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On Thursday this week we had a clinical orientation day. Various topics were covered including our voice mail accounts, general rules, speaking with patients, what to do if you stick yourself with a needle, etc. These topics have been covered over and over again but many of us including myself seemed confused on many items. The computer system to schedule patients is confusing at first and we are also transitioning into the use of Axium this year. I guess Axium is a paperless charting program where you can view all of your patients, their needs, etc. Needless to say, we are the pilot group for Axium so it will be interesting to see how the transition goes. I have heard great things about it from other dental schools and I am excited to use it. We still have charts though, so in one way it seems like we are going to be getting double work, filling out charts as well as computer charting.

The two exciting things that happened during our clinical orientation day was 1) getting our instrument carts and 2) getting our first patients. We use our carts to hold all of our stuff (we also have a locker) and roll them around the school to our various appointments. Different years have different colored carts. Here are a couple of pictures:

Organizing all of our crap:

Finishing up:

I have my first few appointments over the next few weeks, so stay tuned to see how they go!