For future OMFS

[385835]

It says on the official website that:

"Dental students with a numeric score on Part 1 of dental boards are not required to take the CBSE."

So no need to worry about NBME or a medical curriculum in dental school.

Just take the dental boards and do it with a numeric score rather than pass fail. Right?

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[uclaDDS101]

There is no option. Currently, the boards are p/f only. But this may change in the future.

 

[Bereno]

I thought OMFS was leaning towards the NBME??

 

[AlbinoPolarBear]

For those who have taken the boards before 2012, and received a numerical score, then they do not need to take the NBME CBSE.

Boards have gone P/F, which means if you wanna do OMFS, you gotta take the dental boards along with the NBME CBSE.

 

[Stacker]

For those who have taken the boards before 2012, and received a numerical score, then they do not need to take the NBME CBSE.

Boards have gone P/F, which means if you wanna do OMFS, you gotta take the dental boards along with the NBME CBSE.

Booooooo!

 

[ms08bayo]

Is that the usmle step 1? And any idea what would be considered a good enough score for omfs programs?

 

[Sublimazing]

Is that the usmle step 1? And any idea what would be considered a good enough score for omfs programs?

It is not the USMLE1...the NBME tests are practice tests offered by the same company that administers the USMLE1 for med students. The AAOMS has designated the NBME CBSE as its entrance exam of sorts. The questions should be very similar to some of the material on the USMLE1, and the test is supposed to be a very good predictor of how one would do on the USMLE1.

No one knows what good scores will be because it is being offered for the first time in September. A lot of current omfs residents took the exam, but without studying or motivation to succeed...do the results are all but useless.

 

[FLOSS UR TEETH]

will dental students have trouble scoring well on NDME test if they do not go to a dental school that is combined w/ a med school?

 

[thewingman]

will dental students have trouble scoring well on NDME test if they do not go to a dental school that is combined w/ a med school?

Not really. The material covered in dental and medical school is pretty much the same. There is a epi/behavioral/ethics section, but most combined programs don't have dental students take these classes. The NBME is very different from the NBDE, though.

 

[uclaDDS101]

will dental students have trouble scoring well on NDME test if they do not go to a dental school that is combined w/ a med school?

Probably not, but I guess we will know only after test scores from various schools can be compared.

On a similar note, I would wonder, if this line of thinking were to catch on, if there would there be an evident influx of OMS wannabes to Harvard and Columbia (as if there wasn't one already).

 

[uclaDDS101]

Not really. The material covered in dental and medical school is pretty much the same. There is a epi/behavioral/ethics section, but most combined programs don't have dental students take these classes. The NBME is very different from the NBDE, though.

Epi/biostats is covered in the shared Harvard curriculum.