OMFS MD residents

[jiggapigga]

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For those of you who went through medical school during your oral surgery residency.... what's it like to have received your dds, done a year of residency...and it seems lik eyou're just back at zero again..? And do u feel like you know more than the medical students? could u just skip all the classes and goto the exams and get by?... lemme know your experiences

 

[rrc]

For those of you who went through medical school during your oral surgery residency.... what's it like to have received your dds, done a year of residency...and it seems lik eyou're just back at zero again..? And do u feel like you know more than the medical students? could u just skip all the classes and goto the exams and get by?... lemme know your experiences

To be honest, while it was easier the second time around, most of the information I learned in Medical School was much different than dental school.

In dental school the instructors try to teach medicine but they fail miserably. This is because they themselves have not devoted their lives to the very thing they are trying to teach. In medical school, the instructors are the experts in their field and the subject matter. They have a true passion for what they are teaching (for the most part).

Also in medical school, true learning comes during the various rotations you do. Learning from a book can only get you so far.

It can be painful at times to have to sit through classes again, and some of the material is repetitive, but for the most part you are exposing yourself to a whole new world of information and I thoroughly enjoyed and benefitted from it.

 

[ItsGavinC]

could u just skip all the classes and goto the exams and get by?

The answer to this (although I honestly don't have any experience with it) is probably a "no," simply because programs typically have you do the 3rd and 4th year, which involves rotations but very little didactic work.

 

[omfsres]

The answer to this (although I honestly don't have any experience with it) is probably a "no," simply because programs typically have you do the 3rd and 4th year, which involves rotations but very little didactic work.

Advice for you, It is better if you don't comment on things you have Absolutely no experience with.

 

[J2AZ]

Advice for you, It is better if you don't comment on things you have Absolutely no experience with.

Are you jealous that Gavin was able to accurately answer the OP's question before you had the chance? The question is pretty straight forward and the answer is fairly obvious. I guess we all know why you felt it necessary to pursue OMFS (most likely a 6 year MD program). Definitely compensating for something.

 

[north2southOMFS]

Are you jealous that Gavin was able to accurately answer the OP's question before you had the chance? The question is pretty straight forward and the answer is fairly obvious. I guess we all know why you felt it necessary to pursue OMFS (most likely a 6 year MD program). Definitely compensating for something.

I agree, definately compensating for something.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Advice for you, It is better if you don't comment on things you have Absolutely no experience with.

Was my answer wrong? I browse Allopathic enough (and my father taught med school) to know that 3rd and 4th year are rotations, and may have shelf exams, etc., but very little "class time" to skip.

I thought somebody should respond, and seeing as the OMS guys hadn't had the opportunity to respond yet, I figured I'd pipe it with a very educated guess (notice I said that I have no experience with med school).

 

[toofache32]

For those of you who went through medical school during your oral surgery residency.... what's it like to have received your dds, done a year of residency...and it seems lik eyou're just back at zero again..? And do u feel like you know more than the medical students? could u just skip all the classes and goto the exams and get by?... lemme know your experiences

Programs like mine suck that make you take some of the 2nd year med school courses in one sense, but then again, I've never had so much free time. I went to the Pathology course the first day to pick up the syllabus, then I never went again because the topics and textbook were the same as in dental school. I'm not saying that I remembered all those details, but having already seen the material once made it much easier.

I definately knew more than the regular med students in certain areas, but not in other areas because I didn't care since I had already gone through the match. On my trauma/surgery rotation they made me "face-lac-boy" because I had already sewn more facial lacerations than any of the general surgery residents (because they generally don't sew faces). This saved time on patients with no underlying bony fractures.

As far as the differential diagnosis for anemia, etc. the med students definately knew more. Probably because I didn't care enough about those things to read about them. Now that I think about it, I was a hard worker in areas I liked, but then I was a lazy slug when I was bored.

 

[tx oms]

And do u feel like you know more than the medical students? could u just skip all the classes and goto the exams and get by?... lemme know your experiences

I know more about patient care and practical stuff than they do, but, like toofache said, they can spit out essoteric differentials faster. I didn't do the MS2 year and I passed the USMLE step I. Also, like toofache, I find myself being lazy on certain rotations (OB/GYN) I didn't care about. I didn't deliver a single baby (thank goodness).

PS--OB/GYN residents are either bitches or unhappy men, in general.
PPS--OB/GYN means "Oh Boy! Got You Naked!"

 

[omfs44]

definitely in surgery rotation, i know way more practical stuff than every medical student. since they know i've done an internship in omfs last year, they let me drain a rectal abscess all myself in the ER....and if you think oral abscess is nasty, rectal abscess is 100x worse. hey but an orifice is an orifice, right? and in the OR, i get to do alot, most of time i was the first assist. but now i'm doing medicine rotation, i feel like an idiot because other medical students can spit out differential dx way better than i can.

 

[jiggapigga]

Programs like mine suck that make you take some of the 2nd year med school courses in one sense, but then again, I've never had so much free time. I went to the Pathology course the first day to pick up the syllabus, then I never went again because the topics and textbook were the same as in dental school. I'm not saying that I remembered all those details, but having already seen the material once made it much easier.

I definately knew more than the regular med students in certain areas, but not in other areas because I didn't care since I had already gone through the match. On my trauma/surgery rotation they made me "face-lac-boy" because I had already sewn more facial lacerations than any of the general surgery residents (because they generally don't sew faces). This saved time on patients with no underlying bony fractures.

As far as the differential diagnosis for anemia, etc. the med students definately knew more. Probably because I didn't care enough about those things to read about them. Now that I think about it, I was a hard worker in areas I liked, but then I was a lazy slug when I was bored.

Thanks for the tip, i have a feeling i'll be skipping alot in 2nd year med...Too bad ppl going into the 6 year programs with the 2nd year medical school year don't get the option of writing the USMLE part 1 to see if they already know their stuff.

 

[toofache32]

....and if you think oral abscess is nasty, rectal abscess is 100x worse. hey but an orifice is an orifice, right?

Oral...OB/GYN...rectal....it's all gums to me.

 

[north2southOMFS]

PS--OB/GYN residents are either bitches or unhappy men, in general.

Well, whatelse do you expect when 25% of the residents are on the rag 100% of the time?