White Coat Ceremony

Last Thursday was had our White Coat Ceremony which is when all of us first year students are given clinical privileges to start working on real patients. Up til this point we have been practicing on mannequin heads, ivory teeth, and also doing work on each other. Now we are able to see patients for real. In two weeks we have our first clinical test where we will actually do a full mouth cleaning and scaling. I'm pretty excited to start really working in the clinic. I am a little worried about our anesthesia class in week and a half where we will give nine different numbing injections to our classmates. Anyway, these are pictures are from the Press Citizen which is the local newspaper for Iowa City. Jess cut out the article and hung it on the fridge. "Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it, but I was a star for one whole minute."