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December 08, 2006
SADHA Day Reflection – Stephanie’s Reflection
I am glad that I joined SADHA this year, I enjoy the lunch and learns and find them very useful, interesting, and fun. I intend to remain a SADHA member throughout my time here in the dental hygiene program. One of the biggest things associated with being a member of SADHA is SADHA Day, a day in which members from different schools in Michigan come together to hear about new and interesting things in the dental hygiene field. This day was built up to be a very big and exciting thing, and my honest opinion is that I was let down. It was nice to see people from different programs and visit booths to hear about and receive samples of new products, but the round table discussions and the keynote speaker were not particularly interesting to me. I felt as though the speaker ruined a lot of people’s SADHA Day experience, because I know she did mine. The speech to me was offensive and completely irrelevant to dental hygiene. I only went to one of the round table discussions, which was about some sort of a laser treatment. I was not very interested in this topic, and wish we had more freedom as to which tables we could have attended. There were many discussions I would have loved to attended, that I was actually interested in, and felt it was unfair that we were forced into ones that we may not have selected on our preference lists. I think we should have got at least one of the choices from our list. Overall I do not think I will attend SADHA Day again, except for maybe my senior year but I do not think it is really worth it. I enjoyed spending time with my class in a setting outside of the dental school for once (even though it was still semi school related).
Posted by skpierze at December 8, 2006 02:56 PM