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The Jesuits have responded!!!! OMG
Congrats! Did your portal update before you got the email?The Jesuits have responded!!!! OMG
Congrats! Did your portal update before you got the email?
Wow! That is awesome. Congrats again. I am hoping and praying for the same!I was called. No email/portal change yet. Truly blessed.
Wow! That is awesome. Congrats again. I am hoping and praying for the same!
Congrats! What are your stats if you don’t mind me asking?Thank you!! So thankful for this opportunity
Congrats! What are your stats if you don’t mind me asking?
Hoping one of the current students (or someone who is knowledgable) might be able to help answer a few Q's.
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1) Are we required to purchase equipment (e.g. stethoscope, otoscope... etc) prior to arriving at Creighton.... or will this be covered during orientation? I don't recall getting an email about the matter.
2) I know that we will be receiving a MacBook Pro - Is it worth investing in an iPad/stylus for notetaking?
3) How essential is it to have a car for M1? I'm coming from the northeast and have a 2003 Honda accord with 250k miles. I love Lilly, but not sure she is cut out for a 21-hour road trip. 🤣
4) What % of students receive a high pass, pass, versus unsatisfactory?
So 1. We received a Stethoscope during orientation. It was a middle of the road Littmann. We did NOT receive a otoscope, which I guess is because every facility you will use already has an otoscope in room? Not sure but you get a stethescope which while not a mastercardiology model, is perfectly fine for our education level.
2. This entirely depends on you and how you study. I personally Invested in both an Ipad+stylus as well as a dual monitor set up I can plug my mac into. I'm someone who hates paper anything. So I have digital all books/ keep digital notes. With that being said the ipad is great for annotating notes/ First aid or whatever and I love the dual monitor because If I'm home, I always have FA/ notes open in addition to other things without having to flip back and forth.
3. I'd say pretty essential simply for food. Creighton is in a quazi-food desert (meaning you have to drive like 5-10 minutes to a grocery). Our bus system doesn't seem to be good, but I really wouldn't know. I just know no one uses it. There are apartments you can live at basically on campus (ATLAS) but even with this you'd probably want a car to drive to supermarkets or driving in winter. Alternative is to accept a $10 uber ride there and back every so often or utilize the SHIPT apt to have groceries delivered.
4. So Ya'll get a new curriculum and I can't say if they're changing grading or not. For us during M1/M2, the top 10% of the class would get honors. Anyone who gets above 70% gets a pass. if you fall below 70%, they let you try to retake final to a passing score if its possible if not they make you remediate the course. For M3/M4 there is not percentile cut off, so Honors varies by rotation and such. Honors can be anywhere from 10% to over 30% of the class honoring a specific course.
Let me know if you got any other Q's and congrats to everyone who will be joining our Creighton fam.
Slightly unrelated but would you know if getting off of the waitlist is a long shot at this point?
3. I'd say pretty essential simply for food. Creighton is in a quazi-food desert (meaning you have to drive like 5-10 minutes to a grocery). Our bus system doesn't seem to be good, but I really wouldn't know. I just know no one uses it. There are apartments you can live at basically on campus (ATLAS) but even with this you'd probably want a car to drive to supermarkets or driving in winter. Alternative is to accept a $10 uber ride there and back every so often or utilize the SHIPT apt to have groceries delivered.
4. So Ya'll get a new curriculum and I can't say if they're changing grading or not. For us during M1/M2, the top 10% of the class would get honors. Anyone who gets above 70% gets a pass. if you fall below 70%, they let you try to retake final to a passing score if its possible if not they make you remediate the course. For M3/M4 there is not percentile cut off, so Honors varies by rotation and such. Honors can be anywhere from 10% to over 30% of the class honoring a specific course.
Let me know if you got any other Q's and congrats to everyone who will be joining our Creighton fam.
Couple questions:
So for those of us planning on coming without a car, how do current students without a car get food/groceries? Is it reasonable to get a dining commons meal plan at Creighton University, if offered? It sounds like it would be tough to get groceries without a car and I'm wondering what students without a car do for meals.
How often are we exammed/quizzed? Is it just a final at the end of every block or will we have quizzes in between?
Thanks to all the current students for their help answering questions - its been really helpful! I do have two more question:
1) Can anyone speak to the similarity of the exams to Step style questions/are the class exams NBME exams?
2) Do current students find it helpful to attend/watch lecture or do you just study Step material and use that knowledge to take class exams?
Thanks in advance!
1. The majority of our quizzes and exams are professor written. We do have several courses for which we take NBME exams in place of our final (we did this for pulmonary). Some of our courses, while professor written, have professors that seek out board review resources and attempt to correspond lectures and such to board materials (Notably one of our heme onc professor would routinely relate lecture info to Board and Beyond, Pathoma, FA). They attempt to make all of our exams NBME vignette style questions but it varies based on professor. We do use NBME timing for our exams though.
