NSU CDM Lasting Impressions Spring 2019

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 19 Both Dillon and Goodwin agreed that the extra years and hard work were well worth it, and both said they emerged from the program with a wide array of options for the next steps on their career path. While it is common to pursue oral surgery after the dual- degree program, both Goodwin and Dillon also took to heart the collaborative message of the program and chose career paths in which they could integrate their medical and dental knowledge. After her NSU graduation, Dillon continued honing both her dental and medical knowledge. She worked as a medical intern at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, Florida, and then entered a dental residency at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, she is finishing a three-year family medicine residency at Tufts University in Massachusetts. “I thought a lot about oral surgery, and that is a great skill, but that doesn’t merge medicine and dentistry in the same way I wanted to apply it,” Dillon said. “It doesn’t address the knowledge of dentistry or oral health and its importance in a Having dual D.O. and D.M.D. degrees have opened new career options for Aaron Goodwin and Brittanie Dillon.