Ortho fellowship at UNLV

[ooppop]

Hi
I wanted to know how helpful a fellowship program is to get into ortho. I applied to ortho twice and did not get in and now my plan is to do fellowship at UNLV - starting in july 08 and apply again this year for ortho program.

Your advice and comments is appreciated.

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[54807]

Hi
I wanted to know how helpful a fellowship program is to get into ortho. I applied to ortho twice and did not get in and now my plan is to do fellowship at UNLV - starting in july 08 and apply again this year for ortho program.

Your advice and comments is appreciated.

So I did some reading and it seems like it COULD be a potentially good thing. I gathered this all from their website. So not sure what I'm adding.

The bad:

• $20k in tuition
• Full time --> no other income
• No hx of taking 'fellows' as residents
• what is the deal of a 'fellowship' prior to residency? Seems like a silly term....what about INTERN?!

The Good:

• How could they NOT take you if you were a good worker for that entire year. You will easily walk straight into their clinics and be productive from day 1 of residency....that's worth some cash to the clinic. UNLV ortho is known to be cash strapped.
• You get to 'find out if ortho is right for you'. but i'm sure that's already decided by the 2 application cycles.
• Proof to program directors that you're committed to ortho and willing to sacrifice your DDS income for that of tuition-fellow.

 

[ooppop]

thank u for the info.

Now my question was is it going to help me get into anyother ortho program other than UNLV.

 

[gryffindor]

It might help with other programs. Hard to say. Ortho admissions can be very unpredictable.

The only thing we've seen on SDN to help for sure in Ortho is to make a 6+ digit contribution to UCLA's program.