does your school have any failed med stud?

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Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

 

[45540]

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

Oh, so since you might fail out of med school you think you'll try your hand at dental school since it's so much easier?

 

[the big wand]

A lot of my classmates are actually looking forward to returning to med courses after we're done with our dentistry stuff next week. The exam is way easier in med courses--all multiple choices and one final at a time. Dentistry just squeezes all the final exams in last week, which is a killer. And we still have lectures and labs during the exam week. Plus, the exams are not entirely multiple choiced; some are even essay type exams. 😱

 

[aphistis]

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

You're no more likely to be admitted to dental school after failing out of med than you are to be admitted to med school a second time.

 

[dr_benj]

Why would a dental school want to accept someone who failed out of another professional school. They have many more well qualified applicants. It would be too risky to accept you.

 

[toofache32]

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

Why dental school? As someone who has done both, I can assure you that if you can't hack med school, you will crash and burn even worse in dental school. It's not that the material is more difficult, but there is a greater volume they ask you to learn and it requires much more time.

 

[Dr.SpongeBobDDS]

That's a negative, buddy. Just not going to happen. Sorry. 🙁

Your best bet is to turn off the Playstation, get a tutor, and suck it up. We have class 8-5 and a lot of the gunners still go home and study straight through until midnight, wake up and do it all over again. If lowly dental students can do it, surely you can handle that for a semester - or at least long enough to get a passing grade. 🙂 You've worked too hard to just bail when the going gets tough. Hang in there, you can do it.

 

[lnn2]

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

Yes, it's very possible 😀 90% of my class were failed med students 😀
Can you imagine doing your 2-3yrs residency in the same time while enrolling in med school? That's what dental school feels like, yrs 1-3. To apply for d school, you have to go through the whole application process again just like med school.
I suggest staying in med school, unless medicine is not for you.

 

[Cross]

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

I don't get why people think dental school is easier than medical school. Most people can read and pass exams in medical and dental school, but not everybody can handle the lab work in dental school. If you can't make it in medical school. I don't think that you can make it dental school. Just my opinion.

 

[Jediwendell]

I believe that it is actually much more difficult to get into San Antonio's dental school than the medical school. The same holds true for many places anymore. Dental school is getting very competitive. I wouldn't hold my breath about failing out and getting into dental school. Maybe cosmetology...................

 

[lnn2]

or Custodial Engineering...

 

[LestatZinnie]

if you're not good with your hands or don't like to work with your hands, then dont even consider dental school. at my school there's a few upper years who had to repeat their clinical year, not because they can't pass the didatics, but because they don't have the manual/technical skills.

in both medical and dental school, getting through the "book" part is easy. it's the clinics that's challenging.

 

[lnn2]

if you're not good with your hands or don't like to work with your hands, then dont even consider dental school. at my school there's a few upper years who had to repeat their clinical year, not because they can't pass the didatics, but because they don't have the manual/technical skills.

in both medical and dental school, getting through the "book" part is easy. it's the clinics that's challenging.

Well said 👍

 

[Jone]

sorry to break this to you, but dental school is HARDER than med school.

we take all the same classes as the med students, but on top of that we have pre-clinic labwork up the butthole. our workload is at least 25% more than med school.

and honestly, if you're failing out of med school, you aren't too bright. dental school is hard, but not so hard that any reasonable student would be in jeopardy of failing.

dental school is hard, but not so hard that any reasonable student would be in jeopardy of failing.

sorry dude, about med school. such is life...

Does your school have any failed med stud? I am just wondering if dental schools will accept failed med students or not. I currently enroll in a med school, but not doing so well in certain class. In case I fail out med school, I am planning to go to dental schools. Is it possible?

 

[Jediwendell]

sorry to break this to you, but dental school is HARDER than med school.

we take all the same classes as the med students, but on top of that we have pre-clinic labwork up the butthole. our workload is at least 25% more than med school.

and honestly, if you're failing out of med school, you aren't too bright. dental school is hard, but not so hard that any reasonable student would be in jeopardy of failing.

sorry dude, about med school. such is life...

Don't think med school is easy. Yes, dental school involves more work during the first two years, but years three and four kindof stabilize a bit. The last two years of medical school aren't a cup of tea. Being awake for three days straight on trauma surgery sucks a lot. It also sucks on medicine. And Peds. Medical school sucks in general. Regardless, this guy has a snowball's chance in hell of getting into dental school.

 

[lnn2]

..... this guy has a snowball's chance in hell of getting into dental school.

 

[coolness]

What are some of the reasons why some of you think dental school is harder than medical school?

 

[psiyung]

What are some of the reasons why some of you think dental school is harder than medical school?

My brother is currently in med school. The reason I feel that dental school is a bit tougher is that we have heavier course loads every semester, and the "hands-on" part of dentistry takes a bit of time trying to get down.

 

[toofache32]

What are some of the reasons why some of you think dental school is harder than medical school?

Easy....I've done both.

Dental school was WAY more difficult and stressful than med school. The med students don't take near as many courses and the material is much more spoon-fed. Of course, I can only speak for the dental and medical schools I am/have attended. I haven't had this much free time since college. I even had time to work as a TA for the med student gross anatomy course on the side. I developed a champion beer-gut in med school because I had time to drink most nights. Dental school was way more stressful for me because the patients are so unpredictable. If a patient doesn't show up in dental school people cry. In med school you cry if a patient DOES show up because then you can't go home early.

