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Isc1998 said:
My waitlist email came on a friday tho


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Yeah, mine came on a Monday. From looking back at last year's thread, the committee started releasing decisions the day after they met to review!
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Does anyone know what kind of drug test creighton requires students to do before matriculation?
 
Is the vast majority of movement (if there is any) in this first week after the waitlist review date or is it pretty spread out? Also, does Creighton formally reject at this point or do they just leave you hanging? I’m moving out of my current apartment on June 30th to cross the country and I would really hate to find out the first week of July that I got in... I mean if that’s the way it is I will have to deal.

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Tiran145 said:
You do a urine drug screen during orientation.
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^^^this.
We've done a singular test on like the 2nd day of orientation. No idea what ramifications would be if someone were enjoying their daily quarantine bowl in Denver or something. I feel like nothing major based on a few classmates... Some Away rotations during M4 do have requirements for another urine drug screen but otherwise there arent tests throughout the year.
 
Anyone on the waitlist heard back yet?
 
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Did you guys send an update? I'm curious how common that is and how much of a difference that actually makes
 
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iva.sann.premed said:
Do we know if they're going to do another round of acceptances or is the class full?
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Both things are true. I'm sure their class is full, but I'm sure more will drop because they get off the waitlist at other schools. Past threads show there is movement in June and July.
 
I talked to Mr. Ryan Wessel this morning and he said they have less movement than usual but are still expecting to send out acceptances throughout May and June. He also said they don't send out rejections until final decisions are made, which I'm assuming will be in July.
 
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Did anyone else have "A decision has been made on your application..." removed from their portal?
 
scaredpremed420 said:
Did anyone else have "A decision has been made on your application..." removed from their portal?
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When I was accepted on October 28, 2019, my " Thank you for interiviewing at Crieighton ..." message on their portal went away on the Thursday before October 28 (Monday). I am told was told by SDN that that means a decision has been made on you, which was true for me because I received the A from Creighton the following Monday. Hopefully that is what it will mean for you. GL
 
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Are there any current students lurking who can comment on Creighton’s COVID response? Are they communicative? Keeping students safe?
 
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Kenken514 said:
Are there any current students lurking who can comment on Creighton’s COVID response? Are they communicative? Keeping students safe?
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Yep we get updates very regularly and are keeping us safe.
 
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Kenken514 said:
Are there any current students lurking who can comment on Creighton’s COVID response? Are they communicative? Keeping students safe?
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I recognize how crazy this COVID environment is and want to attempt to be fully transparent regarding my school's COVID response.
In general I'd say Yes they are communicative/ keeping students safe. Everything below is my experience as M3 unless stated otherwise.

Although many people may be upset/ frustrated with how things are going, I do believe that Creighton is being as professional, communicative and safe as possible. They have the difficulty of juggling 2 campuses as they can't be like "omaha you are good, phoenix sorry you are out of clinics for a year." They gave us like 2 weeks off in March when it was initially hit and AAMC gave guidance to do so they could assess their response and attempt to formulate an education plan. After assessing their PPE stock pile etc they created 2 paths
1 would resume clinical rotations in April with the guarantee that our hospitals contained appropriate PPE stock, all COVID positive or possible patients with students not having to see any diagnosed COVID patients on wards / being provided N-95 if working in ED where seeing such patients was a bit more of a wild card since diagnoses weren't there yet.
2. Would allow students to perform online course work that counted towards M3/M4 requirements with a projected clinical restart date of July.
Both tracks would allow students to graduate on time.

As March progressed and April start date neared and COVID became rapidly worse/ more prevalent in our cities (omaha / phoenix).
They made the decision to not return to clinical yet and instituted online lectures/study time for the clinical rotations we were scheduled to participate in for April/May. This is probably the move that angered students the most because some students who left Omaha to be with family during the 2 week break had already arrived back in omaha just to be told we would begin online learning instead. While frustrating, I think this was the product of ooking at our individual risk / level of prepardness in Omaha (which admin felt we were more than capable of managing for student clinicals) vs the national picture which resulted in the AAMC advising all clinical activities to be suspended.
We were given 3 possible schedules for return all of which hinge on safety of doing so/ capability of our clinical partners to incorporate student learning. These start dates included early June, mid/late June and Early July. We were told we'd be notified a minimum of 2-3 weeks prior to a start date if we are returning so we could travel back to Omaha/Phx if away and properly quarantine.

