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I’m still waiting on anything lol haven’t received any update since I was complete in July.
 
I interviewed today but just realized I filled out the courses section wrong. Has this happened to anyone else?
 
Anime said:
Pre-II R, good luck everyone !
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I am so sorry, it is kind of late in the evening for that! good luck at the rest of your schools! when were you complete? were you on hold? did you send any updates?

sorry for all the questions. I am trying to figure out if I am next 🙁
 
soccerdoc3333 said:
I am so sorry, it is kind of late in the evening for that! good luck at the rest of your schools! when were you complete? were you on hold? did you send any updates?

sorry for all the questions. I am trying to figure out if I am next 🙁
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All good! I was complete 9/23, never put on hold. I sent an email of interest 2/2. I don't know if thats what prompted the denial but at least I'm not in agony waiting anymore I guess lol. Gotta look for the good in the bad
 
Has anyone been accepted off the deferred list yet? I’m surprised it’s been silent on that end given that there has been quite a few reported from December to February in past SDN threads. 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
Anime said:
All good! I was complete 9/23, never put on hold. I sent an email of interest 2/2. I don't know if thats what prompted the denial but at least I'm not in agony waiting anymore I guess lol. Gotta look for the good in the bad
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gotcha gotcha. you honestly just never know! thanks for sharing! best of luck to you!
 
Any current or former students on here? If so, do you know if you can participate in the Medical Spanish program with a very low level of competency? Do they have different classes per skill level?
 
jbc333 said:
Any current or former students on here? If so, do you know if you can participate in the Medical Spanish program with a very low level of competency? Do they have different classes per skill level?
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No, you have to have a decent skill level and only one class is offered
 
jbc333 said:
Any current or former students on here? If so, do you know if you can participate in the Medical Spanish program with a very low level of competency? Do they have different classes per skill level?
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Its only taught at one level. The course is meant to teach you how to communicate medical concepts to spanish-speaking only patients, so you need to at least be conversationally fluent.
 
Lychiisa said:
Has anyone been accepted off the deferred list yet? I’m surprised it’s been silent on that end given that there has been quite a few reported from December to February in past SDN threads. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Been deferred since November and nothing yet. Would be encouraging to see some movement soon
 
tropicalness said:
Is drexel known to do silent Rs? been complete since august, sent in a few updates, and haven’t heard anything. not sure if the silence is good or bad
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No Drexel rejects people. Silence is a good thing here. There are a lot of pre-II Rs on the thread. Last cycle they gave me a pre-II R in December
 
Do any accepted students from California have guidance on how to complete the FBI fingerprinting requirement? If you could message me that’d be awesome. Thanks!
 
hopefulpremed100 said:
Early December interviewees are we expecting next week for our decisions?
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I interviewed in early/mid January and I'm sort of hoping for next week as well 😳 Not 100% positive, but when I interviewed, they said they were a little behind, but were hoping to do a 4-6 week turnaround, and next Friday is almost 6 weeks, so....
 
hopefulpremed100 said:
Early December interviewees are we expecting next week for our decisions?
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I have hope since they got it to them last year by the Feb decision date, it’s been 8 weeks at that point, and they do have to start figuring out location requests which they’re going to start doing in March. But given they’re at mid November right now and it seems to have been 2 weeks interviewing / 1 decision date, I’m just gonna go with nope.
 
To any current or former students, did you find the faculty-prepared self-study materials helpful for your learning and for step 1? Did you supplement your studying with anki cards/other materials? Thanks in advance!
 
jbc333 said:
To any current or former students, did you find the faculty-prepared self-study materials helpful for your learning and for step 1? Did you supplement your studying with anki cards/other materials? Thanks in advance!
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Special notes before I answer your question:
The big caveat to all I'm about to say is that Step 1 will be pass/fail for you all so any advice I give about boards prep is going to be skewed towards how people studied aiming for a high score.

Multiple passes is a must regardless of if you use outside resources or DUCOM lectures/notes. There is just way too much info for students to retain by doing things just once.

don't buy any outside resources until spring of 1st year. Feedback from people who started using multiple resources out of the gate suggests that they struggled with juggling everything.

Med school is NOT undergrad, people will need time to learn how to learn. Adding extra videos/texts/etc will complicate your learning curve (of learning how to learn lol). To highlight this point, your first exam is 2 weeks into the semester. A fair amount of people fail this first exam. Its meant to be a wake-up call.



