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rachelisa
oh YAWN! that just demonstrated a complete lack of knowing what the dental profession is about. So on that note I shall leave you all to enjoy ur applications to medical school! (apart from you SBailey!)

Good luck.

If you're trying to talk to me- I have no idea what your point is, because you don't seem to have one as such. Being rude is against this forums rules. :tsr:
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sbailey
Because Hawk is wrong. No offence.

I am not wrong! The grades may be lower at a FEW dental schools but it is still tougher when you look at applicants: places ratio.
It doesn't matter anyway, its something you could argue about all day. But at the end of the day they are both extremely tough to get into and to even consider using one as a backdoor to another is absurd.
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1 Both Medicine and Dentistry are difficult to get into for their own reasons, it's v opinionated as to which is the most difficult.

2 The first years of Medicine and Dentistry are not always the same - in fact, I don't even know if they are the same in any university. At Sheffield, we aren't taught with the medics, we learnt a lot more about the head and neck and also did Oral Anatomy which I'm sure the medics don't do as a separate subject. So in actual fact we specialise from the first year and because of that I don't think you can change course easily.

3 There are people I know who did Biomedical Sciences etc as their first degree and still had to join the first year of Medicine or Dentistry - and those sort of degrees are three years long so the liklihood of you swapping after one year is vvv low.

4 Follow your heart and do which subject you like - if you're so keen on Dentistry and apply for Medicine surely your personal statement will look a bit odd if you've talked exessively about Dentistry - that's more of a disadvantage if anything.
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nabzp


2 The first years of Medicine and Dentistry are not always the same - in fact, I don't even know if they are the same in any university. At Sheffield, we aren't taught with the medics, we learnt a lot more about the head and neck and also did Oral Anatomy which I'm sure the medics don't do as a separate subject. So in actual fact we specialise from the first year and because of that I don't think you can change course easily.


Ditto for Barts and The London.
I went to the Birmingham open day and asked about the same thing and they said that they don't do the same thing in the first year. My best bet is know what you want to do first before applying because as someone said earlier, there are loads of people who want these places.

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