Typical Dental Student's Schedule

[Honey64]

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Hey everybody! Hope everyone is having a good day/night!

Im a predent, junior, and I was wondering how the schedule is like in dental school... do you have a lot of time off or do you find yourself mostly studying?--- i heard labs take up to 5pm every day--- Any time to have a relationship or meet people outside of the dental school, and still do well? I just want a heads up on whats in hold for me! I would appreciate any responses... positive or not! 😳


Thanks!!!

 

[rocknightmare]

Hey everybody! Hope everyone is having a good day/night!

Im a predent, junior, and I was wondering how the schedule is like in dental school... do you have a lot of time off or do you find yourself mostly studying?--- i heard labs take up to 5pm every day--- Any time to have a relationship or meet people outside of the dental school, and still do well? I just want a heads up on whats in hold for me! I would appreciate any responses... positive or not! 😳


Thanks!!!

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but dental schedule.. is just that .. you don't have anything else to do ---

 

[Honey64]

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but dental schedule.. is just that .. you don't have anything else to do ---

Ok thanks... yeah well I think that dental schools will just tell you the class schedules/curriculum... I was hoping I could get some sort of opinion from a dental student who has gone through it. My college doesnt have a dental school, just a medical one... and I had heard that dental school is a lot longer than medical school because you take more credits....But thanks for your info.

 

[Darksunshine]

Hey everybody! Hope everyone is having a good day/night!

Im a predent, junior, and I was wondering how the schedule is like in dental school... do you have a lot of time off or do you find yourself mostly studying?--- i heard labs take up to 5pm every day--- Any time to have a relationship or meet people outside of the dental school, and still do well? I just want a heads up on whats in hold for me! I would appreciate any responses... positive or not! 😳


Thanks!!!

Hi!

I think it depends what year (as in 1st year or 4th year) you are asking. I am a first year and I have a family (2 kids, husband, 2 cats). I "get" to commute 44 miles round trip each day (that or take public transportation which is a 3 hour a day ordeal. I am currently working on selling my house to move closer. The first couple of years is mainly bookwork with some pre-clinical thrown in. (aka this equals major studying.) But you still can have a life, you just need to be organized.

 

[DcS]

This could probably pass for a typical dental school. This is a sample week from 2/27 at UNC.

1st years http://www.dent.unc.edu/academic/syllabus/dds1/calendar/index.cfm?startMonday=2/27/06

2nd years http://www.dent.unc.edu/academic/syllabus/dds2/calendar/index.cfm?startMonday=2/27/06

3rd years http://www.dent.unc.edu/academic/syllabus/dds3/calendar/index.cfm?startMonday=2/27/06

4th years http://www.dent.unc.edu/academic/syllabus/dds4/calendar/index.cfm?startMonday=2/27/06

I'm a 4th year so life is good 🙂 Don't be fooled though, there are stresses in the later years. Just a different type (patient care requirements, state boards, etc).

 

[toofs]

I am currently spending the night at school studying for an exam tomorrow....thats what you have to look forward to

 

[Rezdawg]

I am currently spending the night at school studying for an exam tomorrow....thats what you have to look forward to

And I do that for almost every exam...which occurs once a week. 1st year is so much fun.

 

[dinesh]

I have alot of free time , but that's just me. Goto lectures, sometimes duck out of the lecture to go hang out in a mall or something. Most of the notes are posted online, so I don't really miss anything except frostbite from the cold lecture hall, and a migraine from the lecturer.

When exams time roll around, kiss everything good bye. NO time for liming, playing the arse, playing with yourself.

I'm sure however that you can find time for a relationship, especially if it's within the faculty 😉

 

[Honey64]

I'm sure however that you can find time for a relationship, especially if it's within the faculty 😉

LOL does that really happen in dental school too? I heard it happening a lot in med schools 😳 😛 🙄

 

[phremius]

This varies from people to people. I don't think my schedule's that bad, I'd say now that I've settled into the groove of things on average I put in less than 2 hrs a day studying. However since there's always something to do it's hard to translate that free time into the free time that occurred during undergrad.

there are people in my class who study way more than that a day and there are people who are less busy than me.

 

[ou_jay]

I'm a first year. I'm in class about 35 hours a week. I start at 8:00 and get out between 3 and 5. I study from 7 to 8 before class and until 8 or 9 after class. I also work in a 1 to 1.5 hour workout in the time after class. I study most of Saturday's and part of Sunday. I do take off Friday and Saturday nights.

Relative to many of my classmates, I study "a lot."

I could always do a lot less and get by, but there is a small possibility that I may want to be an OMS so I study mucho.

Whatever you do, make sure you work out every day and eat right while in school. The stress is enough without treating you body badly.

 

[gatorfan99]

wake up... drink coffee... go to class...lunch...go to the simulation lab...
come home, dinner and shower...study... go to the library to study some more..
get home and study some more... go to sleep while feeling guilty that you didn't study enough... 🙁

 

[12YearOldKid]

i heard labs take up to 5pm every day--

That would be a gift from God. Usually, you get out of class at 5:00, get something to eat, and THEN the labwork begins.

 

[DIRTIE]

I'm a first year. We are in class from 8-5 except for Thursday we get out at noon. So that is about 35 or so hrs. 30 credits.

 

[HuyetKiem]

That would be a gift from God. Usually, you get out of class at 5:00, get something to eat, and THEN the labwork begins.

hm.. At Case dental school, we've rarely stayed past 5pm everyday in the last 2 yrs, even with our hectic 2nd yr schedule. 👍

 

[beannaithe]

Bye bye free time next year! 😱

Hey 12YO where do you go??

 

[Rezdawg]

Bye bye free time next year! 😱

Thats exactly why people suggest to prepare for dental school by doing nothing academic. Enjoy the time you have remaining.

And just to put some things into perspective...before I started dental school, I would watch something like 6-8 hours of tv a day...then school started. Throughout the school year, I have yet to get the cable guy to come and set up my cable. No tv in my apartment. Sad, very sad.

 

[Kashew77]

First semester I either started class at 8 or 10 depending on the day of the week and went until about 3. I had a lot of lab work to do on weekends from my materials class, but I didn't do it after school during the week so that was my choice to come in on weekends. Alot of students finished during the week and got their weekends off. This semester, I never come in on weekends and weekdays I have school from 8 or 10 again and finish at 5. I have to stay about 1 day a week after school, or during lunch to drill in the sim lab to prepare for my amalgam preps. Studying varies from person to person depending on how much time you personally need to study the material. I personally still find time to watch my favorite shows, hang out with my boyfriend, go shopping, visit my family etc. It's really what you make of it.

 

[Kashew77]

First semester I either started class at 8 or 10 depending on the day of the week and went until about 3. I had a lot of lab work to do on weekends from my materials class, but I didn't do it after school during the week so that was my choice to come in on weekends. Alot of students finished during the week and got their weekends off. This semester, I never come in on weekends and weekdays I have school from 8 or 10 again and finish at 5. I have to stay about 1 day a week after school, or during lunch to drill in the sim lab to prepare for my amalgam preps. Studying varies from person to person depending on how much time you personally need to study the material. I personally still find time to watch my favorite shows (Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Houswives, Bachelor, Lost and Survivor), hang out with my boyfriend, go shopping, visit my family etc. It's really what you make of it.

 

[ziptree]

hm.. At Case dental school, we've rarely stayed past 5pm everyday in the last 2 yrs, even with our hectic 2nd yr schedule. 👍

Wha...our classes end at 5pm. And then some of us stay for a few hours after lab to finish up stuff from other classes, or to practice dentures or whatnot....and then comes the studying. w00t.