2021-2022 Iowa (Carver)

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Does anyone know if they only start verifying your LORs after you actually submit the secondary responses? (submitted them recently)
 
star-lily said:
Does anyone know if they only start verifying your LORs after you actually submit the secondary responses? (submitted them recently)
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I am not sure, but It took me about 10-15 days for them to verify my letter after I submitted my secondaries (I am IS).
 
II as well just now, sucks that there is only one virtual date available traveling to Iowa is going to be a bit of a hassle.
 
baz2020 said:
wait they have in person interview days?
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They’re doing both in person and virtual interviews. However, their virtual dates are much more limited than the in person ones. Ex: I had the option to choose 5 in person or 1 virtual for the month of September.
 
Does Iowa still automatically send an II to all in-state apps above a 3.2 and a 505?
 
Hi, can a current student give an example about what the case based learning is about? I have heard case based learning is included in the interview. Thanks!!!
 
ooo000 said:
Hi, can a current student give an example about what the case based learning is about? I have heard case based learning is included in the interview. Thanks!!!
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Hey, I am 2nd year at CCOM. Case based learning is done during the interview to see how you work in a group. You will be in a group of about 5-6 people and paired with 4th year med students that lead the session. In the group you basically just work through a case together so initially you start out with like half a page of information about patient X that showed up with whatever symptoms to the hospital. One person is going to take notes on a whiteboard about 1) facts 2) problems 3) hypotheses 4) learning issues. So as you group you just discuss / shout out what would you throw into the facts column, what are the major problems the patient presented with, what is your current hypothesis and what do you want to put in learning issues. This is very low stress and not testing your medical knowledge so you will probably have a lot that goes into learning issues and the M4s will try and give you a quick explanation if needed. Once you are done discussing that page, they give you another sheet of info about the labs / tests that were ordered. Then you discuss the same categories again, refine your hypothesis then you get another page of info like progress notes maybe the patient deteriorated and developed X over the weekend etc. Again just want to emphasize they are not testing you on what you know medically. They just want to see that you work well in groups. If you don't participate that would look bad and if you start cutting people off that would look bad. Most people that interview at Iowa say this is their favorite part of the interview.

The reason they want to see that you work well in groups is because case based learning (CBL) is something we do regularly in the curriculum. During the interview, you go through the entire case in an hour, but in med school we meet once a week for CBL, get like one or two pages of info, discuss all of it, add all the info we have into the different categories and things that get placed in learning issues will be split up between everyone in the group to research and present on next week. After that we work with the information that people presented and additional information about the patient's clinical visit to work on finding the diagnosis.

Let me know if you have any other questions. Goodluck with your application cycle!
 
kme243 said:
Hey, I am 2nd year at CCOM. Case based learning is done during the interview to see how you work in a group. You will be in a group of about 5-6 people and paired with 4th year med students that lead the session. In the group you basically just work through a case together so initially you start out with like half a page of information about patient X that showed up with whatever symptoms to the hospital. One person is going to take notes on a whiteboard about 1) facts 2) problems 3) hypotheses 4) learning issues. So as you group you just discuss / shout out what would you throw into the facts column, what are the major problems the patient presented with, what is your current hypothesis and what do you want to put in learning issues. This is very low stress and not testing your medical knowledge so you will probably have a lot that goes into learning issues and the M4s will try and give you a quick explanation if needed. Once you are done discussing that page, they give you another sheet of info about the labs / tests that were ordered. Then you discuss the same categories again, refine your hypothesis then you get another page of info like progress notes maybe the patient deteriorated and developed X over the weekend etc. Again just want to emphasize they are not testing you on what you know medically. They just want to see that you work well in groups. If you don't participate that would look bad and if you start cutting people off that would look bad. Most people that interview at Iowa say this is their favorite part of the interview.

The reason they want to see that you work well in groups is because case based learning (CBL) is something we do regularly in the curriculum. During the interview, you go through the entire case in an hour, but in med school we meet once a week for CBL, get like one or two pages of info, discuss all of it, add all the info we have into the different categories and things that get placed in learning issues will be split up between everyone in the group to research and present on next week. After that we work with the information that people presented and additional information about the patient's clinical visit to work on finding the diagnosis.

Let me know if you have any other questions. Goodluck with your application cycle!
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Thanks for your reply! I am sure it will be helpful for all other students' interviews as well. I really appreciate your detailed explanation! Thanks soooooooo much again!
 
For fellow OOS applicants, are y'all doing the virtual or the in person interview?
 
Does anyone have any info about when students typically hear back after an interview?
 
