The purpose of the Pre-Dental Club at California State University, San Bernardino is to provide an environment where undergraduate students can interact with graduate students, faculty members, and experts in the field of dentistry on a professional and social basis for further enhancement in the dental avocation. Our organization seeks to accomplish this goal by: being a support group; providing a network system of unlimited resources, hosting guest speakers that will supply information pertinent to the field of dentistry; organization and participation of communal events and outreach projects and holding workshops to assist pre-dental students with the application process and the DAT. While doing so, the Pre-Dental Club at California State University, San Bernardino will abide by all applicable California State University, San Bernardino policies, and follow local, state, and federal laws.
Preparing for the DAT
Here are some links that will better prepare you for the DAT.
I hope too see all of you at our meeting tomorrow May 23rd.
Dr. Novy is very excited to come and talk to us. Remember not to eat because we are going to have lots of food from Olive Garden.
I also wanted to let you guys know that we will be having a meeting next Friday the 30th as well. Dr. Kasischke, the Associate Dean of Admissions at
LomaLindaUniversity, will be talking about
LomaLindaUniversity’s
School of
Dentistry and how to get savvy with the admissions process!!
Again, I hope to see you all there (SU rooms 207/208) at
4pm, and don’t be shy to bring your friends.
Sincerely,
Amanda Douglas
IMPORTANT DATES:
June 1 - First day to submit AADSAS application
July 13-16 - Careers In Dentistry Workshop held at Loma Linda University
At our meeting on Friday, Oualid mentioned 4 people were watching the live stream. It would be great to get feedback on that stream ! Perhaps we can also get their comments, questions. etc. live ?? Oualid, you are the expert-let us know these results !
I did talk to one of our two advisors on Friday, before the meeting (Dr. Bournias). She regretted not being able to attend because of a prior commitment. It might be nice to have an informative meeting for both of them in the near future. We should make sure we really use our advisors, although they may not make most meetings. It is in our best interest to be sure to keep them informed as much as possible. One great way to do this (and demonstrate ourselves as the organized professionals that we are) is to keep a club binder. This should at the very least have all our minutes (general and executive), attendence sheets, contact information and monthly calender. Clint; Amanda and Sarah should be able to provide you with the minutes for our first meeting. We didn't officially do attendance-but those present were:
Sarah, Amanda, Jed, Joy, April, Steven (potential new member), Raj, Oualid, Chioma, Skylar, and the gentleman that allowed his vehicle to be used for the USC trip.
Sarah, I was wondering, will we be allowed to still have the t-shirt money from the university if we got a sponsor(s) as well ?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2008) — Antibodies present in people with good oral health could become the first tool for dental professionals to assess a patient's probable response to periodontal disease treatments, say researchers at the University of Michigan.
For Missourians covered by Mo HealthNet or Medicaid, not having a dentist can be scary.The House is looking at one way to entice more dentists to become Medicaid providers.
If you've ever sat in the dentist's chair and wondered where all the latex gloves, chemicals, and x-ray films end up, or stopped to consider how much water and electricity the office uses, you aren't alone.
Maybe this explains why only four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum to patients who chew gum: Turns out the first ingredient in most sugarless gums is a laxative: sweet-tasting sorbitol.
For their part, dentists as a group tend to focus more on building up their practices than sharing the burden of serving public health. Like so many of health care's ills, that leaves hospital emergency rooms carrying the load. Yet the ER offers no cure. "Basically, all I can do is prescribe pain medications and antibiotics, if necessary, and try to provide some phone numbers to try to call," Harrison's Morris said, adding glumly, "The vast majority of the time, the patients already have tried all the same numbers."
About the DAT
The purpose of the Dental AdmissionTest (DAT),
offered by the American Dental Association (ADA),
is to test your ability to learn. The goal of the
DAT is to make sure you have a minimum competency
level to protect the integrity of the testing process.
In other words, it's more about your ability to learn
and process new information than what you know. This
is good news for those who are serious about being
prepared, because it boils down to a very simple strategy:
You can succeed on the DAT by preparing in depth for the
different question types and being able to take difficult
questions and break them down into easier parts that
you can quickly solve.
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