What is an OMFS internship?

[dc-10]

What exactly is this? If someone was interested in possibly specializing in oral surgery a year or two after graduation, would it be more beneficial to do an OMFS internship compared to a GPR with a heavy emphasis on oral surgery?

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[Yah-E]

What exactly is this? If someone was interested in possibly specializing in oral surgery a year or two after graduation, would it be more beneficial to do an OMFS internship compared to a GPR with a heavy emphasis on oral surgery?

For some OMFS residency programs, they simply have so much work to do that the program can hire an additional one-year person (Intern) to spread the work. Even with this additional help-in-hand, all the first year residents' training are usually not compromised.

An OMFS Internship is a one year contract at the residency basically act exactly like a first year resident (PGY-1). I believe the majority of not all OMFS internships are paid by GME funding, just like accepted residents.

Why OMFS Internships? Main reason being to help you strengthen your next OMFS application. Whether if you've already applied and did not match or you've a GP for a while and simply decided to specialize in OMFS.

Definitely an internship over a GPR!

Internship = OMFS 12 months straight
GPR = OMFS only 2 - 4 months depending where the GPR is

Additional note:

Internships are not well publicized, as matter of fact, only couple of OMFS website mention them. Usually big OMFS programs will have internships. Most internships only take one intern a year.

Intern match rate the next go round is nearly 100%!! Every intern I know have landed a residency spot that I know!

 

[dc-10]

Definitely an internship over a GPR!

If I've already matched to a GPR (assuming I match on monday) I guess I'm SOL in terms of doing an OMFS internship? What schools offer these internships?

 

[Yah-E]

If I've already matched to a GPR (assuming I match on monday) I guess I'm SOL in terms of doing an OMFS internship? What schools offer these internships?

Dude, if you match into a GPR on Monday, then I'm afraid that you are SOL for an OMFS internship position! First, you'll breach the Dental Match contract if you quit your GPR. Second, I don't think OMFS residency directors would take in a GPR quiter. Usually the OMFS internships are offered to those applicants that have already applied to their OMFS program.

If you match, then I would just do the GPR and apply for OMFS residency programs next year.

Do current residents have any thoughts?

 

[Bifid Uvula]

Dude, if you match into a GPR on Monday, then I'm afraid that you are SOL for an OMFS internship position! First, you'll breach the Dental Match contract if you quit your GPR. Second, I don't think OMFS residency directors would take in a GPR quiter. Usually the OMFS internships are offered to those applicants that have already applied to their OMFS program.

If you match, then I would just do the GPR and apply for OMFS residency programs next year.

Do current residents have any thoughts?

Dude, first of all you will probably match in OMFS. 2nd. I agree... you can't quit the GPR thing cause you'll screw yourself out of being able to apply the next go around.

Internships do vary though. Thankfully most are done in such a way that there is no distinction between you and the "matched first year resident." They are great because they give you the experience to see TRULY if you want to do this day in and day out, hour after hour, night after night, page after page, drunken mandible fracture after drunken mandible fracture.... if you get my drift. Just beware of the Internship programs that send u off to supervise the undergrad OMFS clinics, with little or no hospital responsibility or duties. Stay away from those.

 

[esclavo]

Internships are not well publicized, as matter of fact, only couple of OMFS website mention them. Usually big OMFS programs will have internships. Most internships only take one intern a year.

Intern match rate the next go round is nearly 100%!! Every intern I know have landed a residency spot that I know!

Some internships are advertized on the national website aaoms.org, go to the career line and look at the internships advertized. The other place is in your OMFS department. Many internships throughout the country are advertized through the OMFS departments of the dental schools.

If you are at a dental school, you should go to your OMFS program/department and start talking to program directors/residents to find out where to find more information on available internships.

 

[dc-10]

Dude, first of all you will probably match in OMFS.

