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Interview day:

So I got up at 530 to shave and dress. Cut myself shaving on the mustache area so i have a mark for the rest of the day. Damn. Go over interview feedback on SDN, check out of hotel and drive to TCOM. Watch a little power point about TCOM and how their students do. Ate lunch and had a tour of some of the facilities(Anatomy lab, big lecture halls, practice clinical sites, dummy patients).

So up to this point im thoroughly impressed. I am extremely familiar with TCOM but today left me beyond impressed. Its a really really really great school. Some people may laugh it off because its DO, but make no mistake. At TCOM it seems the students get as good as an education as any of the other Texas Schools, including southwestern. They do great on both boards, have super early clinical exposure, are committed to community service, and place super well into residencies. I think they place 80% allopathic and 20%osteopathic. They place into a wide variety of specialties(even though this school is committed to primary care)

Interviews:
1st one with a OBGYN: Went beyond my best expectations. It was short around 20 minutes or so. But i left a grand impression on the interviewer. He spent the last 5 minutes praising me on the interview and my answers. He said things like "a good head on your shoulder", "focus that is unseen in (someone) my age.", that i "truly (am) committed to serving through medicine" and that " I will go places in medicine since (I) will not be afraid to try new things". Overall a great interview. He called me one of the best he's had.

2nd one: Less informal. A Ph.D Had a sheet of questions and wrote down my responses and her thoughts. Questions included what service had i done, why, and what did i Learn. The team work question. The future direction of medicine compared to now and 20 years ago. The what made me be interested in medicine. The what do you know about DO and why DO. When am I out of my comfort zone. Greatest challenge and how i solved it. Anything I want the admissions to know. I did well i think. Answered everything to the best of my ability. She seemed to like what I said and the examples i gave


Overall, great interviews from people truly invested in students. No medical ethics questions.


So overall impression of the day great.
 
BMEN said:
Interview day:

So I got up at 530 to shave and dress. Cut myself shaving on the mustache area so i have a mark for the rest of the day. Damn. Go over interview feedback on SDN, check out of hotel and drive to TCOM. Watch a little power point about TCOM and how their students do. Ate lunch and had a tour of some of the facilities(Anatomy lab, big lecture halls, practice clinical sites, dummy patients).

So up to this point im thoroughly impressed. I am extremely familiar with TCOM but today left me beyond impressed. Its a really really really great school. Some people may laugh it off because its DO, but make no mistake. At TCOM it seems the students get as good as an education as any of the other Texas Schools, including southwestern. They do great on both boards, have super early clinical exposure, are committed to community service, and place super well into residencies. I think they place 80% allopathic and 20%osteopathic. They place into a wide variety of specialties(even though this school is committed to primary care)

Interviews:
1st one with a OBGYN: Went beyond my best expectations. It was short around 20 minutes or so. But i left a grand impression on the interviewer. He spent the last 5 minutes praising me on the interview and my answers. He said things like "a good head on your shoulder", "focus that is unseen in (someone) my age.", that i "truly (am) committed to serving through medicine" and that " I will go places in medicine since (I) will not be afraid to try new things". Overall a great interview. He called me one of the best he's had.

2nd one: Less informal. A Ph.D Had a sheet of questions and wrote down my responses and her thoughts. Questions included what service had i done, why, and what did i Learn. The team work question. The future direction of medicine compared to now and 20 years ago. The what made me be interested in medicine. The what do you know about DO and why DO. When am I out of my comfort zone. Greatest challenge and how i solved it. Anything I want the admissions to know. I did well i think. Answered everything to the best of my ability. She seemed to like what I said and the examples i gave


Overall, great interviews from people truly invested in students. No medical ethics questions.


So overall impression of the day great.
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Nice. When's your next interview?
 
BMEN said:
Next friday with UTMB. Im going to use the positives of today for that interview to help me.
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Ah. I think I'll have my TMDSAS verified tomorrow. Hopefully UTMB sends me some love.
 
BMEN said:
Interview day:

So I got up at 530 to shave and dress. Cut myself shaving on the mustache area so i have a mark for the rest of the day. Damn. Go over interview feedback on SDN, check out of hotel and drive to TCOM. Watch a little power point about TCOM and how their students do. Ate lunch and had a tour of some of the facilities(Anatomy lab, big lecture halls, practice clinical sites, dummy patients).

So up to this point im thoroughly impressed. I am extremely familiar with TCOM but today left me beyond impressed. Its a really really really great school. Some people may laugh it off because its DO, but make no mistake. At TCOM it seems the students get as good as an education as any of the other Texas Schools, including southwestern. They do great on both boards, have super early clinical exposure, are committed to community service, and place super well into residencies. I think they place 80% allopathic and 20%osteopathic. They place into a wide variety of specialties(even though this school is committed to primary care)

Interviews:
1st one with a OBGYN: Went beyond my best expectations. It was short around 20 minutes or so. But i left a grand impression on the interviewer. He spent the last 5 minutes praising me on the interview and my answers. He said things like "a good head on your shoulder", "focus that is unseen in (someone) my age.", that i "truly (am) committed to serving through medicine" and that " I will go places in medicine since (I) will not be afraid to try new things". Overall a great interview. He called me one of the best he's had.

2nd one: Less informal. A Ph.D Had a sheet of questions and wrote down my responses and her thoughts. Questions included what service had i done, why, and what did i Learn. The team work question. The future direction of medicine compared to now and 20 years ago. The what made me be interested in medicine. The what do you know about DO and why DO. When am I out of my comfort zone. Greatest challenge and how i solved it. Anything I want the admissions to know. I did well i think. Answered everything to the best of my ability. She seemed to like what I said and the examples i gave


Overall, great interviews from people truly invested in students. No medical ethics questions.


So overall impression of the day great.
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Good job. :xf: for an acceptance for you.
 
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