Wk #5

I had a goal to find my mockboard patient this week and I did!! I cannot beleive that I actually found one. I have been pretty lucky this semester. When I thought my patient would be a mockboard, Prof. Alexander had me sit down and feel for the calculus myself and then chart it on a calculus sheet. This was such a great learning experience for me! I hadn't ever really felt that in depth for calculus before starting to clean a patient. It was so helpful. I then took some PA's of the quad and teeth I was submitting. I only had time to scale one quad because her calculus was a little more tenacious than I am used too. I feel like I was able to learn a lot from feeling for the calculus first and then scaling it off. I had another goal this week to complete a class 5 exam. I found a class 5 patient and was able to get her OD'd and scaled in one appointment. I really am getting faster at this clinic stuff! It is pretty exciting. I also needed to find more quads of a class 2 patient which I also found this week. I got my class 2 completed in about one appointment. I am so proud of how I am picking up my pace and am able to complete patients faster each time. My ultimate clinic goal is to continue to be a quicker but just as thorough clinician. I feel like I get closer to this goal each clinic time.