Summary of Experience:
Loved it! I was pleasantly surprised at how nice everyone in that area of the Bronx was. Great curriculum with mix of lecture and PBL, students are super friendly, dorms are decent and for a great price, and are really convenient. strong focus on clinical medicine.
Summary of Experience:
Really liked the school. Anatomy labs are state of the art and basically amazing. New curriculum sounds amazing, though I\'m a little concerned about a transition year/being a guinea pig. I do like the idea of being done in an year and a half and having the emphasis project in the third year. They are also starting clinic times earlier, for all 4 years. and it seemed like they were adding more pbl/integrated work into the curriculum.
The campus is nice, though it was raining, so I couldn\'t see a lot of it. Children\'s hospital is gorgeous and the simulation center is really nice. It\'s all centralized too, which is nice.
All the students seemed very friendly. Big sibs had posted signs cheering for their little sibs before their exam, which was cute. All the faculty commented how they are able to really focus on supporting the students, that students are the priority. The student lounge was nice, and the students said they had extra money, so the school was going to add some stuff per student requests. Seemed very receptive to student needs in general, which would definitely make me feel a lot better about the transition year/curriculum changes. Also have a wellness center, and really stress maintaining a balanced lifestyle, which is something that\'s really important to me.
Summary of Experience:
Loved the school. Not an integrated curriculum, which I\'m a little disappointed about, but from it sounded like from the students, first year was just kind of a blow off year anyway, so abnormal year was the main time to learn normal as well. Plus, fourth year was all elective, so you\'d have a lot more freedom during that year as well. Basically, it seems like they spoil the students, which would be nice.
Facilities are all gorgeous and pretty new. Faculty seemed pretty amazing. Lots of fin aid as well, and lower standard of living.
Summary of Experience:
Overall, I wasn\\\'t that impressed with the school. They made a big hype about their new curriculum, but all that seemed to be changing was converting to an organ-based systems approach, which is already pretty standard at most of the other schools I\\\'ve interviewed at. All the faculty did seem very nice and receptive to feedback from the students. Everything is all in one building (the building is awesome/weird at the same time, architecture is funny), including the gym. The scrub service seemed really cool as well. The one thing I felt UC really has going for it is Shriner\'s children\'s hospital, yet they never even mentioned it, let alone tour it, which I found very odd, since I expected that to be a big bragging point for them.
Summary of Experience:
The curriculum is awesome, and all the students were great, dean was very nice and friendly. Bard Hall, the dorm for first-years, wasn\'t that great, but from what I hear, the upperclassmen apartments next door are pretty nice and well worth living in Bard for a year. The area of manhattan didn\'t seem that safe or with a lot to do, but I guess it is a less expensive area of town and just a short subway ride away from the rest of manhattan. Patient population is 85% dominan.
Summary of Experience:
Went pretty well. DC is awesome- the city is great, tons of stuff too not, but not too much of a big city feel since no skyscrappers. Information sessions in the morning weren\'t that informative, and didn\'t get to spend a lot of time with students. Curriculum is very traditional with classes MWF morning and lab all afternoon, but POM/CAP on T/TH with half-days off. Track program is awesome though. Not a lot of fin aid.
Summary of Experience:
Overall, had a great experience at the interview. I really like the flexibility that stanford\'s curriculum allows, especially the scholarly concentrations, and the campus is gorgeous! They have a new medical school building, which is really nice. It\'s pretty far from home, but the weather would more than make up for that fact.
Summary of Experience:
Love their curriculum. They are making some changes to shorten the pre-clinical years by a month or so and add in more longitudinal patient experiences starting earlier in the first year. The new curriculum will be an integrated organ-based approach, so no \"normal\" and \"abnormal\" years.
On the down side, it\'s super expensive and fin aid didn\'t sound superb, mostly just loans. Plus, its in an expensive area, so high living expenses, but i guess with loans, that\'s not a huge deal-breaker.
Summary of Experience:
Admissions staff is super nice and friendly. Campus is much larger and more developed than I expected, and has tons of research opportunities. Athens program sounds cool with only 40 students and PBL type learning. Many choices for where you do your rotations, though no campuses in Atl. Don\'t find out fin aid till a few weeks before semester starts, which is annoying.
