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Disclaimer: I have to confess, I've never seen an MSAR and I'm not sure if this sort of information is contained therein, but even if it is...
In the spirit of the Free SDN Matriculant Data project, and because I wanted to see a layout of this sort of information organized by school, I've created a spreadsheet of the first couple dozen schools with information each school's preclinical and clinical grading schemes, format of preclinical courses (block vs other), practice of ranking students within the class/disclosing this to residency programs, class attendance policy, time dedicated to students' preparation for Step 1, existence of AOA, requirement of a research thesis or project, and cited sources for the information I've been able to find so far. I just listed schools by their current rank in USNWR because that was an easy list to find.
If anyone else thinks this would be a nice resource to have and would like to contribute to it's completion, I can add your Google account to the editor list and allow you contribute information you find to the spreadsheet.
In addition, some of this information is very difficult to find, and it would be awesome if medical students here on SDN who attend a given school could help fill in the gaps.
Also, if someone would like to format the spreadsheet to look pretty like the matriculant data sheet does, that'd be welcome too.
Here it is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AljTNZe5EtqgdG5qTzFld1pxelY2M0llcVk4b292ZHc
If there are errors and you're somehow affiliated with the school in question (MS0 that will be attending, current med student, whatever) please point out the corrections!
tl;dr - spreadsheet of schools by grading scheme and other policies, need help/contributions, hope it's helpful to someone!
In the spirit of the Free SDN Matriculant Data project, and because I wanted to see a layout of this sort of information organized by school, I've created a spreadsheet of the first couple dozen schools with information each school's preclinical and clinical grading schemes, format of preclinical courses (block vs other), practice of ranking students within the class/disclosing this to residency programs, class attendance policy, time dedicated to students' preparation for Step 1, existence of AOA, requirement of a research thesis or project, and cited sources for the information I've been able to find so far. I just listed schools by their current rank in USNWR because that was an easy list to find.
If anyone else thinks this would be a nice resource to have and would like to contribute to it's completion, I can add your Google account to the editor list and allow you contribute information you find to the spreadsheet.
In addition, some of this information is very difficult to find, and it would be awesome if medical students here on SDN who attend a given school could help fill in the gaps.
Also, if someone would like to format the spreadsheet to look pretty like the matriculant data sheet does, that'd be welcome too.
Here it is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AljTNZe5EtqgdG5qTzFld1pxelY2M0llcVk4b292ZHc
If there are errors and you're somehow affiliated with the school in question (MS0 that will be attending, current med student, whatever) please point out the corrections!
tl;dr - spreadsheet of schools by grading scheme and other policies, need help/contributions, hope it's helpful to someone!
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