2019-2020 Medical College of Wisconsin

[StressoEspresso]

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I'm an incoming M1 for CW campus. If you rank GB/CW campuses at all, even as #2 or 3 behind Milwaukee, two additional prompts come up regarding primary care and community. These campuses prioritize primary care, psych, and gen surg, as well as rural medicine. This does NOT mean you can't match in other areas, as some have gone into rads, derm, anesthesia, and I'm pretty sure I even saw one from GB match ortho. Keep in mind that they want people who prioritize primary care/psych just as those programs do, so if you did decide to apply to either of them, you need to keep your PS more primary care (FM, IM) or psych centered. Please don't lie purposefully, of course.

The 3-year curriculum is actually for non-surgical specialties. Surgery and EM need the 4th year to be competitive in their respective matches. There also isn't much time to explore too many specialties outside of the required rotations. You can see a couple, but not like in a 4-year curriculum. You also will not have the summer between M1 and M2 to do a bunch of research. There is a "Physician in the Community" pathway, however, which can be somewhat research focused and helps build a unique CV.

Just because you want to go into cardiology doesn't mean that you shouldn't go to either of those campuses. I see it as okay to apply to them if you are truly open to primary care, psych, or gen surg. Although heart conditions were the reason that attracted you to cardiology, plenty of primary care docs find murmurs and help those with heart issues. Many people change their minds in med school too. I'm leaning psych pretty heavily, but keeping my options open since I never know if I might fall in love with another area of medicine.

Wausau and GB are also not Milwaukee. That alone could make a difference to many people. To me, those cities are plenty big enough and Milwaukee is way too big. I hate driving in big cities (but I do love my Brewer games!). To others, they are nowhere near big enough or diverse enough. Up to your personal preference.

Awesome thank you so much!! That helped a lot!!

 

[Cspine]

anyone here get an II/A with an institutional action?

Depends on what you're considering when you say institutional action. For me it was grades that lead to academic probation twice, one of those times was two semesters in a row (one more poor semester and I would've been suspended by the university for a semester). I didn't have anything regarding breaking rules/laws, academic integrity, etc.

 

[eggfriednice]

With the June 8th CTE deadline passed, it looks like MCW-Central Wisconsin is now full and won't be offering any more acceptances 😢

 

[ihopetibiadoc]

is the MKE campus CTE in july?

 

[brownmamba24]

is the MKE campus CTE in july?

July 20th

 

[SnowPreemie]

Hey team!!

Wanted to update you that I just accepted an offer to attend MCW - Milwaukee Campus this August !!!!

I was pulled off the waitlist and received the offer via email on Saturday. Also got married two weekends ago, so feeling very blessed.

Best of luck to everyone and remember - never give up on your dreams. There is a better plan than you can imagine and you can do it !!! 🙂