Answer: Depended on the class. And its going to depend on your strengths and weaknesses.
Dont worry about outside resources for:
Biochem (memorization heavy) and histology (which is about repeated exposure to image patterns) you can learn from anywhere, but the lectures are in depth and cover everything you'd need to know for step 1. (That being said Biochem is my strength so take this with a grain of salt). If you need outside practice with Histo, the usual board prep stuff is okay, but michigan's BlueHistology is really great.
Anatomy - Live cadaver lab is the only thing that helped me. I tried using virtual dissection apps and flashcards but being in lab and physically isolating structures was the only way I retained info.

Using outside resources is helpful for:
Neuro - use stuff like ZAnki or Kaplan Neuro, because the course is thorough, but taught in a potentially confusing way.
Genetics - this course is not well organized, highly recommend watching some youtube videos.
Embryology - the lectures are great but I have a hard time with embryology to begin with so I watched some extra videos.

Year 2 is a different ballgame. There are success stories across the board, people who use a few resources consistently throughout the year, people who don't use extra stuff until the winter/spring, etc. At bare minimum it seems most people start annotating FA some time late in the fall.



There is a student-run google drive that has anki decks for every lecture, every class. The decks are a combo of Zanki cards with DUCOM lecture specific material. These decks are fantastic and I highly recommend them. If they'd been available to me day 1 like they will be for the incoming class, I would have used the following method to study (for year 1):
Read the DUCOM lecture notes
Do the DUCOM DK_Anki deck for the lecture
Watch the DUCOM lecture videos and highlight in the notes whatever key points I didn't retain from doing anki
DK_Anki again
Review the highlighted parts of my notes.
Practice questions 2-3 days before the exam, until the exam, review concepts that you miss questions on.
 
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Melchizedek said:
Special notes before I answer your question:
The big caveat to all I'm about to say is that Step 1 will be pass/fail for you all so any advice I give about boards prep is going to be skewed towards how people studied aiming for a high score.

Multiple passes is a must regardless of if you use outside resources or DUCOM lectures/notes. There is just way too much info for students to retain by doing things just once.

don't buy any outside resources until spring of 1st year. Feedback from people who started using multiple resources out of the gate suggests that they struggled with juggling everything.

Med school is NOT undergrad, people will need time to learn how to learn. Adding extra videos/texts/etc will complicate your learning curve (of learning how to learn lol). To highlight this point, your first exam is 2 weeks into the semester. A fair amount of people fail this first exam. Its meant to be a wake-up call.



Answer: Depended on the class. And its going to depend on your strengths and weaknesses.
Dont worry about outside resources for:
Biochem (memorization heavy) and histology (which is about repeated exposure to image patterns) you can learn from anywhere, but the lectures are in depth and cover everything you'd need to know for step 1. (That being said Biochem is my strength so take this with a grain of salt). If you need outside practice with Histo, the usual board prep stuff is okay, but michigan's BlueHistology is really great.
Anatomy - Live cadaver lab is the only thing that helped me. I tried using virtual dissection apps and flashcards but being in lab and physically isolating structures was the only way I retained info.

Using outside resources is helpful for:
Neuro - use stuff like ZAnki or Kaplan Neuro, because the course is thorough, but taught in a potentially confusing way.
Genetics - this course is not well organized, highly recommend watching some youtube videos.
Embryology - the lectures are great but I have a hard time with embryology to begin with so I watched some extra videos.

Year 2 is a different ballgame. There are success stories across the board, people who use a few resources consistently throughout the year, people who don't use extra stuff until the winter/spring, etc. At bare minimum it seems most people start annotating FA some time late in the fall.



There is a student-run google drive that has anki decks for every lecture, every class. The decks are a combo of Zanki cards with DUCOM lecture specific material. These decks are fantastic and I highly recommend them. If they'd been available to me day 1 like they will be for the incoming class, I would have used the following method to study (for year 1):
Read the DUCOM lecture notes
Do the DUCOM DK_Anki deck for the lecture
Watch the DUCOM lecture videos and highlight in the notes whatever key points I didn't retain from doing anki
DK_Anki again
Review the highlighted parts of my notes.
Practice questions 2-3 days before the exam, until the exam, review concepts that you miss questions on.
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thank you sooooo much! Amazing in-depth advice, much appreciated!
 
i'm interviewing tomorrow! will the portal update today to let me know who my interviewer is and the times?
 
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