Writting papers in dental school???

[harrygt]

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To all you dental students, do any (many) professors include writing research papers in their course? I am not talking about those students who are doing research, but about all the student in the class. Is any portion of the grade given to writing a paper, or it's just based on exam grades?
Thanks.

 

[wigglytooth]

So far we have to write (sort of) research papers in biochem @ Stony Brook. You're given a question and you have to use a couple of sources from pubmed and the like. 3-4 pages long. It's pretty easy to get a high grade on though. There are 3 for the class for a total of 15% of the grade.

 

[Hysteria24]

So far we have to write (sort of) research papers in biochem @ Stony Brook. You're given a question and you have to use a couple of sources from pubmed and the like. 3-4 pages long. It's pretty easy to get a high grade on though. There are 3 for the class for a total of 15% of the grade.

That's more or less what we do 3 times a week with our PBL here at USC.

 

[MONKEYBOY]

Hadn't realized until now that we have had to write nothing since starting dental school.

Raising the bar, like every single day...

 

[harrygt]

Thanks guys, anyone else?

 

[Streetwolf]

So far we have to write (sort of) research papers in biochem @ Stony Brook. You're given a question and you have to use a couple of sources from pubmed and the like. 3-4 pages long. It's pretty easy to get a high grade on though. There are 3 for the class for a total of 15% of the grade.

Haha it's not a real research paper, it's a stupid 3 page paper about some topic they give you. Don't worry it only takes like 4 hours to do and you will almost certainly get over a 90%.

 

[Katalyst]

Nothing too heavily critiqued, but tedious. We've been given dental topics to read research and peer-review articles to collectively summarize in 4-5 pages. Kind of a blow off class, but it's easy to get angry that they assign the work knowing all else we try to cram into our days. But they're few and far between.

 

[Katalyst]

And yes this class is called Dental Information Management and is solely graded on the papers.

 

[lotexigeus]

nope, just had to evaluate a journal article once. took like 2 hours while watching tv.

 

[WannaBeDentist]

Now that you mention it, this is how got to be the least amount of papers I've ever had to write in my life! 👍

But that's because we have so much other work to do.