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Korsakov said:
This day is 50% over but my stress level is still at 100%. Come on Drexel!!
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Phillyboi said:
Right there with ya friend. Drexel pls
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Congrats to all who have been accepted!
just to get more info, has anyone who interviewed after 9/25 receive any news?
 
Accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It feels so surreal.... congrats to everyone else who got good news today! WAHOOOOOO :soexcited:

Edit: interviewed 9/18 in the PM
 
Anybody who interviwed 9/29 heard back? Or do we think we’ll be in November
 
Accepted today but not sure what to think of the program after Hahnemann closed and 40% of Drexel's medical faculty was terminated. Didn’t help that during interview day they had zero mention about it, still advertised Hahnemann on their website and materials, and when asked questions the Dean who was answering questions tip-toed around the topic.
Curious to see if the resident match drops below national average for next year. This year they got away with emergency placements of their students, but from my understanding it’s not sustainable.
 
mdapplicant2024 said:
Accepted today but not sure what to think of the program after Hahnemann closed and 40% of Drexel's medical faculty was terminated. Didn’t help that during interview day they had zero mention about it, still advertised Hahnemann on their website and materials, and when asked questions the Dean who was answering questions tip-toed around the topic.
Curious to see if the resident match drops below national average for next year. This year they got away with emergency placements of their students, but from my understanding it’s not sustainable.
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The same thing happened at my interview. I asked a pointed question during the q&a before lunch and they were like, "we good, don't worry" but it scares me.
 
limeyguydr said:
The same thing happened at my interview. I asked a pointed question during the q&a before lunch and they were like, "we good, don't worry" but it scares me.
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Interviewing here in a couple weeks. Considering asking about Hahneman simply to see how many times they can take that question before they snap and yell at us.
 
limeyguydr said:
The same thing happened at my interview. I asked a pointed question during the q&a before lunch, and they were like, "we good, don't worry," but it scares me.
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I would have been happier if they were clear about it in their materials, had accepted the facts of the closure, laid out them to all interviewees, and been prepared for questions. It makes you think twice attending if a medical program can't tackle this head-on and doesn't take prospective student's concerns seriously. It's one of the most expensive medical programs in the country with a large class size
 
mdapplicant2024 said:
I would have been happier if they were clear about it in their materials, had accepted the facts of the closure, laid out them to all interviewees, and been prepared for questions. It makes you think twice attending if a medical program can't tackle this head-on and doesn't take prospective student's concerns seriously. It's one of the most expensive medical programs in the country with a large class size
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Sarcasm aside, the closure of the school's main teaching hospital is a reasonable thing for prospective students to ask about and that they don't have a firm answer to this question worries me. The current Drexel students on this thread have good answers, why doesn't the admissions office?!
 
mdapplicant2024 said:
Accepted today but not sure what to think of the program after Hahnemann closed and 40% of Drexel's medical faculty was terminated. Didn’t help that during interview day they had zero mention about it, still advertised Hahnemann on their website and materials, and when asked questions the Dean who was answering questions tip-toed around the topic.
Curious to see if the resident match drops below national average for next year. This year they got away with emergency placements of their students, but from my understanding it’s not sustainable.
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Matching shouldn't be an issue and idk why you think it would be.

-signed: current MS4 with 24 IVs
 
Mouzer said:
Sarcasm aside, the closure of the school's main teaching hospital is a reasonable thing for prospective students to ask about and that they don't have a firm answer to this question worries me. The current Drexel students on this thread have good answers, why doesn't the admissions office?!
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They never had real firm answers for us either.
 
ciestar said:
Matching shouldn't be an issue and idk why you think it would be.

-signed: current MS4 with 24 IVs
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1. Less physicians to rotate with -> more competition for physician attention/recs or less exposure to patient work
2. 38 (15% of the total class) in the class of 2018 went onto continue with Drexel's residency programs (Residency Match - College of Medicine), so who is picking up the slack? No one knows and this year people were placed in a hurry and hospitals opened up out of their willingness to help. Will this happen every year?
3. Meaningful clinical research projects are hard to find without a major clinical center. Maybe you'll be okay if you want to go into a specialty that doesn't require research, but research-oriented specialties will be hard for Drexel students if 40% of medical faculty is gone.
 
I guess I will give my perspective here...
I have not done a single rotation at Hahnemann. This was by choice. I am doing just fine. While losing HUH really sucks, it isn't exactly like the sites they send you to suck. Where I've been, I have gotten a very good clinical experience.
 
ciestar said:
I guess I will give my perspective here...
I have not done a single rotation at Hahnemann. This was by choice. I am doing just fine. While losing HUH really sucks, it isn't exactly like the sites they send you to suck. Where I've been, I have gotten a very good clinical experience.
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What if you were trying to match into ENT/Derm/Ortho/Ophtho/etc., would the lack of research and loss of HUH impact that? If there is no chair of the department to write you a LOR, who does?
 
limeyguydr said:
What if you were trying to match into ENT/Derm/Ortho/Ophtho/etc., would the lack of research and loss of HUH impact that? If there is no chair of the department to write you a LOR, who does?
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Yeah, this idk. I am an M4 so by the time all this hit, people weren't asking these questions anymore.

