What are the best GPRs in the south and east?

[bu2008]

What do you all think?
I heard St. Pete is good any others in the southeast or eastern coast?

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[KidBrettdds]

I completed the Jacksonville,FL AEGD last July. It was awesome. The building was a little old, but clinically you can't beat the experience. Good surgical experience (I placed 50 implants), restored many big prosth cases, overall great program with great full/part time faculty. When I did my research a couple years ago some other great programs were; Palmetto Health in Columbia,SC; St. Pete., FL; VA in San Antonio, TX; and I've heard good things about the one at the univ. of georgia.
Hope this helps,
Brett

 

[bu2008]

how about UNC or Birmingham in Alabama, I am trying to make a list for next year, thanks!!!

 

[servitup]

The UNC GPR is not generally considered to be excellent training for anything other than taking care of sick people. Advance prostho, etc. you will not see at UNC.

 

[NileBDS]

The UNC GPR is not generally considered to be excellent training for anything other than taking care of sick people. Advance prostho, etc. you will not see at UNC.

Yes and no. The greatest advantage I saw at UNC was being well rounded. You do:
1. Hospital cases and OS (yes, mainly cancer and medically compromised patients) at UNC-Hospital at Chapel Hill.
2. VA rotation where you get to do mostly endo, fixed and restorative, with the occasional implant case at the Durham VA (Duke teaching hospital).
3. Orange county health department where you get a pretty good exposure to pediatric dentistry.

If you want a lot of prosthodontics, don't do a GPR, look into AEGD. Ofcourse there is the occasional VA GPR which does quite a bit of prosth, but that is not the norm for GPR's.

 

[NileBDS]

What do you all think?
I heard St. Pete is good any others in the southeast or eastern coast?

My personal experience has been:


AEGD's (in no particular order)

Texas San Antonio
Jacksonville - UF
St. Pterbsurg - UF
Temple
UCONN


GPR's (in no particular order)

Hartford Hospital, CT
Danbury Hospital, CT
Universty of Virginia (UVA)
Cambridge Health Alliance - Harvard
Palmetto - South Carolina
UNC - Chapel Hill
Baltimore VA
Wake Forest (2 year)

 

[baddog]

😱The AEGD/GPR program in San Antonio is on the skids--inadequate staffing, large number of residents, 19 this year, clinic will be under construction for renovations and only one Specialist on the staff--who doesn't place implants. Used to be a great program but having problems now. Might be time to look somewhere else while they get this all worked out.👎

 

[PlaqueAttack]

😱The AEGD/GPR program in San Antonio is on the skids--inadequate staffing, large number of residents, 19 this year, clinic will be under construction for renovations and only one Specialist on the staff--who doesn't place implants. Used to be a great program but having problems now. Might be time to look somewhere else while they get this all worked out.👎

You may be refering to the OTHER AEGD in san antonio, there are two. The one at the VA hospital is the "better" one and only accepts 6 residents per year, the director is supposedly pretty intense but I've heard its a great residency

 

[baddog]

You are right about that--and it pays more too, the VA residency that is!