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Hello,
I am doing dentistry/PhD (DDS/PhD) and my PI suggested me to find committee members.
My PI recommended these following people as my future committee members
(1) a dentist scientist faculty member in my school, she is in oral medicine department. (MD is not required for oral medicine, very different than oral surgery field)
(2) a PhD professor, who is in the same department (oral biology) as my PI
(3) a professor whose field is not related to my research field or my professional field (so maybe neurosurgery chair?)
One of my two career aspirations is to go into the MD integrated, oral maxillofacial surgery residency program and build my application for my K awards so that I could be an academic oral surgeon. To make this possible, I was told to go to the residency program that is supportive toward K awards and research.
Currently, at my school, I am unable to have an academic oral surgeon as one of my committee members. Most people at my school who do enough research to be a committee members for PhD students are in medicine.
Therefore, I am looking for someone in medicine preferably in surgical field, who could help me with my application to oral surgery residency and my career goal.
Do you think this is a good or a bad idea?
I am doing dentistry/PhD (DDS/PhD) and my PI suggested me to find committee members.
My PI recommended these following people as my future committee members
(1) a dentist scientist faculty member in my school, she is in oral medicine department. (MD is not required for oral medicine, very different than oral surgery field)
(2) a PhD professor, who is in the same department (oral biology) as my PI
(3) a professor whose field is not related to my research field or my professional field (so maybe neurosurgery chair?)
One of my two career aspirations is to go into the MD integrated, oral maxillofacial surgery residency program and build my application for my K awards so that I could be an academic oral surgeon. To make this possible, I was told to go to the residency program that is supportive toward K awards and research.
Currently, at my school, I am unable to have an academic oral surgeon as one of my committee members. Most people at my school who do enough research to be a committee members for PhD students are in medicine.
Therefore, I am looking for someone in medicine preferably in surgical field, who could help me with my application to oral surgery residency and my career goal.
Do you think this is a good or a bad idea?
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