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Unless you go to a school like Columbia where dental and med students take basic science courses together, this is not the case
Apples and oranges. My med school experience at U Mich was punctuated with lots of small group critical thinking blocks, gross anatomy definitely was not watered down. My second year of dental school I was learning about RPD classification and physical properties of dental materials. 2nd yr at UMich was a systems based approach - Pulmonary section, cards section, etc. Exams included performing physicals on live patients. Dental school - all 4 yrs- was more like boot camp with (un)healthy doses of brow beating.
Try not to make blanket/unfounded statements on SDN , you may get hell reigned upon you.
Apples and oranges...
It's fundamentally weird that you would equate basic sciences performance, in a classroom, with an applicant's potential as a resident. Especially since above you're arguing that distant, historical, physical science, classroom performance would have better predictive power in determining if an individual applicant to an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency has what it takes to succeed.
You also managed to delightfully counterpose a baseless assertion ("Unless you go to a school like Columbia...this is not the case") with an admonition to the original poster for doing the same ("Try not to make blanket/unfounded statements on SDN , you may get hell reigned upon you.") There's even a decent body of medical education literature that disagrees with your assertion (Just about every paper et. al published since 1970 comparing medical student pre-clinical grades/USMLE scores to residency/boards performance.)
Plus, I'm reading a rare 13/15 "Not-as-I-do's" on my Cognitive-Dissonometer.
Um...15/15not gonna turn this into a pissing contest. I read what you wrote. that's how I interpreted it
Children, pre-dents, lost in the wood deer in headlight dental students... perhaps some things are beyond your level of comprehension and should be left alone. Teach thy tongue to say I do not know, and thou shalt progress, thus avoiding the aforementioned pissing contest.
And to that end, I bid you, 'adieu'.
Damn, I only had one payment left.
you should learn to develop a thick skin.
...probably not as watered down as some of the programs you silver spooners attend...You sound like a bitter pre-dent or struggling D1 by the way.