Drexel lost its derm program years ago and we have matches into it every year.
 
ciestar said:
When did i say it wouldnt?
I just dont have the answers you’re looking for.
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you're touting how you have 24 IVs and things were great without Hahnemann for you but I feel like that misses a whole crowd of people that are interested in different fields of medicine or are worried about how other PDs will view Drexel going forward.
 
limeyguydr said:
you're touting how you have 24 IVs and things were great without Hahnemann for you but I feel like that misses a whole crowd of people that are interested in different fields of medicine or are worried about how other PDs will view Drexel going forward.
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My point was that it wasnt all doom and gloom. Nobody knows what will happen going forward.
 
I heard there was drama so I came to take a look. Turns out that it is between an M4 who likely knows more from boots an the ground but is biased because they are mostly unaffected and an accepted applicant who has valid concerns but really cannot get true answers because, as you both agree, no one knows.

You two are both some of my favorite SDNers, but legit no one but the dean knows. There is no point in arguing over the school specific thread about speculations. The schools specifics should be for sharing opinions on the school, discovering your own, celebrating success and embracing the suck of Rs together. These places should be positive.

@ciestar can share lots of great advice about the school as she does everywhere across the forums. @limeyguydr is wholly allowed to share their opinion without being criticized for their own subjective views of the school.

And to the dean of Drexel, if you are reading this thread, can you give a more formal and thorough response on the closing of Hahnemann University Hospital beyond the answer that appears insufficient that is being given to interviewees and the public?
 
ciestar said:
My point was that it wasnt all doom and gloom. Nobody knows what will happen going forward.
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I appreciate the realistic viewpoints and advice you’re giving. I also have an M4 and M3 buddy who go here too, and they said it isn’t that big of a deal. Just goes to show that you can still do well w/o HUH. Thank you!

EDIT: grammar
 
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limeyguydr said:
this in and of itself is frightening. You're fine bc you're graduating. Other may not be fine 🙁
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I directly asked my faculty interviewer about the closure of HUH and she said that a combination of hospitals acquired through the Tower Health Network, Reading, and other institutions' hospitals in Philly would pick up the slack. Furthermore, she stated that by the time we're applying to residencies they should have something even better in place. However, the next interviewee came in during the conversation so thats all I got.
 
It seems there are two salient points that both sides of this discussion are viewing as one.

The first is whether or not losing a big uni hospital affects the *quality* of clerkships and clinical learning, which it probably doesn't to a large degree. Indeed, if you imagine you're rotating surgery at a big academic center, you're just going to be standing in a corner watching a 2 fellows, 3 residents, and 4 other medical students. If you're rotating at a small community site, its more likely to just be you and the attending, ostensibly a much better clinical learning experience than the big academic hospital. You might actually get to first assist there, which is a better learning experience than glorified shadowing. HOWEVER, this is a separate issue from making a competitive app. Just because you got to do a lot as a medical student doesn't make you a more attractive applicant.

The second point here is about how this affects your ERAS. Even if you get really good at X and get a ton of 1on1 time with a community attending, this isn't necessarily also great for you in terms of creating a competitive residency application to your specialty of choice, which is more along the lines that limey is going down. Having a big academic hospital with home programs really helps your case in many ways, and losing such a site (close by) is unassailably a big loss for a medical school. Even if your actual clinical learning is unaffected, it can affect all of the things that are proximate to that such as networking, getting letters, or research in your specialty of choice.

When you think back to 2004 when Houston Methodist and Baylor College of Medicine split, that was a terrible thing and without precedent. Many say that BCM still hasn't been the same since then, but they figured something out. It certainly helps to have the TMC. Without a doubt though, these years are probably the worst to get involved at Drexel because of the large degree of uncertainty still present.
 
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Wolf00 said:
I got deferred as well.
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phillyapple said:
From what I remember from interview day, they'll review you again at the next meeting. You can be deferred all the way until the last meeting, at which point they'll put you on the waitlist. I believe those numbers are from the waitlist that is formed at the end of the cycle.

I know how you feel though, I'm sitting on a waitlist and was deferred at the other school I interviewed at. It's painful. But keep your head up, they might accept you at a future meeting!
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MomJeansandDadJorts said:
Last cycle I got deferred but then got a WL later so its def not a WL (I interviewed super late so they basically WL or R everybody at their last meeting)
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It seems deferred may not mean waitlist according to people from last year and the year before
 
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