Is AZ fully accredited?

[tissy]

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I just saw a post about AZ getting accredited in April 2007...should I be worried if I attend the school. I was deciding between AZ and Michigan but leaning towards AZ by far. After I saw that post, I got a little concerned.. Help?

 

[billermo]

I don't think ASDOH can be fully accredited until they graduate a class, which should be April 2007.

A current ASDOH student should be able to answer your question.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Exactly, full accreditation happens after the first class graduates. This is true for any program. So, in May we will have the standard accreditation. Accreditation right now is provisional, which means that every student that matriculates and graduates is seen as having attended/graduated from an accredited school.

For what it's worth, we didn't have that many people apply to specialties this year, but everybody that applied matched (2/2 for ortho and 3/3 for pedo).

 

[Veneto]

Exactly, full accreditation happens after the first class graduates. This is true for any program. So, in May we will have the standard accreditation. Accreditation right now is provisional, which means that every student that matriculates and graduates is seen as having attended/graduated from an accredited school.

For what it's worth, we didn't have that many people apply to specialties this year, but everybody that applied matched (2/2 for ortho and 3/3 for pedo).

Wow, only five people from the class applied for specialties? No OMFS or endo's? Just out of curiosity was it the top five in the class that decided to specialize? Is that about right though five people would be about ten percent for Arizona (54 seats) which is the normal specialization rate right?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Wow, only five people from the class applied for specialties? No OMFS or endo's? Just out of curiosity was it the top five in the class that decided to specialize? Is that about right though five people would be about ten percent for Arizona (54 seats) which is the normal specialization rate right?

More graduates will apply for specialties later, but the overall feeling I got was that some were worried that the school's new status would hinder their application. It wasn't the top 5 that decided to specialize. Our #1 student is going to do a GPR. Another student, who scored a 99 on Part I, chose to apply another year for personal reasons. We had somebody look at endo, but I don't believe she applied.

The current D3 class will probably have at least twice as many people applying for specialties next year.

 

[helico]

More graduates will apply for specialties later, but the overall feeling I got was that some were worried that the school's new status would hinder their application. It wasn't the top 5 that decided to specialize. Our #1 student is going to do a GPR. Another student, who scored a 99 on Part I, chose to apply another year for personal reasons. We had somebody look at endo, but I don't believe she applied.

The current D3 class will probably have at least twice as many people applying for specialties next year.

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[dentalwife]

More graduates will apply for specialties later, but the overall feeling I got was that some were worried that the school's new status would hinder their application. It wasn't the top 5 that decided to specialize. Our #1 student is going to do a GPR. Another student, who scored a 99 on Part I, chose to apply another year for personal reasons. We had somebody look at endo, but I don't believe she applied.

The current D3 class will probably have at least twice as many people applying for specialties next year.

I think sometimes when you attend a great clinical school like Arizona, you find out more what the specialty would be like and what being a general dentist would be like and some decide that they like what general dentistry holds for them. That happened to my husband, he thought he wanted to specialize but when he got into clinic he realized how much fun general dentistry was for him. A friend of ours got into clinic and realized that he really loved the surgical part of things and is headed to oral surgery. I think that is another plus of attending a good clinical school...more exposure means more educated decisions.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Is the one that got the 99 on part 1 the guy who did his first two years at UCLA then transferred to Arizona? What is he going to do? Ortho, Endo, OMFS?

Ortho as far as I know.

 

[boobah]

It wasn't the top 5 that decided to specialize.

What was the class rank of the two that did ortho? Did they have great Part I scores?