AZCOM Discussion Thread 2011-2012

[DrWily]

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Anyone have the list of LA rotation sites? Cant seem to find it. Thanks!

 

[xajtx]

Anyone have the list of LA rotation sites? Cant seem to find it. Thanks!

Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Los Alamitos Medical Center
Fountain Valley Regional Hospital
Hollywood Presbyterian
Long Beach Memorial Hospital Center
St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach
Pacific Hospital, Long Beach
California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles
Henry Mayo Newhall
Glendale Adventist Medical Center

We'll also be going back to a rural location in AZ for our ward based rotation in internal medicine. The advantage to this is since it counts as both a rural/underserved rotation and our ward based IM rotation, we get an elective third year 🙂 (according to Linda Hammon, coordinator for L.A. rotation sites)

 

[lh027]

Did anyone recently accepted receive any letter/paperwork from AZCOM yet? I was accepted 10/17...

 

[randomusername]

Did anyone recently accepted receive any letter/paperwork from AZCOM yet? I was accepted 10/17...

Usually takes about a month to make it out to people.

 

[lh027]

Usually takes about a month to make it out to people.

Awesome, thank you.

 

[waddlingduck]

Hi all,

So it is going on a few weeks since I interviewed in mid-October. I haven't seen a change in my portal, but no snail mail letters (even with bad news) either. Perhaps that means I was wait-listed? At what point is it worth following up on my status? Should I call, send an e-mail?

Thanks for the advice!

 

[randomusername]

Hi all,

So it is going on a few weeks since I interviewed in mid-October. I haven't seen a change in my portal, but no snail mail letters (even with bad news) either. Perhaps that means I was wait-listed? At what point is it worth following up on my status? Should I call, send an e-mail?

Thanks for the advice!

Perfectly acceptable to call at this point. Plus, you won't have to wait for somebody to check their email, check your status, then email you back.

 

[DrWily]

Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Los Alamitos Medical Center
Fountain Valley Regional Hospital
Hollywood Presbyterian
Long Beach Memorial Hospital Center
St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach
Pacific Hospital, Long Beach
California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles
Henry Mayo Newhall
Glendale Adventist Medical Center

We'll also be going back to a rural location in AZ for our ward based rotation in internal medicine. The advantage to this is since it counts as both a rural/underserved rotation and our ward based IM rotation, we get an elective third year 🙂 (according to Linda Hammon, coordinator for L.A. rotation sites)

Thanks for this. Having 1 elective in 3rd yr sounds great to get the jump on auditioning!

 

[scribble123]

Does anyone know the rotation sites for West and East Valley?

 

[xajtx]

Does anyone know the rotation sites for West and East Valley?

West Valley
St. Joseph's Medical Center
Veteran's Administration Medical Center
Banner Boswell
Banner Del Webb
Banner Estrella
Banner Thunderbird
John C. Lincoln North Mountain
John C. Lincoln Deer Valley
Cottonwood Verde Valley Regional Medical Center
Havasu Regional Medical Center
Kingman Regional Medical Center

East Valley
Maricopa Medical Center
Veteran's Administration Medical Center
Banner Baywood
Banner Desert
Scottsdale Osborn
Scottsdale Shea
Scottsdale Thompson Peak
Mountain Vista
St. Luke's Behavioral Health and Tempe St. Luke's
Payson Regional Medical Center
Yavapi Regional Medical Center
Show Low - Summit Healthcare

The last three in each list are rural affiliates.

 

[Dr Curitas]

Some people have scheduled as far out as February, but spots earlier will continue to open up until...February.

Class size is 250, no clue how many people they've accepted so far this cycle, and they do end up accepting significantly more than 250 people to fill their seats.

Thank you!

 

[Doctor Duck]

Has anybody gone to visit admissions to talk or try to get some clarification about their file?

 

[randomusername]

Has anybody gone to visit admissions to talk or try to get some clarification about their file?

You can do that...though it's a lot easier to just call them.

 

[samiam87]

Just got my email confirmation from Terry that I will be in L.A. for rotations for 3rd year! Huge thanks to DbDan for that protip to email Dr. Speicher my rotation choice. I haven't even received my application packet yet and it's been over 2 weeks (15 days).

How long did it take to hear back from Dr. Speicher?

 

[xajtx]

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[Dr Curitas]

I've heard numbers around class size 250... accept about 450 overall... interview around 650.. those are all approximations though.

My perception with most schools is if you get an interview you stand a pretty decent shot. The trick is getting from the 3000 applications to the 600ish interviews. Dont forget those 450 acceptances are through the entire application cycle... all the way up to the first day.

Great! Very helpful, thanks.

 

[DrWily]

I got an email the same day, but it wasn't from Dr.Speicher, someone else

It took about a week. I heard back from Terry, not directly from Dr. Speicher.

 

[akdas988]

After 3 weeks of trying I was finally able to schedule an interview on Nov 29 from jan 17th! So if you are interviewing in jan/feb or later. You might still grab a interview earlier. Midwestern is pretty much in my top choice and I love would to go there. So does anybody know if I should write a letter of intent or something to let them know that if I was accepted I would definitely attend?

