Ain't you guys tired of medical student bull**** you, like how easy DAT test compare to MCAT...And everything, and they acting like superior than anybody or something.
Anyways I am kind tired of this ****.
Anyways I am kind tired of this ****.
dontbam said:it's not that much harder than the DAT, abiet there's a lot more thinking involved and trick answers to avoid.
drhobie7 said:The MCAT is a more challenging exam than the DAT. And FYI, the USMLE is much more challenging than the NBDE. This means nothing about a given person's intelligence. All it means is our knowledge of medicine is expected to be less than that of a medical student, which should come as no surprise to anyone.
gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
"You want to look into people's mouths?" I am tired of that and " you must be in it for the money". Could it be that I find the idea of helping people and also having time to devote to my family alluring enough. Anyway I would rather help someone with oral problems then problems occuring on/in other orifaces.shengx12 said:Ain't you guys tired of medical student bull**** you, like how easy DAT test compare to MCAT...And everything, and they acting like superior than anybody or something.
Anyways I am kind tired of this ****.
Not neccessarily. Dentists must have way better manual dexterity than a doctor. I believe that both fields are difficult but for different reasons. But then to do well on the MCAT is actually easier than the DAT since if the DAT is "easier", you have to pretty much ace that thing (as more people should perform well) while bs'ing bio on the MCAT will get you a 12... I definitely think scoring 20+ on the DAT requires more precision than scoring 30+ on the MCAT!gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
dmfDMD said:and don't say the schooling is harder the first 2 years we take identical classes plus we have sim lab
gator1210 said:becoming a doctor is harder. their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
This might be the first time in history I've agreed with MacGyver, but he's absolutely right. Let go of the inferiority complexes, guys; dental school is plenty hard enough as it is.MacGyver said:Why in God's name would you spend 20k to learn about the fascial compartments of the leg? What possible purpose could that serve for a dentist?
If dent school really does match teh med school course load, then you guys are getting cheated out of thousands of dollars. It would be similar to med schools requiring that we spend tuition money learning how to extract teeth. Totally irrelevant to our profession.
aphistis said:This might be the first time in history I've agreed with MacGyver, but he's absolutely right. Let go of the inferiority complexes, guys; dental school is plenty hard enough as it is.![]()
tofufob said:Even though I'll be entering UCLA dental school this Fall, I gotta admit I still have this inferiority complex. No matter how much people congratulated me on my acheivement, I was still not FULLY proud of myself. (or is it an Asian thing?) Sometimes deep down inside, I felt MAYBE I was taking the easy way out by not giving MCAT a chance. Regardless of how little I was inspired to pursue medicine, not taking the MCAT made me feel like I was surrendering to my own cowardice.
Although I am sincerely attracted to dentistry, I just dont have the confidence to say that I can devote 100% the rest of my life to this medical specialty. After all, one could only observe dentistry so much as an undergrad. How much can I really know about my own dexterity until I meet that very first patient? What happens if my hands are clumsy? Would I still have enough alternatives as a dentist?
Sigh, what a bunch of crap. I guess I will find out soon enough.
DAT is easier than MCAT.shengx12 said:Ain't you guys tired of medical student bull**** you, like how easy DAT test compare to MCAT...And everything, and they acting like superior than anybody or something.
Anyways I am kind tired of this ****.
armorshell said:^ Because it's cheaper for the schools to combine med and dent students into one anatomy class?
Come on, it's pretty well known that dental students have to work twice as hard the first two years of school.
The med and dent students have nearly identical schedules, plus the dent students get pre-clinicals.
ChymeChancellor said:You crazy pre-dents... why don't you all go brush your teeth.
HermeytheElf said:Wow, how original. I certainly hope your GPA and MCATs are good, because if you're banking on your personality and creativity getting you into med school then you may need to start thinking about getting your realtor's license.
prez_al said:IT is an asian thing!!! I'm just gonna guess you're Chinese because you use the word "cowardice" in the sense of destroying your pride. Even my parents are questioning why I would choose dentistry over medicine too (so you want to look into ppls mouths etc.) and how is not writing the MCAT taking the easy way out? You actually had summers free to do nothing at all instead of studying your ass off for some crazy test (It's not fun, hard and everyone was INTENSE). In response to your dexterity comment, the american DAT does not test for it (why I do not know) so there's no way to gauge your abilities until you're in d-school. But I don't see how you can say that you can't dedicate your life to this since you somehow convinced the adcoms of this fact during your interview as you got into UCLA. Best of luck though!
tofufob said:Even though I'll be entering UCLA dental school this Fall, I gotta admit I still have this inferiority complex. No matter how much people congratulated me on my acheivement, I was still not FULLY proud of myself. (or is it an Asian thing?) Sometimes deep down inside, I felt MAYBE I was taking the easy way out by not giving MCAT a chance. Regardless of how little I was inspired to pursue medicine, not taking the MCAT made me feel like I was surrendering to my own cowardice.
