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How to Craft a Winning Personal Statement for Dental School Application
How to Craft a Winning Personal Statement for Dental School Application
Above average DAT scores and GPA aren’t good enough anymore. That's why the personal statement is crucial to making your dental school application stand out from the rest. In her new book, Dr. Helen Yang (currently an endodontics resident at UIC) and collaborators offer a holistic strategy for a winning dental school application. The second half of the book focuses on crafting a truly unique personal statement that showcases your individuality.
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Interested in Becoming a Dental Specialist? Check Out Our Post-Graduate Residency Programs
While 8 out 10 dentists practice general dentistry, the profession expands much farther than the general dentist. As with many areas of medicine, there are many specialized areas of training in which dental students can begin thinking about pursuing, even before applying to dental school.   
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Why Dental Students Choose UIC
Why do dental students choose UIC? We offer an outstanding, innovative curriculum that patient centered, problem focused, and community driven. Our community is woven by a richly diverse fabric of cultural and professional backgrounds. We're located at the heart of a world-class medical education and research complex.
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Dental School Curriculum: How SGL Works
Ever wondered how small group learning (SGL) actually works? Students appreciate our curriculum because it is highly collaborative, patient-centered, and medically comprehensive in nature, including behavioral science education, evidence-based dentistry, and implant dentistry.
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How to Prepare for the Dental School Interview
Most dental schools – including UIC – use a personal interview to assess personal qualities. Interviews can be nerve-racking; however with good preparation you will feel confident going into your dental school interview. Here are some tips specific to UIC College of Dentistry’s interview process to help you be successful.
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UIC Pre Dental Club
UIC Pre Dental Club

The Pre-Dental Club at UIC is a student organization dedicated to helping students on their way to pursuing a career in dentistry. The IL PreDental Consortium (IPDC) is a collaborative effort to connect IL pre-dental students for mentoring and application preparation.
UIC College of Dentistry student research
Student Research

Learn about the Student Research Group, MOST and other opportunities to get involved in research as a dental student.
UIC College of Dentistry dental school students Service Learning
Service Learning

Get community-based service learning through extramural rotation in communities of need.
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Admissions Blog

Tips and advice from students and our admissions team on how to prepare for dental school.

 

 

Upcoming Events

DMD Advanced Standing Open House
Jan 24
UIC College of Dentistry
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
DMD Advanced Standing Open House
Please join us for our annual DMD Advanced Standing open house. The event will include admissions information, a tour of the dental school and an Read More [...]
DMD Advanced Standing Admissions Webinar
Nov 07
Online (webinar)
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
DMD Advanced Standing Admissions Webinar
Don't miss the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) Advanced Standing webinar! In this webinar, you'll get information about the application process and Read More [...]
UIC College of Dentistry Predental Night
Nov 15
UIC College of Dentistry
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
DMD UIC Predental Night
Of note: This event is not targeted for internationally trained dentists. Please refer to DMD-Advanced Standing events.  Please join the University Read More [...]

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Why Dental Students Choose UIC

Dental students choose UIC for our excellence in academics and research; the outstanding clinical experience and diverse patient pool; service learning opportunities locally and globally; and our location in a world-class city on a health sciences campus.

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Innovative Curriculum and Rewarding Student Experiences

How our curriculum integrates small group learning, patient care, research and community service.

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DMD/PhD Program: Training the Next Generation of Dental Scientists

UIC's DMD/PhD Program offers a customizable curriculum combining clinical care with oral science research and biomedical technology. 

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Using Simulation to Transform Health Education and Care Delivery

A key element in our curriculum is training using medical simulation techniques. Watch as our students utilize the latest in dental health simulation technology to change the future of oral health.

 

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Multidisciplinary Oral Science Training (MOST) Program

A research training program offering tracks for undergraduate and post-graduate researchers.