I've not heard of merit based scholarships. There are, however, need based scholarships/loans, especially for URM and disadvantaged students.
1. I think that's referring to this: https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/whatYouNeed.action?page=counseling
long time reader here who will be headed down to Philly the Wednesday night before Revisit, but really unfortunately have to be back on a plane by 10 that Thursday night after the reception. For those current students keeping tabs here, is it possible to squeeze in some "mini-Revisit" activities on Thursday - maybe some class time, chatting with someone about research opportunities, and global health / community health / MD-MPH potential...and if so, any ideas on who in particular I should get in touch with? So far, so in love with the city environment and people I've seen but would love to do some more exploring!
Dr. Plumb would be the person to contact regarding global/community health activities. He is the head of the College Within a College program for Population Health. If you contact him, I'm sure he'll be happy to talk to you about those interests. Dr. Simmons would be the contact point person for the MD/MPH program. You'll hear about these again during orientation and also during meetings at the beginning of the year when they really start trying to recruit students.Happy Friday all
I agree with the above. Car is not necessary first or second year unless you're a special case. It might be helpful for rotations, but people generally survive pretty well with public trans and carpooling.
This is what our schedule looked like last year: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxk5tuyav2xo453/SEC LOOK AGENDA 4 25-26 2013_updated 4 22 13.pdf
Not sure. I would call and ask.
I'm not going to lie, medical school, in many ways, does seem a bit like high school. This will likely be true wherever you choose to attend. Cliques do form, and you will begin identifying very quickly who the "cool kids" are. That being said, I feel like despite people splitting up into their own group of friends, everyone is still pretty inclusive. Age does play a minor component, I guess, but, again, it's not a huge problem if you act with the level of maturity expected of someone in a professional/graduate level program.
Mind linking me to that article? Seems like it'd be an interesting read
I'm going to qualify my previous post by saying that the first couple weeks are certainly not the crux of making friends in med school. There's organizations, lecture, small group, anatomy lab, clinical skills sessions, JeffHOPE... Plenty of opportunities to meet people both inside and outside of your year.Haha sure! I posed the same question on there for a generic viewpoint
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/medical-school-popularity-contest.437277/
And thank you Dr. Strange! I'm just curious because I've traditionally floated around a lot of cliques, but I'm just not sure how many night events I'll be able to make at orientation for personal reasons
Being young isn't really going to hold you back at all. I live with third year students and hang out with them and their friends all the time. There's such a wide variety of ages in medical school, so it really just comes down to your personality.
Match list has not been officially released yet. I know there's been physical copies floating around, though. We did quite well, as usual. We matched 13/13 ophtho. I also think we matched all of our ortho kids.
Unless you've already interviewed, there's virtually no hope at this point that it means anything good. The last interview day was a week and a half ago.
I was just coming here to ask that! I did get an email from Financial Aid telling me I needed to do some stuff (IRS data retrieval tool, for example) before I could get an award notification (check your Jeff email).
