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Does anybody know anything about UCLA GPR? How often are the oncalls? Do you get enough patients to get experience, it being in the middle of Westwood? etc. etc. anything about it, please?
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Ucla Gpr
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not sure how often call is but they do a lot of consults in the hospital. they see a lot of patients. there's a long waiting list in fact. quite a few of the patients are developmentally disabled. they do a lot of deep sedations via IV. it's a busy gpr program.
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I actually did the GPR there. You do learn a lot in terms of dealing with medical issues, sedations (VERY DEEP), and running OR cases. In terms of dentistry, well, you see a lot of medical compromised patients (MR, transplant patients, radiation, chemo, etc...), dental phobics (major pain in the *** but good learning - yes there is a lot of them), and referrals (basically stuff other dentists outside dont want to see).
you are required to do your duty in the dental clinic and then after hours (or if you dont have patients) during hours to attend hospital duties, as in consults. YOu do have to drag this really crappy x-ray machine around and take radiographs at bedside. Get some of your coresidents to do this with you, makes it faster.
You are also on call (usually 6 months out of the year and every 3 weeks -- not sure if this is still true). Sometimes OS will handle the call sometimes you have to handle the call. Ive gotten called in at weird hours. Heck, i ve even got paged for ortho brackets coming loose. So you have to screen what you are paged for. Only the ones that are important you have to take. Or refer to the correct speciality.
Some perks when i did the GPR there... you get a meal card. 😀 And on days when Dr Sakuri is the attending in the OR, she takes you out to eat. 👍
And i had really cool coresidents. 😀
Yes its a busy GPR. You get worked.
Hope that helps.
you are required to do your duty in the dental clinic and then after hours (or if you dont have patients) during hours to attend hospital duties, as in consults. YOu do have to drag this really crappy x-ray machine around and take radiographs at bedside. Get some of your coresidents to do this with you, makes it faster.
You are also on call (usually 6 months out of the year and every 3 weeks -- not sure if this is still true). Sometimes OS will handle the call sometimes you have to handle the call. Ive gotten called in at weird hours. Heck, i ve even got paged for ortho brackets coming loose. So you have to screen what you are paged for. Only the ones that are important you have to take. Or refer to the correct speciality.
Some perks when i did the GPR there... you get a meal card. 😀 And on days when Dr Sakuri is the attending in the OR, she takes you out to eat. 👍
And i had really cool coresidents. 😀
Yes its a busy GPR. You get worked.
Hope that helps.
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where do they do this GPR? At the VA?
At UCLA. hence... UCLA GPR.
The VA program in WLA also has a program there i believe.
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At UCLA. hence... UCLA GPR.
The VA program in WLA also has a program there i believe.
oh yeah. haha. I totally forgot about the med center. I just had the VA stuck in my head because I remember seeing it on the drive to campus for my interview.
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oh yeah. haha. I totally forgot about the med center. I just had the VA stuck in my head because I remember seeing it on the drive to campus for my interview.
