1/31 clinic

Today my goal is to get my patient completely done. I monitered my time on scaling and on every other part of the appointment. I felt really good about today and I finished my patient and set up the recall patient. This is the first appointment with this patient that I felt went really good. I passed off a PE and I noticed that things I do good on all the time I have a really hard time doing during a PE. I shake during PEs and that makes it hard. After today I feel like I can do this.

1/29 clinic

Today my goal is to get done with one of my 1B exams. I am going to moniter my time and use my H6/7 on the anteriors. I finished 3 quads on my exam. I ran into some trouble with my health history and so it took longer than I was planning on. Also I think I need to work on getting faster on the OD especially probing. I felt like today went pretty good but I wish I would have finished all four quads, but atleast I learned something. I feel like the grading scale on the exam patients is confusing and I hope that the instructors can clarify that.

1/24 clinic

Today my goal is to be confident with my skills and to use the intraoral camera. I reviewed the clinic procedure and I am going to watch my time. I felt pretty confident with my skills before I started scaling. My patient had a lot of calculus on the mandibular anteriors and muscles became really tired part way through and I still didn't get all the calculus. It was really discouraging and made me really excited to learn how to use the ultrasonic scaler. Aimee said that the ultra sonic would make it a lot easier when she was doing my scale check.

1/22 clinic

Today my goal is to watch my time and get some sealants done. I am going to moniter my time on each part of the exam. I met my goal today because I finished my whole patient and I did seven sealants on my patient. I also passed off my sealant PE today. I felt like today went really well, I don't want to die like I did last Wednesday.

1/17 clinic

Today my goal is to get done with OHI and maybe one quadrant. I am going to moniter my time and try to not spend too much time on any part of the appointment. I reviewed the clinic manual last night also so that I will remeber what I am suppose to do. I did not do good on my goal because I only got through the OD check. I had a really hard time with x-rays today. I have never done that bad on taking films before, I need to trust myself that I know how to take x-rays instead of getting nervous and over analyzing. Looking back on today I wish we would have had one day of doing film today on dexter or something as a refresher. I think that would have helped or maybe even another mock pt day after the break. The paperwork is also overwhelming still. Next time I am going to trust myself with the radiographs and still work on monitering my time.

1/10 clinic

My goal for today was to learn how to be a clinic assistant. I learned how to check patients in and out. I also learned how I am suppose to answer the phone. I learned where a lot of things are kept. We stocked everything and helped with patients which was kind of fun. My goal for next time is to improve my time managemnet.

1/8 clinic

Today my goal was to learn how to use my area specific instruments. We reviewed in nield and then we practiced with our graceys on the typodonts. I have a hard time with the typodont because the gums are not realistic and I couldn't get subgingivally. Then we used our gracey minis on each other. That was a lot easier than the typodont. It was hard to get back into the groove of things and adaption was hard at first too. My goal for next time is to be successful as a clinic assistant.