Admission Essay: Advanced Standing Program for International Dentists

Advanced Standing Program for International Dentists
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Advanced Standing Program for International Dentists
The design of an Advanced Standing Program for International Dentists is meant to orient the already qualified international dentists, on the skills and knowledge and practice in the United States of America. This encompasses the procedures in technical and academics, with a great devotion to clinical training. As an interested party, the most compelling challenges that I face are cultural, Technological and social in nature. However, based on my academic background, experience and practice in India, in the field of dentistry, I have an upper hand.
As a young boy aged five years, my father asked me a question which has since then, transformed my dreams into a reality. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” he would ask. In response I innocently answered, “a doctor”. By this time, I could not comprehend beyond this as the only career, but as age caught up with me in my studies, I settled for specialist training as a dentist where I excelled. The most disturbing fact about the whole idea of the standing program in the United States of America, is not repeating the same workload in class, rather it is the adjustment to the new and foreign culture, and the technological advancement in the U.S as compared to the developing technology India. It is indeed a standard procedure that must be followed by any dentist with an international degree, should they want to practice their profession in the U.S. Compared to my first university, the U.S based dental school has a detailed curriculum and a different instructional methodology altogether...