Salary.com and Ortho income

[the big wand]

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[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by blankguy
OMG!

A statistic that ItsGavinC validated!

A statistic that I validated? Hmmm, like free parking at the mall?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by Mo007
The income difference after taxes between #1 and #10 is moderately small.

You get more $$$$? So as uncle Sam!

Those numbers in the article are probably after taxes (did it say?).

 

[gmcsierra]

How do insurance rates work?

Who pays insurance (malpractice) for dentists/physicians?

How much is insurance and how does it compare for dentists and physicians?

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

Originally posted by gmcsierra
...how does it compare for dentists and physicians?

It doesn't...it is night and day. I have a friend that is a dentist and he pays $3k a year. My fiance's father, an ER doc, pays $40k a year!

 

[the big wand]

Comparing a general dentist with a medical specialist may be skewed. Maybe comparing oral surgeons with medical surgeons?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by gmcsierra
How do insurance rates work?

Who pays insurance (malpractice) for dentists/physicians?

The practitioner.

 

[Mo007]

One thing about OMS - I think - has higher malpractice than other Dental Specialties, due to the close association with other medical specialties - which pay awful lot of $$$.

 

[gmcsierra]

well, i've heard of physicians in florida paying over 200,000 for malpractice. if most physicians don't even make 200,000 (some make less, but a few make a lot more) how could you justify this?

also, if a physician makes 200,000/year and pays for instance 50,000/year in malpractice and a general dentist makes 160,000 and pays 3,000 for malpractice, i'd say the dentist is worlds ahead, wouldn't you?

 

[aphistis]

Originally posted by gmcsierra
well, i've heard of physicians in florida paying over 200,000 for malpractice. if most physicians don't even make 200,000 (some make less, but a few make a lot more) how could you justify this?

also, if a physician makes 200,000/year and pays for instance 50,000/year in malpractice and a general dentist makes 160,000 and pays 3,000 for malpractice, i'd say the dentist is worlds ahead, wouldn't you?

You're catching on to why we call dentistry the medical professions' best-kept secret.

 

[omar06]

Does anyone have a link to the top 10 list you all were referring to?

Thanks

omar06

 

[blankguy]

Originally posted by ItsGavinC
A statistic that I validated? Hmmm, like free parking at the mall?

Considering that a lot of the statistics sighted on this board tend to get batted down or ripped to shredded I stand by my original comment. (Not by you Gavin but that seems to happen a lot).

Omar06,
here

 

[Presidental]

Originally posted by gmcsierra
well, i've heard of physicians in florida paying over 200,000 for malpractice. if most physicians don't even make 200,000 (some make less, but a few make a lot more) how could you justify this?

also, if a physician makes 200,000/year and pays for instance 50,000/year in malpractice and a general dentist makes 160,000 and pays 3,000 for malpractice, i'd say the dentist is worlds ahead, wouldn't you?

net salary already includes malpractice insurance. physicians paying 200k for insurance obviously gross much more than that.

 

[gmcsierra]

So are you trying to say that if an IM makes 140,000/year (and they pay their own malpractice insurance) that the 140,000 is what they make, and not hte 140,000-15,000(malpractice)=125,000$?

 

[Mo007]

I read somewhere on this thread - that half of the people who apply to orthodontics programs get a match... well here is some specific results I found on an another thread about this year's ortho matches (I hope this is right):

ORTHO
# of applicants: 512
# of total positions: 248
# of filled positions: 243
# of unfilled positions: 5

So that's about 2:1 (applicants/position) ratio - not bad, eh?

I wonder what their average Board's were? 90-99's?

 

[blankguy]

Originally posted by Mo007
I read somewhere on this thread - that half of the people who apply to orthodontics programs get a match... well here is some specific results I found on an another thread about this year's ortho matches (I hope this is right):

ORTHO
# of applicants: 512
# of total positions: 248
# of filled positions: 243
# of unfilled positions: 5

So that's about 2:1 (applicants/position) ratio - not bad, eh?

I wonder what their average Board's were? 90-99's?

Mo007,
the PASS(postdoctoral matching service) has stats on all the specialities that use it. Try checking their website.

 

[NonTradMed]

Originally posted by gmcsierra
So are you trying to say that if an IM makes 140,000/year (and they pay their own malpractice insurance) that the 140,000 is what they make, and not hte 140,000-15,000(malpractice)=125,000$?

Scroll down to Dr. Andrew Doan's first post:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?threadid=101742

Hope it clears up any confusion on insurance and such.....

 

[DocDrtySanchez]

I posted the following under another thread where the same subject came up regarding the success ratio for applications to ortho programs. The statistics are from the Match website and they pertain only to those individuals who submitted a match list. In order to submit a match list, you must have been invited to interview at a program. Getting an interview is a big hurdle as roughly 10% of applicants are lucky enough to get one. Basically, the number referring to # of applicants (512) refers only to those individuals who got interviews. The number referring to filled positions (243) refers to how many people of those who interviewed for positions actually matched. In the end, less than half of the applicants who are INVITED TO INTERVIEW actually match.