What tools or techniques will you use to remember difficult information or instructions given verbally to you by our faculty when you are directly caring for patients?
As a dental student, you will work with some of the best and brightest faculty in your specialty and will be expected to learn from them on a daily basis. Your interviewers want to hear that you are ready and willing to learn, grow, and prosper in your time with them and that you have a plan for retaining all that you learn as a resident with them.
"I'm so excited to learn from your great faculty and put all that I learn into practice. I'd come to your program knowing that I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me as a dentist. I found during my Bachelor's degree program that keeping notes in a journal helps me learn and master concepts, but putting them into practice is what truly helps me retain the information, and that has me so excited to join a world-class dental school like yours."
Before your interview, put some thought into how you plan to retain what you learn from the faculty you will be working with during your dental training. Your interviewers want to hear that you have techniques and tools in place to do this, so be sure to talk about the things you use to learn and retain information for later use. You can also talk about how you successfully navigated your way through your undergraduate program before dental school.
