Those kids in the 2 year AEGD program had a 2 year vacation because when they came and rotated with us they got their ass hurt from our academic hazing.
Hard, academic hazing = I don't buy it in a 2 year AEGD program especially in Hawaii.
Let me just say up front that I have the utmost respect for most OMFS guys. They put in long hours doing serious, serious work.
That being said, I would like to see how the OS guys would get by getting pimped by 2 Year AEGD faculty on, say, the finer points of dental materials. Sure some might protest, what do dental materials have to do with day to day oral surgery and why should they be expected to know all that stuff? Besides, we might as well face it that general dentistry is beneath the lofty concerns of most Oral Surgeons. When you spend a lot of your time in the OR handling mangled faces, pumping drugs that could easily kill your patient, who really cares about the bonding strengths of 3rd generation composites? Its just not that important relative to what you do day in and day out.
On the flip side, what does the general dentist really know or care about doing a Le Fort? Or General Anesthesia? How much of the comprehensive dentists time will be spent doing these things? It seems your barely concealed contempt for the comprehensive dentistry program is based simply on their perceived (or real, whatever) lack of knowledge in your field. This is a safe but unfair generalization because you would never get pimped to humiliation in their world, which I think it is safe to say, would not be that hard when the broad spectrum of dentistry is fair game.
The two day mock boards that happen four times over the course of the program do not sound like a cake walk, and neither does the day to day grilling that we are sure to get.
I do not mean to be disrespectful here, not nearly as disrespectful as your completely useless response to the OP question, but do you have anything helpful to add here? Personally I would like to know where exactly the 2 yr guys failed to meet your expectations so as to not make the same mistakes.
