This was at least according to my time stamps....so I could be wrong...sorry to cause panic/excitement if that's the case..
Accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me neither...... I'm getting nervous.What the?
I have no status update. When did you get a status update? When did you interview? DAMIT MAN, GIVE ME ANSWERS!![]()
Accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats, when did you interview?Accepted!!!! I wish everyone the best of luck!
OMG! Did you all get emails first? I keep refreshing my email and status pages like every 3 minutes. I really need to do something else🙁
3 minutes? That's some self-control! 3 seconds here lol
I'm hibernating my computer and watching a couple of episodes of House. Hopefully my status will be ACCEPTED when I get back. Good luck to everyone!
I interviewed on 1/18.Congrats, when did you interview?
I hope you get some good news. I know there was one SDN member who was put on hold, he/she wrote a letter of intent and was accepted the next time the committee met. Hopefully something similar can happen for those who really think Case is the right place for them.On Hold. Well Case, I hope your University Hospital continues to suffer declining revenues and wade lagoon gets infected with piranhas.
Well I got an interview tomorrow, so happy thoughts for now.
On Hold. Well Case, I hope your University Hospital continues to suffer declining revenues and wade lagoon gets infected with piranhas.
Well I got an interview tomorrow, so happy thoughts for now.
I hope you get some good news. I know there was one SDN member who was put on hold, he/she wrote a letter of intent and was accepted the next time the committee met. Hopefully something similar can happen for those who really think Case is the right place for them.
Every two weeks on Tuesday. Furthermore, no one swims in Wade Lagoon, so there's no point.Thanks for the advice. I might send an update letter, but I think a letter of intent would be dishonest for me. Regardless of what happens with my application though, I still hope Wade Lagoon is infected with piranhas.
BTW, does anyone know how often the committee meets?
A number of people have been successful with letter writing campaigns in the past. All depends on how you convincing you are.Hey all,
I was also put on hold. I have an interesting dilemma in that I am getting married in the summer, and my fiance (business major) needs time to find a job in whatever city I end up in. I would like to go to case if accepted, but if I get accepted in May, I probably won't be able to at that point.
Should I send a letter to the adcom expressing my desire to be looked at again more definitively, earlier? I know that this decreases my overall chances, but I feel like it may increase my chance of actually being able to go there.
Thanks everyone, and congrats to everyone who was accepted!
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I am currently in my 4th year of medical school. I am here to say that most of what people allow to weigh in on their decision to attend medical school is pretty irrelevant. I base this statement on 1) what I took into consideration 2) what other people I met on the trail into consideration 3) talking to prospective applicants 4) discussions with fellow classmates. This is in large part because most information about schools comes from is from first year students, who really have no idea of what the school is like, sales angles of schools attempting to reel in students etc, and random discussions from people who don't know much more than you do.
What is not important:
1) Impression of students: this is bogus, totally bogus. Every school has a fairly similar mix of a few types and if you think you can tell what students are like by meeting the tour guide and 3 other people you are fooling yourself.
A) Gunners- Every american medical school has gunners. Furthermore, your interview process will not allow you to prove or disprove my theory, as these people generally aren't doing interviews. Also don't let anyone tell you that theres no competition at their school because there is always someone who wants to do ortho at the hosp for special surgery, even at DO schools.
Moreover if you are really worried about dodging the "Gunners" then 90% chance that you are one....my observational experience
B) Slackers- These are the real people I'd be worried about: they tend not to show up to stuff and make everyone look bad.
C) Superstars- Every school has these, good schools have a few more.
D) Everyone else (prob 45-60% of a class)
2) Curriculum- Guys I hear this a lot and read this on this board alot....looking back I thought this was a big deal, now I say "who really cares." Here's my breakdown of the issue
A) PBL- you have no background to base your case based learning on...and will not have it until year 2 and probably 1/2 through that (when you start organ system pathology/pathophys). Really how can you expect someone to understand CHF related fluid retention with no prior knowledge of renin-angiotensin and the kidneys...silly
B) lectures vs no lectures- For all practical purposes, you are going to teach your damn selves 90% of the first 2 years.
The reason for this is that most of the first two years really is vocab and getting your mind around a few key concepts so that third year you can actually understand what your residents and attendings are saying. So despite all the hype about new novel ways of learning it boils down to you hanging out with Robbins pathology, a microscope/online slides and a cadaver and figuring it out.
As far as clinical relevant knowledge year 1-2 is more or less the about the same, deal with it. I say this coming from an Ivy so trust me.
3) Quality of facilities- Theres three reasons why this is pretty irrelevant
A) they never show you all the facilities-
B) Does learning in an old building really impact your education
C) When you're trudging in the snow at 4 am to rounds on surgery are you really going to notice or care what the outside of the hospital looks like......highly doubtful
4) extracurricular/social stuff- This is +/-. If you have a passion for playing the violin...can't live without it and are willing to do it despite significant other time committments..this can be a plus
however, do not get the false impression that a medical school class remains this cohesive bunch of social butterflies for 4 years. Generally, everyone is very busy and alot of people are overwhelmed. The attendance at class events dropped preciptiously year 2.
