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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Technology in modern dentistry has evolved in recent years and will continue to evolve year after year. While you may be academically gifted, your interviewers need to get a sense that you would come to their dental school with the ability to pick up and master any new technologies in the field over your time there. Your venture into dental school will likely require you to work with many pieces of equipment you haven't worked with in the past.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Think of a time you had to learn new technology. Your example should demonstrate your ability to study, learn, and master its use in short order. As you answer, explain to your interviewing team that you know you will be learning and mastering new dental equipment and technologies and that you are willing and ready to learn any new technologies thrown your way during your time with them.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"First and foremost, I want you to know that I would come to your program with the understanding that today's dentists need to embrace technology to provide the best patient care possible. I've always been enamored by the great technological advancements in dentistry over the years. More recent innovations, like 3D printing for dental implants, are such a great technology. I am very technologically adept. Over the last two years, I worked part-time with a medical device manufacturing company to pay my way through schooling, and during my first week on the job, I had to learn and master two plastics machines. I observed more experienced staff and went right to work with hands-on learning."

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