2. I think you will find that it depends on the course and on the person. As stated above, some courses correspond extremely well to NBME topics/high yield resources. So just killing pathoma could net you 90%+. In other classes theres much more professor specific material so knowing lectures would be necessary for 10-30% of the exams.
Class lectures do have the fault of 1. not being written explicitly for boards and 2. being at the discretion of the physician/professor lecturing. Several professors focus on high-yield generalized info, others are very nit-picky. One example I think of off the top of my head is our oncology professor. Dude is a genius, but teaches a farther scope of oncology and oncologic therapeutics than is covered in First aid or sketchy pharm. Could you try to slide by not watching his lectures? possibly, but those extra drugs are 100% fair game.
A few more examples are that we get lectures on things like burn treatment, traumatic injuries (gunshots and stabbings), poisonings, etc. These are things that aren't covered by FA so not watching lectures at all will kinda gaurantee you miss something.
I personally found it more useful to Learn via B&B/ Pathoma and an anki deck. Than binge lectures to reinforce/ beable to catch the nitty gritty material.
Hopefully this helps!
Thanks for your replies!
Do we get time to prepare for Step 1? How do students typically do on Step 1?
I didn’t notice anything on my portal but I was accepted today off the waitlist! Will be attending. First MD acceptance of the cycle. So grateful and blessed.Currently waitilisted. My "decision has been made on your application" notification disappeared from my portal between 2-5 today EST.... does this mean anything or am i getting myself all excited over nothing ?!
Can anyone speak to the new curriculum/ longitudinal component? It has been awhile since my interview(October)
I suggest you reach out to admissions to provide you with most up to date info. I will tell what I personally know/have been told as a current student. I could be wrong as things certainly may change/have been different from what we were told.
You start systems in first semester. I believe you begin with biochem/molecular biology/genetics in a 1-2 month course. After this you will begin systems. Your anatomy course will be incorporated into the system and you will learn the anatomy with respect for the system. From what I remember I think Musculoskeletal/dermatology is first (I can totally be wrong) so you'd learn basics of skin histology and skeletal anatomy. than start to progress through each system learning the anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology, pharmacology etc for each system.
The knew curriculum has some sort of track component built in. How this will manifest is something idk. They gave us the examples of everyone has to do things like medical ethics and humanities, clinical experiences/skill prep, and basic foundational science (researchish) but based on your track you will have to do more of one then the other.
As far as your longitudinal clinic goes, I will speak on what we have as M2's and how it might manifest. Currently, we learned physical exam techniques both during M1 and again throughout the systems as they became pertinent (ex:heart sounds during cardio) During M2 we were assigned a 4 hour shift with a primary care (IM, Family, OBGYN) once every 2 weeks. I imagine you may have a similar type of experience where you will have to learn physical exam skills earlier in your education, followed by a regular primary care shadowing experience. I believe we were told you would have the ability to increase your clinic time depending on the track you chose however none of that was set in stone.
My understanding is that your semesters will somewhat resemble what our systems were like as M2's. This would mean that in general you have lecture between 8-12. once a week you will have a 2 hour small group case based learning experience (i.e. work through the case of a patient with a disease that corresponds to the unit ex. stroke during neuro, crohns during GI, etc.) followed by a team based learning experience (mini quiz taken seperately than again together in your group) either the same day after the CBL or the following day. I'm not sure how your anatomy /ethics will be set up other than its incorporated into the system.
Afternoons are in general free to study independently (i.e. hit up Pathoma, anki, Board and Beyond, sketchy, AMBOSS, or whatever the new hottest study resource is).
Sorry for the uncertainty/ambiguity. Truth is they've been working on this alot and while we were provided with broad strokes to be able to talk about it during interviews/experience with interviewees, I have no idea what the actual curriculum will look like 100%. Perhaps some of your fellow future M1's will know better.
There was an example schedule for M1's during the second look day. The breakdown was 8-10 hours of didactic/week, 4 hours/week anatomy, 2-4 hours/week CBL, 2-4 hours/week TBL, 8 hours/week for clinical skills, and 2 hours/week dedicated to you track. There is "self-study time" on Monday and Friday afternoons, as well as Tuesday morning.
Systems start with foundational science, then immunology/blood/lymphoreticular, integumentary/musculoskeletal/H+N, neuroscience, neuropsych, cardio, and lastly... pulm.
Is this significantly different from what current students have? What are TBL sessions like?
Just been accepted off of the waitlist! First MD acceptance. I am so unbelievably happy. Will be attending!
Welcome to the fam bro!Just been accepted off of the waitlist! First MD acceptance. I am so unbelievably happy. Will be attending!
Be sure to get your email going ASAP. There are some events coming up ir the orientation retreat that you need to sign up by the end of today if you want to go.Just been accepted off of the waitlist! First MD acceptance. I am so unbelievably happy. Will be attending!
Be sure to get your email going ASAP. There are some events coming up ir the orientation retreat that you need to sign up by the end of today if you want to go.