Hi Guys!
For today's vlogmas I'm gonna be featuring a felow student from the medical field.
I'm gonna be featuring Brittany from Brittany Goes To Dental School.
She's a second year dental student and she'll be showing what a typical day as a dental
student looks like.
I'm gonna be linking all her social media information in the description box below so
make sure to check it out.
And without further ado, here is her typical day.
Hi everyone!
My name is Brittany and I'm a second year dental student and I'm gonna show you what
a typical day is like for a dental student.
First thing I do is grab some breakfast.
Usually I make some eggs but I'm in a rush right now so I'm gonna grab a banana and also
I have a croissant here.
So let's go to school.
Alright so, typical day for me is that I have class from 8-5 and that includes lectures
in the morning, and then it usually ends in the afternoon we have labs.
Here's a quick run through through the first floor of my school.
The second floor is the clinic floor where patients are seen but I'm a second year so
I haven't met patients yet.
Students start meeting patients at their third year so I have one more year left before I
start meeting them.
But yeah, I'm going into my first class of the day.
Kind of random fact if you ever wondered why Dentistry and Medicine are separate it's because
a long long time ago, dentistry started out as barbers and they pulled out teeth so that's
why they're historically separate.
But yeah, here's my lab class where everybody goes and does their labs.
I think what makes dentistry stands out from the other healthcare fields is we really use
our hands a lot.
For example, here is a project where I had to an onlay prep then I got to do 3d printing
the crown using 3D printing machine.
So I made that crown!
Yeah!
And I'm gonna have to cement it.
It was really awesome.
Another cool thing is we give patients local anesthesia before their procedures.
And we also make cool things like gold crowns.
We start off with wax.
Heat up some gold and then we spin it around and they the gold gets hardened in that mold.
And then we put it in some water to cool it down and then we bust it open and here you
go.
A dull gold crown.
But then after we polish it, it gets so shiny and beautiful.
Another thing that we do is make dentures which is probably the hardest thing that I've
done so far just because it's so intricate.
Even though it's hard I feel like it pays off so much because you have gone through
this journey and you've seen the progress of your work.
Hey everyone so I'm back home and I usually end school around 5pm then I go home and then
I relax for a bit because I just can't study right after I go home.
And then after I do all that stuff I take a quick nap then I get started with my work.
But here is my desk setup.
I have two computers here.
This one is my MacBook pro.
It's really really old I use it only for editing because I do make videos every week, which
is fun but it's kinda stressful at times.
Then I have my Dell which I use for all my classwork and it's touchscreen.
So it's really great.
I guess this is turning into a desk tour.
Then a huge study tip that I have for all of you students out there is to really invest
in a notebook.
I basically live by this.
It's not like anything like a 30 minute intervals but I write down everything I need to do.
I do have finals in a week so it's really crunch time right now.
I really live by it.
Anyways, I feel like the hardest thing in dental school is, at least for me, is time
management.
In the first and second year it's just so much didactics, so much science courses, so
much dental courses and dental labs, it's kinda hard to balance all of that.
I know in third year and fourth year when we go off to clinic, it will be much easier
because it's gonna be like half academics, half clinic but I'm still in my second year
so that's why everything is so busy right now.
Thank you so much to Jamie for letting me have the opportunity to show you all what
it is like to be dental student.
I guess the biggest difference is really the labs and later on the clinic and just balancing
that with the school work and if you are interested in learning more about dental school and what
it's like to be a dental student go check out my channel!
I post every single week and maybe I see you guys next time!
Bye!!!