When did you submit your PASS application? I submitted mine on Sep 1st.
Submitted mid-July which is a bit early. Heard that programs don't even start looking at applications until September.
dental_hopeful did you do an externship at NYU?
Yea probably more appropriate to have posted this on a different thread. But here's a very superficial short and sweet answer: DA does a three year coda approved residency solely dedicated to learning IV sedation and general anesthesia. After residency, you are the anesthesiologist for dental/omfs patients who require IV sedation or general anesthesia. You do the anesthesia, someone else does the actual procedure. That's the direction DA is going right now. Go to dental school, work hard, and keep an open mind to all areas of dentistry!
The whole profession is a bit fluid. From my understanding it's all about money and relationships. A relationship sours and programs close. A new oral surgeon or physician anesthesiologist moves in as head of a department and doesn't like dentists learning GA and poof program gone. For example, Loma Linda is remodeling their hospital and straight upon ran out of money to pay residents. Now their program is not accepting residents, at least until the remodel is done and they can secure funding. I think that Dental Anesthesiology has a good chance of getting specialty recognition in the next few years. After that there is a good chance that the number of programs and teaching jobs will greatly increase.