Although I am sincerely attracted to dentistry, I just dont have the confidence to say that I can devote 100% the rest of my life to this medical specialty. After all, one could only observe dentistry so much as an undergrad. How much can I really know about my own dexterity until I meet that very first patient? What happens if my hands are clumsy? Would I still have enough alternatives as a dentist?
Sigh, what a bunch of crap. I guess I will find out soon enough.
Go Bruins. =]
griffin04 said:If it makes any of you pre-dents feel better - I had a bunch of 3rd year internal medicine residents tell me this weekend they wished they had gone back and chosen dental over med. It all boiled down to lifestyle for them. They realized too late that it is taking them 3 years residency + 3 years fellowship to get to the same lifestyle we have right after graduating dental school.
Asian parents will get over it, don't worry. Just marry someone with credentials on paper even better than yours, that way your parents can brag about how great their new son/daughter-in-law is. My dad harrased me for a long time about why I didn't go to med school, now he just wants me to hurry up and get married.![]()
DMD-2-B said:In my opinion they are both WONDERFUL fields. If a pre-med knocks you down for being a pre-dent, they are obviously not very secure in themselves. Ughh... I hate cocky people. We pre-dents should make a pact to refuse to treat those cocky pre-meds on the grounds that if its so easy, they should do thier own dental work!
DMD-2-B said:Ughh... I hate cocky people. We pre-dents should make a pact to refuse to treat those cocky pre-meds on the grounds that if its so easy, they should do thier own dental work!
amsie said:all the uptight premeddies are having a field-day with the campaign against the "silly pre-dents" over in the pre-allo forum. i guess id be pretty grouchy if i had 34957934579375984 years of school left. :sigh:
Same for us.In my opinion they are both WONDERFUL fields. If a pre-med knocks you down for being a pre-dent, they are obviously not very secure in themselves.
(Linked here from a med forum)gator1210 said:he's right. mcat is harder. becoming a doctor is harder. their boards are harder, their training is harder.
So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
shengx12 said:Ain't you guys tired of medical student bull**** you, like how easy DAT test compare to MCAT...And everything, and they acting like superior than anybody or something.
Anyways I am kind tired of this ****.
jtsai256 said:Well said, my friend... well said...![]()
dmfDMD said:....how hard is it to say yup you have another sinus infection here is a z-pack.
riceman04 said:no worries...my teeth can last longer than my heart..
velo said:now to be fair to my dental collegues, without proper dental care that's probably not true...
gator1210 said:So tell me, who is smarter....the dentist or doctor?
DMD-2-B said:Honestly, even as a fellow pre-dent I have to say that I have a certain respect for MDs that I hold for no other profession, even dentists. The reason is that they devote their life - blood, sweat and tears - to the study of medicine and as a result they have the capacity to use their immense knowledge to save lives.
DMD-2-B said:I'm a non-traditional pre-dental student and at the age of 27 I feel like it's too late for me to start medicine.
In my experience, the ones who are interested in teaching are the idiots. I mean, of course, you can't generalize; but yes, people who go into teaching are stupid (on a variety of levels). Engineers on the other hand, I think there's a bunch of smart cookies in that group; if you want to generalize.Knickerbocker said:In my experience, it is the girl who wants to be a math teacher. Seriously, at my school, lots of people wanting to be teachers (especially math majors) blow away pretty much all of the pre-med students in terms of intelligence.
earthcap said:I sincerely hope you won't let other ppl's pride determine pride of your life. Nobody knows for sure what the future holds. You just gotta do what you gotta do based on the best judgment of current circumstances. I think you have chosen a very fine profession especially since you yourself said you are sincerely attracted to dentistry.
the negative 1 said:For the record, I consider dentists to be a god-send. 100 years ago, your teeth would basically rot until they fell out and the pain from infections, bleeding, etc could last for years.
Some of the worst pain I've ever experienced was due to dental problems (human teeth are an evolutionary blunder in my opinion) and dentists were my only saviors.
Rock on blessed pre-dental forumites!