 

[randomusername]

After 3 weeks of trying I was finally able to schedule an interview on Nov 29 from jan 17th! So if you are interviewing in jan/feb or later. You might still grab a interview earlier. Midwestern is pretty much in my top choice and I love would to go there. So does anybody know if I should write a letter of intent or something to let them know that if I was accepted I would definitely attend?

Prepare as much as you can for your interview and see how it goes (read: wait to find out if you're accepted, WL, or denied). If you get WL'd, then you might want to think about writing a LOI.

 

[WusUpDoc]

Going to be cancelling my Jan 17 interview in the next day or so for anyone who wants it!!

 

[DrWily]

Does AZCOM offer any kind of accelerated learning course the summer before MS-1? For like anatomy or something. I think I heard of some schools offering this?

Also, I was looking around on AZCOM's student life section of their website and saw the clubs. They don't offer a lot of clubs for specialties, so is this list extensive or are some not listed? If you wanted to set up a club for a certain specialty, is it difficult or pretty easy to set up/get approval?

Thanks!

 

[athadam]

Does AZCOM offer any kind of accelerated learning course the summer before MS-1? For like anatomy or something. I think I heard of some schools offering this?

Also, I was looking around on AZCOM's student life section of their website and saw the clubs. They don't offer a lot of clubs for specialties, so is this list extensive or are some not listed? If you wanted to set up a club for a certain specialty, is it difficult or pretty easy to set up/get approval?

Thanks!

Summer course? Why? Not that I know of.
Clubs? All kinds of clubs, well except for left pinky specialist.

 

[Juice9]

Does AZCOM offer any kind of accelerated learning course the summer before MS-1? For like anatomy or something. I think I heard of some schools offering this?

Also, I was looking around on AZCOM's student life section of their website and saw the clubs. They don't offer a lot of clubs for specialties, so is this list extensive or are some not listed? If you wanted to set up a club for a certain specialty, is it difficult or pretty easy to set up/get approval?

Thanks!

In the folder they gave us at the interview there was a list of the clubs. Definitely a lot more than what is posted on the website

 

[randomusername]

Does AZCOM offer any kind of accelerated learning course the summer before MS-1? For like anatomy or something. I think I heard of some schools offering this?

Also, I was looking around on AZCOM's student life section of their website and saw the clubs. They don't offer a lot of clubs for specialties, so is this list extensive or are some not listed? If you wanted to set up a club for a certain specialty, is it difficult or pretty easy to set up/get approval?

Thanks!

Course= no
Clubs= a ton more than listed on the website...MWU's website is pathetic in every regard, including providing club information.

 

[FuturePharm21]

Is it too late to apply? I think all I have to submit is the secondary and they have the letters etc. I wonder how many of the 250 seats are filled?

 

[engin33ring]

Is it too late to apply? I think all I have to submit is the secondary and they have the letters etc. I wonder how many of the 250 seats are filled?

I want to say its too late cause you would create competition 😀. But it's not too late. I spoke to the admissions department and they still have plenty of seats to fill. They actually accept over 400 students (I've heard up to 500)

 

[DrWily]

Thanks for the responses guys

 

[Kliffmeister]

Could someone help me? I have interview on Dec 2, but I dunno which airport to fly into nor which hotel to stay at. What are your recommendations? I believe I need to fly into Phoenix airport but that seems a bit of a taxi ride to Glendale. I guess I will need to either rent a car or commute via cab.... 🙁
Also, I'm debating on getting either Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet while i'm there. Any opinions?

 

[Spatula]

Could someone help me? I have interview on Dec 2, but I dunno which airport to fly into nor which hotel to stay at. What are your recommendations? I believe I need to fly into Phoenix airport but that seems a bit of a taxi ride to Glendale. I guess I will need to either rent a car or commute via cab.... 🙁
Also, I'm debating on getting either Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet while i'm there. Any opinions?

The information in the interview email lists all that information. The hotel I stayed in, Drury, supplied a shuttle to the interview. I used supershuttle.com in order to get from the airport to the hotel and back.

 

[randomusername]

Could someone help me? I have interview on Dec 2, but I dunno which airport to fly into nor which hotel to stay at. What are your recommendations? I believe I need to fly into Phoenix airport but that seems a bit of a taxi ride to Glendale. I guess I will need to either rent a car or commute via cab.... 🙁
Also, I'm debating on getting either Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet while i'm there. Any opinions?

You need to fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor. You'll either need to use SuperShuttle, a taxi, or rent a vehicle to get to your hotel. As mentioned, there's a good list of hotels that the school should have emailed to you, or if you decide to rent a car and want to save some money on the hotel by staying a bit further away from the school, just look for hotels near zip code 85308.

I'd go with the Fire...you never know when B&N is going to make like Borders and kick the bucket...

