UCSF Post-Bac Program Application Now Open

[photo taken by me at Millberry Union]

For those interested, apparently UCSF has a post-bac program. So for those reapplying or needing that help to be extra competitive, you can take a look into this program and who they're catering to. It can help you possibly get a foot into UCSF SOD (who knows??). There used to be the SFSU/UOP/UCSF post bac program. I don't know the details of it, but it seems as though it's just the SFSU/UOP program now with UCSF having its own interprofessional program.

Here are a bunch of links that might help you:

About the Post Bac Application: http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/about-the-school/news-room/press-releases/2014/02/27/applications-now-open-for-the-2014-15-ucsf-dent

Post Bac Application: https://apply.ucsf.edu/dentistry/apply/SOD/2014

Eligibility: http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/admissions/interprofessional-health-post-baccalaureate-certificate-program

UCSFs SOD Admissions Facebook group (you can ask questions here about the application, program, etc): https://www.facebook.com/groups/130354713709569/

SFSU/UOP Post Bac program: http://online.sfsu.edu/brothman/reapplicantindex.html

Hope this helps. Good luck. _oli

That Night Life

This is actually a post from last year that was never posted. Went with some people to Night Life at the California Academy of Sciences. Night life is on Thursdays for the 21+ year olds. They serve alcoholic beverages, have awesome music blasting in different areas of the Academy, serve food, so forth. The night I went was Christmas themed. You could make Christmas cards, antler crowns, eat tons of Ghiradelli chocolate...The main room had Geographer DJ-ing and "snow" where people were dancing. Roof top had reindeers that I sadly was unable to see. I liked the Rainforests of the World room. It was really humid in there with creatures and plants of the wilderness. The ceiling of the Rainforest kind of reminded me of the Hunger Game's arena in Catching Fire. The Planetarium was a cool dome shaped theatre where the entire huge ceiling was the screen and the seats were leaned back. Overall, it's a fun and educational place to be when you have time after clinic. __oli

Independence

Lana Del Rey - National Anthem by Interscope Records

NBDE Part I

-->Test questions with solutions/explanations: [dentalarticles.com/nbde] <--
edit: apparently the link above no longer works. I looked around and found this site (not too sure how great it is): [http://quiz.dentalebooks.com/tag/part-i/]

National Board Dental Examination Part I

Books and link above were my main go to study resources. And wikipedia of course--love you wiki. 

Below is an utterly long summery of my time studying for boards. I'll start off with my summer schedule last year and then tell you what a lot of my classmates did. 

Actually, let's start off with how to sign up! Remember your dentpin number for the DAT exam? We're going to revisit those digits to sign up for the NBDE. You're applying to be eligible to sign up for the exam (making sure you meet the requirements such as not having had taken the exam within so and so prior months etc). It took me about a week for ADA to email me my eligibility (for some reason, it's in my head that they review & qualify these eligibility applications on a Tuesday of each week ... if you care and need to know). So it was a blissful week of not feeling guilty for not signing up for a test date yet ;). So you apply here for eligibility: here. If you attend a non-accredited dental school, you will need to fill out another form here. And from here on out I think it's self explanatory / I don't remember what happened after. And I did not do anything for the "Dean's Certification." I'm pretty sure your school will be automatically told when you sign up/pass/fail. Anyway, I believe you might have to pay during this process--non-refundable ($345 for me during summer of 2012).

Once you receive the eligibility email you have to wait 24 hours before scheduling (yay 24 more hours to procrastinate signing up!). The email will contain the code you will enter when signing up at prometric. At the prometric website, you want to schedule for an exam with ADA as your test sponsor.  There are 3-4 choices for the NBDE Part I (nbde part 1, nbde part 1: 2 hrs, nbde part 1: 6.5 hrs, etc). I chose: NATIONAL BOARD DENTAL EXAMINATION PART 1 (exam code NB1). 

May the Fourth Be With You

This was from awhile back when a few of us decided to hang out on Haight street after midterms on May 4th. And so as you see, we saw some awesome stormtroopers!!!! We just strolled around...going in and out several odd vintage shops along the street. I tried Stanza's mocha latte and it was pretty delicious :) We saw a guy spray paint a wall so that was pretty amazing. It was all penciled in beforehand. We're on break now, so hopefully I'll be catching you guys up with a ton more pictures--even as far back as my trip to Viet Nam pictures a year ago. I'll be making more school related posts especially on how I studied for boards since I know several people will be starting soon :) _oli