I am strictly writing this information in the hopes that it will be invaluable to some other student considering attending this program. I sincerely hope that I may spare others the heartache, disappointment, financial trouble, and waste of time and energy involved with being a student in this post-bacc program. I am highly annoyed that the AMCAS website does not allow people to leave comments about these post-bacc programs because I am sure many would have been spared a lot of headaches. Therefore, I am giving you my personal in-depth review.
Dominican University is a private Catholic institution, but you do not have to be Catholic to attend and the school tries to foster a welcoming environment to all students(LBGT, ethnic minorities, atheists, etc). It is located in River Forest, IL, which is a wealthy western suburb of Chicago, IL.
Dr. Scannicchio is the post-bacc pre-med advisor and founder of the program at Dominican University. Dr. Wilson, whom should not be referred to as doctor really because his license has been suspended in Illinois since 1998 due to a medical case on Physician Assistant Suicide involving Henry Taylor, is the contact person for recommendations to DO programs for the post-bacc program. Dr. Hughes is another faculty member of the post-bacc pre-med program who interviews students for the program, and she teaches some a worthless class that is required for the program titled "Clinical Behavioral Medicine." I'll write more about this later to justify calling it worthless. However, I will first start with Dr. Scannicchio as he is the head of this post-bacc program aka scam.
Dr. Scannicchio is a retired Dentist(Maxiofacial surgeon) whom is making bank off of the students enrolled at Dominican Univ post-bacc program. He owns Bon Villa, the apartment complex in Oak Park, IL, that all Dominican Univ post-bacc students are recommended to apply for housing. Dr. Scannicchio takes power points from the internet(you will find them all if you search for the topic on google that he uses) and uses them as his lectures during classes he teaches such as Advanced Anatomy w/ cadaver I & II, medical terminology, and Histology. Moreover, the TAs grade(these are other Dominican post-bacc students who are taking the class with you and are usually in the process of applying to med school...yes, this does create conflict because 1.)if you are really good friends with the student TA you don't have to work for the grade and 2.) if you are struggling in the class or have questions theTAs are hard to get in contact with because they are students to applying to med school, taking classes, and really don't know what is going on) and usually deals with all interactions with the students. Therefore, what does Dr. Scannicchio do if he doesn't have to prepare his lectures, since they are plagiarized, and the TAs actually do the grades and other class related menial work? That is a good question. When one goes in to be advised on what they should do, Dr. Scannicchio does not have your transcripts in hand, does not know you or your background, but will "advise" you on what classes you should take. In addition, if you are struggling in the program, trying to figure out what you should do, or you are questioning whether you should be a doctor or vet, etc. He says the same thing to all students that he speaks with. If you can't become a doctor be a nurse is always mentioned first. If nursing is too hard for you, then choose some other profession in the allied health care field. That is his advising in a gist. The acceptance rate into med school is very low from this program. Therefore, Dr. Scannicchio has now been trying really hard to push students to consider and apply to Caribbean medical schools instead of MD programs in the USA. He has even had representatives come in to speak with students about Caribbean MD programs. This is due to the fact that the standards for applying to a Caribbean MD program is significantly less than a MD program in the USA. Hence, more students would get accepted in Caribbean MD programs as opposed to MD programs in the USA, therefore inflating their MD acceptance rate. Therefore are a good amount of Dominican Univ post-bacc students currently at Caribbean MD programs because they could not get into MD programs in the USA, and they still had the desire to become get a MD.
Another issue with Dr. Scannicchio is that he is favors female students over male students. He favors female students over male students because he inappropriately touches female students, but no one will come forward with complaints against him because they are in fear of their chances of getting into medical school. Since, Dr. Scannicchio is the head of the post-bacc program, and the one who puts together your committee letter for medical school. This is very well known, and any student still considering applying here should come to campus, and ask students about Dr. Scannicchio touching female students. Everyone will have a story I guarantee you.