 

[ManBroDude]

Waitlisted pending further review. Should I treat this as a rejection? (pre-interview)

 

[DrWily]

Waitlisted pending further review. Should I treat this as a rejection? (pre-interview)

Nope. Always a chance they'll invite you to interview later. AZCOM regularly goes into its waitlist 50-70 deep is what the admissions lady told us on interview day

 

[randomusername]

Waitlisted pending further review. Should I treat this as a rejection? (pre-interview)

If you think your problem is grades/MCAT, keep the school updated with any new grades or scores. If you don't think it's that, just keep them updated with anything like that you can keep them updated with and make sure to keep them informed of other stuff going on with you like research, shadowing, etc. Your best bet is just being proactive. Unfortunately, Dr. Wily's referring to post-interview WL and not pre-interview.

 

[legoman163]

When I applied last year, I was waitlisted in december, but I kept sending them letters of interest once a month. Don't bombard them with these letters, but keep showing interest and if they do offer you an interview, take the earliest one. That's what I did and it will improve your chances.

 

[ManBroDude]

If you think your problem is grades/MCAT, keep the school updated with any new grades or scores. If you don't think it's that, just keep them updated with anything like that you can keep them updated with and make sure to keep them informed of other stuff going on with you like research, shadowing, etc. Your best bet is just being proactive. Unfortunately, Dr. Wily's referring to post-interview WL and not pre-interview.

Yeah, I got that. (Guys, I was waitlisted post-secondary / pre-interview).

Oh well. sGPA should spike up from 3.34 to a 3.45 when Fall grades come out right before Christmas. MCAT is a 25R. Mailman better bring his back support belt with the amount of letters of intent I'll be sending out

 

[engin33ring]

Yeah, I got that. (Guys, I was waitlisted post-secondary / pre-interview).

Oh well. sGPA should spike up from 3.34 to a 3.45 when Fall grades come out right before Christmas. MCAT is a 25R. Mailman better bring his back support belt with the amount of letters of intent I'll be sending out

I also was waitlisted post-secondary /pre-interview.

I have a bit of a problem with this though. They said that I cannot be granted an interview because I have not completed my O-chem. I am in O-chem 1 now and will finish my O-chem 2 during the spring. They need to see my O-chem 1 grade before they will give me an interview.

sGPA/cGPA: 3.76
MCAT 29

Kinda bothers me that I won't be granted an interview because of this.

 

[qpqp123]

got the 'application put on hold' letter as well... will probably send them a letter of interest in the mail and call about why it is next week

 

[LabLuvr]

On hold pre-interview also. Shoot! Do they reject anyone outright or just put everyone on hold?

 

[engin33ring]

Did you guys find out why you were waitlisted?

 

[Trailhead]

I'm not entirely sure how you orchestrate this effectively, but if anyone who has a December interview would like to trade me for my November 30th one, please let me know!

 

[se20001984]

Yes plz message me

 

[voisinator]

Nov 29 and Dec 2 openings currently. Good luck guys. I'll be there the 28th.

 

[Prncssbuttercup]

So I've been complete since the end of July. Crickets. I have an acceptance at LECOM-E, and am an alternate at SOMA and LECOM-B. Am I out of the game for AZCOM? Not rejected to my knowledge, unless just never contacting you is their way of rejecting you...

 

[IDFsoldierboy]

So I've been complete since the end of July. Crickets. I have an acceptance at LECOM-E, and am an alternate at SOMA and LECOM-B. Am I out of the game for AZCOM? Not rejected to my knowledge, unless just never contacting you is their way of rejecting you...

do you check the status page often?
https://online.midwestern.edu/applicant/index.cgi
I never received an email about an II but it was on the status page asking me to schedule my interview....I know of several others who never received emails but it gets posted to their status page

 

[Prncssbuttercup]

do you check the status page often?
https://online.midwestern.edu/applicant/index.cgi
I never received an email about an II but it was on the status page asking me to schedule my interview....I know of several others who never received emails but it gets posted to their status page

For posterity I checked before I posted this. Still no interview/s to schedule.

 

[SavoirFaire]

I still can't get over the fact I was waitlisted TWICE here. I don't know why they invited me to interview for the second year in a row if they wanted to waitlist me again, especially considering little changed about my application in that time (May to September).

If I get a call sometime soon I would consider AZCOM. It is a great school. Has anyone here been accepted from the waitlist yet this year?

 

[Kliffmeister]

Hey guys.
Could anyone give some hints or tips of what to expect for the interview?
Thx!

 

[randomusername]

Hey guys.
Could anyone give some hints or tips of what to expect for the interview?
Thx!

Know your answers to: Why medicine? Why D.O.? Why AZCOM? And a good overview of the types of "off-the-wall" thinker questions you might get are in the SDN interview feedback section. You'll also potentially field some ethical questions and questions pertaining to your academic background (like research, how your major could help you in medicine [if you're a non-science major], etc).

So I've been complete since the end of July. Crickets. I have an acceptance at LECOM-E, and am an alternate at SOMA and LECOM-B. Am I out of the game for AZCOM? Not rejected to my knowledge, unless just never contacting you is their way of rejecting you...

Call Admissions and they should be able to shed some light on all of this for you.

 

[LM136]

cancelled interview for 01/23 if anyone is interested.

 

[sidabear]

Just withdrew my acceptance. .

Hope one of you gets my spot!