2020]

Well, in that case, you might be able to graduate from ds lickety-split.

I really have never understood why this is necessary. 10 year member? Is this really that amusing to you?