Thanks for the replies. I didn't even apply to OMFS this year. I always thought I wanted to do general dentistry so I applied to GPR programs last summer. Then in the fall I had my 7 week oral surgery rotation and loved it. I have decent stats 3.7 GPA, top 12% of class, 92 part I, published dental research (although not related to oral surgery). I've read on this board that during dental school, OMFS externships are really important. Since I graduate in a couple of months, I don't think I'll be able to do any of those. What else can I do to strengthen my CV in terms of OMFS experience? Will a GPR with a 14 week oral surgery rotation be equivalent to a few OMFS externships?

 

[gryffindor]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't even apply to OMFS this year. I always thought I wanted to do general dentistry so I applied to GPR programs last summer. Then in the fall I had my 7 week oral surgery rotation and loved it. I have decent stats 3.7 GPA, top 12% of class, 92 part I, published dental research (although not related to oral surgery). I've read on this board that during dental school, OMFS externships are really important. Since I graduate in a couple of months, I don't think I'll be able to do any of those. What else can I do to strengthen my CV in terms of OMFS experience? Will a GPR with a 14 week oral surgery rotation be equivalent to a few OMFS externships?

Jump into OMFS the day you get to your GPR. Try to have that 14 week rotation scheduled for you this summer rather than next spring. If that doesn't work, then just do everything possible to make sure the OMS attendings know you and your desire to tackle all OMS that walks through the clinic doors. If your GPR has an OMS program attached, you can volunteer to take extra call - at our program, our OMS hopeful GPR resident would take extra overnight calls at the affiliated trauma I hospital since on call at our hospital was weak. Volunteer to go to the OR and assist, even if it is after GPR clinic hours (sometimes those cases run late!) Talk to the OMS residents about being able to do extra OMS cases. Just don't let them turn you into a denturist starting July 1 if you are set on OMS. You will have to create your own opportunity.

And do as esclavo always says on this board - have the OMS attendings & OMS professors from school write your letters. No exceptions.

 

[Doggie]

Do what grifiin said, but make sure you are not a tool about it. Once you piss off any of the oms residents, they will make it hell for you.

 

[Bifid Uvula]

Do what grifiin said, but make sure you are not a tool about it. Once you piss off any of the oms residents, they will make it hell for you.

In the grand scheme of things, doing a GPR, and even having to do an Internship afterward is nothing... it really isn't. We had a previous chief here who did 2 years of GPR, and 1 year of anesthesia before coming to our program. Our present chief did a 1 yr AEGD, then a 1 year Implant Fellowship before deciding on going into OMFS.

Esclavo spent 2 years trying to get into the Mexican Space Agency... When he finally got in, they shot him over the border and now he landed into our program.

 

[adamlc18]

In the grand scheme of things, doing a GPR, and even having to do an Internship afterward is nothing... it really isn't. We had a previous chief here who did 2 years of GPR, and 1 year of anesthesia before coming to our program. Our present chief did a 1 yr AEGD, then a 1 year Implant Fellowship before deciding on going into OMFS.

Esclavo spent 2 years trying to get into the Mexican Space Agency... When he finally got in, they shot him over the border and now he landed into our program.

 

[esclavo]

In the grand scheme of things, doing a GPR, and even having to do an Internship afterward is nothing... it really isn't. We had a previous chief here who did 2 years of GPR, and 1 year of anesthesia before coming to our program. Our present chief did a 1 yr AEGD, then a 1 year Implant Fellowship before deciding on going into OMFS.

Esclavo spent 2 years trying to get into the Mexican Space Agency... When he finally got in, they shot him over the border and now he landed into our program.

and when Bifid showed up in our program, I wasn't convinced I had even landed back on the earth.... lets just put it this way, if Uranus had life form, Bifid would be the poster creature....

(Can you guys all tell the wonderful mentoring influence I'm having on Bifid? His humor is really maturing/fermenting to be more like mine. This post gets my vote for most funnny Bifid post. His humor used to be more like a teenage boy's. Laughing at sexual inuendos, body noises, etc. Now, he's kicked it up a notch. I'm so proud. Now if I can just make a surgeon out of him...)

 

[toofache32]

...His humor used to be more like a teenage boy's. Laughing at sexual inuendos, body noises, etc....)

I don't know....a good wet fart is still one of the funniest things in the world to me.