Hey everyone. Current CU MS4 here and also a 7+ year member, so I've been around the block once or twice. I wanted to add some more student insight to this conversation and am open to pre-med PMs if you have questions about the school, just keep in mind that I'm filling out ERAS I might take a sec to respond.
I'm honestly surprised to hear about
@Pink Panda's experience about repeated mistreatment, since this is sooooo far from what my experience has been and what my classmates have experienced. CU is known for really chill & down to earth faculty/residents (I wore a tie only once in third year and was told to ditch the tie) who will go out of their way to help students. Your small groups are led by volunteer attendings. On EM, an attending spent an hour of his time walking me through building differential diagnoses. On surgery, multiple residents scoured the hospital for looking student suture kits.
I understand we all have different opinions, and again, I'm pretty shocked that someone had such a bad experience in the first two years of med school or are so upset about the timing of required sessions that they would disparage their own medical school on an anonymous forum. Read the study they cited closer: in 2012, mistreatment was found to be a huge problem at CUSOM. Over 6 years, the school worked to implement
program after program to reduce mistreatment, resulting in a
36% reduction in mistreatment and matching the national average.
Is it perfect? No, but
it's a 6 year trend in the right direction. Will 1 curriculum completely satisfy 184 students? Probably not, but minor scheduling problems aside, I think our curriculum did pretty damn well at preparing me for residency & the match.
Alright enough procrastination, I'm told you can't match without a personal statement.
