UCLA Dentistry has been quietly and rapidly deteriorating

[papillapower42]

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UCLA School of Dentistry over the last few years has been rapidly losing money, faculty, and prestige.
Attached below you can see a bombshell email that was sent today by Dr. Camargo who has worked extremely hard for UCLA. Although there are some who may not like him, everyone respects his work ethic and dedication. He cites a multitude of concerns he brought up to senior leadership and how he was ultimately removed from his Associate Dean position because of it. He and the clinic director have been replaced by a retired dentist who graduated in 1966.

Although the information about the deterioration of the school has been kept in small circles, I think it's important for pre-dental students to know what they are signing up for. I wish I knew what I was signing up for. I personally think the dental school is barreling towards a shutdown under the leadership of Dean Krebsbach and Associate Dean of Finance Dorothy Tu. Many of the faculty I admired have left or are leaving and state that it was because of horrible working conditions. If faculty aren't being respected at UCLA, how do you think they treat the students? Unfortunately, at UCLA in my experience, they care more about looking good than being good. If we spread awareness, my hope is that we start to see positive change.

 

[D1Bound]

More stuff like this should be posted for people to see.

 

[JacquesVallee]

More stuff like this should be posted for people to see.

To be fair, I feel like dental education as a whole is in steep decline. Clinical experience decreases, class sizes and tuition dramatically increase. My advice to every dental student is keep your head down make zero waves, get your degree and license, and then the actual learning begins when you start working. There's also so much bureaucracy and stupid spending by dental schools. It really does seem like most of them are total clown shows.

Even if UCLA is as bad or worse as the OP makes them out to be, you should attend UCLA if they are the cheapest school you get into.

 

[TanMan]

Looks like the same problems that were present 20+ years ago. Only now are the problems being aired out in a public forum. They'll probably dangle the prospects of a fancy title to get a bunch of part timers to cover staffing deficiencies... and you'll always have people angling for a title to lend more credibility to themselves. However, that usually attracts weaker dentists that aren't busy enough to fill up their practice or international dentists that want to boast that they taught at a relatively well known US based institution. You'll get a passionate dentist every now and then, but they'll be bogged/beaten down by the bureaucratic BS associated with academic institutions.