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Being affiliated with an undergrad institution in itself doesn't matter - it's the quality of the clinical affiliations that matter since it determines how good your rotations and clerkships are.
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At least at nova you get to use undergrad facilities. So the undergrad has a huge library and university center that med students can use.
What are all the COMs with an affiliated undergrad institution? I know CCOM, MSUCOM, NOVA, UNECOM, CUSOM, MUCOM, and (ugh) LUCOM off the top of my head.
A more diverse dating scene is about all I can come up with.
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I thought the four were osu nova Nyit and msu. Didn't know there were others. And Lecom seton hill I guess
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Larger campus community, social life, and more of a university like feel for students. Research opportunities and community hospital affiliations may be higher, and some may receive state funding and backing by the state for osteopathic rights etc. Otherwise as long as the med school is accredited and has a proven track rate then med school is med school.
TCOM in Fort Worth with University of North Texas.
Spot on...
Also cheaper if you are in-state. Ungodly more expensive if you are out of state in the case of MSU.
LMU is on an undergrad campus as well. Don't confuse "public schools" with undergraduate affiliation.
I believe CCOM is affiliated with a grad institution not an undergrad
Yeah, this already came up. I didn't realize Midwestern was exclusively graduate-level.
Does a large library matter beyond having access to journals and relevant texts? I don't think an extensive collection of 17th century literature is going to help me get through med school.
Your avatar brings back so many memories.
I need a place to sleep after paying tuition.
It can be a good study spot. Plenty of study rooms at nsu
Truth be told, the issue with new stand-alone professional schools is that they're so obviously half-hassardly established and designed less as institutes of higher learning and more as money printing mills.
Being attached to an undergraduate school usually means that at least you're not openly trying to generate revenue.
Basically the bigger the school you go to, the bigger the grants it has, the better the research and rotations it'll have. If you attend MSU or TCOM you're going to have vastly superior rotations than someone at WCU.
Being attached to an undergraduate school usually means that at least you're not openly trying to generate revenue.
Basically the bigger the school you go to, the bigger the grants it has, the better the research and rotations it'll have. If you attend MSU or TCOM you're going to have vastly superior rotations than someone at WCU.
Wait, does this mean that MSUCOM likes to take in their own MSU undergrad students?
I agree about money printing mills, but in terms of rotations how about CCOM? It seems pretty competitive, doesn't it?
CCOM is one of the original DO schools. Its like 100 years old. It has very very good rotations and a massive alumni base. Otherwise if it did not have these resources no one would be willing to shell out 60K+ every year for tuition heh.
NOVA's undergrad is really nowhere as reputable as their grad programs. In fact, there are so few people wanting to go there for undergrad (it's very expensive) that they came up with a ton of various BS/DO, BS/PharmD, and 10 other similar programs. Their undergrad is not what makes their program stand out.
correct. what is now NSU was originally started by a group of businessmen, as a small institution offering a handful of graduate programs. Their current undergraduate slowly grew out from this over the years.
