Last Thursday was my first Mock Board experience. I found my Mock Board patient Tuesday the week before the week of Mock Boards. I was so nervous that I wasn't going to find one, but a miracle happened and I found one! He was very nice to come in and help me out! I was able to have him pay for all the x-rays necessary and the cost of the one quad of scaling. Some people actually had to pay for these things to get their patient to come. I guess I would too if I had to, but I am so grateful I didn't have to! Any way, enough of the background info...
My Mock Board time was 12:30pm, so I was able to be a student examiner first. This was a great experience to really feel what calculus feels like... and A LOT of it! I had to do a little studying while the patients were being scaled, but once the time was up, it was interesting to see the same patients back without the calculus... well some. There were quite a few who missed a lot of pieces of calculus which really surprised me because I would have complete confidence in all of them. My professor said that this is typical because we don't have added guidance throughout the treatment like we do normally. Makes perfect sense! Obviously, after seeing some patients, I felt a bit nervous for my time to do it. I wanted to do well, and thought I would but I also thought my fellow classmates would do better than they did. Soo 12:30pm comes around... My patient showed up early like I had asked, so there was less stress. I was able to go through all of the paperwork one more time, but since he spoke Spanish, it made it a little difficult.
I was the first student to submit my patient to the student examiners like I thought I would since I had experience being the Clinic Assistant during WREB last March. I was still nervous waiting to see if my patient qualified even though I knew there was no doubt. I guess the nerves still get to you! Once my patient came back, I got right to it. I started with my ultrasonic, then went to my Graceys, then to my regular posterior and anterior scalers, back to my ultrasonic, charted, and then explored, scaled, explored, scaled, explored, scaled, etc etc! I felt pretty confident with my submission other than tooth #3. I couldn't seem to get that tooth smooth. I knew I needed to just submit because I did the best I could, so I did!
Results... well, I didn't do horrible, but I didn't do super great either. I missed 2 clicks of calculus, 1 probe reading (really 3, but they only recorded certain ones), and 1 recession point (which I knew I should've marked!). Not too bad for my first time. The probing area seemed a little weird to me though. I got a 5mm and the examiner got 3mm. I'm not really sure how that works. Oh well! It was a great experience, and I am so glad I had a patient who was able to help me learn and actually go through the process before the actual exam.
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