Dental Student Email Signature?

[KittySquared]

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What does yours look like? I'm trying to come up with a non pretentious email signature for my gmail account for dental school, and I've seen a couple of the "DDS Candidate" and a string of club officer titles before, and all I can say is pretentious pretentious pretentious. Maybe it's not pretentious?

How about if you have a prior degree like JD or MS etc? Do you put them in there? Discuss amongst yourselves please. Thanks.

 

[lnngu]

Name
School
Class of

 

[Bereno]

Bereno
UConn School of Dental Medicine
D.M.D. Candidate, Class of 2016
school email
phone number

 

[jay47]

Bereno
UConn School of Dental Medicine
D.M.D. Candidate, Class of 2016
school email
phone number

👍

 

[dmdluffy]

Bereno
UConn School of Dental Medicine
D.M.D. Candidate, Class of 2016
school email
phone number

Bereno's is pretty spot on. The only potential addition would be if you have a national position which requires lots of correspondence.

 

[NDPitch]

Mine would probably be...

ndpitch
Dental Student - Class of 2017
SUNY Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
phone number
email address

 

[Bereno]

Mine would probably be...

ndpitch
Dental Student - Class of 2017
SUNY Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
phone number
email address

Just prefer the different order? lol 😀

 

[NDPitch]

Just switching the order? lol 😀

That, and taking out the candidate and degree designation. I'd put DDS in my sig after I graduated. That's just my style.

Lol 🙂

 

[oreoson]

I have DDS Cand. in my email signature, and yes some of my classmates think it's pretentious just like you. I think it's only pretentious in sofar as you wanna show off your credentials to your recipients, but it's widely accepted in academic milieu and some students have good reasons for having it. For example, I did grad studies in non-clinical prosthondontics in Canada, and I am a correspondent author for many dental publications, so it shows my previous and current education background as MSc, DDS (Cand.) in all my papers.

 

[Bereno]

That, and taking out the candidate and degree designation. I'd put DDS in my sig after I graduated. That's just my style.

Lol 🙂

lol, yeah, I hear ya. I based mine off of what my school recommends specifically for our school email. Since everyone here is getting the same DMD, it more or less just shows what year you will be graduating I guess. If I were to do research, or publish anything, the "D.M.D. candidate" title would not follow my name.

 

[jay47]

lol, yeah, I hear ya. I based mine off of what my school recommends specifically for our school email. Since everyone here is getting the same DMD, it more or less just shows what year you will be graduating I guess. If I were to do research, or publish anything, the "D.M.D. candidate" title would not follow my name.

You could always put, "Class of 201X" after as well, that might not sound as "pretentious",but I didn't think "DDS Candidate" sounded so myself.

 

[ATG20]

That, and taking out the candidate and degree designation. I'd put DDS in my sig after I graduated. That's just my style.

Lol 🙂

Name
UCLA School of Dentistry, c/o 2017

Email
Phone

I, too, omitted the whole DDS/DMD candidate thing. I don't have the degree yet, and I'm not a candidate. I'm a student. PhD programs have candidacy to which you're advanced at a certain point in your program.

 

[Bereno]

Name
UCLA School of Dentistry, c/o 2017

Email
Phone

I, too, omitted the whole DDS/DMD candidate thing. I don't have the degree yet, and I'm not a candidate. I'm a student. PhD programs have candidacy to which you're advanced at a certain point in your program.

Yeah, that's true - we are not PhD students... Come to think of it, now I am wondering why the "DMD candidacy" was used as an example. Meh, I might look into it after finals lol

 

[Seahawk]

I don't know exactly but putting candidate or student in the sig sounds funny to me. If you just put you're a DDS student of whatever class, people can see that you're a student.


Seahawk
X School of Dentistry
DDS Class of 20XX
XXX-XXX-XXXX
[email protected]

 

[Bereno]

Just as an update, after looking through my past emails, it seems that most students here (both MD and DMD) use the "candidate". Looks to be school specific I guess?

 

[AlbinoPolarBear]

Just as an update, after looking through my past emails, it seems that most students here (both MD and DMD) use the "candidate". Looks to be school specific I guess?

Yeah, no one is that pretentious at our school.

 

[oreoson]

In the strict sense, can·di·date means
1. A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.
2. A student who has nearly completed the requirements for a degree.
3. One that seems likely to gain a certain position or come to a certain fate: young actors who are candidates for stardom; a memorandum that is a good candidate for the trash can. So I guess we should refrain from using "candidate" as a degree designation until we are nearly done with our DDS/DMD.

 

[Bereno]

Lol, I would only call it pretentious if I was the only one - its the standard here

Also, oeroson, a DDS/DMD student is "likely to gain a certain position or come to a certain fate" ie, is likely to become a dentist lol 😀

 

[AlbinoPolarBear]

Bereno, it means your entire school is pretentious... Haha. Just teasing you dude.

About the candidate thing, you don't really have to be almost done to call yourself a candidate. You start calling PhD students candidates after they pass their comprehensive exam. This is usually a year or two after starting their PhD. And a PhD takes an average of 7 years to complete.

 

[KittySquared]

Lol I like this "candidate" debate here. I don't know if I'd put that word in my signature, even if it's commonly used. It sounds (to me) like I'm putting my dental student status on such a pedestal. I'm just a student for crying out loud. I can't take it!! *turns beet red*

 

[219122]

I don't know exactly but putting candidate or student in the sig sounds funny to me. If you just put you're a DDS student of whatever class, people can see that you're a student.


Seahawk
X School of Dentistry
DDS Class of 20XX
XXX-XXX-XXXX
[email protected]

This was mine, minus the phone number and email (since I'm emailing you so you can just hit reply. I know our class officers put their position in there too.

 

[yappy]

Don't forget to add all the misc certs, BA/BS, or AA degree you may have earned!

Yappy
DDS Candidate
Class of 20XX
ANON School of Dentistry
Biology, BS
General Studies, AA
AHA CPR, Certificate
Webelos, Boy Scoutes of America
...

 

[ttpharm]

Don't forget to add all the misc certs, BA/BS, or AA degree you may have earned!

Yappy
DDS Candidate
Class of 20XX
ANON School of Dentistry
Biology, BS
General Studies, AA
AHA CPR, Certificate
Webelos, Boy Scoutes of America
...