TY - JOUR
T1 - Guide for the mentoring dentist
T2 - the admissions office perspective.
AU - Miller, Barbara H.
AU - Lacy, Ernestine S.
AU - Pierpont, H. Philip
AU - Segura, Adriana
PY - 2011/11/1
Y1 - 2011/11/1
N2 - There is no better way to give back to dentistry--which has given us so much as dentists--than to mentor a young person into the profession. With the size of the applicant pool dramatically increasing over the past 10 years (73.6 percent), the challenge of the admissions process has increased as well. To put it simply, the "line" of those desiring dentistry as a profession has become quite long. In 2010, based upon data from the Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service, the ratio of dental applicants to positions exceeded the ratio of applicants to medical school positions! We haven't seen ratios like this since the late 1970's. This guide will aid mentoring dentists in the process of helping their mentees to be successful as applicants, dental students and, ultimately, dental practitioners.
AB - There is no better way to give back to dentistry--which has given us so much as dentists--than to mentor a young person into the profession. With the size of the applicant pool dramatically increasing over the past 10 years (73.6 percent), the challenge of the admissions process has increased as well. To put it simply, the "line" of those desiring dentistry as a profession has become quite long. In 2010, based upon data from the Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service, the ratio of dental applicants to positions exceeded the ratio of applicants to medical school positions! We haven't seen ratios like this since the late 1970's. This guide will aid mentoring dentists in the process of helping their mentees to be successful as applicants, dental students and, ultimately, dental practitioners.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 22216564
AN - SCOPUS:84855986908
VL - 128
SP - 1191
EP - 1193
JO - Texas dental journal
JF - Texas dental journal
SN - 0040-4284
IS - 11
ER -