Dental Associate Positions

[Sterichind69]

Hello Everyone,

I'm currently a GPR resident in New York. From those individuals who already finished their GPR and moved on to practice, where did you find listings for an dental associate position (website? other source?)? When in your GPR did you start sending out resumes and interviewing for that next position? What is a decent starting salary or % that an associate should look for? Any replys appreciated by myself and fresh dentists. THanks

Sterichind

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[jiggapigga]

Hello Everyone,

I'm currently a GPR resident in New York. From those individuals who already finished their GPR and moved on to practice, where did you find listings for an dental associate position (website? other source?)? When in your GPR did you start sending out resumes and interviewing for that next position? What is a decent starting salary or % that an associate should look for? Any replys appreciated by myself and fresh dentists. THanks

Sterichind

which gpr are u from?

 

[woody2]

i've been in an associate position for the past two years since graduating from dental school. several of my classmates took associate positions, too, and the going rate seemed to be a guaranteed minimum of $400 per day, or about $100k annual salary (mostly in northern california). some took fixed salary offers, but i took a %-based offer in arizona which has worked out well. my agreement started at 27% of collections (the practice has about a 95% collections rate on my production), then it increased to 30% at my 1-year renewal and 33% at my 2-year renewal (just this past august). my first year out i made about $140k, this year i'm on pace to earn $160-180k (all pre-tax of course). some of my classmates had to do a lot of hygiene in their arrangements, and i've heard of some associateships where you only get the procedures the senior dentist doesn't want to do, so i'd try to avoid that. some associateships pay a % of production, some a % of collections. mine is a % of collections, which was a big pain for the first two months of work because my collections hadn't come in yet. my practice offered 0% loans for any reason, though, so i was able to meet my expenses until i started getting paid.

as for how to find jobs, i started with the jada listings on the ada website. the job i found, though, i actually got through a newspaper ad. i had passed the wreb and california state boards, so i chose some states i'd be qualified to practice in that i'd consider living in (arizona, california, oregon) and looked at their online newspaper ads for major cities in those states, looking for dentist job listings. there were quite a few. i sent out resumes and cover letters and got interviews that way. another route to go is to call the state dental association and see if they have a resume bank you can submit your cv to for interested dentists to contact you, or if they have a listing of associateship positions. some have good websites, some don't.

good luck with your search!

 

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[akg]

who gets paid more and how much in these places ( on an average)???

BAY AREA - CALIFORNIA
CONNECTICUT- BRIDGEPORT-STAMFORD-NEW HAVEN
NEW YORK and all 5 BOROUGHS

 

[VCUDDS]

It all depends on the area where you are looking to practice after finishing your program. If you have an area set in mind, than you can either go to JADA ads, or go to the local dental school website they usually have ads listing for the sourronding area (more options than JADA), another option is to search for local placement services to match you with practices. Speaking from my own personal experience having a GPR will not give you an edgs in term of starting salary or percentage as it's more or less fixed for the area, again all depends on the area. For example I did my GPR in virginia and initially was looking at northern virginia most of the offers were in the 500$ minimum/day or 30% off of collections. I than had to look for work in the buffalo/niagara falls, NY area and the change was subtle in terms of offer (33%off of productions which is great on paper) but the problem was the quality of patient in that area, mostly HMO, very little fee for service. when comparing notes with my friends in virginia there is a difference of about 30-40K $ in favor of virginia!. I'm sure there are alot of other issues that factor in the selection process. Money is one factor (albiet very important one!), but you have to look at other things, at my current practice I pretty much do all the procedures that I was trained to do at my GPR which.

 

[VCUDDS]

is nice!

 

[akg]

is nice!

thanks for the input, insightful though

 

[Cold Front]

It all depends on the area where you are looking to practice after finishing your program. If you have an area set in mind, than you can either go to JADA ads, or go to the local dental school website they usually have ads listing for the sourronding area (more options than JADA), another option is to search for local placement services to match you with practices. Speaking from my own personal experience having a GPR will not give you an edgs in term of starting salary or percentage as it's more or less fixed for the area, again all depends on the area. For example I did my GPR in virginia and initially was looking at northern virginia most of the offers were in the 500$ minimum/day or 30% off of collections. I than had to look for work in the buffalo/niagara falls, NY area and the change was subtle in terms of offer (33%off of productions which is great on paper) but the problem was the quality of patient in that area, mostly HMO, very little fee for service. when comparing notes with my friends in virginia there is a difference of about 30-40K $ in favor of virginia!. I'm sure there are alot of other issues that factor in the selection process. Money is one factor (albiet very important one!), but you have to look at other things, at my current practice I pretty much do all the procedures that I was trained to do at my GPR which.

I am looking into northern VA area, particularly Fairfax county, but I heard it's a very saturated market for GPs or specialists.

what's Tyson Corner area like?

 

[VCUDDS]

you're right...it's saturated. you would have to go to the suburb mostly either west or south of fairfax to find a good opportunity full time in one practice. If you know dentists in the area it may be easier to get started. I remember most of practices i was looking into were west of ashburn or in gainesville/fredericksburg area all about 30-45 min from tyson's. Go to vcu's web site (www.dentistry.vcu.edu) and click on practice opportunities they list them by the area of interest in virginia that would be a good starting point.

Good luck

 

[Cold Front]

you're right...it's saturated. you would have to go to the suburb mostly either west or south of fairfax to find a good opportunity full time in one practice. If you know dentists in the area it may be easier to get started. I remember most of practices i was looking into were west of ashburn or in gainesville/fredericksburg area all about 30-45 min from tyson's. Go to vcu's web site (www.dentistry.vcu.edu) and click on practice opportunities they list them by the area of interest in virginia that would be a good starting point.

Good luck

Cool, thanks for the input. I think 45 mins commute is not bad, although the traffic sucks really bad to or from Tyson.

OP: Sorry for hijacking your thread!