Quote Originally Posted by TheSmokingMonkey
I go to the University of Minnesota and I'd rather not give further identifying details. Let's just say I've been there long enough to know the ropes, but not long enough to have a license.

For us, the first two years are both medical and dental, but after second year we start to drop the medical stuff and do mostly dental.

Biochemistry was super-hard for me. I wouldn't want to do it again.

Keep up the good work, Dr. Bird.
Thanks for your general location. I didn't mean to delve into details. Just wondered if you were down here anywhere nearby. Goodness, I can't imagine the winters in Minnesota, but then I'm sure you'd feel the same way about Texas summers.

Biochem is a scary thing. I feel constantly panicked in there. We don't have a UT-Southwestern dental branch in Dallas, so we're just med students alone in the first two classrom years, although there are some so-called allied health students in some of our classes on occasion. The UT dental schools are in San Antonio and Houston, I believe.

Are dental students the same as med students in that they take the board exams after the first two years of classroom training? I suspect it's the same way for y'all, but I'm curious.