do you get a GPA during your residency if you decide to go into specialty?

[dieanotherday]

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just wondering out of curiosity

 

[Contach]

no

 

[dieanotherday]

Once you get into a specialty are there still tests or certifications one would need to pass

Has anyone ever been kicked out of residency for poor performance?

How do residency directors determine if you truly learned without tests/gpa?

 

[Contach]

Mmm...

I don't think I've heard of anyone getting kicked out due to poor performance, but I've heard of people getting kicked out for bad behavior (skipping call, ignoring work that needs to get done), and unlawful behavior (DUI in one instance, letting non-hospital employees do work in the hospital, and an arrest in a 3rd instance). This is pretty rare, though...

Learning is sort of up to you at this point.. In residency, you have a lot of autonomy, and make decisions on your own often. It is one step closer to being in the working world, but with the fallback of having someone to get help from who is nearby.

Faculty/attendings will ask you questions to gauge your knowledge - this is one way they figure out if you know your stuff. Some programs have internal tests, but far and few between. OMFS has something called the OMSITE, where almost all oral surgery residents nation wide take the test - but it's more of a gauge for your own benefit to track your learning progress.

To be a "board certified" specialist, you must pass a board exam. Depending on the specialty, this could be a paper exam, oral, case log, or a combination of the aforementioned. However, you can practice in the USA, and say you are a specialist without even challenging the board exam - so long as you have graduated from a specialty program.

 

[dieanotherday]

Thank you for the insight

 

[thirstyscholar]

No GPA.

Social skills reign supreme.

 

[sgv]

Thank you for the insight

and if you wanna do a fellowship, you get one because of who you know. the higher you go up in education, the fewer people there are and there's probably only two degrees of separation between omfs faculty across the us.

 

[dieanotherday]

and if you wanna do a fellowship, you get one because of who you know. the higher you go up in education, the fewer people there are and there's probably only two degrees of separation between omfs facutly across the us.

What is a fellowship in this context?

 

[sgv]

What is a fellowship in this context?

it's for oral surgery where you specialize further into head & neck cancer, craniofacial, plastic etc. and embark on a journey across middle earth to mordor and destroy the one ring which rules them all.

 

[dieanotherday]

it's for oral surgery where you specialize further into head & neck cancer, craniofacial, etc. and embark on a journey across middle earth to mordor and destroy the one ring which rules them all.

is this more geared towards dentists or the MD side?
thanks for all the information btw

 

[sgv]

is this more geared towards dentists or the MD side?
thanks for all the information btw

i would think so. CMistry would know.

 

[CMistry]

is this more geared towards dentists or the MD side?
thanks for all the information btw

Not exactly sure what you're asking here, but the fields mentioned are all hospital-based so they do stray pretty far from dentistry. They are fellowships which one can optionally pursue after OMFS to increase their skills/ become more specialized.