{"id":92496,"date":"2014-04-26T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=92496"},"modified":"2014-04-30T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:06:59","slug":"chelsea-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/chelsea-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>How has being at the UConn School of Dental Medicine changed you?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The doctor-patient relationship is very different from any other relationship, so navigating this was an interesting and often awkward process. I maintained my sense of humor and optimism\u00a0 throughout the four years, while becoming more decisive and assertive \u2013 necessary traits in modern health care, where teamwork is a daily occurrence.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Was there a defining moment during your UConn career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The transition from classroom to clinic is a humbling experience because the learning curve is so steep.<span class=\"s1\"> My first patient asked why I hadn&#8217;t put &#8220;that pink stuff&#8221; on his teeth, and I realized I didn&#8217;t even know where to find it in the clinic!<\/span> We all had no idea what was going on for a few weeks. The defining moment for me was the first time I didn&#8217;t feel that way.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Where are you headed after graduation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Washington, D.C.! I am very excited to have matched into an orthodontics residency program at Medstar Washington Hospital Center.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><strong>Write your memoir in six words.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sweet dreams were made of teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has being at the UConn School of Dental Medicine changed you? The doctor-patient relationship is very different from any other relationship, so navigating this was an interesting and often awkward process. I maintained my sense of humor and optimism\u00a0 throughout the four years, while becoming more decisive and assertive \u2013 necessary traits in modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[149],"class_list":["post-92496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92731,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92496\/revisions\/92731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/92677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92496"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=92496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=92496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}