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- Over the course of your four years at OHSU,
you're going to be given a variety of opportunities
to further your growth through experiential learning.
For example, your simulation clinical activities,
your direct patient care experiences
that begin early in your DS one year,
delivering vaccinations during flu season,
providing dental care in urban and rural offsite locations,
working alongside peers from other health care disciplines
in an interprofessional delivery model,
and also, for example,
working with faculty on a collaborative research project,
these are just some of the number of ways
in which you'll get experiential learning.
- Being born and raised in Oregon,
I really couldn't imagine myself
going to dental school anywhere else.
OHSU school of dentistry has an outstanding faculty
state of the art facility and a really great student body.
I definitely recommend applying
to dental school and pursuing your dream as a dentist.
This is definitely an exciting time
for dental school curriculum and it's changing.
And there are a lot of new avenues that are being explored
that would have not been explored before COVID-19
and you might be able to benefit from
a lot of those changes once you become
a dental student yourself.
- So the DMD program at OHSU is dynamic,
It's vibrant, it's creative
and it's challenging.
When the midst of COVID-19 dental education has changed.
We understand what we need to do to keep you safe.
And we understand what we need to do to keep patients safe.
And we have worked at ensuring that that's happening
at each step of the way.
- When this first started,
I think everyone was freaking out.
We didn't know what was gonna happen with the our education.
We didn't know what was going to happen
with SIM, with seeing patients.
There's a lot of uncertainty,
but I think the school did a great job
in reassuring us that they're gonna take
all necessary precautions.
And OHSU is really unique where they took their time
to open up but still did it
in a timely manner where we weren't missing out on a ton,
but they made sure they did it safely.
- Education has certainly changed a great deal
since COVID, all or nearly all the Didactic material
has been moved online.
Students have access to a host of technology tools.
That'll help them in their educational journey.
One is our learning management system
which is called Sakai.
So all course material is posted there.
Students also have access to a remote
meeting tool called Webex,
where instructors can host a virtual courses.
Students also now have access
to a tool called Microsoft teams, which is a collaboration
and communication tool, which gives
students really instant access to their peers
and instructors as far as communication.
And they can also coauthor and collaborate on documents
and files in real time.
- Learning during COVID-19,
like many things is evolving every day.
Some of the cool new technologies
that have been implemented, including Cisco Webex
and then Echo360 recordings
which allow us to attend lectures live
or watch them back at our own pace,
beyond that, you know ,there's poll everywhere,
which allows us to like, you know
do quick clicker questions and be more interactive
with our classes.
And, you know, there's just so many ways to be involved
even with COVID, we're able to come in in separate groups
and kind of come into SIM lab,
and also hone in our hand skills.
- We're all dedicated to helping students learn.
The nice thing is, is we all work well together.
We're all open to questions.
We really do pride ourselves in the comradery
that we have with our students and amongst each other.
We have complied with social distancing rules
and we've separated classes now.
So we're only teaching half of them
at one time in our simulation area,
we have to check-in, we do pre-COVID screenings
on all our patients.
We can be sure
that we're not exposing anybody unnecessarily.
- The faculty here are amazing.
They want to see you succeed.
And something I heard maybe from OHSU,
maybe from just the dental experiences.
You want someone who treats you as a colleague
and isn't looking down on you trying to teach you
and the faculty here.
Really, they treat you as a future colleague.
They want to see you better the profession.
They want to see you better as the profession
- Working with the faculty is great.
Every single day, I learned something new.
The faculty here, have a diverse
set of experiences that they're always willing to share
with their students.
And most of these are great for applying into real practice.
- Living in Portland is awesome, with COVID-19
obviously you have to be a little bit more careful
about what you do, but I would say
that Portland has done a great job
of containing the pandemic and really doing a great job
of kind of making sure people ease back into society.
With that in mind, some of my favorite things to do
or to grab a bite to eat Portland
is one of the best food Cities in the US
and there's something for everybody,
whether it be Thai food, Mexican food
really, whatever you can think of, they have it.
And beyond that, Portland's got mountains,
just an hour and a half away in the East.
And it also has the ocean
an hour and a half away in the West.
So whether you're an ocean person, a mountain person
or a city person,
you can really find something you love here.
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