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From all the public dental health courses my class was required to take, I get the impression that those who go for MPH after getting their DDS seems well-prepared for administrative and research posts (especially into areas such as epidemiology).
HTH!
HTH!
In clinical dentistry your concern is the individual patient, in dental public health you are concerned with the whole society's dental health and yes it involves doing ALOT of research so you get training in subjects like biostatistics, epidemiology, methodology of research ...etc.
Dental Public Health officers are also involved in monitoring and planning for the society.
It's an interesting field but I think you have to be into doing such things as research to like it
Dental Public Health officers are also involved in monitoring and planning for the society.
It's an interesting field but I think you have to be into doing such things as research to like it
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hi.
i just wanted to mention my current experience with public health.
im a current MPH student in NJ, and have already finished up a year.
My public health stance in dentistry landed me a spot in Columbia dental school.
those medical professionals with an MPH will prove to be the most prepared in handling the changing demographics (babyboomers, rise in the uninsured)...those who choose to argue with me feel guilty that they don't have the degree and want to save face.
after i discover something huge in dentistry, i plan to work and teach students at a dental school....a laid back, beautiful, rewarding life that'll keep you young.
the MPH will have you talking about other things in dentistry besides money...
a true passion
no clowning around
teefpulla!
i just wanted to mention my current experience with public health.
im a current MPH student in NJ, and have already finished up a year.
My public health stance in dentistry landed me a spot in Columbia dental school.
those medical professionals with an MPH will prove to be the most prepared in handling the changing demographics (babyboomers, rise in the uninsured)...those who choose to argue with me feel guilty that they don't have the degree and want to save face.
after i discover something huge in dentistry, i plan to work and teach students at a dental school....a laid back, beautiful, rewarding life that'll keep you young.
the MPH will have you talking about other things in dentistry besides money...
a true passion
no clowning around
teefpulla!
An MPH in addition to a DDS degree is indeed very respectable... But let's face it-- It's all personal preference. Out of my class of 91 students the number who will be pursuing MPH after their DDS can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Some people find that stuff fascinating, some find it bores them to tears (especially the average second-year dental student sitting in the public dental health lecture course who is loaded down with courses and preclinical requirements and wishes he/she is somewhere else, heh heh).
One doesn't have to be an MPH to teach in dental school... Indeed, my sister finished a 1-year GPR and that's good enough to net her a part-time position as a clinical instructor in NYUCD's AEGD program.
One doesn't have to be an MPH to teach in dental school... Indeed, my sister finished a 1-year GPR and that's good enough to net her a part-time position as a clinical instructor in NYUCD's AEGD program.
If the original poster, or anybody else, is interested: the MPH is part of the curriculum at Arizona, so all students will be taking MPH courses along with our DDS courses.
Hi Tom, good question. No, not everybody will get that degree unless they choose to pursue it. EVERYBODY will get a certificate in Public Health, but to obtain the Masters in Public Health an additional 4 classes must be taken. Most students will take these additional classes during the summers after 2nd year.
Every student has the option of getting the MPH, and because the curriculum has MOST (minus the 4 other classes) built into it, I suspect that most of us will go ahead and get the MPH.
