DDS/PhD programs

[duke2121]

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Do you have to take the GRE and do you apply first to the dental school and if you get admitted you apply for the dual degree program? Is that how it typically works?

 

[mustardseed5]

It depends on the school. UIC requires GRE and separate applications for each program. Michigan requires you be admitted to the dental program before you apply for the PhD program. Those are the two I am familiar with, but you should check out each schools website, it should all be there for ya. How serious are you? I am toying with the idea of possibly considering this route...

 

[duke2121]

It depends on the school. UIC requires GRE and separate applications for each program. Michigan requires you be admitted to the dental program before you apply for the PhD program. Those are the two I am familiar with, but you should check out each schools website, it should all be there for ya. How serious are you? I am toying with the idea of possibly considering this route...

I'm researching it more, but as of now I am pretty interested in applying for it at a school.

 

[mustardseed5]

It is supposed to be pretty rigorous. The sequence of the program varies by school, but the thought of writing grant proposals to fund a project during the first two years of dental school courses is what frightens me most.

 

[UCLAzy]

It depends on the school. UIC requires GRE and separate applications for each program. Michigan requires you be admitted to the dental program before you apply for the PhD program. Those are the two I am familiar with, but you should check out each schools website, it should all be there for ya. How serious are you? I am toying with the idea of possibly considering this route...

wow you're wrong even with one your familiar with? i wonder what that says about the ones you're not sure about..

 

[mustardseed5]

wow you're wrong even with one your familiar with? i wonder what that says about the ones you're not sure about..

http://dentistry.uic.edu/depts/admissions/dmdphd/index.cfm
"Candidates must complete separate applications for the DMD and PhD in Oral Sciences."

http://www.dent.umich.edu/phd/home/prospectives/admission/dual
"Applicants for the DDS/PhD program must first be accepted into the DDS program at the University of Michigan."

I'm sorry, what is wrong?

 

[UCLAzy]

http://dentistry.uic.edu/depts/admissions/dmdphd/index.cfm
"Candidates must complete separate applications for the DMD and PhD in Oral Sciences."

http://www.dent.umich.edu/phd/home/prospectives/admission/dual
"Applicants for the DDS/PhD program must first be accepted into the DDS program at the University of Michigan."

I'm sorry, what is wrong?

gre is not required. ask Katherine

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[mustardseed5]

gre is not required. ask Katherine

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Sorry for the misinformation. I would never purposely mislead anybody, nor would I take a guess at something I didn't know about. I got it from this page:

http://dentistry.uic.edu/depts/admissions/phd/index.cfm?m=4&o=4#


I appreciate your sharing this nformation with me. 🙂

 

[duke2121]

thats cool. At Maryland you can apply for the PhD program even in your first or second year of dental school. Yeah, after reading more about this, it makes dental school so much more rigorous! Sounds like a worthwhile experience though if you get admitted for it. Maryland only offers it to two students, ha wow.

 

[UCLAzy]

keep in mind, if you do this program it means you're usually going to be ending up spending 20% of your time seeing patients (at best) and 80% doing research for the rest of your career. (unless you decide not to get a research position...at which point you wasted 4 years getting a PhD)

 

[duke2121]

keep in mind, if you do this program it means you're usually going to be ending up spending 20% of your time seeing patients (at best) and 80% doing research for the rest of your career. (unless you decide not to get a research position...at which point you wasted 4 years getting a PhD)

Hmm, that makes sense, I didn't think of that. Looking ahead, I might not want to do it as a career doing research, but I definitely want to do research at dental school.

 

[DoeAdeer]

Hmm, that makes sense, I didn't think of that. Looking ahead, I might not want to do it as a career doing research, but I definitely want to do research at dental school.

To specialize, si?

 

[UCLAzy]

if you want to do research to stand out for specialization (why else haha), i'd suggest doing either a masters (that confers both degrees in 4 years if your school offers it) or just volunteering time to do research and presenting at AADR or IADR and maybe publishing.

with all these p/f schools and boards, there's not much else you can do to stand out =\

 

[Predent36]

Hmm, that makes sense, I didn't think of that. Looking ahead, I might not want to do it as a career doing research, but I definitely want to do research at dental school.

Research has been a pretty significant part of my undergraduate experience. Like you, I would like to do some research as well in dental school but not make a career out of it.

I was wondering, when during the four years would be the best time to pursue research voluntarily?

 

[DoeAdeer]

I was wondering, when during the four years would be the best time to pursue research voluntarily?

summers before and after D1

 

[duke2121]

To specialize, si?

I enjoy doing research, pretty much my reason.

 

[DoeAdeer]

I enjoy doing research, pretty much my reason.

 

[thewobblytooth]

Look into Michigan. If you apply for the dual degree program, even if you aren't accepted, you'll still have a spot in the dental school. In terms of program quality, we've been in the top in terms of securing NIDCR funding of dental school institutions across the country. We have a variety of programs you could potentially do research in.

http://www.dent.umich.edu/phd/home/prospective/admission