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Hello all,
I'm curious if the minds of SDN could inform me of the best recipe for an incoming dental student to follow in order to be competitive when applying for the OMFS speciality or other specialties in general. The general consensus seems to be that you need good grades and be near the top of your class, but to me that seems like the bare minimum to being truly competitive. Good LORs seem like another important ingredient. But how about research or leadership roles or community outreach? What is important to involve ones self in throughout dental school in order to be competitive later? Maybe I won't have the highest scores, what else can I have? Is it really just grades and LORs?
I want to include that I am going to dental school first to be a general practitioner and have a very open mind about my future career. I am not that dental student who's made his mind up about specializing before he knows a first molar from a second. I just want to be informed.
Cheers
I'm curious if the minds of SDN could inform me of the best recipe for an incoming dental student to follow in order to be competitive when applying for the OMFS speciality or other specialties in general. The general consensus seems to be that you need good grades and be near the top of your class, but to me that seems like the bare minimum to being truly competitive. Good LORs seem like another important ingredient. But how about research or leadership roles or community outreach? What is important to involve ones self in throughout dental school in order to be competitive later? Maybe I won't have the highest scores, what else can I have? Is it really just grades and LORs?
I want to include that I am going to dental school first to be a general practitioner and have a very open mind about my future career. I am not that dental student who's made his mind up about specializing before he knows a first molar from a second. I just want to be informed.
Cheers
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