Dr. Wilson is mainly apart of this post-bacc program because they need someone to write recommendation letters for students who apply to DO schools. Dr. Wilson is the most unprofessional out of all them involved in this program. He is also the most hardest to get in contact with because he is hardly on campus, and also teaches courses at a local community college, Triton College, in River Grove, IL. The courses Dr. Wilson teaches at Dominican Univ is Advanced Pathophysiology, Anatomy & Physiology, and Internal Medicine. Dr. Wilson is very sexist. He has a collection on his macbook pro laptop with tons of old commercials that have banned from being shown in the US or has been removed from TV. Well, during class one day he just up and shows the class a commercial that has three women around a refrigerator. When they open the refrigerator and get a beer out all the ladies nipples where showing through their shirts. He also sent an email to all the people on the post-bacc mailing list a poem, in short, making light of date rape by saying women date rape men that is how they get men to marry them. He is very unprofessional along with being a lot of other words that end in -ist. Once Dr. Wilson showed in class pictures sent to him by a former Dominican Univ post-bacc student who did international volunteering in Africa. He showed the pictures of those ailing and dying people who had such gruesome conditions going on in a manner not to teach us about those ailments, but to get our reactions like it was some circus freak sideshow. He was showing the pictures like, "Look at this, eww" or "Man, aren't you glad you don't live there?" Dr. Wilson was once talking about a disease that largely affected a small tribe of Indians in Advanced Pathophysiology. He said, "Oh, who cares it only affects those tribe of Indians. Who cares about that tribe of Indians anyway?" Well, one of the students in our class happen to be of mixed heritages, and one of those heritages was that small tribe of Indians. Dr. Wilson said, "Really, you are Indian? Are you going to school for free?" The student replied, "No." Dr. Wilson replied,"Man, I would really look into that if I were you because you should be going to school for free." Dr. Wilson is able to get away with his language mainly because he is so funny, but even Dr. Hughes has said to our class, "Dr. Wilson walks a very fine line between being funny and really inappropriate." Well, that makes two of them.
Dr. Hughes is a Clinical Psychologist by trade, and she teaches a class that she has totally made up that has no structure to it called "Clinical Behavioral Medicine." It is a required class now for incoming post-bacc students, and she is working to make it a year long class. Basically it is a class that she uses to talk about herself, other students, Dr. Scannicchio, and topics that interests her. I'm dead serious too. Every class Dr. Hughes talks endlessly about her son RJ and daughter Rachel, how much money she has, and how easy it is for her a white woman. Also, how she has to be cognizant of the stereotypes of white women with blonde hair because she has faced a lot of discrimination. She will tell you countless stories of folks being surprised she has a PhD when they see her, etc. She is also very unprofessional too. That should be no surprise here. Dr. Hughes talks a lot and usually it is much to do about nothing. Dr. Hughes and Dr. Scannicchio's professional relationship appears highly inappropriate. Dr. Hughes would come into class and tell all of Dr. Scannicchio's personal business, and her business along with other students in the program business. It was almost as if the class served as a catharsis for her. Her class discussed topics such as internet porn addiction, sexual abuse, transgender vs. transsexual, test anxiety, and many more random behavioral topics. She also did med school interview and patient interview simulations. The patient interview simulation is the meat and potatoes of her class. It is where students dress up as their role that was randomly selected, and interview actors who play their patient(the majority are theater students at Concordia Univ in River Forest, IL which is down the street from Dominican Univ). The student will either be the doctor, nurse or med student. Again, no one complains because Dr. Hughes is funny, and it is an easy "A." To take classes as a post-bacc at Dominican is $600 per course, it may be higher now. At $600 a course I am sure you would be angry to take a worthless class such as this one.
Things that were good about the program...
1.) The internship at Rush Hospital in Oak Park, IL where Dr. Scannicchio has worked for years and retired from. He has a lot of contacts up there, so students are able to intern in different departments. Not just medicine, but dental, pharmacy, etc. I did my internship in surgery with Dr. Nash(general surgeon) whom lets post-bacc students scrub in for surgeries to observe and learn about different surgical cases.
2.)In Advance Anatomy you will work with two cadavers, one male and one female. Usually you will only get to work with a cadaver in medical school.
3.) Dr. Scannicchio has recently started up an internship in Histology at Rush Hospital at their main location in Chicago, IL. The new futuristic, green, wierd looking building near the expressway. This allows post-bacc students access to view culture samples with doctors, residents, etc.
