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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.