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I attended the 9/4 interview! Kind of a long day, but so awesome. Everyone was very welcoming and I was very impressed with the school, curriculum, and community feeling. The interviews were conversational and nothing to stress much over. A few required questions from each interviewer and after that just a very engaging conversation! Good luck with your interview 🙂
At interview day last year, they said everyone has roughly a 50/50 chance of acceptance
Have you added more schools to your primary application recently?
It probably just “refreshes” your app. I doubt it will be noticed by any adcom.O....yup! Does this mean the recommendation letters get resubmitted every time I feel neurotic and apply to more schools?
Yap, I noticed It as well. But it didn’t happen like that with other schools (I wonder). But I got complete email lot earlier, so I don’t think it will make a difference.O....yup! Does this mean the recommendation letters get resubmitted every time I feel neurotic and apply to more schools?
Stats and complete date please, if you don’t mind.
Complete 7/28, LM 72
Hi, current M4 here! Throughout your first two years you take a longitudinal course on promotion and maintenance of health which is the brunt of our population/public health training! First year focuses a lot on population statistics and how to calculate them. Second year you got more "thematic" type topics (i.e. refugee health). Did you have any more specific questions?
I would say you get a decent amount of both at OUWB. I would say OU itself leans more towards serving the surrounding community but that with Beaumont being such a large institute you get the benefit of great research opportunities too depending on what you're interested in.
Did you receive via email? I did not. (also, not in communications in the portal).
Can you speak a little about PRISM? Do you find it helpful? Do you work with the same group/mentors throughout all four years? The website description makes it sound like PRISM "does it all!" with topics ranging from financial planning to preparing for residency interviews, etc.
I got these last year b/c I took the MCAT. I think they're just email threads they send out
this sounds amazing. I would love to have a medical education that incorporates this. I hope I hear back soon...
thats what they called it during interview day
it's a wordy name so I don't think anyone would hold it against you to just call it OUWB
I personally enjoy PRISM. About once a month the first three years you regularly meet with the same students and mentor. You do monthly activities often decided on by your group so game days, potlucks, etc. I would say PRISM is what you make of it. Some students take issue with "mandated wellness" but to each their own. I enjoy having a physician mentor that doesn't evaluate me weigh in on topics such as choosing specialties, debt, personal statements, etc. My mentor is also someone who I can complain to about things I don't necessarily like in the curriculum and they are able to take it to administration to share our thoughts without it coming from us directly. It's nice to get together with a variety of classmates too and catch up and just talk about anything without there being pressure to perform. As a fourth year, it's been nice to see how everyone in my group has grown over the last four years.
Thank you for the response! I can see why they promote PRISM on their websites so heavily, it sounds like a great program! Surely it contributes to the unique “Oakland community” that we hear so much about from current students/faculty.
Thank you so much! Ah I hope so. Best of luck to you too🙂
they send you an email 24 hours before the interview with a link to the WEBX
It was really chill, but I still decided to dress up for it.
Awesome, thank you!
the panel was in the evening and i think it was only 1 hour after work. and no you dont have to dress up- you dont even put your video on, you probably wont even talk .
It starts at 4 pm, and I end work at 4:30 PM. Do you think it's important to attend? I feel like not being in attendance portrays some sort of attitude that I might not care...
To be honest, I do not recall if any of the students who led the panel discussion were even present on the actual interview day, so I am not sure if your absence would count against you. I can definitely understand your concern about how you not being present would come across, though, so would there be a way for you to simply request to leave work just an hour or two early that day instead of taking the full day off?
no you dont have to attend and in fact at the beginning of the panel they said (either staff or students) that our attendance and today's panels and question asking had NOTHING to do with impacting our interview day or interview results. so there's that. i believe them bc it was very chill and low key and the point of the diversity panel is to make everyone feel comfortable about the school and esp in the times we live in now. #BLM.