As of now we are slated to return to clinics early June pending the lack of any sudden COVID spikes as social distancing measures loosen in Omaha/phoenix. We are assured there are adequate PPE supplies in our hospital and that we will always have access to such supplies as needed in rotations. For outpatient rotations where volume is low/ there has been a transition to virtual visits (like zoom/skype) we have been and will continue to observe/participate in pt interviews pending attending comfort level. At least in omaha, I think this will likely be an acceptable return date given our communities disease burden / our PPE supplies.

I find that many of the assistant Deans are super receptive/transparent with students as many had work/still work as pre-clinical/clinical faculty. I've sent several emails thus far which were always replied to within 24 hours and even had a couple phone call conversations with an admin member that I know a bit better personally from clinical experiences. We've had 2-3 class town halls (and have another today) where we can hear from and ask questions of administration. The committee that meets to decide the education plans and such has medical student representation and we are told of both that committees schedule and receive an email detailing the meeting contents later that day. Our school also has been attempting to be pro-active and transparent with the Crap show that is Prometric since our Boards (Step 1/2CK) need to be taken and have been affected by their closures. The school has certain employees in the administration actively in contact with prometric attempting to reschedule / rectify the testing situation on our behalf.

***During this time M1/M2 had already transitioned to fully online curriculum as of mid-late march. M4's were pulled from clinicals in March and were not asked to come back and perform some weird Intern level thing. From my knowledge they performed an online "capstone" aka get yo butt ready for residency class. They're now graduated and will simply start clinical with their residency. ***

All in all it's been rocky but I don't know of a single school thats been 100% smooth. I'm happy because compared to other schools I almost always knew what to expect/possible schedules they were assessing and I do believe they're doing their best while balancing the risk of covid /our health with our educational experiences in a responsible way.
 
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Hey guys I got accepted at Creighton back in December, and I am considering deferring for various personal/professional reasons. I am wondering if anyone on here has any insight/tips about this process—such as what Creighton looks for in a deferral letter. Thanks!
 
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Hey guys I got accepted at Creighton back in December, and I am considering deferring for various personal/professional reasons. I am wondering if anyone on here has any insight/tips about this process—such as what Creighton looks for in a deferral letter. Thanks!
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Creighton has always been pretty open to communication and sharing any information they can. I would honestly just contact admissions and ask what the process looks like and what reasons they typically accept for deferral.
 
Accepted off the alternate list! Good luck everyone!
 
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Accepted off the alternate list as well! Good luck all!
 
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Love the student, faculty, and support at Creighton. Interview day was amazing. They will always have a specail place in my heart because they gave me my first acceptance on 28 October, 2019, at 7:00am. If God willing, and I become a PD one day, Creighton applicants for my residency program will go to the top of the list. That I promise.
 
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I’ve been emailing my updates (and receiving confirmation they have been uploaded). But I just saw on the alternate email they said they are only reviewing updates via the portal? When I go to the portal it only shows a recent update being my grades and not any of other selections.
Can anyone clarify if this is okay? Or was I suppose to upload them
 
besm said:
I’ve been emailing my updates (and receiving confirmation they have been uploaded). But I just saw on the alternate email they said they are only reviewing updates via the portal? When I go to the portal it only shows a recent update being my grades and not any of other selections.
Can anyone clarify if this is okay? Or was I suppose to upload them
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You should upload them on the portal like the instructions say.....
 
besm said:
I’ve been emailing my updates (and receiving confirmation they have been uploaded). But I just saw on the alternate email they said they are only reviewing updates via the portal? When I go to the portal it only shows a recent update being my grades and not any of other selections.
Can anyone clarify if this is okay? Or was I suppose to upload them
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I emailed my update too and it doesn't show in the portal. I called asked about that and they confirmed that the update was uploaded but I'm still nervous since it doesn't show in the portal...
 
I'm anxious af so I just uploaded it through the portal just now... haha if they were going to reject me it won't change anything and if they didn't see it before hopefully it helps??
 
