GringoChino
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Now that we're getting well into interviews, I thought that I would start this thread to give people a forum to discuss and ask questions about the Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program.
For those that don't know about this program, it is a dual degree program where you receive a Masters of Health and Medical Sciences from Berkeley and your MD from UCSF. You spend the first three years at Berkeley doing preclinical coursework that is 100% PBL, taking classes for your master's degree, and formulating and executing a master's thesis research project. You then move over across the SF bay and join the UCSF class for your last two clinical years. You are a fulltime enrolled UCSF med student and UC Berkeley grad student at the same time, and have access to / the benefits of both campus. I could go on about it for hours, so you should just check out the basic info at the Berkeley and UCSF websites:
http://jmp.berkeley.edu/
http://medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/degrees/Curriculum.aspx#mdms
For those who are interested/intrigued, are interviewing, or are contemplating acceptances to the JMP, feel free to PM me for any questions or my honest opinions. (I'm now a first year at this program). When I was applying, I was pretty annoyed at the lack of "insider information" (aka actual student's perspective) available on the web about the program. Because it is such a unique medical experience, I think it is especially important for those interested to be able to talk to current students. Hopefully this will help to remedy that for this year!
For those that don't know about this program, it is a dual degree program where you receive a Masters of Health and Medical Sciences from Berkeley and your MD from UCSF. You spend the first three years at Berkeley doing preclinical coursework that is 100% PBL, taking classes for your master's degree, and formulating and executing a master's thesis research project. You then move over across the SF bay and join the UCSF class for your last two clinical years. You are a fulltime enrolled UCSF med student and UC Berkeley grad student at the same time, and have access to / the benefits of both campus. I could go on about it for hours, so you should just check out the basic info at the Berkeley and UCSF websites:
http://jmp.berkeley.edu/
http://medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/degrees/Curriculum.aspx#mdms
For those who are interested/intrigued, are interviewing, or are contemplating acceptances to the JMP, feel free to PM me for any questions or my honest opinions. (I'm now a first year at this program). When I was applying, I was pretty annoyed at the lack of "insider information" (aka actual student's perspective) available on the web about the program. Because it is such a unique medical experience, I think it is especially important for those interested to be able to talk to current students. Hopefully this will help to remedy that for this year!