OGedge said:
Does anyone have any info about when students typically hear back after an interview?
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wannabeanMD1999 said:
I interviewed on Wednesday and they said any time between October 15 and March lol
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Typically about 3-6 weeks after your interview during the rolling admission phase. If you don't hear back by then, you probably got put in the final pool. They send out about 40-50% of the acceptances in the rolling phase. Around Jan 15th is when they stop the rolling phase and everyone that wasn't accepted gets final pooled. Every application in the final pool gets reviewed again by admissions and around mid March they announce the remaining acceptances, waitlist and rejections.
 
Hi Guys, I have a question regarding the structure questions in the 30 mins interview, how long does it take you to answer each questions? I feel like that's average 10 mins for each question, when I practice, I try to keep my answer down to 2-3 mins, because I don't want people get lost in my answer. Should I answer longer for those structure questions? What if I finish those question within like 10 or 15 mins? Do it hurt you? The only question takes me about 5 mins to answer is the "Why medicine", other than that, I don't really have any questions longer than 5 mins to answer...... Thanks, appreciate for your advice! Let me what you guys think 🙂
 
ooo000 said:
Hi Guys, I have a question regarding the structure questions in the 30 mins interview, how long does it take you to answer each questions? I feel like that's average 10 mins for each question, when I practice, I try to keep my answer down to 2-3 mins, because I don't want people get lost in my answer. Should I answer longer for those structure questions? What if I finish those question within like 10 or 15 mins? Do it hurt you? The only question takes me about 5 mins to answer is the "Why medicine", other than that, I don't really have any questions longer than 5 mins to answer...... Thanks, appreciate for your advice! Let me what you guys think 🙂
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I believe this is based of their information that said that the structured questions would focus on three “questions”. I took that to mean that there would be three major themes for the structured time focusing on the things they mentioned.
 
ooo000 said:
Hi Guys, I have a question regarding the structure questions in the 30 mins interview, how long does it take you to answer each questions? I feel like that's average 10 mins for each question, when I practice, I try to keep my answer down to 2-3 mins, because I don't want people get lost in my answer. Should I answer longer for those structure questions? What if I finish those question within like 10 or 15 mins? Do it hurt you? The only question takes me about 5 mins to answer is the "Why medicine", other than that, I don't really have any questions longer than 5 mins to answer...... Thanks, appreciate for your advice! Let me what you guys think 🙂
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You don't want to spend 30min on the structured portion. After the 3 questions in the structured section, the interview becomes more of a conversation with the interviewers so they are allowed to ask followup questions about whatever they want to and they can lead the conversation in any direction. The structured portion is just the beginning and I wouldn't spend more than 5-10min on that part
 
CantFindMeNowAdcoms said:
I believe this is based of their information that said that the structured questions would focus on three “questions”. I took that to mean that there would be three major themes for the structured time focusing on the things they mentioned.
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There is no theme. The structured portion is just the 3 questions they have to ask everyone 1) tell us about yourself 2) why medicine 3) random ethics question. Interviewers are not allowed to talk or react or rephrase anything during the structured portion. After that it becomes a normal interview / conversation
 
kme243 said:
You don't want to spend 30min on the structured portion. After the 3 questions in the structured section, the interview becomes more of a conversation with the interviewers so they are allowed to ask followup questions about whatever they want to and they can lead the conversation in any direction. The structured portion is just the beginning and I wouldn't spend more than 5-10min on that part
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Thanks soooooooo much!!! That totally makes sense!
 
kme243 said:
Typically about 3-6 weeks after your interview during the rolling admission phase. If you don't hear back by then, you probably got put in the final pool. They send out about 40-50% of the acceptances in the rolling phase. Around Jan 15th is when they stop the rolling phase and everyone that wasn't accepted gets final pooled. Every application in the final pool gets reviewed again by admissions and around mid March they announce the remaining acceptances, waitlist and rejections.
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That makes sense! I kind of had that idea, but they really stressed that if you don't hear back "soon", that doesn't mean it's an R, as you've written. So, no one freak out!!! 🙂
 
kme243 said:
There is no theme. The structured portion is just the 3 questions they have to ask everyone 1) tell us about yourself 2) why medicine 3) random ethics question. Interviewers are not allowed to talk or react or rephrase anything during the structured portion. After that it becomes a normal interview / conversation
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Thanks for this. I didn’t read clearly enough.
 
What qualifies for their English requirement? I don't have any specific literature or writing classes.
 
Hey all, I had a pretty weird undergrad trajectory and most of my clinical experience is from greater than 5 years ago. I'm planning on being clear about the dates and still listing them on my secondary. Is this a bad idea?
 
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