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[thefirerisen]

Rising M2 at UVA Med. Happy to answer any and all questions but please put them in the thread in case others are wondering the same thing! Good luck to everyone and hope to see you future Hoos in C'ville!

 

[ihavetwobraincells]

Rising M2 at UVA Med. Happy to answer any and all questions but please put them in the thread in case others are wondering the same thing! Good luck to everyone and hope to see you future Hoos in C'ville!

What’s the overall culture like among students? Are they more collaborative or competitive? Also, are research opportunities easy to find?

 

[thefirerisen]

What’s the overall culture like among students? Are they more collaborative or competitive? Also, are research opportunities easy to find?

UVA is known to be the most "chill" out of all the elite schools and thats partly why I chose it. Having gone through my first year, thats absolutely true, and there is so much collaboration. It helps that everything is P/F including pre-clinicals and clinicals. They've even converted the midterms to be collaborative and you can do them in a group now.

Research opportunities are plentiful—I got into a lab my second week of school. There is an elected officer in the student government that organizes all open research projects and sends them out to all the M1s via this research portal so you can pretty much start Day 1 if you wish. And the research departments here are huge, and you can find a PI doing pretty much anything that you'd be interested in.

 

[Ernieke]

UVA is known to be the most "chill" out of all the elite schools and thats partly why I chose it. Having gone through my first year, thats absolutely true, and there is so much collaboration. It helps that everything is P/F including pre-clinicals and clinicals. They've even converted the midterms to be collaborative and you can do them in a group now.

Research opportunities are plentiful—I got into a lab my second week of school. There is an elected officer in the student government that organizes all open research projects and sends them out to all the M1s via this research portal so you can pretty much start Day 1 if you wish. And the research departments here are huge, and you can find a PI doing pretty much anything that you'd be interested in.

Hi! I am starting at UVA this august 😀 ! I am curious about this research portal you mention, is that a website or an excel? Where would I find this? Thanks and cannot wait to be in Charlottesville in a couple months!!!

 

[thefirerisen]

Hi! I am starting at UVA this august 😀 ! I am curious about this research portal you mention, is that a website or an excel? Where would I find this? Thanks and cannot wait to be in Charlottesville in a couple months!!!

Reach out to the Mulholland officer if you're interested - i'm not sure if they'll let you start since you haven't onboarded yet officially. I believe it is an file that is updated regularly with new projects for the M1s. Its very popular amongst the M1s but lots of people also just email different PIs in various departments and find research that way.

 

[PreDeltaMed]

UVA is known to be the most "chill" out of all the elite schools and thats partly why I chose it. Having gone through my first year, thats absolutely true, and there is so much collaboration. It helps that everything is P/F including pre-clinicals and clinicals. They've even converted the midterms to be collaborative and you can do them in a group now.

Research opportunities are plentiful—I got into a lab my second week of school. There is an elected officer in the student government that organizes all open research projects and sends them out to all the M1s via this research portal so you can pretty much start Day 1 if you wish. And the research departments here are huge, and you can find a PI doing pretty much anything that you'd be interested in.

I’m also committing to UVA as a new M1 this August. (the financial aid UVA gives is no joke!) I had no idea about these research resources and the fact that midterms are collaborative now. I actually made a Class of 2029 GroupMe that already contains a majority of the class (114 so far). We would definitely love if you could join as a rising M2 and provide some insight onto the school that is really only known by the students and not really found online.
(GroupMe - Join the group for UVASM Accepted Students ‘29)


Also can you expand on the group midterms? When did this start and what does it really entail?

 

[thefirerisen]

I’m also committing to UVA as a new M1 this August. (the financial aid UVA gives is no joke!) I had no idea about these research resources and the fact that midterms are collaborative now. I actually made a Class of 2029 GroupMe that already contains a majority of the class (114 so far). We would definitely love if you could join as a rising M2 and provide some insight onto the school that is really only known by the students and not really found online.
(GroupMe - Join the group for UVASM Accepted Students ‘29)


Also can you expand on the group midterms? When did this start and what does it really entail?

Happy to expand on that! Yes, this has been a gradual change over the past few years and its still ongoing.

We have blocks that each consist of two summatives (AKA the "take home exams"). Between those summatives, there are smaller "mid-terms" or sometimes called "quizzes". These are low stakes and a few small percentage of your entire block grade - the great thing is that you can now do a lot of these in groups which helps you learn even more; or you can still opt to do them by yourself if you so choose.

I'll prolly not join the groupme right now and leave it to y'all to make friends and form connections between each other. Don't worry about school right now and try to enjoy your last few months of freedom. But if there are any questions from rising M1s, happy to talk - reach out and I can send you my number. And once school starts, the M1s/M2s all have one large group chat so you'll always be able to get support from our class 🙂