increased competitive job market for new graduate

[baobao]

Hi, I am searching the job market for the dentist and have the following concerns:
1. The dentist in the Japanese and UK experience the difficult to find the job and patient , especially for the new graduates. Is there anybody knowing the situation for the America newly graduate?

2.When I tried to find a dentist, no matter which clinic do I call they are always willing to accept the new patient. none of them said they were full and can not accept the new pt yet.
In the same area, it looks like more dentists than the primary care physician.

3.How long and how easy for the newly graduate to find a job, if not that picking? where can we find those info? from each school?

from my analysis, I think the America dental education sys is different with other countries so that the outcome might be different. However I still kind worry about the job and pt market when we graduat 5-6 years later.

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[smile101]

1. Probably because every other person you talk to in Japan and UK want to be a medical health care professional AND want to practice in London or other populated area. I have cousins that are doctors in London and they said that its hard to practice there because there are just so many. Also, they are very young when they graduate as opposed to newly grads here because their program is about 6 yrs total after high school.

2. The problem in the United States today is that there are more and more dentists retiring than graduating. I don't think that will pose any problem for newly graduating dentists. However, just because you mentioned some areas has more dentists, I will say thats because they are more concentrated in highly populated area. They have to make a living too. Not many dentists or any other health care professionals practice in an underserved area, which is why they are underserved. So, the bottom line is that there is always a place for them if money is not a concern.

3. Depends on what newly graduate wants to do. Schools promise to make you a good doctor, but they don't promise a job. It is always safe to go in a collaborative practice with other dentists. But that depends on the person too. I am not saying that its real easy here because I have talked to someone who wasn't doing as good as a new dentist with a private practice. Then again, there are many factors involved in that.

 

[songaila]

If you google "dentist shortage", you will find all kinds of dentists shortage in Britain. There was a story about people that can not find dentists so they pull the teeth themselves.

If you do a research, there is a "mal-distribution" of dentists.

 

[theskibumjohnso]

It is because in London they have socialism and the dentist can only accept so many patients. They have a limit on the patients they can see and once they have seen them they will get no more money from the gov, so who wants to work for free, they stop working until the next gov year.

 

[caseyblake]

I have seen this as of late too. Been researching more and more about it. And it seems to be progressing.

 

[doc toothache]

If you google "dentist shortage", you will find all kinds of dentists shortage in Britain. There was a story about people that can not find dentists so they pull the teeth themselves.

If you do a research, there is a "mal-distribution" of dentists.

This may be a slight exaggeration since, unless a tooth is periodontally involved, extractions can be a challenge even for those with training. At best, a do it yourself extraction may only end up with fracture of the clinical crown.