Best schools for general practice?

[gonzomalan]

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Anyone know what schools have the best reputation for general practitioners, or if this even matters?
I know some schools are very research orientated, and I'm just wondering if there's any school, prefereably on the west coast, that's known for great general practice.
thanks.

i'm also aware that UCSF and UOP have great schools, but are they geared toward general dentistry?

 

[Regmata]

If you decide to leave the west coast, Buffalo is the way to go

 

[armorshell]

Let it first be said that you can get whatever you want, resarch, specialization or research from any dental school in the country. The most important factor is you and your drive.

That being said, there are slight differences in emphases between schools, and on the west coast the attitudes of the schools seem to have UoP and USC leaning towards clinical dentistry and UCSF and UCLA leaning more towards basic sciences and research.

 

[blankguy]

Buffalo, Tufts, and Temple on the east coast.

 

[pharoh]

Let it first be said that you can get whatever you want, resarch, specialization or research from any dental school in the country. The most important factor is you and your drive.

That being said, there are slight differences in emphases between schools, and on the west coast the attitudes of the schools seem to have UoP and USC leaning towards clinical dentistry and UCSF and UCLA leaning more towards basic sciences and research.

i back up that motion.... UoP in the my opinion

 

[SoCalDent]

my school

 

[caffeinehigh]

If you're looking for General Practice experience logic would say to go to a school that does not offer speciality training. Hard to outsource when it doesn't exist.

Creighton rings a bell off the top of my head.

 

[KinKs]

Hucd

 

[Regmata]

If you're looking for General Practice experience logic would say to go to a school that does not offer speciality training. Hard to outsource when it doesn't exist.

Creighton rings a bell off the top of my head.

That logic is awful...

 

[jackbauer!]

That logic is awful...

😕

 

[caffeinehigh]

That logic is awful...

1. Would you like to explain why you think that logic is flawed? Or do you just prefer to make blanket statements with no explanation

2. Keep in mind, that the only reason I even made that statement in the first place was due to the fact that I have had 3 or more doctors, many of them specialists now, who said that they felt they had better general training as a result of the school of their choice having little to no speciality programs in house at the time. In fact, if you think about it, the logic makes perfect sense. I'm not saying that the instruction itself will be better, but I am saying you will likely get more hands on experience with certain things.

 

[kubird144]

If you're looking for General Practice experience logic would say to go to a school that does not offer speciality training. Hard to outsource when it doesn't exist.

Creighton rings a bell off the top of my head.

Over on dental town there was a thread about this and a few of the practicing docs said basically the same thing. Without post-doc students in the clinic the pre-docs get exposure to a wider variety of cases that would otherwise go to post-docs if they were there.

 

[Regmata]

Ok, so I misunderstood the post...I see what you are saying and yes, it does make sense.

 

[lnsip9reg]

That logic is awful...

umm.. actually creighton is considered a top notch clinical school b/c their students get to do all the specialty work that would normally go to the residents 😛

 

[shamrock2006]

It's always hard to say which schools are better "clinically" or which are overall the best for general practice...what people fail to realize is that every school screens their patient pool. So if a case comes in that is WAY beyond the scope of a dental student...whether or not they have specialty programs....that patient will not be admitted. Schools bring in patients they feel the students can handle and that also allow them to fulfill graduation requirements. This comes straight from the mouth of one of our course directors.

 

[armorshell]

It's always hard to say which schools are better "clinically" or which are overall the best for general practice...what people fail to realize is that every school screens their patient pool. So if a case comes in that is WAY beyond the scope of a dental student...whether or not they have specialty programs....that patient will not be admitted. Schools bring in patients they feel the students can handle and that also allow them to fulfill graduation requirements. This comes straight from the mouth of one of our course directors.

A single prosth resident can absorb 50-60 single unit crowns, around 25 FPDs, tons of removable units, etc... These aren't cases that couldn't be handled by a DDS student, but having the residents there takes them away from the DDS clinic. Same goes for endo, perio, blahblah.

Also, there are things that are more complicated but can still be considered teaching cases for DDS students, such as perio surgery, molar RCT, some full mouth restorations, etc... It's common sense that it makes it easier to see these cases in dental school if there are no residents around to take them.

 

[gonzomalan]

I'd like to thank everyone who replied to this thread.
Thank yous.
That logic of a school offering a better clinical experience with no post-docs never occurred to me.