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Are there actual Dental school ranks? If so, can someone post it here? Just curious.
So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guessThere aren’t any official Dental School ranks. Ranking stopped some time ago, and even then the rankings were pretty poor becuase they were based on board scores and NIH funding, I believe. Of course that doesn’t really say much about the quality of clinicians coming from a given School.
Lol.So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guess
Wow. Thank you for putting words in my mouth. All I said was this is how rankings were conducted in the past... and now there aren’t rankings anymore because people smarter than you and I sat down and thought “hrm, maybe there is more to a Dental School than NIH funding and Board Scores.”So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guess
So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..?
Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research?
Bud if you want to match an extremely research oriented program within a specialty, then this might matter. But afaik, dental students trying to specialize often don't give a crap about matching in an academic program or one that cares a lot about research because most dental students want to do private practice. In the world of medicine this research and board proficiency matters b/c it's constantly a test of trying to go to a higher level for the ambitious students: high ranking school -> high competitiveness specialty -> high ranking program within said specialty -> prestigious fellowship -> work at prestigious hospital. Not so in dentistry- if you did academic OMFS you would get way lower pay than private practice, and faculty at dental schools get paid lower than those at med schools for the most part.So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guess
We should consider having a FAQ page.
I would choose a dentist who can do good work instead of publication.So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guess
So are you claiming that a NIH funding and board proficiency aren't important factors..? Would you rather a school produce run of the mill general dentists with clinical competency or teach students the importance of evidence-based research and advancement in dentistry through basic and clinical research? I'd say the latter is more important.. It really depends on what you want in a career, I guess
He's probably just salty because Michigan claims to be #1 based off those criteria.Wow. Thank you for putting words in my mouth. All I said was this is how rankings were conducted in the past... and now there aren’t rankings anymore because people smarter than you and I sat down and thought “hrm, maybe there is more to a Dental School than NIH funding and Board Scores.”
I didn’t know the University of Virginia had a dental school hahahWorth checking out: DENTRANK | Official Dental School Rankings