How competitive are prosthodontics residencies?
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IMO Ortho/OMFS are probably the most competitive, then perio and then prosth imo. But it really is program dependent. You could get into a really expensive one. but it may not be worth the $$ to many.
I find some of prosth programs are international dentists trying to get licensed in US. So I could be wrong but to me that means that a US student would be able to find a spot if they had a decent app.
I find some of prosth programs are international dentists trying to get licensed in US. So I could be wrong but to me that means that a US student would be able to find a spot if they had a decent app.
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You can actually look at the data from the ADEA website to determine how competitive the programs are. It actually goes in the following order: OMFS, Ortho, Peds~Endo, Prostho~Perio, Radiology, DPH~Oral Pathology.
Again this is an average and varies by program. In prosthodontics, there is wide variation between programs in terms of competitiveness because there are a lot of programs with low tuition and/or pay stipend and some programs with extremely expensive tuitions with no stipend. Obviously those with the stipends are incredibly competitive and the ones with the high tuitions are not so much. If you are willing to pay $$$, you can for sure get into one of those programs with average stats etc.
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Is this figure saying 260 students matched OMFS out of 11,441 who applied in 2018-2019?
Maybe I am misunderstanding this figure?
I thought there was roughly 6000 dental students in the US each year. Even if there is a large influx of foreign applicants, I find it hard to believe that many took the CBSE and did the things necessary to apply for OMFS.
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The 11,441 is the number of applications submitted. So if 1 dental student applied to 40 OMFS programs, that counts as 40 applications.
I was confused by this number too. If you take the 11,441 and divide it by the number of applicants who applied to OMFS, which is usually around 500, then you get 22.9, which is roughly about the average number of programs the typical dental student going for OMFS applies to.
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great posts ddser90210-> your clarification is perfect but for those who still remain skeptical just read the bottom of the picture/screenshot provided above which reads: "note: application figures represent the total number of applications examined by all programs and counts applicants more than once if they applied to multiple programs”
a lot of misinformation out there about this subject and I appreciate you posting this. my personal bias was pedo was easier to get into than I thought- wrong!
Definitely more behind just these raw numbers but on a number of applications / spot analysis OMFS seems like its in a league of its own (44 apps/spot- every other specialty is 25 apps/spot or less) but again I'm sure there is much more at play than just this one specific "statistic". I heard rumors covid bumped specialty application numbers big time, I'm interested to see if that is true.
OP- I know someone who went to UIC for pros and it seemed like a very highly regarded program fwiw.
Best of luck!
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Yeah it’s definitely number of applications. While there is something that can be said regarding this, it does provide a pretty good estimate of the competitiveness of the programs. Keep in mind these numbers are pre-covid.
