Classes With Medical School

[2ndtimearound]

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Just wondering which schools have classes with the medical school. Is there any benefit as a dentist in learning what the medical students need to know also (since these classes cater to med students)? Im primarily interested in UPenn, Columbia, and Michigan..
Thanks

 

[DesiDentist]

Columbia has classes with medical students.

PENN does NOT have classes with medical students.

I like PENN's standing. Even though they are very theory oriented it is to our best interest to know more about the oral cavity than the rest of the body. However, it is useful to know about total anatomy and physiology. Med students need to know in more detail, than us dental student. I would pick PENN over Columbia in that respect (well I already have )

DesiDentist

 

[yosemitesam]

All you people who are worried about not getting the respect you feel you deserve need to accept the fact that dentists, while not deified in our society the way physicians are, still have a noble calling in life. I sort of know how you're feeling right now, all your friends are going to med school and everybody is in awe at their achievement while you know that your stats are better but everyone is just kind of " oh, dental school... that's nice."

It's true that you are never going to have the prestige of your M.D. counterparts, but you need to get past that. Some people are going to make comments and jokes behind your back; there are plenty of people in this world who think the only reason someone would go to dental school is just because they couldn't get into med school. Don't sweat it; I shadowed a dentist who had been practicing 20 years who still told anyone who would listen how he also took the MCAT and was accepted to med school but chose dentistry instead -- talk about a chip on your shoulder.

Anyway, I could be off in my own little world here. If you just want to take classes with the med students because you think it will make you a better dentist, then more power to you. I personally feel that a program specifically tailored to dental students is the best choice. 🙂

 

[DesiDentist]

whoa, varmit!!

What is going on with ya?? who said anything about being looked down upon. We're just talking about if it is better to take classes with med students or not.

I'm totally comfortable telling everyone that i will be a dentist. Our brain is gonna be like a dry sponge at the beginning of dental school and will be soaked by the time we get out. Why kill ourselves further with useless knowledge.

DesiDentist

 

[type-s]

u really think learning more is useless? surprise to hear that a future health profession would say that. just my opinion.

 

[Yah-E]

At Nova, we have classes with the meds

 

[groundhog]

Hey guys just reverse those "glass half full/half empty" statements. You should something like say "At school XXXX, the meds have to take Gross Anatomy with the dents.

 

[Deuce 007 MD]

It seems pretty pointless to learn the anatomy of the lower limb and pelvis if your going to be a dentist.

 

[jam21]

Learning more is cool if you have time, but clinical training is important in dental education. HOw are you gonna fit all those extra material to learn in addition to clinical stuff if you wanna graduate in 4 yrs?
They actually teach you lower part of the body in dental school?

 

[JonR]

We here at UConn have classes with the meds. We like making fun of them because they don't have any other classes with graded exams other than the main classes that we all take together while the dental students have all of their extra tests...and they still don't do much better, if at all, than we do on the same exams. I would think this would be different at Columbia, though, where they actually have a good med. school. Here though, the dental school is the one that shines.

We do full body dissection. We have to know EVERYTHING that the meds. do. As far as I know, the only other school that does full body dissection is Harvard-all the rest do just head and neck or only upper body.

Having the med classes sucks soooo much from day to day b/c there is so much useless (to us) info, but it helps a whole lot when boards come around and we have had so much more detail on a given subject. Boards are nothing in detail compared to that which is driven into your brain in med/dent classes.

Also, just to put it in perspective for you...when you apply to a 7 year OMS/MD residency such as UCSF, many programs will knock off 2 years of the residency just because you went to UConn or Harvard because they know that you really sat through med. school for 2 years.

I don't know though...we just finished our neuroanatomy test...and I wish at this moment that I was somewhere that didn't require me to know all of this extraneous info. It is hard to look to the future when you are so bogged down in detail...

 

[yosemitesam]

Desi, you are right. I was totally in my own little world there. I realized that about half way through my post - but posted it anyway. 🙂

I had just been talking at school that day with friend and some of the other pre-dents were being so defensive about dental school being just as hard to get into as med school (which it isn't) and that the dental students learn just as much anat and phys as the med students (which in most schools they don't). I was just kinda frustrated with them feeling like they needed to defend their decisions. I thought I had read that in the first post - but obviously I hadn't. OOPS 😀