The American Dental Dream – PDP002

Have you ever thought of moving to the United States to practice Dentistry? Where do you begin? Join us for this podcast with Dr Jaz Gulati as he navigates through the experiences and journey of Dr Kristina Gauchan who is a UK Dental graduate and is on track to work in the USA. If you qualified with your primary Dental degree from anywhere outside of USA and Canada, you will need to follow the pathway Kristina shares in this episode. Some helpful resources that Dr Kristina has kindly shared as part of the Podcast notes: Tips for International Dental Students | ASDAMembership in ASDA. We encourage you to join ASDA to gain access to resources and education on the dental school application and licensure process.www.asdanet.org ADEA CAAPID DirectoryADEA CAAPID Directory ADEA CAAPID 2019 Application Cycle March 1, 2018 – February 22, 2019. Many U.S. and Canadian dental schools that offer advanced standing programs for international dental graduates participate in ADEA CAAPID.www.adea.org Licensure Information by State – ada.orgLicensure Information by State State Licensure Tables. The ADA attempts to keep this information current based on information from state dental boards, clinical testing agencies and state dental associations.www.ada.org Dr Kristina Gauchan graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2015. Having married an American resident, she has now entered a new chapter in her life. She is ready for the next academic venture as she will start her two year international dental program at Boston University in order to obtain a DDS/DMD to gain her US dental license.    Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 2, the protrusive dental podcast. Happy new year to you for listening to this. Jaz's Introduction:Today is all about moving to the U S of A. Even if you're not interested in moving to the USA, I think every one of us post qualifying from a UK or international dental school, has actually wondered, I wonder what it takes to move to the USA, because I think very early on, we pick up this knowledge that our dental degree is not actually valid in the USA. And there are many barriers to actually working there. So this podcast is for anyone who's ever wondered what it takes to move to USA with your dental degree, how to obtain a license there, or perhaps you're already midway through the process or very heavily invested or considering about moving to the USA. This will give you lots of good tips and experiences from our guest today, Kristina Gauchan, who, she's done very well. She's actually been starting at Boston university to convert her dental degree to a US one. And we'll be talking all about entrance exams, fees. The politics of it, language exams that you have to do that, I didn't really appreciate. So we'll be hearing all about that today. Protrusive Dental PearlBefore we delve into that, I want to share with you the Protrusive Dental Pearl for today's episode. Again, this is another nonclinical episode and do not worry. I've got lots of clinical stuff lined up for the future. But anyway, today's Protrusive Dental Pearl, which is also nonclinical is a financial one. Basically, I want you to go to www.globalrichlist.net and I want you to enter your income. Okay, because this is something that is so eye opening. You need to see that if you're listening to this podcast, you're likely a dentist, therapist somewhere. And actually, when you enter your figures in, I bet you'll be probably in the top 20 million people in the world. Okay. Top 20 million richest people are probably in the top 0.3 percent of people. And sometimes it's really important to appreciate how lucky we are and how privileged we are to live in these countries that we live in. And to do the work that we do that is very stressful and it brings lots of reward in, which I think we're very deserving of, but sometimes really,