5) early patient contact- I think this is a total sales pitch: To provide an anecdote: It was january of my second year. we were in our physical diagnosis class, having our first group interview with a patient with renal failure and volume overload causing CHF.
so the encounter goes like this.....
A classmate "so what brings you to the hospital today"
patient: "I am having a tough time breathing, it feels like im drowning when I lie flat"
Classmate "that sounds bad"
long silence.
This classmate was a smart guy and ended up being AOA and this was 1 1/2 years into medical school.....
so if thats 2nd year what are you really going to do interviewing patients 1st year.......basically acquire bad habits that you will need to fix later in life. Is it a total waste? no. However do not make this any more than a minor consideration.
Things that are important
1) What is the 3rd year like and how is it structured?:
I almost never hear any real questions or comment from applicants regarding this topic. In the end this is the only real difference between schools, and probably could be the only real question to ask? more specific questions?
a) How are the rotations structured? What is your role on the wards? Do you have a clear role Do you get your "hands dirty" alot, or is it alot of shadowing? This is very important. You really don't learn much by watching people do stuff and if they work you down to a minimal role you will not gain much experience and will suck for several months into internship.
Now I'm not saying you demand the right to cross clamp the aorta during a CABG, but medicine is not a spectator sport and if the school doesn't have a culture of teaching (i.e. alot of patients are private patients, medical students aren't allowed to do anything) it will be a long, boring 3rd year.
2) Where do 3rd year evaluations come from?
Alot of people go in with this attitude "I am here to learn not to get grades." I agree with this attitude 85%. However, using that attitude indiscriminantly is impractical and can lead to some evaulations that you are not too happy with, it happens
You probably can't please everyone equally. This is especially true on surgery and medicine where there is not enough hours in the day.
Thus, the recommendation I make to everyone is to figure out roughly who writes the evaluation and what they expect and make sure you do a really good job on that. I do not recommend kissing up....However, it is really easy at times to get caught up in "which 5 minute presentation do I spend preparing for tomorrow. " This is why if you know who is grading you you can prioritize which person you pull the NEJM articles out for, and who gets the 15 minute before cram session off up-to-date.
Understand however while this happens at all schools (its how the beast works) not all schools do a reasonable job at making this fair or letting you know who is grading you or what you are supposed to do. Thus you should really make an effort to ask questions such as for every rotation do you have an attending directly responsible for evaluating you, or a preceptor (someone not taking care of patients that you are caring for who evaluates your academic abilities and analytic abilities? ideally your grade should come roughly equally from both.
3) Where do the students end up? If you dont want to do primary care, and 75% of school X does. Guess what, you are signing up for 15 weeks of primary care rotations at that school. Conversely, if you want to do general internal medicine or family medicine....and you come to a school that puts out 25 orthopods and 10 neurosurgeons a year.....you will spend alot of time learning about surgeries that you will never perform in your life.
4) How are medical students protected from scut?
If they cannot give you a real answer to this question expect to learn alot about running bloods to the lab and wheeling patients to the CT scanner and very little about managing an MI.
Some schools do a good job of setting up systems to prevent this, however I have also met interns who told me that they failed the surgery shelf because their school was rampant with scut and they didn't learn anything. I think my school did a very good job at scut control, however I have wheeled my share of patients to CT at 2 am.
5) How receptive is the administation to fixing problems and/or disciplining out of line behavior, espcially from residents?
trust me when you have an ID class where the course director is terrible, you will really appreciate it when a new course director is hired the next year.
6) how is the research opportunities at this school?
If you want to end up at an academic program, there will come a time when you will seek papers and if they are not there to be written then you will understand the meaning of this question. If not then forget I mentioned this.
7) how good is this school at focusing on the bread and butter?
This is especially relevant if you are looking at an academic powerhouse type place. Typically alot of times you will find that big tertiary centers tend to be filled with people who A) study esoteric diseases, B) specialize in highly uncommon or speciallized surgeries or diagnostic tests, or C) only doing big commando surgeries on cases people in the community looked at and said no way im touching that.
This is something you may be interested in as an attending or at the end of your residency. However in medical school most of these areas will not be your field and learning the literature on steroid tapers for patients with the CREST syndrome, the signs and symptoms of spinocerebellar ataxia 8 or how to resect a pseudomyxoma peritonei is probably not the best use of time in your only exposure to the area. Its easy to get caught up in that stuff, however good schools recognize the nature of the academic beast and try to make sure that you leave knowing the stages of active labor, how to read an EKG and how to manage childhood asthma.
