So, I interviewed at UNR on 11/24/2014. It was my first medical school interview. My overall impression is that UNSOM (University of Nevada School of Medicine) is a remarkably friendly, medical institution. While the MMIs were not trivial, the admissions staff worked extremely hard to be nice, to calm us down and to facilitate the best performance that we applicants could muster. There's something sort of humble about UNSOM that is quite charming. I also get the strong sense that, once admitted, UNSOM really wants every one of its students to succeed. I do not expect other medical schools to be this friendly or helpful on application day or throughout medical education.
Standing in front of my first door for the MMI, I had a flashback to my when I went skydiving and was looking at a doorway on which the other side lay the abyss. Very intense!
I've been fortunate enough to interact with many of the medical students (by volunteering at their excellent, free, medical student run health clinic, The Student Outreach Clinic). The students here are very happy from what I can tell. All of them indicate that medical school is very challenging (that's a plus for me). The class size is quite small and the faculty student ratio is pretty low. Given its diverse match list, I get the sense that students are able to generally get the match placements that they want, at least in specialty, possibly not at their dream location. All of these features, to me, make UNSOM a very attractive medical school option.
I would love to tell you guys in detail about the interview process, but not only does the confidentiality agreement preclude doing so, the Admissions Coordinator herself was quite clear with me that she did not want any aspect of the process communicated. To be safe, that included what was sent to applicants about the agenda of the interview day and the breakdown of the MMI interviews.
Good luck to all applying!
