5 year medical schools
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You can do the 5 year program at a bunch of schools. For example, Stanford recommends their students take 5 years. At Creighton, there were at least two people in the class of 98 on the "five year program" and one in the class of 99 that took six years. For the Creighton cases, the five-years were admitted as four-years but failed more than one course first year and therefore had to repeat it. The six-year person had two children during med school and therefore took six years because of the combined maternity leave. As for more formal programs where either the m1 year is stretched out into two or an extra year is added for research, I'd recommend flipping through the good old MSAR.
NRAI2001 said:
It's not in the U.S.
So who cares?
I posted a similar question in the Pre-DO forum, so please don't exile me for being on both sides of the fence still.... here goes
I am a non-trad student with a BS and MTS in theology. I am starting my pre-reqs at a local community college. Could I/should I call the school and just say," I want to know what you want for me to be competitive in three years?"
It would seem that this strategy would clear up any questions of what they want in terms of classes, volunteering, shadowing, etc and possibly demonstrate some nerve that could be valuable at application time.
Thoughts???
Rob
I am a non-trad student with a BS and MTS in theology. I am starting my pre-reqs at a local community college. Could I/should I call the school and just say," I want to know what you want for me to be competitive in three years?"
It would seem that this strategy would clear up any questions of what they want in terms of classes, volunteering, shadowing, etc and possibly demonstrate some nerve that could be valuable at application time.
Thoughts???
Rob
In Harvard's HST program, students often take 5 years to complete their MDs because of the program's research requirements.
roballan14 said:
they won't remember you at application time and it won't be very useful. there is not a set formula of what the school wants from you - do your pre-reqs, spend time volunteering, shadowing, and do well on the MCATs...that's what they want from you.
Thanks for the replies. The way i understand it is that in that 1st year students are taking medical school type courses to prepare them and then after that 1st year they move right into medical school but on the downside I have heard that the U of L 5 year medical school program is not supportive of the students taking this option. meaning that if you do not pass a class during that 1st year you can't continue on into medical school. i thought it was a guaranteed admissions ( once you got accepted into medical school you could move on after that 1st year in to medical school ).
To reiterate what a lot of people have said. It seems that most med schools are flexible in how long you can take to finish the MD as long as it's at least 4 years. From what I heard a lot of students that are trying to get a very competitive residency split their 4th year and do it in two years with the extra time dedicated to research. The advantage of doing something like that as opposed to a "real" 5 year program is that you still only have to pay tuition for 4 years.
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