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AlaskanAktak said:
It is not required at Meharry but it is recommended in order to be competitive.
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Thanks for answering my question!! That’s what I thought but I looked at their prerequisites and it says biochem on there now so I got confused!! Just because I would have to take it next semester since I haven’t already taken it!
 
Hope143 said:
Thanks for answering my question!! That’s what I thought but I looked at their prerequisites and it says biochem on there now so I got confused!! Just because I would have to take it next semester since I haven’t already taken it!
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Here’s where I got it from on their website. Your mileage may vary.
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Okay question... what did y'all's complete email say? I received mine on August 3rd and it says:

"Thank you for completing your online application! This e-mail confirms that you have successfully submitted your form.

Your file will be complete when Admissions has received all of the required admissions documents.

To verify that your form data has been sent, received, and confirmed, click on the listing for the institution under "Submitted forms" in your Personal Activity Page at:.."

I have clicked on the personal activity page and it just says I have paid and submitted.
 
ochemgal97 said:
Okay question... what did y'all's complete email say? I received mine on August 3rd and it says:

"Thank you for completing your online application! This e-mail confirms that you have successfully submitted your form.

Your file will be complete when Admissions has received all of the required admissions documents.

To verify that your form data has been sent, received, and confirmed, click on the listing for the institution under "Submitted forms" in your Personal Activity Page at:.."

I have clicked on the personal activity page and it just says I have paid and submitted.
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Got this one after that email:

"
Thank you for your application to Meharry Medical College!
Please be advised that your application is currently under review by the Admissions Committee. Once a decision is made regarding next steps on your application, you will be notified by the Office of Admissions and Recruitment.
Thank you for your interest in the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College."
 
ochemgal97 said:
Okay question... what did y'all's complete email say? I received mine on August 3rd and it says:

"Thank you for completing your online application! This e-mail confirms that you have successfully submitted your form.

Your file will be complete when Admissions has received all of the required admissions documents.

To verify that your form data has been sent, received, and confirmed, click on the listing for the institution under "Submitted forms" in your Personal Activity Page at:.."

I have clicked on the personal activity page and it just says I have paid and submitted.
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Mine says the same thing. I don’t see a “view your checklist” or anything.
 
ochemgal97 said:
Okay question... what did y'all's complete email say? I received mine on August 3rd and it says:

"Thank you for completing your online application! This e-mail confirms that you have successfully submitted your form.

Your file will be complete when Admissions has received all of the required admissions documents.

To verify that your form data has been sent, received, and confirmed, click on the listing for the institution under "Submitted forms" in your Personal Activity Page at:.."

I have clicked on the personal activity page and it just says I have paid and submitted.
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Mine says,
"Thank you for completing your online application! This e-mail confirms that you have successfully submitted your form.

Your file will be complete when Admissions has received all of the required admissions documents.

To verify that your form data has been sent, received, and confirmed, click on the listing for the institution under "Submitted forms" in your Personal Activity Page at:


On this web page, you will also find links back to the Application Home page and to the institution's web site. We recommend that you check both places for instructions on what to do next and how to check your admissions status from this point forward.

The admissions site will also let you know whether you will be informed regarding acceptance via postal mail or whether notice will be posted on the admissions home page.

If you contact the admissions office, please include your full name and Application ID: "

And then,
"Thank you for your application to Meharry Medical College!
Please be advised that your application is currently under review by the Admissions Committee. Once a decision is made regarding next steps on your application, you will be notified by the Office of Admissions and Recruitment.
Thank you for your interest in the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College.

Office of Admissions and Recruitment
Meharry Medical College"
 
Thinking of applying with mcat score around range of 497 and gpa of 3.74 and 3.7 science. Thoughts??
 
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.
There are also 4 Canadians in our class of 120, so Meharry does accept students from Canada.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Thank you so much for taking your time to provide us with such a thorough review of your experience at Meharry.
 
-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Wow! Thank you so much for putting that together for us!
 
