Friday, August 19, 2005
I spent the morning in the cadaver lab helping a classmate study for our upcoming anatomy/histo exam on Tuesday. Let me emphasize this again for any pre-dents reading this thread--IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP AT NIGHT SCHOOL AND EARN GOOD GRADES DURING YOUR FIRST YEAR, YOU SHOULD TAKE ANATOMY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND PHYSIOLOGY DURING UNDERGRAD. It is pretty clear who took these classes in undergrad and who didn't.
Biochem started at 9am. Fortunately, he had some computer problems for the first 10 minutes, so lecture was a little shorter, but to compensate he decided to talk a lot faster so he could cover all of the powerpoint slides before class ended. I was riding the bull today--I'd be paying attention one minute and the next minute my eyes would close and my head would start to lean back against my chair and then I'd startle myself awake again. I didn't want to fall asleep for obvious reasons but also because some people in the class have decided it would be funny to pass a digital camera around and take pictures of people when they fall asleep.
In anatomy, we covered the immune system and the heart--all this was covered during 4 HOURS of lecture. During lab, we got to dissect the heart. I was behind the scalpel, so I got to do the honors. Dissecting is a fantastic way to learn anatomy. I actually enjoy carving our cadaver up.
After school, I was feeling a little behind in my pre-clinical courses so I decided to stay and work on my temporary crown prep. I think it's turning out really well. I spent about 2 hours on it tonight (I tend to go slower and more cautiously on my first attempts), and I still have a few more hours to go. The insane thing is that I've seen dental assistants take an impression of a tooth and make a temporary in 10 minutes. My speed needs to improve.
This weekend I'll be studying for our OCP test on Monday and the anatomy exam. Should be a wing-dinger of a weekend.
I spent the morning in the cadaver lab helping a classmate study for our upcoming anatomy/histo exam on Tuesday. Let me emphasize this again for any pre-dents reading this thread--IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP AT NIGHT SCHOOL AND EARN GOOD GRADES DURING YOUR FIRST YEAR, YOU SHOULD TAKE ANATOMY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND PHYSIOLOGY DURING UNDERGRAD. It is pretty clear who took these classes in undergrad and who didn't.
Biochem started at 9am. Fortunately, he had some computer problems for the first 10 minutes, so lecture was a little shorter, but to compensate he decided to talk a lot faster so he could cover all of the powerpoint slides before class ended. I was riding the bull today--I'd be paying attention one minute and the next minute my eyes would close and my head would start to lean back against my chair and then I'd startle myself awake again. I didn't want to fall asleep for obvious reasons but also because some people in the class have decided it would be funny to pass a digital camera around and take pictures of people when they fall asleep.
In anatomy, we covered the immune system and the heart--all this was covered during 4 HOURS of lecture. During lab, we got to dissect the heart. I was behind the scalpel, so I got to do the honors. Dissecting is a fantastic way to learn anatomy. I actually enjoy carving our cadaver up.
After school, I was feeling a little behind in my pre-clinical courses so I decided to stay and work on my temporary crown prep. I think it's turning out really well. I spent about 2 hours on it tonight (I tend to go slower and more cautiously on my first attempts), and I still have a few more hours to go. The insane thing is that I've seen dental assistants take an impression of a tooth and make a temporary in 10 minutes. My speed needs to improve.
This weekend I'll be studying for our OCP test on Monday and the anatomy exam. Should be a wing-dinger of a weekend.
posted by Cyrus and Annie at
9:48 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, but the temps that most assistants make are pieces of shit. They'd be easy failures in school. But keep practicing, you'll get good and will be able to whip out good, clinically acceptable ones, after you've done enough.
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