so i got a call from dr. mary macdougall the other day... who is dr. mary macdougall? well, she's the director of the DMD/PhD program at UAB... and a professor in the oral/maxillofacial surgery department. i emailed her at the beginning of the summer with a few questions... talked to her a little right before i moved to louisville... but haven't heard from her since-- until she called the other day.
she wants me to consider moving back to birmingham (yeah, i know) and start in a PhD program... then transition into their DMD/PhD program after a year. i can choose any health-related science department for the PhD... but apparently she's already been talking to the Biomedical Engineering department about me-- so that's what she really wants me to consider. i'd be doing research on tissue engineering in conjunction with professors from the PhD department and professors from the Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery department. really cool stuff.... and it would set me up perfectly to do an oral/maxillofacial surgery residency after dental school. and dental school would be free. so basically, it's the ideal set-up... i'd end up (by the end of the residency) with a PhD, a DMD, and an MD (built in to the oral/maxillofacial surgery residencies)...
it seems like it would be perfect. i'd end up w/ a career in academic surgery... plus a ton of opportunities for overseas relief work because of having both dentistry and medical degrees.
so... please be praying about this for me. i would really love for it to work out.
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would you start in the fall?
well-- ideally, yeah i'd start next fall. but she told me that the biomedical engineering department (or any other department that i end up in for the PhD part) would have the final say on that... and she thinks they might ask me to start this spring. which kinda sucks b/c i don't wanna bail on david... but i guess i'll just have to see what they say and deal with it then.
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