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all right good afternoon good afternoon
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uh what was the name department and
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level okay my name is Israel Duggo i'm a
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final year student of dentistry wow wow
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wow nice to meet you Israel so how many
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years is dentistry as a course in
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university okay dentistry is a six year
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program wow so you've been here at this
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university for 6 years actually it's
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like 7 years now because of covid-19
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lockdown and as strike okay okay so what
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is dentistry as a course you know in the
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university okay dentistry basically
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means study of the oral cavity uh dis
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and the diseases affect them and how you
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treat those diseases so we are doctors
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of the oral cavity everything concerning
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the oral cavity and disease that have
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oral man manifestations that's what we
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do in dentistry okay so but why did you
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decide to study dentistry okay i always
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wanted to study medicine okay then
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my my postsecary school period when I
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was preparing for jam I met a dental
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student that inspired me i don't know
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dentistry before before then so the guy
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inspired me i research more about the
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course and during that time everybody
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was just in medicine and surgery
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medicine and surgery in in jam tutorial
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center i wanted to do something
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different so I did change of course to
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dentistry when I have already registered
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for medicine during my jam that's why I
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chose dentistry wow wow interesting
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interesting so dentistry and medicine
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they are interrelated would you say so
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honestly they're interrelated there are
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many disease that have oral
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manifestations somebody has something
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like HIV may present to the clinic and
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dentist will be able to find out that
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person have HIV and there are some
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disease of the oral cavity that can
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spread like somebody have oral cancer if
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a dentist notice on time the dentist
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will prevent it from spreading to other
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vital organs that's the that's the link
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there are many links but yeah that's the
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summary are dentist dentists are they
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also surgeons yeah dentistry like
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medicine like medicine and surgery have
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branches there's a branch of dentistry
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we call oral surgery okay yeah that that
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the ones that treat victims of trauma
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trauma patients like someone had an
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accident and crash his jaw face the oral
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surgeons will take care of it or you
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want you have oral cancer
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uh is oral surgeons that will take care
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of it okay okay so since you've we've
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agreed that dentistry and medicine and
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surgery they interrelated now everybody
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knows that medicine and surgery is a
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very tedious course how is it like for
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that everything is sad anything
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academics is sad but I would say that
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dentist will tougher like you can ask my
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counterart because from our first year
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to for to fourth year we do the we do
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the same thing we also have to do
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additional additional thing because in
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our second year we take a course called
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oral biology before we we take our
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second professional exam okay so after
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then when you enter our fifth year we
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have to do medicine and surgery in our
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500 level this an exit exam that is what
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those study do in final year we do it in
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500 level 500 level before doing
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dentistry proper wow yeah so we have to
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do everything they do
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aside which is gynecology and pediatrics
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yeah so have you have you had any
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challenge so far like personally
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academically from your first year till
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say is how you bounce back that matters
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yeah sometime have low test scores and
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everything but you have to find
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motivation have to they say it's end
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just the mean yeah just Yeah okay so as
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a dentistry student is it possible to
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know let's say engage in extracurricular
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activities like politics no side hustle
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business and stuff like that yeah it's
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possible it depends on how you able it
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depends on the individual if you can
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multitask and if you are disciplined
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good time management you can do that
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okay so as a final year student how
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would you describe your typical day like
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how does your day start do you go for
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lectures or you go for clinical posting
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like how does it work yeah final year is
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the most challenging year a typical day
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you just wake up me personally I will
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read head to class from class to clinic
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i spend four hours in clinic and then I
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go back to class then from Monday to
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Friday then Saturdays we have to do
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online lectures sometimes you have to do
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outreaches wow uh but it's fun because
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it's just about challenging yourself and
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and doing things you never expect you
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would do okay so what are the job
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opportunities available for dentists
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yeah job opportunities for dentists are
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work as a dentist in the in the clinic
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you can work as a public health expert
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okay you can decide to work with NOS's
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you may you can also become an
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academician that you do your masters in
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other field and yeah there are many job
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opportunities even in military and
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military and police like you can do
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direct service in military and become a
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military doctor yeah oh excellent all
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right excellent so the last question I
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have is what advice do you have for
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someone that wants to study dentistry uh
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in university here in Nigeria okay my
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advice someone that wants to study
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dentistry that is a tedious process you
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just have to look at the bigger picture
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what you are going to achieve at the end
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because it's a course that will test
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your limit it's like a military train it
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takes your discipline and other aspects
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of yeah very rigorous other aspects of
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your life just for you to see the bigger
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picture that you're going to be a doctor
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at the end of the day and that's just it
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all right thank you very much carly
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appreciate to wish you success in your
