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Hey All,
I've been considering making the switch from dentistry to medicine for quite some time now. I was a pre-dental and accepted to dental school but decided to turn it after getting cold-feet on if it's really what I wanted to do. I took a gap year and have been working as a full time associate in a dental consulting/research firm and have realized this is not for me. A big thing for me for dental school was I always set on oral surgery but in medicine there are multiple fields that interest me. A lot of my pre-reqs are already done for most schools since the pre dental and pre med tracks overlap quite a bit, but I'm worried about a couple things.
-First and foremost will this hurt me when I apply since I declined to go? i've been speaking with friends and students, some of them are lawyers and even second year pharmacy students who dropped out to pursue medical school.
-Do i count as non traditional?
-When applying would I list all my old dental experiences or would that hurt me? For instance two of my experiences were shadowing/volunteering in Hospital Based clinics which were with both dental and medical professionals.
- Some random things, I have a 3.76 GPA, 3.66 science (3.84 and 3.73 if applying to D.O I think due to differences in grade recalculations).
-Over 2500 hours of research (1800 in a sleep medicine lab, primary authorship published in 2016, few poster and oral presentations and 2 research fellowships). Will this still help me? I am concerned because this is now over three years ago and wonder if admissions committees will invalidate a lot of what I did in undergrad since it's been 2-3 years now.
-I have a Y (differed) grade on my transcript on my thesis course for certain circumstances that occurred while doing my thesis. When I interviewed at dental schools nobody ever asked or seemed to care though, and some schools were research heavy.
Any other tips or criticisms are appreciated.
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I've been considering making the switch from dentistry to medicine for quite some time now. I was a pre-dental and accepted to dental school but decided to turn it after getting cold-feet on if it's really what I wanted to do. I took a gap year and have been working as a full time associate in a dental consulting/research firm and have realized this is not for me. A big thing for me for dental school was I always set on oral surgery but in medicine there are multiple fields that interest me. A lot of my pre-reqs are already done for most schools since the pre dental and pre med tracks overlap quite a bit, but I'm worried about a couple things.
-First and foremost will this hurt me when I apply since I declined to go? i've been speaking with friends and students, some of them are lawyers and even second year pharmacy students who dropped out to pursue medical school.
-Do i count as non traditional?
-When applying would I list all my old dental experiences or would that hurt me? For instance two of my experiences were shadowing/volunteering in Hospital Based clinics which were with both dental and medical professionals.
- Some random things, I have a 3.76 GPA, 3.66 science (3.84 and 3.73 if applying to D.O I think due to differences in grade recalculations).
-Over 2500 hours of research (1800 in a sleep medicine lab, primary authorship published in 2016, few poster and oral presentations and 2 research fellowships). Will this still help me? I am concerned because this is now over three years ago and wonder if admissions committees will invalidate a lot of what I did in undergrad since it's been 2-3 years now.
-I have a Y (differed) grade on my transcript on my thesis course for certain circumstances that occurred while doing my thesis. When I interviewed at dental schools nobody ever asked or seemed to care though, and some schools were research heavy.
Any other tips or criticisms are appreciated.
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