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

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

DSD Initiation Night

Hi! Be wary, this post is hella image overdose.

D2 Fall Quarter Schedule

The much over due overview of classes I am taking this quarter. Second year has been, by far, much better than D1. It's less book work (BMS) and more emphasis on hand skills and clinical skills. Here are the classes: BMS 126 organ systems and human athophysiology; Dent Sci 126A fundamentals of risk assessment, therapy, and prevention; Dent Sci 127 oro-facial pain: foundations for diagnosis and treatment; Interdept 182 dental implantology; PRDS 126 removable partial dentures & advanced restorative techniques; and PCC 129 comprehensive care clinic. We're still honing our skills in crown and bridge, but learning different style of preps for different types of crown. Last quarter we learned preps for gold whereas this quarter thus far, we're learning for porcelain bonded metal crowns. For operative this time around, we're working on more natural teeth. We're also going to start working with CAD/CAM programs, which is a machine that mills out a crown--so cool! We also have a denture class. So far, drawing the designs are fun, but I don't know anymore than that. For PCC we're doing screenings/applying varnish/educating oral health hygiene at schools, learning about perio, working on patient skills, and applying anesthesia (on each other!:[). For BMS we're learning the pathology and physiology of GI tract/ endocrinology/ something else... I signed up for an implant class which is the interdept 182. Thazzzz alll!!

_oli

10-11-12: UCSF Dental Research Day

"Research & Excellence Clinical Day" was on 10-11-12! Isn't that a cool date! My classmates who did the summer research fellowship program presented their research via poster board and/or presentation. There were research presentations from predocs, graduates, and postdocs. Pretty impressive! Dental students of all classes were dismissed from class & clinic to attend UCSF dental's important day. We met in Cole Hall--where many of us received our white coats first year! I don't have much to say, just thought I'd share. The first picture is of the cute and little genius ball, Dr. John S. Greenspan. Dr. Greensan and colleagues made the "discovery of the lesion hairy leukoplakia, its association with EBV, and the significance of this and other oral lesions in the natural history of HIV diseases"! I think that's pretty awesome. After research day, Alexa and I went to Nike's Expotique to pick up our bibs, get freebies, and get our hair did with Paul Mitchell products. Then we ran around the heart of Union Square hunting for treasures. Pretty random, pretty relaxing day.

Bloop,
oli

Tell Me Your Strengths & Weaknesses

For those interested, these are the interview dates for UCSF SOD:

Monday, October 15

Monday, October 22

Thursday, October 25

Friday, November 2

Monday, November 5

Thursday, November 8

Thursday, November 15

Thursday, January 10

Monday, January 14

Thursday, January 17

Thursday, January 24

Friday, January 25

As of today, there are 50 interview invites, and 70 confirmed interviews. I believe half of the interview spots are given out already. I'll be interviewing a total of 4 students on two days and doing lunch interviews/Q&A. Hopefully I'll see you guys there at lunch.

Good luck!

Viet Nam Clinical Week 1.1

50 Reasons to Rest

Kelley, I hope you understand the title of this post. Hehe

We are at her aunt's house right now relaxin. It rained pretty hard in the afternoon. We got home cooked food when we arrived and went to downtown Saigon to eat at Pho 24 for dinner (meh, I prefer pho in California). We walked the busy streets and I was a bit scared to cross the street because there seems to be no rules whatsoever on the street. People honk like crazy bumping motor scooters into each other.

We played Disney Uno with her baby cousins. I won 20,000 dong.. Haha. I'll be meeting up with dear Tito tomorrow. Hopefully she can bring Kelley and I to go try some sinh to bo/ cafe. Going to go help Kelley plan out the rest of our trip. Tootooroo. __o

Viet Nam Bound

Hello 16 hours of flight! We got $15 voucher each to go buy food since the plane won't serve.

I'm using a blogger app on my phone so I hope this post turns out ok.

Ciao,
K + O