Creighton University School of Dentistry

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1) Name of Your Dental School Creighton (1st year experience)

2) What is your examination schedule like? Block Schedule (midterms and finals week) or several every week? Usually several a week

3) What is the hardest class? Why? Academic class: histo, lots of little details, very dry subject, written tests the hardest of 1st yr. Clinical: Dental Anatomy Lab, I was too slow with my carvings...

4) What is the easiest class? Why? History of Dentistry, although I'm not sure it qualifies as a real class

5) Are your classmates generally gunners and try to sabatoge each other? If not, is the culture one where everybody tries to help everybody out? We have gunners, but by the end of the year it seemed like the class was helping each other out pretty well

6) Are the class notes based primarily on textbooks? or based on lecture powerpoints made up by professors? Lecture handouts...memorize them

7) Are there any classes taken with medical students? If so, which ones? Narp

8) What is the grading system? Pass/Fail/Honors? Letter Grades? Percentages? Letter grades

9) Is there a notetaking service for lecture available? Narp

10) Is class attendance mandatory? Yarp

11) In general, are teachers approachable for questions? Or are they for the most part very busy and unreachable (research, etc...)? Approachable

12) Is there a big brother/big sister program that pairs you with an upperclassman or professor who "mentors" you? Yes , but in my case it may as well not exist, depends on luck of the draw

14) When do you take the NDBE? 1st year or second year? 2nd

15) Do you get a block of time off before boards to study? If so, how long? If not, do you have to study simultaneously with classes? I think we have until early August to pass, so I guess we have the summer to study

16) Do most people study in the University Library? Or does the place clear out right after school and everybody studies on their own? Lot study in library or even in classroom, I go home

23) What is the dress code at your school? Scrubs? For what years? Shirt, tie, dress pants, dress shoes, stockings, labcoat. M-F no exceptions.