Should I put this on my app?

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I've been fortunate enough to attend a few professional meetings through the dental office I work for: Southwest Dental Society Winter meeting 2011, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting 2012, and the upcoming Chicago Dental Society Mid Winter meeting.
In what section of the application would these experiences fit best? Dental experience? Or extra-curricular activities? Or should I just leave it out?
These meetings were educational, I attended various seminars on dental practice management, sedation and risks, new technologies, etc. I work for an awesome Dr. who was great enough to take me along 🙂
 
kstoothfairy said:
I've been fortunate enough to attend a few professional meetings through the dental office I work for: Southwest Dental Society Winter meeting 2011, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting 2012, and the upcoming Chicago Dental Society Mid Winter meeting.
In what section of the application would these experiences fit best? Dental experience? Or extra-curricular activities? Or should I just leave it out?
These meetings were educational, I attended various seminars on dental practice management, sedation and risks, new technologies, etc. I work for an awesome Dr. who was great enough to take me along 🙂
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I'd put it in dental experience and briefly mention it in your PS.
 
kstoothfairy said:
I've been fortunate enough to attend a few professional meetings through the dental office I work for: Southwest Dental Society Winter meeting 2011, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting 2012, and the upcoming Chicago Dental Society Mid Winter meeting.
In what section of the application would these experiences fit best? Dental experience? Or extra-curricular activities? Or should I just leave it out?
These meetings were educational, I attended various seminars on dental practice management, sedation and risks, new technologies, etc. I work for an awesome Dr. who was great enough to take me along 🙂
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I would not ever "leave things out." It definitely won't hurt you, so why not put it somewhere? In TMDSAS it says to put things in multiple categories if they fit in multiple categories, idk how AADSAS works. But if you have to pick one category, I guess dental experience.
 
I think it would best fit in the section called "Academic Enrichment", although it would also qualify as "dental experience". However, you are only allowed 10 spaces for dental experiences, but you get an unlimited amount of spaces for academic enrichment. So i would put it in academic enrichment if you can fill the dental experience with other things.
 
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