I hope you will think long and hard before enrolling into Dominican post-bacc program. If you would like to know more just send me a message.
Dominican University is a private Catholic institution, but you do not have to be Catholic to attend and the school tries to foster a welcoming environment to all students(LBGT, ethnic minorities, atheists, etc). It is located in River Forest, IL, which is a wealthy western suburb of Chicago, IL.
Dr. Scannicchio is the post-bacc pre-med advisor and founder of the program at Dominican University. Dr. Wilson, whom should not be referred to as doctor really because his license has been suspended in Illinois since 1998 due to a medical case on Physician Assistant Suicide involving Henry Taylor, is the contact person for recommendations to DO programs for the post-bacc program. Dr. Hughes is another faculty member of the post-bacc pre-med program who interviews students for the program, and she teaches some a worthless class that is required for the program titled "Clinical Behavioral Medicine." I'll write more about this later to justify calling it worthless. However, I will first start with Dr. Scannicchio as he is the head of this post-bacc program aka scam.
Dr. Scannicchio is a retired Dentist(Maxiofacial surgeon) whom is making bank off of the students enrolled at Dominican Univ post-bacc program. He owns Bon Villa, the apartment complex in Oak Park, IL, that all Dominican Univ post-bacc students are recommended to apply for housing. Dr. Scannicchio takes power points from the internet(you will find them all if you search for the topic on google that he uses) and uses them as his lectures during classes he teaches such as Advanced Anatomy w/ cadaver I & II, medical terminology, and Histology. Moreover, the TAs grade(these are other Dominican post-bacc students who are taking the class with you and are usually in the process of applying to med school...yes, this does create conflict because 1.)if you are really good friends with the student TA you don't have to work for the grade and 2.) if you are struggling in the class or have questions theTAs are hard to get in contact with because they are students to applying to med school, taking classes, and really don't know what is going on) and usually deals with all interactions with the students. Therefore, what does Dr. Scannicchio do if he doesn't have to prepare his lectures, since they are plagiarized, and the TAs actually do the grades and other class related menial work? That is a good question. When one goes in to be advised on what they should do, Dr. Scannicchio does not have your transcripts in hand, does not know you or your background, but will "advise" you on what classes you should take. In addition, if you are struggling in the program, trying to figure out what you should do, or you are questioning whether you should be a doctor or vet, etc. He says the same thing to all students that he speaks with. If you can't become a doctor be a nurse is always mentioned first. If nursing is too hard for you, then choose some other profession in the allied health care field. That is his advising in a gist. The acceptance rate into med school is very low from this program. Therefore, Dr. Scannicchio has now been trying really hard to push students to consider and apply to Caribbean medical schools instead of MD programs in the USA. He has even had representatives come in to speak with students about Caribbean MD programs. This is due to the fact that the standards for applying to a Caribbean MD program is significantly less than a MD program in the USA. Hence, more students would get accepted in Caribbean MD programs as opposed to MD programs in the USA, therefore inflating their MD acceptance rate. Therefore are a good amount of Dominican Univ post-bacc students currently at Caribbean MD programs because they could not get into MD programs in the USA, and they still had the desire to become get a MD.
Another issue with Dr. Scannicchio is that he is favors female students over male students. He favors female students over male students because he inappropriately touches female students, but no one will come forward with complaints against him because they are in fear of their chances of getting into medical school. Since, Dr. Scannicchio is the head of the post-bacc program, and the one who puts together your committee letter for medical school. This is very well known, and any student still considering applying here should come to campus, and ask students about Dr. Scannicchio touching female students. Everyone will have a story I guarantee you.
