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[dentinmolar]

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Hi,

I am a 2010 dental school graduate planning to join the Navy and hopefully retire from it one day. I would like to eventually specialize in endo. I am contemplating doing a civilian AEGD or GPR prior to entering the Navy. Any thoughts on how that might help or hurt my application to Navy endo? Any suggestions on how best to manage my career to move me in the direction of Navy endo? Would I be better to wait and do GPR/AEGD in the Navy? Do both? Do comp in the Navy? Anyone know how difficult it is or how long it takes to get into Navy AEGD/GPR/Comp?

Thanks!

 

[Tiankum]

This is just my own opinion, but I would contact a recruiter and ask them those types of questions. I'm not sure you can even do an AEGD if you didn't graduate already being in the Navy, (anyone please correct me if I'm wrong on that). Getting into the Navy period takes a few months from the start of talking with a recruiter. I would plan on it taking 6 months. So the sooner you talk to them and get the application going, the better you are.

 

[vellnueve]

I'm not sure you can even do an AEGD if you didn't graduate already being in the Navy, (anyone please correct me if I'm wrong on that).

You stand corrected. Direct accessions CAN do PGY-1 programs although the process is more complicated.

 

[Tiankum]

You stand corrected. Direct accessions CAN do PGY-1 programs although the process is more complicated.

Good to know, thanks! I have a classmate that would love to year this info.

 

[drill-and-fill]

Hi,

I am a 2010 dental school graduate planning to join the Navy and hopefully retire from it one day. I would like to eventually specialize in endo. I am contemplating doing a civilian AEGD or GPR prior to entering the Navy. Any thoughts on how that might help or hurt my application to Navy endo? Any suggestions on how best to manage my career to move me in the direction of Navy endo? Would I be better to wait and do GPR/AEGD in the Navy? Do both? Do comp in the Navy? Anyone know how difficult it is or how long it takes to get into Navy AEGD/GPR/Comp?

Thanks!

Check out the link below; it seems for 2012, there were 13 applicants for comp for 5 spots.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=12748450

 

[del Sol DOHC]

Hi,

I am a 2010 dental school graduate planning to join the Navy and hopefully retire from it one day. I would like to eventually specialize in endo. I am contemplating doing a civilian AEGD or GPR prior to entering the Navy. Any thoughts on how that might help or hurt my application to Navy endo? Any suggestions on how best to manage my career to move me in the direction of Navy endo? Would I be better to wait and do GPR/AEGD in the Navy? Do both? Do comp in the Navy? Anyone know how difficult it is or how long it takes to get into Navy AEGD/GPR/Comp?

Thanks!

Do not do a Comp residency if Endodontics is your ultimate goal. In the Navy, Comprehensive Dentistry is pretty much considered a specialty in its own right. It would be the same as completing a Prosthodontics residency, and then asking to do an Endo residency. In other words, not very likely.

 

[Hedgy]

I would do an in-service AEGD vs out service. If you are looking at a career, then the additional year is not that big of a deal and would give you a 4-year commitment. You may have to complete a year at a duty station before getting into an AEGD program, but I think as a Direct Accession you may have more weight as to where you want to be assigned vs. an already committed AEGD. I personally think the residencies in the military are far superior to those out service.

 

[NAVY DDS 2010]

This is just my own opinion, but I would contact a recruiter and ask them those types of questions. I'm not sure you can even do an AEGD if you didn't graduate already being in the Navy, (anyone please correct me if I'm wrong on that). Getting into the Navy period takes a few months from the start of talking with a recruiter. I would plan on it taking 6 months. So the sooner you talk to them and get the application going, the better you are.

Here is another area you are wrong - DO NOT ask these questions of your recruiter. They do not know. Most only care about meeting their recruiting numbers they are assigned each year. I can gurantee you this. I worked with the recruiters for a while in dental school when I had to take time off for family medical reasons. Recruiters are not dentists. They do not care about the ins and outs of the dental career path. Your best bet is to get in touch with the Navy dental career planner or and ask one of the Navy Endodontists who teach at the Endo program in Bethesda and see what they recommend.

 

[Silent Cool]

Here is another area you are wrong - DO NOT ask these questions of your recruiter. They do not know. Most only care about meeting their recruiting numbers they are assigned each year. I can gurantee you this. I worked with the recruiters for a while in dental school when I had to take time off for family medical reasons. Recruiters are not dentists. They do not care about the ins and outs of the dental career path. Your best bet is to get in touch with the Navy dental career planner or and ask one of the Navy Endodontists who teach at the Endo program in Bethesda and see what they recommend.

Navy,

Are you thinking about specializing when you finish?

 

[Tiankum]

Here is another area you are wrong - DO NOT ask these questions of your recruiter. They do not know. Most only care about meeting their recruiting numbers they are assigned each year. I can gurantee you this. I worked with the recruiters for a while in dental school when I had to take time off for family medical reasons. Recruiters are not dentists. They do not care about the ins and outs of the dental career path. Your best bet is to get in touch with the Navy dental career planner or and ask one of the Navy Endodontists who teach at the Endo program in Bethesda and see what they recommend.

That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it like everyone else. But don't be a recruiter basher. Many of them do their jobs well. A good recruiter, if he/she doesn't know, would make the necessary phone calls and relay the info back to the person asking the questions. Yes, I agree, making a call to the Navy dental career planner is a good idea, but leaving out the recruiting office, in my opinion, is idiotic...again, that's my opinion and i'm entitled to it.

 

[drlongisland]

Right now there's a $300,000 bonus for 4 year commitment to active duty in the Navy for a comp dentist.. I got a $150,000 for general dentist even though I'm filling a comp spot, because of 21 years of experience.

 

[Hedgy]

Funny how you can practice 20 years and not be considered Comp, but they sure will use you to fill a Comp billet (which is good for you). I can download all the procedures I've done off of my software and I'm sure would qualify me (possibly even more so) for a Comp designation. So what happens after 4 years, if you decide to stay in. Would you qualify for a MYRB? I know a lot of the CAPTs from my residency were "grandfathered" into Comp because they didn't have the residency back then. I wonder if you can get the same.

I think the only way you may be able to circumvent the Comp thing without the residency is by getting board certified in general dentistry. Then again, maybe not.

 

[drlongisland]

They actually wanted to send me to Great Lakes, Parris Island, Lemoore or Quantico.Shoul I have held out for comp and received the $300,000.? I don't know about the myrb. I'll ask though.

Funny how you can practice 20 years and not be considered Comp, but they sure will use you to fill a Comp billet (which is good for you). I can download all the procedures I've done off of my software and I'm sure would qualify me (possibly even more so) for a Comp designation. So what happens after 4 years, if you decide to stay in. Would you qualify for a MYRB? I know a lot of the CAPTs from my residency were "grandfathered" into Comp because they didn't have the residency back then. I wonder if you can get the same.

I think the only way you may be able to circumvent the Comp thing without the residency is by getting board certified in general dentistry. Then again, maybe not.