I've heard of a few others getting accepted last week since 6/8/20, there's still hope y'all
 
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I've heard of a few others getting accepted last week since 6/8/20, there's still hope y'all
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But then I just get paranoid that the more movement there is the less likely I am to get in because they’re getting closer to finalizing their class.
 
Quick question for those accepted are you guys paying for a professional headshot or going to take one with your phone? I'm torn because on one hand it says professional-looking headshot and then when you open the form it says " Please submit a professional photo you want to be shown in the White Coat Ceremony video (when your name is read) - must be jpg file. Please be sure the file is named using your "last name, first name" (for example - Ferguson, Liz.jpg) so I can identify the photo. The photo must be a professional headshot - remember first impressions are very important."
 
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Quick question for those accepted are you guys paying for a professional headshot or going to take one with your phone? I'm torn because on one hand it says professional-looking headshot and then when you open the form it says " Please submit a professional photo you want to be shown in the White Coat Ceremony video (when your name is read) - must be jpg file. Please be sure the file is named using your "last name, first name" (for example - Ferguson, Liz.jpg) so I can identify the photo. The photo must be a professional headshot - remember first impressions are very important."
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I just used my phone in portrait mode lol. Was wearing my suit and made sure my hair was well kept. I'm not going to go out for a professional headshot just for a white coat video.
 
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premedthrowaway23 said:
I just used my phone in portrait mode lol. Was wearing my suit and made sure my hair was well kept. I'm not going to go out for a professional headshot just for a white coat video.
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I used one from a year or two ago and I wouldn’t consider it “professional” but it works. All these pictures will be used for is a short video/slideshow so I wouldn’t worry about it.
 
yogglo said:
Quick question for those accepted are you guys paying for a professional headshot or going to take one with your phone? I'm torn because on one hand it says professional-looking headshot and then when you open the form it says " Please submit a professional photo you want to be shown in the White Coat Ceremony video (when your name is read) - must be jpg file. Please be sure the file is named using your "last name, first name" (for example - Ferguson, Liz.jpg) so I can identify the photo. The photo must be a professional headshot - remember first impressions are very important."
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Do not pay money! Find a friend to take it etc. you will pay for pleeeeenty in med school.
 
I'm pretty sure that student government is also going to have a photo op for us as well to use during med school
 
babygreenbeans said:
congrats to all those accepted!! do any of you know how strict they are with the primary care shadowing requirement? i've only shadowed specialists
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It’s always good to have primary care shadowing but there is no requirement to shadow primary care
 
Cyhawk_98 said:
It’s always good to have primary care shadowing but there is no requirement to shadow primary care
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From the admissions requirements on the website, "Diverse physician shadowing experiences including exposure to primary care". It seems like they expect some since they bothered to add that little tidbit at the end.
 
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premedthrowaway23 said:
From the admissions requirements on the website, "Diverse physician shadowing experiences including exposure to primary care". It seems like they expect some since they bothered to add that little tidbit at the end.
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I could be wrong but i dont think there is a hard Primary care requirement. I think the key is more so is they want students to come in with a diverse enough experience to be sure they want to become a doctor and not just become an XYZ specialist. Really just trying to avoid the" dermatologist/ortho doc once so now I'm going to be an dermatologist/ortho" (which lets be honest is like 90% of premeds). Fact of the matter is 99% of students probably have absolutely no clue what they want to do because their experiences are so limited to a short and not always representative of what the actually lifestyle is like. Example: neurosurgery is amazing, but I don't like 8 hour surgeries with 90 hour work weeks at 50 years old. Psychiatry is pretty lame and un-sexy until students realize they can spend a decent amount of time actually talking to patients, make an above average wage, and work <40hours a week. I don't really think I even knew what some specialties were when I applied like rheumatology, radiology, infectious disease, etc.

Probably over half my classmates (myself included) have changed what specialty they wanted to pursue in medical school because they found something they like even better or they realize the actual practice of a specialty is dramatically different from the 3-4 hour shadowing experience they had once upon a time.

Ultimately, if you have shadowed in a few different specialties but none of them happened to be family med you're probably fine, especially because "primary care" is a relatively broad term that includes anything from Family to psych and obgyn depending on who you ask. I'd even argue some specialists do primary care even though they are specialists in the sense it is important preventative care (like endocrine, cardio, pulm, rheumatologists, etc).
 
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