it use to be on the calander on the CCLCM website. I am not sure if it still is.
Sorry, but I am not sure about that. I will stop by the admissions office on Friday and see if I can find out some info for you.
As far as I know, there is not any status info for CCLCM on line. Are you waiting to hear about getting an interview? If you have been complete for a while, you might want to give the admissions office a call and see where things are at. FYI, if you applied to both programs (ours and the Case UP), that will delay your interview invitations, because both programs have to evaluate your file before either one will invite you.
No problem. I responded in the other thread too in case someone else has the same question and doesn't see this thread. Good luck with your app.
It's hard to tell right now how residency program directors will react to CCLCM grads because like you said, no one has graduated yet from our program. The first students are now M3s. That being said, I think that there are a couple of things that we will have going for us.
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No, that's not correct. CCLCM has several options for getting your MS. I'm getting an MS in biomedical research, and so are several of my classmates. For tracks in biomedical research (and there are a variety of them, such as biochemistry, pathology, clinical research, etc.), you have to take three extra classes on top of the regular CCLCM curriculum. The rest of your work already counts toward your MS degree. You can also do non research Masters degrees, but they will be more work. So if you want to get a Masters in biomedical engineering, international health, or an MBA, you will have to take more than just three extra classes.
I sent them an email. I'll let you know what I hear.
I wrote a longer answer in my blog, but the short answer is that it basically came down to financial aid, curriculum, and my gut feeling. I definitely did not pick this school based on location.
But I can tell you that the program is fantastic, the financial aid is excellent, and on the whole I really like my classmates and faculty. It's not a utopia or anything, and there are definitely some things about the program that I don't like (read some of my blog posts about FCM ). But on the whole, I am very happy with my decision to come here. Cleveland seems to have the worst weather in the world, but other than that, I can't even complain about the city too much. It's a lot better than I expected it to be. I don't ever find myself sitting around bored here.
Ok, I spoke to Dean Franco today. The deal is that the admissions committee usually meets every other week on Thursdays. They just met yesterday, so I think that those of you who interviewed recently will hear something soon.I sent them an email. I'll let you know what I hear.
Just so everyone knows what we're talking about, FCM and POD are two of our classes. FCM (foundations of clinical medicine) is a course that all Case students take during M1 and M2. It discusses humanities and social sciences in medicine. That sounds pretty good on paper, but the class is pretty universally disliked by everyone in both Case programs. (If any of you Case people disagree, feel free to correct me, but I won't hold my breath on that one.)
Yes, I think you have, but your paranoia is totally understandable.I wonder if our chances for getting an interview invite from CWRU are higher if we did not apply to CCLCM--if they want to interview us back-to-back and getting an invite from CCLCM is more difficult?? Some of us could be in the interview" pile at Case and in the maybe-interview pile at CCLCM... ? Thoughts?
Have I become the crazy premed who thinks of conspiracies? 0
From what I can tell, your application to one program doesn't affect your application to the other one at all. They both evaluate you independently and each one makes its own decision. There are definitely people who get rejected post-secondary by one program and invited to interview by the other one. It is also possible that one program could decide to interview you and one could put you on pre-interview hold. In that case, the first program won't wait until you come off hold at the other one to invite you.
I heard back within two weeks after my interview last year. But I can't tell you whether your file will always come up for review at the very next meeting, so I don't know whether everyone hears back within two weeks. You might want to ask Dean Franco about that when you get here. Good luck with your interview, baba. Don't forget to read the interview feedback so that you can see what kinds of questions you might get asked.
I heard back within two weeks after my interview last year. But I can't tell you whether your file will always come up for review at the very next meeting, so I don't know whether everyone hears back within two weeks. You might want to ask Dean Franco about that when you get here. Good luck with your interview, baba. Don't forget to read the interview feedback so that you can see what kinds of questions you might get asked.
We just started interviewing last month, so not very many people have come yet this year. After you come, maybe you could post yours.
to you.
I interviewed for the Case UP last year too, and I did get asked about my research there. You won't have a specific research interview there like you will at CCLCM unless you're applying to the MSTP, but if you've done a lot of research, I think you should expect to get asked about it at every medical school interview. Don't worry too much about explaining the specific details of your experimental procedures. Most of my interviewers were a lot more interested in hearing about the significance and purpose of doing the research, along with what I learned from it.
Congratulations, _MDPhD_doc.
If you have any questions about the school, feel free to post them here or PM me. Hope to see you in March at the second look.
Yeah, this is the reason. We start a lot earlier than most other schools do, so that's why our traffic date is a month earlier. I think that all of the schools that start in July have April 15 deadlines. If you are thinking that you won't be able to meet the deadline because you have second looks after April 15 or other problems like that, you should call the admissions office and talk to them about it.
