Cost of OMFS residency

[cbennett]

Just how expensive are these 4-6yr long programs including degrees/educational expenses/living...... TOTAL BILL for everything. For the ones that offer M.D.s do you have to pay for however many years of medical school as well as other degrees or whatnot that you must get? Are they going to go up in prices drastically in the future due to losing federal funding?
Just curious

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[toofache32]

You get paid between $40G to $50G a year (depending on the program). Med school usually costs $8G to $30G per year for 1-3 years (depending on the program). The total cost is this plus whatever you require to live on (rent, food, liquor, internet porn, etc).

 

[scalpel2008]

Just how expensive are these 4-6yr long programs including degrees/educational expenses/living...... TOTAL BILL for everything. For the ones that offer M.D.s do you have to pay for however many years of medical school as well as other degrees or whatnot that you must get? Are they going to go up in prices drastically in the future due to losing federal funding?
Just curious

don't forget to factor in lost general dentistry income for 4-6 years. i don't think OMS residencies (like medical residencies) are at any risk of losing any kind of funding in the near future. If it weren't for residents in the medical field, the healthcare system would collapse so paying each one 40-50K is a bargain.

 

[1992Corolla]

don't forget to factor in lost general dentistry income for 4-6 years. i don't think OMS residencies (like medical residencies) are at any risk of losing any kind of funding in the near future. If it weren't for residents in the medical field, the healthcare system would collapse so paying each one 40-50K is a bargain.

MOONLIGHTING!

 

[esclavo]

Just how expensive are these 4-6yr long programs including degrees/educational expenses/living...... TOTAL BILL for everything.
Just curious

It costs thousands of hours of sleep
It costs enough "skin off of your back" to skin graft about 15 burn patients
It costs a fair portion of your sanity
It costs every drop of personal pride (at least all the pride you don't already swallow yourself)
It costs you your freedom
It costs you almost all of the control over your life for those years
It costs you time with your family (I've missed: birthdays, anniversaries, almost the birth of my own child, weddings of immediate family members, funerals of grandparents, kids accomplishments like riding bikes- going to first day of school etc)

I am not complaining because I knew about this long before I even applied to OMFS. I only bring it up because I am amazed at how many guys don't know what they are getting into. I had an interviewie tell me one time that he was engaged to be married that next August....I said, I think your going to have to reschedule that. He told me that he had been engaged for two years and that he couldn't reschedule the church. I just chuckled to myself.....No clue what he was getting into. I can't imagine a new intern wanting time off in August when he was in the steepest phase of his learning curve.

"Can you get married on a Saturday and call Sunday your honeymoon?" "You got a deal then"....

I know, I know, I'm a soft hearted guy, I know everyone would like to have me as chief because I am sensitive to needs and desires of people....

 

[TiggerJSA]

Just how expensive are these 4-6yr long programs including degrees/educational expenses/living...... TOTAL BILL for everything. For the ones that offer M.D.s do you have to pay for however many years of medical school as well as other degrees or whatnot that you must get? Are they going to go up in prices drastically in the future due to losing federal funding?
Just curious

I don't know about anyone else, but I just found out what my first paycheck will be... And, it's a hell of a lot more than I was living off of from loans during dental school. I almost feel like I've got some money to throw around . And, my program pays toward the bottom end around $40k. Unless you have a family, residency salary will certainly keep you afloat. If you're worried about how much money you "lose" in years opportune for earning from general dentistry, trust me, you'll more than make up for it when you get out and practice OMS. Look at the big picture: $500k > $150k/year. (Of course those numbers don't apply to everyone, but certainly realistic

 

[esclavo]

If you're worried about how much money you "lose" in years opportune for earning from general dentistry, trust me, you'll more than make up for it when you get out and practice OMS. Look at the big picture: $500k > $150k/year. (Of course those numbers don't apply to everyone, but certainly realistic

You sound like the rest of us OMFSers trying to come up with a mental justification scheme to get you through the self-torture....I figured out my salary by hour in residency and I made alot more money in college remodeling apartments with no degree at all than as a "professional" slave.... dang I sound really cynical and bitter don't I....I have alot of dental buddies who have had a great life and have made sweet money in the last few years and it is more like 250-330 g's.... (I can't find a little face that is crying blood so this pity one will have to do)

 

[toofache32]

I never could understand the concept of "lost wages" when you never had it to begin with.

 

[toofache32]

...I've missed: birthdays, anniversaries, almost the birth of my own child, weddings of immediate family members, funerals of grandparents, kids accomplishments like riding bikes- going to first day of school etc...

They gave me 4 hours off to go downstairs to be with my wife during her c-section, then back to work.

 

[esclavo]

They gave me 4 hours off to go downstairs to be with my wife during her c-section, then back to work.

shucks, that was awefully kind of 'em... I took call the day of and the night my wife had a baby. Those kind upper residents thought that it was easier since "I was already in the hospital".... I never thought anything of it. I felt lucky to be there when esclavito saw his first light of day. Later in the year when the program director found out from my wife at a social function, he read my upper residents the riot act and I gained instantaneous credibility in the eyes of the attendings. Multiple times he told my upper residents that I was tougher and more reliable than them... which was true

 

[toofache32]

... I took call the day of and the night my wife had a baby. Those kind upper residents thought that it was easier since "I was already in the hospital"....

I did the same thing. She had the baby on a Thursday, so I stayed in the hospital from Thursday until I went home with her on Sunday.

 

[north2southOMFS]

Just how expensive are these 4-6yr long programs including degrees/educational expenses/living...... TOTAL BILL for everything?
Just curious

Ten dollars I think.

 

[scalpel2008]

i just voluntarily signed away another year of my life (renewed my contract) today. I feel like I'm up for parole when i go into the graduate medical office to do that. 738 days left. At least i get 46K and change my 5th year, not bad for the midwest.

 

[scalpel2008]

Those kind upper residents thought that it was easier since "I was already in the hospital".... I never thought anything of it.

That's absurd! I would take my intern's call in that situation, even if I were the chief. In situations like that, there's life and there's residency.