-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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This, a lot of people have the misconception that HBCU’s only accept black people, but they are really are tailored to promoting diversity within the medical field as well as serving those in underserved areas, areas that minorities in medicine also tend be drawn towards serving as well ‍♂️
 
Is it too late to send Primary for Meharry? I read they recently started giving out secondareis.
 
-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.
There are also 4 Canadians in our class of 120, so Meharry does accept students from Canada.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to write this. Could you tell us your timeline? When did you apply, interview, get accepted to Meharry?
 
ochemgal97 said:
Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to write this. Could you tell us your timeline? When did you apply, interview, get accepted to Meharry?
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I got verified around the end of June, got my secondary in August, sent in my secondary beginning of October, got an interview in January, and then it was a week or two later that I got in.
 
-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.
There are also 4 Canadians in our class of 120, so Meharry does accept students from Canada.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Thanks so much for posting this! Can I just ask, where is the section where you deal with standardized patients during the week? Is it during the blue ppm blocks?
 
Prettybunny112 said:
Thanks so much for posting this! Can I just ask, where is the section where you deal with standardized patients during the week? Is it during the blue ppm blocks?
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Yes, we are divided in groups of 3 and get assigned to one of three two hour sessions. We have a group of four and see a standardized patient, do our history and physical, and then talk about what our differential is, what labs we want to order and next steps for 30 minutes or so with our clinical professor. Since the presentation is the same thing we had our lecture on at the beginning of the week, we are usually prepared to make an accurate differential and evaluation.
 
-ZA- said:
I got verified around the end of June, got my secondary in August, sent in my secondary beginning of October, got an interview in January, and then it was a week or two later that I got in.
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Thank you so much for this! Both the previous post and this one are very encouraging. I was just about to complete my secondary for Meharry and was a little worried it might not be worth it given the time of year. Thanks again for taking time out to detail out the school's info.
 
-ZA- said:
Hello everyone, MS1 here at Meharry SOM. I thought I would share some insight about Meharry as well as give an alternate phone number if anyone is still having problems with the secondary.

TLDR below

Phone Number of student affairs office- 615-327-6413, of which the admissions office is a sub office. The admissions office and a few other offices are all housed on a part of the building that has one central phone number that I believe is usually staffed full time, unless the person steps out. I think the admissions office is the number of the director of admissions, who is not always in her office. Meharry is a small school, so they can be disorganized sometimes, but usually if there is a problem, they are aware of it and are working on it. Also, I don't think its as important for Meharry to submit your secondary right on time. I submitted my secondary in October, more than a month after I received it because I was getting slammed in an smp program and delayed the video interview. I got an interview in January.
It may take some patience, but I encourage everyone to apply to Meharry, I think overall it does a good job with medical education.


2. You do not have to be black to apply or have good chances at getting into Meharry. For good reason, in my opinion, around 80 percent of our class is black, but that does not mean you don't have a chance at acceptance if you are not black. Out of all the MD schools I applied to and the three DO schools I applied to (LMU DCOM, LECOM and DesMoines), I got 5 interviews- 2 state school interviews, 1 at Meharry, 1 at LMU and 1 at LECOM. Meharry was the only school I got into even though I am Pakistani. Initially, I also thought that it wouldn't be worth applying and I wouldn't have a chance, but I am so glad that I applied, because otherwise, I would be taking a gap year right now.
There are also 4 Canadians in our class of 120, so Meharry does accept students from Canada.


