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Will you be content with being a general practitioner?
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You should edit the title or add another option that says "I prefer to be a GP". Some people want to be one and will not just be content with it. Others want to specialize, but would still be content with being a GP. I think it would make more accurate results, thats all! 🙂
you make it sound like being a GP is a bad thing and that we are just going to "settle" with being a GP. I personally like the freedom that a GP has whereas when you specialize you are constrained and are only allowed to do that one thing. A GP can get pretty darn good with more speciality type procedures if they want to and gets the training from the CE courses. I plan on getting more into implants as a GP and of course more training on endo without actually specializing.
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I was set on the idea of specialization when I started dental school. I wanted to do endo or ortho. But once you actually start doing everything you will realize what you actually want.
For me, being a general practitioner is great! I love the idea of being able to do a little bit of everything. I also love the idea of have a patient pool, and not a referral network. There are some serious advantages to GP, so I would not commit yourself to one path or another until you get more experience.
For me, being a general practitioner is great! I love the idea of being able to do a little bit of everything. I also love the idea of have a patient pool, and not a referral network. There are some serious advantages to GP, so I would not commit yourself to one path or another until you get more experience.
That was not my intention at all.
I'm pleased with the poll results. The 4 people who answered no i MUST specialize better have a gunner mentality and stats to match!
Specialty is great, but D-school is not about becoming an ortho.
I think the money is what gets people. Specialty = more money.
No, no, no.
Also will you be "content" with being a GP. That is the wrong mentality. Understand that GP can preform the work a specialist can, now that being said, I always refer my patients to my friends who are good practitioners. Yes, I've done ortho once or twice. If you're really driven - you can do the work an ortho does. If you really study hard and enjoy what you do. However, at that point you ought to just get into school. If not, try to take classes.
Specialty is great, but D-school is not about becoming an ortho.
I think the money is what gets people. Specialty = more money.
No, no, no.
Also will you be "content" with being a GP. That is the wrong mentality. Understand that GP can preform the work a specialist can, now that being said, I always refer my patients to my friends who are good practitioners. Yes, I've done ortho once or twice. If you're really driven - you can do the work an ortho does. If you really study hard and enjoy what you do. However, at that point you ought to just get into school. If not, try to take classes.
Yes,I would be. Variety, more patient interaction& longer/in depth/long term patient-doctor relationship.
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Most students on this board won't specialize anyway. Only 10 to 20% of students specialize from each class so I'd focus on learning dentistry as a whole rather than trying to worry about specializing. If you want to maximize your chances go to schools like Columbia, otherwise focus on learning the trade.
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If you're a specialist can't you do both GP work and your specialty work?
there are obvious advantages / disadvantages to specializing vs staying GP
after weighting in all my options, I realized the time spend in specialty (2 all the way to 6 years) could be better utilized speeding up my GP hands and quickly establishing my own office shortly after DS. Ofc I am at a major advantage cause my sister is a very establish GP in her early 40s and.... I have a feeling shes lookin to significantly reduce her working hours soon after I graduate
(thats one of the perks of being married to a physician)
My decision to stay GP was purely financial based, as far as what I liked to do.... I just like dentistry (meaning specialty or no specialty would satisfy me all the same).... Wait I take that back, I can't do pediatric dentistry
after weighting in all my options, I realized the time spend in specialty (2 all the way to 6 years) could be better utilized speeding up my GP hands and quickly establishing my own office shortly after DS. Ofc I am at a major advantage cause my sister is a very establish GP in her early 40s and.... I have a feeling shes lookin to significantly reduce her working hours soon after I graduate
(thats one of the perks of being married to a physician)My decision to stay GP was purely financial based, as far as what I liked to do.... I just like dentistry (meaning specialty or no specialty would satisfy me all the same).... Wait I take that back, I can't do pediatric dentistry