I think the main reason for all this is because in dental school you take the core science courses like the med students, but then you have your dental courses on top of it. You're basiclally doing your residency at the same time. That's why you can be done after 4 years of dental school and have skills to go out and open a practice. On the other hand, med students have to do residency because they're not competent to do anything upon graduation except an H&P and tracking down x-rays.

 

[BSSO]

Dude that has to be the coolest pic i've ever seen, sorry to be off topic.

 

[texas_dds]

wendell i think you are right about san antonio dental and med admissions. ive always felt some resentment from the med students here because the Health Science Center 'pays more attention' to the dental school than most. you would know the best since you did your MD here - did you ever hear stuff like that from them? i am in no way suggesting that med school is easy, but seriously dental school is no piece of cake. the whole thing about clinic that was so hard for me to swallow was how little control i had over things like patients who dont show or pay or not finding the requirements i needed. its a very 9-5 life but NOT easy.

my mother is an ICU nurse and she was the one who convinced me NOT to go to med school despite having a killer MCAT score and all that. the crap she had seen in the hospitals with the way medical residents are treated and the way they end up treating the other staff when they become 'real doctors' was not something she wanted to see me go through. i thank her all the time for talking sense into me!!!! in fact, i was in the dallas airport a few weeks ago on the way to an ortho interview - i had my part 2 dental decks w/me and two men at the airport bar asked me what i was studying - i told them dental blah blah and they immediately stood up and said "you made the right choice! we are both physicians and would NEVER do it again. we both wish we had done dentistry." it was nice to hear!

i think that the ability to get right out after 4 years and get going in practice more than makes up for the grind we go through in dental school. we should not respond too harshly to our med school friend here - he/she will find out on their own that getting into dental school after failing out of med will happen sometime around when Texas finally beats OU in the red river shootout. GO SOONERS!

 

[Jediwendell]

I think the medical school at SA actually knows how good the dental school is. They gave me nothing but the upmost respect in most instances. Sometimes some friendly ribbing, but nothing I didn't return in kind.

 

[MsPurtell]

Ask our med counterparts here at UConn. They were the ones who repeatedly asked us how we dealt with all the additional classes, labs, practicals, quizzes, tests and so on that we dealt with during the first two years IN ADDITION to the medical curriculum.

What are some of the reasons why some of you think dental school is harder than medical school?

 

[albany11]

Ask our med counterparts here at UConn. They were the ones who repeatedly asked us how we dealt with all the additional classes, labs, practicals, quizzes, tests and so on that we dealt with during the first two years IN ADDITION to the medical curriculum.

In my opinion, 🙄
we can't compare medical school versus dental school as they are two different curriculum.

I do not not think medical school is any easier than dental school.

Of course, it is true : they do have more time to relax and study, but

most medical students do have more in depth knowledge in each subject (as

they study longer-most students .


In no way is dentistry easy, but it is not for everyone. I am sure there is

a bunch of dental students who applied to dental school after medical school

rejected them. Anyways, it is still possible to get accepted into a dental

school as long as you can prove why you had soo much difficulty?
Just a thought

 

[LestatZinnie]

In my opinion, 🙄
we can't compare medical school versus dental school as they are two different curriculum.

I do not not think medical school is any easier than dental school.

Of course, it is true : they do have more time to relax and study, but

most medical students do have more in depth knowledge in each subject (as

they study longer-most students .


In no way is dentistry easy, but it is not for everyone. I am sure there is

a bunch of dental students who applied to dental school after medical school

rejected them. Anyways, it is still possible to get accepted into a dental

school as long as you can prove why you had soo much difficulty?
Just a thought

being rejected from med school then applying to dental school is very different from FAILING out of med school then applying. in fact, in some schools i applied to they ask if you've ever withdrawn from a professional school. they also say if you're a failed student from another dental school, then they won't consider you. this is canada though. perhaps some private schools are less privy to this than $$.

the only good way i see this person getting in dent school is to withdrawal from med school before they fail him/her, and have a good reason ready for admissions.

 

[MsPurtell]

You missed my point. At UConn, med and dental students do the SAME med curriculum in the first two years.......we hear the same lectures, in the same room everday, take the same exams, must pass IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL. Dental students have the additional burdens during those first two years that I mentioned. That answers cool's question as to why dental school is harder, at least during the first two years.

In my opinion, 🙄
we can't compare medical school versus dental school as they are two different curriculum.

I do not not think medical school is any easier than dental school.

Of course, it is true : they do have more time to relax and study, but

most medical students do have more in depth knowledge in each subject (as

they study longer-most students .


In no way is dentistry easy, but it is not for everyone. I am sure there is

a bunch of dental students who applied to dental school after medical school

rejected them. Anyways, it is still possible to get accepted into a dental

school as long as you can prove why you had soo much difficulty?
Just a thought

 

[Bruxomaniac]

in fact, i was in the dallas airport a few weeks ago on the way to an ortho interview - i had my part 2 dental decks w/me and two men at the airport bar asked me what i was studying - i told them dental blah blah and they immediately stood up and said "you made the right choice! we are both physicians and would NEVER do it again. we both wish we had done dentistry." it was nice to hear!

I can't begin to tell you how many physicians have told me the same thing.