 Hello everybody Andrea Trouse here with dental tutoring so another video about clinic so how to kind of stay organizing clinic and little things to just sort of help you be organized that a lot of students don't tend to think about. So one of the things that may sound silly but make sure to have enough pens if you need blue pens red pens whatever make sure you have enough even have at least three of the colors that you need so that way you can offer one to your instructor if she has to mark something it just sort of shows that you're as organized as possible and there's nothing worse than you know seeding your patient you're talking about the medical history the health history or you're even going through the assessments and then you're like oh shoot my pen just ran out you know oh you're probably not allowed to leave clinic if you are lucky you because we were not allowed to leave ever and if you're not fully prepared you could lose marks at least that's how it was in my school if we forgot a pen paper notepad hair elastic anything we were allowed to leave but then it was like well we have to make you lose some marks now so that was never nice right so make sure to have enough pens just to be safe and if you can like purchase this like a tiny notebook or something to take notes because even as you're going through say let's some take the assessment phase as an example you might learn something new you could be marking it with your instructor and then she says something like oh well just so you know this is also called this or on this part you did an excellent job but on this part you could have added this this and this so it is always nice to take notes because you might think you will remember everything at the end of the day but you will not and it's nice to also look at that afterwards too so even if you're say you're having clinic for the first time you will learn a ton of things and then at the time that you're in your third semester or your last semester you'll look back at your notes and say wow I learned a lot you know I can't believe that I thought this in my first semester and now I'm in my last semester and oh my goodness like I did learn a lot so it does help to have a little notepad notebook you know something to take notes it does help those are kind of the little things that I like to do to keep organized and always have sticky notes so I did mention this in the video earlier too but always have sticky notes so if you need to make sure to get a signature or something like even make them a lot tinier so you don't forget a signature because we all know how annoying that can be if everything's done perfectly and you're moving on to the next step and then at the end of the day you're like oh shoot I forgot to get a signature for my first step well the second step may not count if you didn't get a signature for the first step that's how some schools are I don't know about yours but it's so important to make sure you get a signature so just kind of little things to help you guys out in some schools you are allowed to keep like like a little cheat sheet of maybe things that you know that you have to know but you might not always remember like the papules macules you know the different types I did that a lot for my cheat notes I put down there the angles for the bisecting technique because I would never for some reason remember that what else did I do it's been such a long time I wish I could find my notes from clinic but I did look and I can't find them so who knows what I did with them but so in your cheat notes if you're allowed to have that think of things that you need all the time that you just simply can't remember yet and you will find that at your last semester you will be like oh I don't even need this anymore you know so your first semester your first time in clinic you probably will but then as you move ahead you will not need them anymore so I hope that these little tips helped if you need some more just let me know