Dentistry Newcastle 2012

I had an interview on november 23rd and got my offer on november 24th but haven't had any accommodation information yet? Has anybody who has an offer received accommodation information yet?

anything you want
anything that interests you to do with dentistry in the news

Had an interview yesterday but haven't heard anything yet, should I take that as a rejection?

hey michael, i was at that interview yesterday as well. I haven't heard anything either, so i dont know. She did say she would contacts us today if we were in, but who knows there could be lots of reasons she hasnt contacted us yet. - Alex

I had an interview on november 23rd and got my offer on november 24th but haven't had any accommodation information yet? Has anybody who has an offer received accommodation information yet?

Had an interview yesterday but haven't heard anything yet, should I take that as a rejection?

hey michael, i was at that interview yesterday as well. I haven't heard anything either, so i dont know. She did say she would contacts us today if we were in, but who knows there could be lots of reasons she hasnt contacted us yet. - Alex

Hi guys, no need to worry as it can take them a couple of days. You'll most likely hear today or tomorrow if you have an offer, or you'll get a letter if you've been pooled. It's highly unlikely you'll have been rejected straight off at this point so relax

Good luck!

have you had an interview already at newcastle?

I'm a student there

Oh sweet, do you have any tips for the interview? I have mine tomorrow

As long as you know your personal statement well, and have read a bit about some news in dentistry then you'll be absolutely fine . The interviews here are really relaxed (almost informal at times), they just want to see you're a nice friendly person.

Good luck!

Thank you. I've read about the Dental Reforms and a couple of BDJ articles on sedation. Is that the sort of thing you mean?

How are you finding Newcastle? What is the DentSoc like?

Yeah that'll be fine. They don't normally ask you anything specific, it'll probably be along the lines of "So tell me about something you've read about dentistry", or something like that.

It's good LOTS of hard work though! we have our first major exams next week, not looking forward to them at all!

Dentsoc is cool, we have socials every other Friday (ish) and you get free drinks (booze and soft drinks) in the bar type thing we have in the dental school.

Cool, sweet. Good luck for your exams.

I'm applying as Post-Grad so I can imagine the work you are doing.. i've done all of the anatomy of the human body before so I am not so worried all of that sort of stuff. I'm totally impressed by how close the school came across when I went to visit. Absolutely sold on it, hence why I don't want to mess up in teh interview.

Cool, sweet. Good luck for your exams.

I'm applying as Post-Grad so I can imagine the work you are doing.. i've done all of the anatomy of the human body before so I am not so worried all of that sort of stuff. I'm totally impressed by how close the school came across when I went to visit. Absolutely sold on it, hence why I don't want to mess up in teh interview.

What degree are you doing?

I'm a grad too! I did Medical Science at Leeds, but trust me, it hasn't actually prepared me for much of this lol. It's difficult mainly because of sheer volume, there's not much that's difficult to understand. The anatomy module in first term is horrendous, you need to know the entire contents of the head and neck, what everything does, where it's come from and where it's going, and then you need to be able to identify every single one of these structures on a cadaver (which is really annoying because things like the lingual nerve can take different routes in different people- makes it difficult to spot!).

But yeah, the course is pretty damn good. The teaching's pretty awesome (our anatomy lecturer is one of the best in the country- he's an editor of Gray's anatomy). We start clinical skills pretty early too so that breaks up all the physiology a bit.

Btw- Newcastle LOVE graduates, so you're pretty much in!

Forensic Anthropology

Hahah, I can't quite rest on my morals unfortunately. Cool, that sounds good. Do you guys do cadaver dissection? I've done that with my current degree and I absolutely loved it. Or is it more pro-section based?

I'm a grad too! I did Medical Science at Leeds, but trust me, it hasn't actually prepared me for much of this lol. It's difficult mainly because of sheer volume, there's not much that's difficult to understand. The anatomy module in first term is horrendous, you need to know the entire contents of the head and neck, what everything does, where it's come from and where it's going, and then you need to be able to identify every single one of these structures on a cadaver (which is really annoying because things like the lingual nerve can take different routes in different people- makes it difficult to spot!).

But yeah, the course is pretty damn good. The teaching's pretty awesome (our anatomy lecturer is one of the best in the country- he's an editor of Gray's anatomy). We start clinical skills pretty early too so that breaks up all the physiology a bit.

Btw- Newcastle LOVE graduates, so you're pretty much in!

Did you not do that during your Med Sci degree? I thoughts Leeds would have done it. :/ I had a whole module on Head and Neck anatomy in my 2nd year and a module on Facial Development in 3rd year during Biomed Sci.