Varying Course Loads Across Schools

[Bryophyta]

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I never realized how wide ranging the course loads of D1 and D2 years are at schools across the nation. TX schools are pushing 50+ credit hours per pre-clin year, while Temple has 36 credit hours its D1 year. I'm not crying over this because the TX tuition makes up 😀

But, what are yall's thoughts about this? Are we not all supposed to take roughly the same amount of classes during our pre-clin years since we all take the same NBDE part 1? Is anyone going to a program with D1 and D2 credit hours at either extreme (less than 36 or greater than 54)?

 

[SoulPower]

The way I see it is;

its not how many hours you are in class. It's all about passing the national exams. As far as I'm aware there is no credit minimum to become a dentist determined by the ADA. although each school has their own, which doesn't make sense cause you have to get a C or better in everything anyway.

 

[chill45]

According to the website, the first SEMESTER at Tennessee is 34 credit hours.

 

[diasIItema]

Depends on how the schools rate hours as well. It's pretty arbitrary and subjective.

 

[chill45]

Depends on how the schools rate hours as well. It's pretty arbitrary and subjective.

Yeah I was wondering how that varied among schools too.

 

[txaggie03]

Additionally, some schools have a course load tailored to prep you specifically for taking part 1 boards at a certain time. Others do not, and you are left to your own devices as how to prep and when to take it.