I hope this helps
mike
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I don't agree with parts of this post, and I am not posting this because I have any negative impressions of Case. Quite the contrary, the students seem to be pretty thrilled with their opportunities during the clinical years (many hospitals/clinics versus ONE medical school, for example). At the same time, it would be great to hear a little about how performance is evaluated in the 3rd and 4th years, how medical students are treated and what they are allowed to do hands-on, what are the differences in experience at some of the hospitals, etc. Thanks so much if you made it through this giant wall of text.
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Well, seeing as I'm the only other post-clinical poster to this thread, I guess that'd be me.First of all, congrats to those just accepted!
Secondly, I have a couple of questions for people currently at Case or CCLCM, since there will be some overlap for this topic: The Clinical Years. It would be awesome to get some 3rd of 4th years in on this, but any thoughts are welcome.
I'd be happy to answer your questions, yes.So in another thread (don't worry I am no traitor, Case is way up there for me), someone reposted this interesting bit from a 4th year (presumably NOT at Case). I was wondering if anyone could respond to any of these ideas or questions below about the clinical years.
You don't have to apologize for asking these questions. They're all entirely reasonable.I don't agree with parts of this post, and I am not posting this because I have any negative impressions of Case. Quite the contrary, the students seem to be pretty thrilled with their opportunities during the clinical years (many hospitals/clinics versus ONE medical school, for example). At the same time, it would be great to hear a little about how performance is evaluated in the 3rd and 4th years, how medical students are treated and what they are allowed to do hands-on, what are the differences in experience at some of the hospitals, etc. Thanks so much if you made it through this giant wall of text.
2) Curriculum- Guys I hear this a lot and read this on this board alot....looking back I thought this was a big deal, now I say "who really cares." Here's my breakdown of the issue
A) PBL- you have no background to base your case based learning on...and will not have it until year 2 and probably 1/2 through that (when you start organ system pathology/pathophys). Really how can you expect someone to understand CHF related fluid retention with no prior knowledge of renin-angiotensin and the kidneys...silly
My two cents: I disagree. That's not the point - PBL isn't about diagnosis, it's about the process and how to frame the material. Seeing clinical relevance in a patient case example helps cement the physiology/pathology/pharmacology/everythingology more, at least for me. I find it to be a very effective way of learning. And I knew that before I decided for which schools to apply. That's a very important consideration. He may be a bit far removed from the process of learning this massive amount of science.B) lectures vs no lectures- For all practical purposes, you are going to teach your damn selves 90% of the first 2 years.
The reason for this is that most of the first two years really is vocab and getting your mind around a few key concepts so that third year you can actually understand what your residents and attendings are saying. So despite all the hype about new novel ways of learning it boils down to you hanging out with Robbins pathology, a microscope/online slides and a cadaver and figuring it out.
As far as clinical relevant knowledge year 1-2 is more or less the about the same, deal with it. I say this coming from an Ivy so trust me.
Hello All!
I interviewed at CCLCM on January 6th and have not received any contact since then. Has anyone interviewed since then and received any sort of decision?
Thanks
Accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats! A round of MCHammer Monkeys for all, on the houseAccepted!!!! I wish everyone the best of luck!
One of my favorite quotes of the year so far. The word fauna is far underutilized. Bravo, my friend.Thanks for the answer, but I think you are getting too caught up in the details and not focusing on the sentiment behind my statement - which was only that I wanted to see more faunal diversity at Case. Fauna.
On Hold. Well Case, I hope your University Hospital continues to suffer declining revenues and wade lagoon gets infected with piranhas.
Well I got an interview tomorrow, so happy thoughts for now.
🙁 waitlisted. Anyone know my chances on getting off the waitlist or how it works at Case? This was by far my favorite school interviewing at not just because the curriculum is my style, but the students actually have personalities... not something I can say of some of the other schools I've interviewed at.
EDIT: Put on Hold
So I checked againbut I'm on hold. Better than a rejection so I will keep hope alive!
As for the holdees, take heart. We former holdees can speak to the fact that there is light at the end of many tunnels. I am certain of the fact that the letters are definitely read and taken into consideration. I have no idea of how much influence it actually has, but I know for sure they genuinely read them.Hey all,
I was also put on hold. I have an interesting dilemma in that I am getting married in the summer, and my fiance (business major) needs time to find a job in whatever city I end up in. I would like to go to case if accepted, but if I get accepted in May, I probably won't be able to at that point.
Should I send a letter to the adcom expressing my desire to be looked at again more definitively, earlier? I know that this decreases my overall chances, but I feel like it may increase my chance of actually being able to go there.
Thanks everyone, and congrats to everyone who was accepted!
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The suspect line there refers to West 6th and not the myriad other sites along Euclid, which is to say not-CCLCM, in accordance with below well-known video:
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Hey Myuu!! They're giving away free falafel at the Falafel Cafe. You better get over there right away!!!🙂
Only until it runs out, so turn off your green light and beat feet over there!?! For how long??? 😱