Hey guys, current M1 here. Hope I can answer some of the questions people have.
Interview/Acceptance timeline
Creighton interviews from August to March and accepts 70% of the people they interview. I know plenty of people who got in in March, so no need to panic if you're interviewing late or haven't been offered an interview yet. Also, they'll tell you that it will take 3 weeks to hear back, but that's variable. I interviewed in December last year and it took ten weeks (TEN WEEKS!) to hear back what with the break and all. Also, I don't believe anyone who interviews gets rejected, just waitlisted.
Interviewing
Like people before have said, Creighton wants to hear about your service experiences, particularly the non-medical ones. Also, just remember that your student tour guides and hosts have nothing to do with the acceptance process, so don't walk on eggshells around them. They will not be reporting on you at all, I promise. You can ask the weird questions.
Clinical experience in years 1 and 2
So you might have read about the Magis clinic, which is a clinic that serves the low-income community in Omaha. M1 students can volunteer there and do the entire patient interview and then report to the attending to come up with a plan for treatment. There's a similar setup for an STD clinic. We have opportunities to do skills labs where we learn to do procedures like ultrasounds, LPs, IV placements, etc on mannequins. People get trained to do shots for the flu clinics on campus. There's also a club, Partners Against Cancer, where you get matched with a cancer patient and attend their appointments/chemo sessions/procedures with them. You aren't actually involved in any of the medicine there, but you get an inside look into the lives of cancer patients. Lastly, there are the CURA trips to impoverished countries the summer of your M1 year, where you could be doing a variety of things. Your trip group decides what exactly you'll do, from interviewing patients to doing eye exams to volunteering in orphanages. As far as official patient interaction in the curriculum, you'll have longitudinal clinic M2 year, where you'll spend one day a week in a clinic ?shadowing? the doc. Not really clear on the details yet as that's pretty far away.
Let me know if you have any other questions! I'll try to get back to you, but it might take awhile seeing as we are crazy busy. But please please please try to stop stressing. Comparing your profile to everyone else's is just going to make you feel like crap, and there are people in my class with a huge variety of stats. When you realize you ended up in the exact same class as some guy who has 10 interviews and a 40 MCAT, you'll wish you didn't worry so much.