3. Curriculum- The curriculum at Meharry is really good. They don't have the curriculum posted on the website, but I'm attaching the curriculum schematic. Each week we have a lecture on a common clinical presentation. For example, last week we had lower abdominal pain, and in the lecture, we went over the different causes of lower abdominal pain and how to develop a differential if somebody came in with the chief complaint being lower abdominal pain. During the week (M-W) we have 12-15 basic science lectures. These lectures are pretty much your traditional basic science lectures you would see in a traditional basic science curriculum, although some professors assign the lecture to read before and do a flipped classroom going over practice questions. The lectures that are chosen for the week are distributed based on what correlates most with the clinical presentation (so last week, when we did lower abdominal pain, we had a lecture on small intestine physiology, and a pathology lecture on diseases that cause lower abdominal pain - among other lectures). On Thursday we have biostats and public health classes. We also have a standardized patient encounter, but the patient comes in with their chief complaint being the same thing that we had our clinical presentation on. So last week, since we had a lecture at the beginning of the week on lower abdominal pain, our standardized patient came in with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. This is the real strength of the curriculum- because we have an actual lecture and didactic clinical learning, we are able to assess the patient accurately and come up with a good differential. It's better than having pbls since when I had case based learning in the smp at Georgetown (they don't have a lot of case based learning at Gerogetown, but they have some), nobody actually taught how to diagnose diseases so the learning was minimized in my opinion. We have cases on Friday as well as a weekly quiz, and a summative exam every five weeks or so for the unit. The professors at Meharry give you a lot of practice questions and part of our grade comes from NBME exams that the professors go through to pick the questions that cover what we have been taught (this is an advantage in my opinion since it prepares you for the NBME type of questions)

We also have step 1 after clerkships.

In my opinion, the curriculum structure and organization at Meharry is better than most schools (including Georgetown where I did my smp), because it teaches clinical knowledge and context, while still maintaining a traditional basic science lecture format- so we have a good balance of clinical and basic science and clinical knowledge is actually taught to us, instead of just going over a lot of pbls.
They also listen to student feedback a lot, and have a fast turnaround time when we want something changed.
Metro General Hospital- is in an underserved community and you get good clinical experience.

We have health coaching in the second part of June and July, which takes time, but looking back I am so happy I got the health coaching experience. We have to get a full health coaching certification and it is really beneficial if you make the most of it.

We have to complete 50 30 minute sessions of health coaching over the course of the 1.5 year pre clinical currriculum, so that's why on the schedule I attached, it shows 8 hours blocked out (we don't use 8 hours, that is just time we could use to get our health coaching done if we wanted to).

TLDR: Phone number of student affairs office which houses the admissions office- 615-327-6413, Meharry was the only school I got into, even including DO schools, and even though I am a Pakistani, the curriculum is very well structured and organized at Meharry and offers a balance of clinical and basic science. I did my smp at Georgetown and there are many things I like more about Meharry's curriculum than Georgetowns. Metro General Hospital for clinical curriculum is in an underserved area with a lot of health disparities.

Best of luck to everyone, if they are still taking some time with the secondary, and you still want to apply, I would say just be patient. From my experience, they're not too strict anyways about when you submit your secondaries and you'll still have a good shot. But they do take the interview seriously. The main reason I think I got in was because I prepared really hard and did a lot of reflection before the interview as to exactly how I was going to answer why I wanted to be a doctor and what I liked about Meharry. They focus pretty heavily on the non-metrics aspects of the application- why you want to be a doctor, why you want to go to Meharry, etc, so make sure if you get an interview, you have that aspect down.
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Thank you so much for providing this information and bringing it to light!
 
How many days did it take for you to receive your Meharry secondary?
 
-ZA- said:
Yes, we are divided in groups of 3 and get assigned to one of three two hour sessions. We have a group of four and see a standardized patient, do our history and physical, and then talk about what our differential is, what labs we want to order and next steps for 30 minutes or so with our clinical professor. Since the presentation is the same thing we had our lecture on at the beginning of the week, we are usually prepared to make an accurate differential and evaluation.
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are the courses P/F or letter grade?
 
Of course, the interview invite link doesnt work. Is it working for anyone else?
 
Longtimecoming said:
Rejected but I talked about something that was a stretch in my secondary. Disappointed but keeping my head up! Good luck everyone who got II!
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Hate to ask, but when did you send your secondary? And definitely keep your head up!
 
Longtimecoming said:
Rejected but I talked about something that was a stretch in my secondary. Disappointed but keeping my head up! Good luck everyone who got II!
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damn sorry to hear best of luck to you with your remaining shools. What are your stats if you dont mind sharing
 
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