Hi. I'm currently looking at UNLV as a strong candidate for next year. I was wondering what the clinical situation is like for the students at UNLV. Do you dive into sim labs the very first semester? As for the DS2, 3, 4 students, do you see and perform plenty of different procedures? Is it true that students learn Spanish for one year? And what specialty does the school prepare you for the most? Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. You can PM me if you wish. Thank you again!
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At UNLV, our first semester had dental anatomy with some other sim lab projects to get you ready for general clinic. In the 2nd semester, you have an operative course that mainly deals with cutting the different kinds of tooth preps on the simulator. Summer semester, you have a crown and bridge class and a restorative class all in sim lab. Local anesthesia is also given summer semster. After the 1st semester, you also begin assisting in the clinic and by the end your 1st year, you are doing screenings on patients in the clinic.
I just started my second year and we are doing endo and simulated patient care in sim lab and we are in clinic twice a week. Many are already doing comprehensive exams, some restorations, prophys, and scaling and root planing. UNLV is definitley set up to get you into the clinic ASAP.
We do take one semster of Spanish (everyone got an A). As for specialties, there are plenty of opportunities to beef up your residency application--actually you are forced to do certain reasearch projects and community service activities that you can use for your application (for those of us that just want to be a general dentist, this is a bunch of crap).
Hope this helps
I just started my second year and we are doing endo and simulated patient care in sim lab and we are in clinic twice a week. Many are already doing comprehensive exams, some restorations, prophys, and scaling and root planing. UNLV is definitley set up to get you into the clinic ASAP.
We do take one semster of Spanish (everyone got an A). As for specialties, there are plenty of opportunities to beef up your residency application--actually you are forced to do certain reasearch projects and community service activities that you can use for your application (for those of us that just want to be a general dentist, this is a bunch of crap).
Hope this helps
Is it true it's not hard to get Nevada residency after living in Vegas for a year?
yeah--it used to be 6 months but it just change to one year. If you get a bank account and utility bills like they say to do, I think all of us now have in-state tuition.
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