DDS PHD?

[taeyeonlover]

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Has anyone done this program? After completing both degrees, how do you still maintain your hand skills? I noticed that some schools do dds first and then phd so I'm curious. Do you do some extra clinical training after graduation?

 

[cacajuate]

I don't mean to belittle your idea but whats the point? You stand to gain no financial ground with a phd. I can only see this as a good idea if you want to be apart of a school your entire career.

Funny story. I know a DDS/PHD that is finishing up his accumulated 8 years of school and is trying to finish his dissertation. He has no job offers and looks so miserable every time I talk to him. He is always complaining about how he wasted 4 years + 4 more years of debt.

 

[taeyeonlover]

I don't mean to belittle your idea but whats the point? You stand to gain no financial ground with a phd. I can only see this as a good idea if you want to be apart of a school your entire career.

Funny story. I know a DDS/PHD that is finishing up his accumulated 8 years of school and is trying to finish his dissertation. He has no job offers and looks so miserable every time I talk to him. He is always complaining about how he wasted 4 years + 4 more years of debt.

just being curious, why does he not have any job offers?

 

[Accordion]

Most folks say the hand skills come right back. However, I will also note that many are not terribly concerned about their hand skills ... If he has no job offers he is doing something wrong. Please see doi:10.1177/2380084416673346 ... there is clearly a demand for dual trained individuals.

 

[321931]

I know of one person doing it. This person works part time on the weekends to make money. They want to be in the academic field and be a teacher.

 

[Accordion]

Working outside during these programs is certainly an outlier.

 

[Accordion]

pretty sure it's a regular occurrence at some DDS PhD programs (e.g. at Univ. Washington since they let you do DDS first then move onto PhD during which you can supposedly work as a dentist)

Practicing dentistry? Certainly, depending the program set-up, but that is part of the program set-up. I don't want to mislead people and think you can work at a bakery or something, because that would be difficult

 

[Accordion]

also you are technically "working" as a research assistant during PhD years and get paid...

Please note this discussion was brought up because of my comment on "Working outside." Working as a research assistant, etc is working "within" the program, not outside. Additionally, not all programs pay their students (though they probably aren't worthwhile programs.) Cheers.

 

[laundry]

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