Competition for GPR or AEGD

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How hard is it to match to a good GPR program? How about AEGD? Any thoughts..?

 

[Dr. Pedo]

How hard is it to match to a good GPR program? How about AEGD? Any thoughts..?

Some are pretty competitive (GPR). The one in particular is Salt Lake Utah. They have an incredible program and also have extensive implant cases. In fact, much to omf and perio dislike, are teaching and allowing resid. to place them. This is heresy but a classmate of mine is there right now.

 

[groundhog]

Some are pretty competitive (GPR). The one in particular is Salt Lake Utah. They have an incredible program and also have extensive implant cases. In fact, much to omf and perio dislike, are teaching and allowing resid. to place them. This is heresy but a classmate of mine is there right now.

Not heresy, just the result of the continuing geometric expansion within biomedical research. Those folks develop and test new techniques, materials, and tools which increasingly enable GP's to handle routine implant cases (at costs now approaching those of doing a bridge). I know of one GPR that promotes the fact that it does not offer much training in "luxury dentisrty" (implants & cosmetics) because "those skills can be easily learned in CEC's" where as becomming competent in treating a vast array of medically compromised cases within a years time frame is not easily obtained outside of a hospital setting.

Now, I'm sure the complex surgical cases like attaching full prosthetic infastructure to alternate facial bone due to significant absence of bone that normally supports teeth will remain within the jurisdiction of specially trained OMFS folks for quite some time.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Some are pretty competitive (GPR). The one in particular is Salt Lake Utah.

That is a very competitive GPR. Dr. Craig Olson, the program director, told me that they rarely accept students with Part I scores lower than 90, or those that aren't in the top 25% of the class, because they "usually have difficulty keeping up with the pace and demands of the program."

 

[gryffindor]

That is a very competitive GPR. Dr. Craig Olson, the program director, told me that they rarely accept students with Part I scores lower than 90, or those that aren't in the top 25% of the class, because they "usually have difficulty keeping up with the pace and demands of the program."

I've met people who did this GPR. Those stats seem to hold true, but there are residents who have gotten in that fell short. I've also met someone who post-matched into this GPR, way after match day (I think someone dropped out).

So as competitive as it may be, all GPRs & AEGDs cycle. My program had 2 spots open post-match my year, yet this past cycle there were no spots available post-match.

 

[onetoothleft]

This is a good question. I am hoping to do a good GPR like this as well (assuming I dont fall in love with some specialty while in school).

That is a very competitive GPR. Dr. Craig Olson, the program director, told me that they rarely accept students with Part I scores lower than 90, or those that aren't in the top 25% of the class, because they "usually have difficulty keeping up with the pace and demands of the program."

Are you interested in GPR coming out of AZ? If so, why? if you dont mind me asking . . . (It seemed like you would be getting lots of clinic at AZ and in the west completing GPRs is less common)

 

[InMyCrossHairs]

That is a very competitive GPR. Dr. Craig Olson, the program director, told me that they rarely accept students with Part I scores lower than 90, or those that aren't in the top 25% of the class, because they "usually have difficulty keeping up with the pace and demands of the program."

I highly doubt this, unless the two people I know in this program got in on a fluke. Neither are even close to those stats. This residency is competitive for one reason, everyone from Utah believes they need to go back to Utah (so they have a high number of applicants). This is the same reason there is an oversaturation of GP's and specialists in Utah.

 

[onetoothleft]

I highly doubt this, unless the two people I know in this program got in on a fluke. Neither are even close to those stats. This residency is competitive for one reason, everyone from Utah believes they need to go back to Utah (so they have a high number of applicants). This is the same reason there is an oversaturation of GP's and specialists in Utah.

I dont think there is an oversaturation. If you look at the Department of Labor website, dentists in Utah gross more money than most other areas of the country. Also, Oral Health America did a study that rates different states for different things. Utah got a overall grade of "C" for number of dentists per population, and a "D" for pediatric dentists. Utah is not oversaturated by GP's or specialists.

 

[adamlc18]

That's because there aren't many dentists in the very rural areas of UT. If you go to any sizeable town ie Provo, SLC, Logan, there are tons of dentists. It's just that no one wants to work in those tiny towns.

 

[jrd29]

That's because there aren't many dentists in the very rural areas of UT. If you go to any sizeable town ie Provo, SLC, Logan, there are tons of dentists. It's just that no one wants to work in those tiny towns.

I am from a small Utah town of 3-4000 people. We have 6 dentists in town. I couldn't go back if I wanted too.