Hawaii Dental School

[thomasjm]

So whats the deal with this dental school in Hawaii? Back when I was applying it was a choice, but now I can't even find a website for it? Did it not recieve accreditation (sp) or what? Seems kinda shady to me...lol

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[polarnut]

So whats the deal with this dental school in Hawaii? Back when I was applying it was a choice, but now I can't even find a website for it? Did it not recieve accreditation (sp) or what? Seems kinda shady to me...lol

a volcanoe hit it. going to dental school in hawaii would be....paradise. it wouldve been my #1 choice.

 

[thomasjm]

No kidding man, that would have been sweet. Although I vaguely remember some posts awhile back somewhere around here about some guy that had a shady past and was involved somehow. I just didn't know how it all worked out, and was curious.

 

[geckel]

So whats the deal with this dental school in Hawaii? Back when I was applying it was a choice, but now I can't even find a website for it? Did it not recieve accreditation (sp) or what? Seems kinda shady to me...lol

It is not accredited..........I heard that the school has to pay back the students that it accepted for their tuition 😱 .

 

[viciousseacow]

The University of Hawaii should just open one themselves. They complain that there isn't enough of a population to sustain the enrollment of a dental school on Oahu for UH to open one up. I don't buy that at all. I bet lots of great students and facutly would flock there just b/c of the location. Hell, sign me up and I'm there already! Yeah, the one that they tried to open up is some kind of a sham... the same ppl opened up a pharmacy school that wasn't accredited and $H!+ went flying (do a SDN search on the topic).

 

[JohnUNLV]

It is not accredited..........I heard that the school has to pay back the students that it accepted for their tuition 😱 .

I went to the pharmacy school in HI. Living in HI was paradise but the school was toture and ran by corrupt criminals who were finally forced to fold after investigations uncovered numerous legal violations. They are supposed to pay us back, but there is no money (they spent our tuition on luxury homes and cars in KY), so we got screwed and they got away with it. If you ever hear about David Monroe (aka Yacas), Denise Criswell or H.A. Hasan opening or working at a school, notify the authorities immediately because they are probably robbing more unfortunate students.

BTW the dental school was going to be run by the same people, plus a corrupt Nevada State Senator...I wonder why it didnt work out? 🙄 🙄

 

[JohnUNLV]

The University of Hawaii should just open one themselves. They complain that there isn't enough of a population to sustain the enrollment of a dental school on Oahu for UH to open one up. I don't buy that at all. I bet lots of great students and facutly would flock there just b/c of the location. Hell, sign me up and I'm there already! Yeah, the one that they tried to open up is some kind of a sham... the same ppl opened up a pharmacy school that wasn't accredited and $H!+ went flying (do a SDN search on the topic).

I think another big complication is that HI is saturated with dentists, so they dont really have a need, like a state like NV. Tax payers wouldnt pay for a D school that wouldnt even serve the island in the future.

 

[colt]

Are there any new dental schools on the horizon?

 

[RSN-Dentite]

I've heard some buzz on this site about starting a school in Utah. My faculty interviewer at UoP mentioned this to me as well. I don't think they need one there though.

 

[RSN-Dentite]

BTW has anyone else that applied to Hawaii had trouble receiving their refund check from AADSAS. It's been a while now.

 

[PDizzle]

BTW has anyone else that applied to Hawaii had trouble receiving their refund check from AADSAS. It's been a while now.

I applied to Hawaii but when they shut down I opted to add another school instead of a refund. I chose Nova which I didn't even send in the secondary to......nice move, PDizzle!!!

 

[JohnUNLV]

Are there any new dental schools on the horizon?

Utah is supposed to open in '08 or '09, it keeps changing, but its pretty certain that they'll get one soon.

 

[adr12]

Are there any new dental schools on the horizon?

East Carolina University was trying to open a new school, but last time I checked it was doubtful that they were going to get approval/funding from the state.

 

[JohnUNLV]

East Carolina University was trying to open a new school, but last time I checked it was doubtful that they were going to get approval/funding from the state.

Thats right, I forgot about ECU, but I heard that they are going to be private, therefore they wouldnt need funding. They are supposed to open in '08 also I believe.

 

[Sprgrover]

...Seems kinda shady to me...lol

It seems that it and the pharmacy school sort of imploded last spring. I won't go into details, but I will say it was shady indeed. If you run a search in this forum, and especially one in pre-pharm in which there was a juicy thread, you can get a pretty good idea of what was going down.

 

[jpollei]

Thats right, I forgot about ECU, but I heard that they are going to be private, therefore they wouldnt need funding. They are supposed to open in '08 also I believe.

Last I've heard here in NC was that it is still hung up in the state legislature going nowhere... Folks are trying to decide whether to create a new program at ECU or increase enrollment at UNC, along with all the usual political garbage that accompanies anything like this.

IMO UNC will get bigger before ECU gets state money. Perhaps private funds will open up a program, but there are other serious issues besides the $$$, like who would actually teach there (most of the current practicing dentists in eastern NC that would get involved are already at UNC and arguably wouldn't leave there). It'll be interesting to see, but I know there a ton of bigs at UNC and elsewhere here in the state that are rumored to be fighting hard against the ECU program.

 

[colt]

I did a search and found this article writen today--

Further expansion of ECU’s academic reach will also aid the region, Ballard said, particularly in health care. One potential expansion, the creation of a school of dentistry at ECU, would address regional oral health care needs.

Eastern North Carolina is 72 percent below the national average for dentists per 1,000 people, Ballard noted; seven eastern counties have one or no accredited dentists.

Ballard said he expects the ECU Board of Trustees to pass a resolution this month supporting a new dentistry school, which would be the second in the UNC system. The 50- to 60-seat school would focus on primary dental care, with no specialized programs, Ballard said.

An ECU dentistry program would not compete with the existing one at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Ballard said, because of its focus on rural areas and primary care. The school’s experience recruiting future doctors for rural areas at the Brody School of Medicine prepares it well to do so in dentistry, Ballard said.

“We have 30 years of experience of knowing how to serve rural populations,” Ballard said, noting that the Brody School ranks fourth nationally in serving rural areas. “We know how to bring people into the Brody School who will then go back into the communities they came from.”

http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/news01.txt

 

[DIRTIE]

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