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Can do rotations in tampa without them being technically externships, though. Basically, you get two "home bases" which can deff help for residency. Essentially, SELECT takes an extra class each week focused on things like emotional intelligence / leadership / etc. We get coaches and coaching groups and peer coaches; which can be as useful / unuseful as you make it- my peer coach and I ended up getting along very well and are good friends, for example, but some other people aren't as close.
In terms of research, they're about the same. for select it's mandatory to do research over the summer after M1 but core it's not mandatory (although most core kids still do research over the summer). we both have the option to join the Scholarly Concentrations, but most select kids don't / aren't expected to. SELECT research is somewhat a bit more aimed towards quality improvement type projects, but by no means does that mean you can't do it - for example, i'm doing a basic science / wet lab project.
Other than that, for first year we have SELECT specific doctoring where we focus a little bit more on things like motivational interviewing but it's really not much different, it's mostly just - you're in a group with other select folk.
The main difference comes in going up to allentown - we're the only school that rotates up in that hospital system, which can really help for clinical skills.
The con to this is, it's hard to make those connections / longitudinal experiences because of the moving in two years, and it's really hard to say bye to core friends
In terms of applying, SELECT is very OOS friendly so if you're OOS your best bet is applying to both select and core. If you're in state, you can apply both but you'll probably be put in core (there's like two people in my select class that are from florida).
Sorry this was supposed to be brief right....
Hello! Current first (almost second?) year, here to answer any questions about the school, including the SELECT program!
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I’d assume you can’t do select for md/phd because select involves moving to PA, haha! you probably wouldnt even need to do a scholarly concentration for that so i wouldn’t worry about it, but i guess you’d be in core technically. unless they let you do the 6 years here and join a different class in lvhn for last two but thats a little too much
This may be irrelevant, but USF is not considered South Florida by any one living here haha and might be a little weird referring to it in you essay as.
Same thing happened to me lol.
And they removed the questioning about addressing disparities, which was probably one of my best prewriten essays :/
You might want to just reload the page. This happened with my FSU app which was using the same portal system. I believe if you're on the page too long it freezes up.
Does anyone know by any chance where this link is?
They want you to explain anything "less than a B", so if you have any B-'s or grades less than that, you have to explain them. Otherwise, if the lowest grade you have is a B, you don't have to explain it.
Could you please explain the international medicine concentration program and how it could be used? The online site is confusing me a little.Hello! Current first (almost second?) year, here to answer any questions about the school, including the SELECT program!
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this is precisely why I haven't completed this secondary yet
I can see how 1,000 characters would be sufficient for private practice, but I think to hit every role you play in academic medicine (or perhaps the other options they provide), you're pretty much gonna have to list them out and can't get too specific (like give examples in which you used the skill). That's what I'm gonna do (hell I listed it out and still am at 1,300 characters)
I responded to this prompt with the selection of health policy and kept it ~990 characters. It wasn't easy, but I found being direct and concise was the only way. I very specifically stated my roles/experiences and the skills I have learned from them that I could apply to the field. I avoided going to far into descriptions of the activities themselves, as those descriptions appear in the AMCAS and were taking up too much room.
Did you happen to list out the skills you learned? Like "from this experience I learned X, Y, and Z.
Essentially, I focused on a major EC of mine working in health policy. State what I walked away with from the experience, and then followed up with a brief description of what I have done and the skills I have acquired since. Closing with a brief statement about why these skills will serve as a foundation for the knowledge I need to successfully engage in health legislation as a future physicians.
That's how I would like to write mine as well, the problem is academic medicine has three components to it that really make it the unique field I am interested in, so it's very difficult to talk only about one EC.
Well with the limited space, you might have to end up putting more emphasis on one of those components (such as education) and what has prepared you for that component. Perhaps acknowledging the interdisciplinary uniqueness of the field and how it inspires you?