Dr. Wilson is mainly apart of this post-bacc program because they need someone to write recommendation letters for students who apply to DO schools. Dr. Wilson is the most unprofessional out of all them involved in this program. He is also the most hardest to get in contact with because he is hardly on campus, and also teaches courses at a local community college, Triton College, in River Grove, IL. The courses Dr. Wilson teaches at Dominican Univ is Advanced Pathophysiology, Anatomy & Physiology, and Internal Medicine. Dr. Wilson is very sexist. He has a collection on his macbook pro laptop with tons of old commercials that have banned from being shown in the US or has been removed from TV. Well, during class one day he just up and shows the class a commercial that has three women around a refrigerator. When they open the refrigerator and get a beer out all the ladies nipples where showing through their shirts. He also sent an email to all the people on the post-bacc mailing list a poem, in short, making light of date rape by saying women date rape men that is how they get men to marry them. He is very unprofessional along with being a lot of other words that end in -ist. Once Dr. Wilson showed in class pictures sent to him by a former Dominican Univ post-bacc student who did international volunteering in Africa. He showed the pictures of those ailing and dying people who had such gruesome conditions going on in a manner not to teach us about those ailments, but to get our reactions like it was some circus freak sideshow. He was showing the pictures like, "Look at this, eww" or "Man, aren't you glad you don't live there?" Dr. Wilson was once talking about a disease that largely affected a small tribe of Indians in Advanced Pathophysiology. He said, "Oh, who cares it only affects those tribe of Indians. Who cares about that tribe of Indians anyway?" Well, one of the students in our class happen to be of mixed heritages, and one of those heritages was that small tribe of Indians. Dr. Wilson said, "Really, you are Indian? Are you going to school for free?" The student replied, "No." Dr. Wilson replied,"Man, I would really look into that if I were you because you should be going to school for free." Dr. Wilson is able to get away with his language mainly because he is so funny, but even Dr. Hughes has said to our class, "Dr. Wilson walks a very fine line between being funny and really inappropriate." Well, that makes two of them.
Dr. Hughes is a Clinical Psychologist by trade, and she teaches a class that she has totally made up that has no structure to it called "Clinical Behavioral Medicine." It is a required class now for incoming post-bacc students, and she is working to make it a year long class. Basically it is a class that she uses to talk about herself, other students, Dr. Scannicchio, and topics that interests her. I'm dead serious too. Every class Dr. Hughes talks endlessly about her son RJ and daughter Rachel, how much money she has, and how easy it is for her a white woman. Also, how she has to be cognizant of the stereotypes of white women with blonde hair because she has faced a lot of discrimination. She will tell you countless stories of folks being surprised she has a PhD when they see her, etc. She is also very unprofessional too. That should be no surprise here. Dr. Hughes talks a lot and usually it is much to do about nothing. Dr. Hughes and Dr. Scannicchio's professional relationship appears highly inappropriate. Dr. Hughes would come into class and tell all of Dr. Scannicchio's personal business, and her business along with other students in the program business. It was almost as if the class served as a catharsis for her. Her class discussed topics such as internet porn addiction, sexual abuse, transgender vs. transsexual, test anxiety, and many more random behavioral topics. She also did med school interview and patient interview simulations. The patient interview simulation is the meat and potatoes of her class. It is where students dress up as their role that was randomly selected, and interview actors who play their patient(the majority are theater students at Concordia Univ in River Forest, IL which is down the street from Dominican Univ). The student will either be the doctor, nurse or med student. Again, no one complains because Dr. Hughes is funny, and it is an easy "A." To take classes as a post-bacc at Dominican is $600 per course, it may be higher now. At $600 a course I am sure you would be angry to take a worthless class such as this one.
Things that were good about the program...
1.) The internship at Rush Hospital in Oak Park, IL where Dr. Scannicchio has worked for years and retired from. He has a lot of contacts up there, so students are able to intern in different departments. Not just medicine, but dental, pharmacy, etc. I did my internship in surgery with Dr. Nash(general surgeon) whom lets post-bacc students scrub in for surgeries to observe and learn about different surgical cases.
2.)In Advance Anatomy you will work with two cadavers, one male and one female. Usually you will only get to work with a cadaver in medical school.
3.) Dr. Scannicchio has recently started up an internship in Histology at Rush Hospital at their main location in Chicago, IL. The new futuristic, green, wierd looking building near the expressway. This allows post-bacc students access to view culture samples with doctors, residents, etc.
I hope you will think long and hard before enrolling into Dominican post-bacc program. If you would like to know more just send me a message.
