Colorado State University SMP?

[readdoc]

Anyone have information on and experience with the Colorado State program
Program NameMaster's B Program in Biomedical SciencesInstitutionColorado State UniversityDegree TypeSpecial Master's degree-granting program (1-2 years, no thesis, ''applied science''/''medical science'') Undergraduate/
GraduateGraduateAdditional comments about the programWe only accept students for fall matriculation. Annual application deadline is April 1st. We accept 50 students annually. Program is 1 year in duration. Web Addresshttp://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/bms/planB.htm

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[Howisbabbyformd]

Anyone have information on and experience with the Colorado State program
Program NameMaster's B Program in Biomedical SciencesInstitutionColorado State UniversityDegree TypeSpecial Master's degree-granting program (1-2 years, no thesis, ''applied science''/''medical science'') Undergraduate/
GraduateGraduateAdditional comments about the programWe only accept students for fall matriculation. Annual application deadline is April 1st. We accept 50 students annually. Program is 1 year in duration. Web Addresshttp://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/bms/planB.htm

I applied to this program. I think it looks pretty good. Sorry I don't have any information for you but I think you can find pretty much all you need to know on their FAQs page.

 

[jslo85]

It does look pretty good (Human Biomedical Sciences track). You won't find many schools offering a dissection based anatomy course to their students if they're not medical or anatomy grad students. Even at some SMPs, the anatomy is taught through prossection or very limited dissection exposure. If they allow full body here, this is a huge plus. Seems much more heavily based off of anatomy and physiology as well (1 of the 2 core MS1 courses, the other being biochemistry).

Only concern I have is in comparison to other "SMP" programs if you will at medical schools is whether these are taught by the faculty and if you take them with the medical students. I guess the question you might raise is why would this be important if this is an "equivalent titled course" and it would be that medical schools would regard courses taken at another accredited medical institution taught by MS1 professors with grades against that of the MS1s into higher account. By stating that these are 500 level courses, I'm assuming these are graduate school courses on a university level. There is a definite distinction between medical courses and graduate courses in that medical courses are usually crafted to provide to have a heavy clnical emphasis and emphasizes a case study presentation where students use the concepts that they have learned to apply to a situation. There are other differences but I'm just stating this as a broad generalization. I'd say this is a hybrid traditional masters/remedial SMP in that the courses are graduate ones not medical but are hardcore sciences and there is no research lab thesis required. They didn't address this on their FAQ or information page so I have no idea if i'm being accurate in terming it as graduate as oppoesd to medical courses, but overall looks like a solid program. I don't see any detractment from the heavy emphasis on anatomy/physiology compared to other programs that include a wide variety of other med courses such as immunology/infectious diseases, etc. If anyone has more information I would appreciate hearing about it if you have the time.

 

[DrMidlife]

Only concern I have is in comparison to other "SMP" programs if you will at medical schools is whether these are taught by the faculty and if you take them with the medical students.

Colorado State isn't a med school. It does have a vet school.

 

[readdoc]

The program looks good and looks solid, but I'm wondering if it deadends there -- like which med schools look at it, which ones recruit from it, etc. Colo only has one med school But the SMP looks good and is listed among other SMPs

 

[DrMidlife]

The program looks good and looks solid, but I'm wondering if it deadends there -- like which med schools look at it, which ones recruit from it, etc. Colo only has one med school But the SMP looks good and is listed among other SMPs

Med schools don't recruit, and if they did, they wouldn't recruit from a GPA enhancement program.

I think it's safe to assume that U of Colorado knows about this program. Contact the program and ask to speak to grads that are in U of Colorado med. If they can't give you some names, then that's a red flag.

 

[Katie Werman]

Anyone have information on and experience with the Colorado State program
Program NameMaster's B Program in Biomedical SciencesInstitutionColorado State UniversityDegree TypeSpecial Master's degree-granting program (1-2 years, no thesis, ''applied science''/''medical science'') Undergraduate/
GraduateGraduateAdditional comments about the programWe only accept students for fall matriculation. Annual application deadline is April 1st. We accept 50 students annually. Program is 1 year in duration. Web Addresshttp://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/bms/planB.htm

Anyone have information on and experience with the Colorado State program
Program NameMaster's B Program in Biomedical SciencesInstitutionColorado State UniversityDegree TypeSpecial Master's degree-granting program (1-2 years, no thesis, ''applied science''/''medical science'') Undergraduate/
GraduateGraduateAdditional comments about the programWe only accept students for fall matriculation. Annual application deadline is April 1st. We accept 50 students annually. Program is 1 year in duration. Web Addresshttp://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/bms/planB.htm

I attended this program (Class of 2020) as a Human Anatomy Concentration student and I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting to go on to medical school (and other kinds of programs!) I am specifically going premed so I'll keep it focused on others wanting to go med school as well.
It was a very intense program, I didn't work while I was in it and focused mainly on program. The classes are graduate level (more advanced) anatomy and physiology courses, and yes I got the opportunity to do a full cadaver dissection course in a group of only 4 students, which is very rare ( a lot of other programs and schools are more like groups of 8-10 per cadaver). The class was about 50-60 students 9(from the program and some undergrads) so there was a total of about 17 new cadavers being dissected in our class, with each group assigned to one cadaver for the semester.
A couple other things that it had that most programs didn't: a case study based courses where we did presentation, cross sectional anatomy, and group work, which I feel helps me understand the anatomy WAY better than if I hadn't taken the course.
It also has a virtual reality lab with 100 headsets, all programed with a VR cadaver that can be dissected and studied. It was an amazing resource that really helped me with the other classes I was in. At the end was comprehensive final exam, on each of the four core courses that are a part of the program. This was a very intense period of studying for these exams, but I felt like after taking them, it really helped solidify all of the information that was taught to me, and even a couple years later I still can remember the things I was taught in the program.

I also have many friends who were in the program with me who are currently in medical school, (most are MS1 and MS2) and I've asked many of them about how med school compares to the program...they say that med school is definitely still a new challenge, but CSU's program has had a huge impact on how they are doing. I had one friend tell me that a lot of their classmates were really struggling with the amount of anatomy they need to know in med school, but my friend was more or less just reviewing the anatomy and helping teach his classmates the material. A lot of the alumni that we spoke to during the program say that their time in med school was made much easier thanks to CSU's intense curriculum.