 as the number one dental program in the country six years running now University of Michigan's dental program is pretty close to the vest when it comes to program info but if you want to kind of figure out if this is a good fit for you and kind of what the vibe is school culture all that stuff look no further we're going to dive deep into the information that is available thanks for joining me on my channel if you want stellar personal statement and secondary is coaching definitely hit subscribe and also if you are looking for more guided kind of structure and guides templates info strategy tips all that word banks definitely check out my secondary's guide in the description below so step one let's do the facts top u.s school for research funding 9000 living alumni which is a great network once you graduate uofm dental students travel to nine countries as part of a global initiative program 12 weeks in community outreach programs so this gives you kind of i'll link it below here this gives you a nice profile of the type of program it's values what's important to them and that's definitely kind of what you want to iterate in your secondaries especially when applying so step two their homepage will continue to give you this kind of snapshot information as to their values their mission what's important to them kind of research intellectual rigor community engagement and kind of bridging those two always to serve their patients best today and tomorrow and so some of the highlights that i'll kind of share with you guys here they are the three pillars for sure right intellectual rigor research commitment and devotion to community and so we see the top five NIH research funded institutions the disilvas lab so it's the translational research focus and it's for head and neck cancer a new collaborative for researchers in the university of michigan medical and dental school examines kind of the link between poor oral health and inflammatory bowel disease they kind of prioritize multi-disciplinary collaboration which is important step three research is super important and so important that they have a research day it's usually in the spring and students alumni professors faculty everyone's invited there are poster presentations awards and it's really kind of a time for the community to come together and really kind of showcase the technological and kind of advances in the field and so it's hosted by ASDA student group so students postdocs visiting scholars all can participate there are basically two ways to approaches to being judged for the awards and so research approach one is a clinical public health research initiative so it's focused on clinical research questions in general dentistry or one of the clinical dental specialties and then approach two is the basic and translational on research so hypothesis driven projects involving some aspects of basic or translational sciences so some of the research domains craniofacial skeletal biology and disease cancer biology and therapeutics tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and clinical population and educational research step four the student experience is very kind of clinically driven as well very connected to the community d1 to d4 spend some time in the clinic every week and so that kind of kind of increases in time as you kind of go up the ranks so for instance the first years spend half day in the clinic per week and they're assisting the upper classes basically there is some direct patient care in the winter term so in the second semester second year students they spend one to two days per week third year spend an average of four days a week so it kind of increases as you go they do outreach outside of the school and kind of several basically specialty rotations and the fourth year there's a 12 weeks outreach program and so you kind of continue to see this commitment to community service which i think is one of these central pillars of michigan's dental program uofm's dental program school of dentistry also has a museum that has 25 000 objects from a rainbow grill to historical kind of apparatus of the field and there's definitely kind of a lot of rich history there just of the practice but also the institution which is is fascinating there's also a kind of professional development um it's called the pathways program that i've had a couple students who i've worked with go to michigan dentistry and they were part of this program and they just loved kind of working with this aspect of professional development i hope that was helpful i hope it gave you kind of some insight into the program and if you did find it helpful give us a like please and if you are starting to rewrite those secondaries definitely look at the guide that i have in the description below thanks so much i'll see you soon