Trust an ortho school

[3rdMolarRoller]

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About a month ago on the local news was a story of a private university here in Jacksonville that will be opening an Orthodontic school (there was some controversy something like the main donor was going to get a heavy profit).

They don't even have a medical or dental program...would you trust a school like this???

Heres the link:

http://www.ju.edu/academics/grad_orthodontics.asp

Just seems weird to me...are there others like this???

 

[ehop24]

wow. that is odd. the link that you included had an additional hyperlink to orthoeducation.com. it seems that this is the basis for the program at ju.

I have heard of ortho and other residency programs that reside at schools without dental schools. For example, Vanderbilt has an ortho program.

But i have never heard of a situation like this. It says they will have more fulltime faculty than any other ortho residency. Where are they all coming from?

I must say, however, that the combined ortho certificate/MBA program sounds awfully intriguing.

 

[Supernumerary]

Interesting. But $45,000/ yr plus instrument purchase for 3 years. And as far I can tell, no stipend or enough time for moonlighting. Who is gonna be able to attend this program???!!! I guess maybe if you've been in private practice for a few years and been living like a miser, but sheesh!!!

 

[flat4]

I wonder how many residents they accept per year. If it's a large number, it probably won't be as competetive as some of the other programs out there but I guess the trade off is the cost. IMO, it seems like the ITT tech of ortho.