George Mason University Certificate for Advanced Biomedical Sciences Certificate

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Has anyone finished this program?
Did you get into medical school right after?
What were your stats GPA, MCAT before entering?
How good is the program views among medical schools?
Do some of the students get interviewed at Georgetown?

 

[apr27]

Have you received any news on the ABS program? I've been accepted, but I want to make sure it's worth it.

 

[determinedone]

Greetings Everyone!

I was privileged to be a part of the inaugural class of the ABS program, and I must say that it was a huge blessing for me! I was not a science major in college, but I was pre-med. So, I felt that in order for me to be succesful in med school I needed this type of program.

Fall semester we took, Biostats, Histology, Biochemistry and Physician & Society. Histoloy is taught by GTown Med professors and Biostats and Biochem are taught by George Mason professors. Awesome courses, but very intense.

Spring semester you take the Fundamentals Physiology (bascially medical physiology) and Human anatomy (where you attend GTown Medschool gross anatomy lab on Saturdays for anatomy review sessions using pre-dissected cadavers once a month).

Classes will be held at the Prince William campus of George Mason University in Manassas, VA. Living is not too bad, if you live in Manassas. It is a quite area, and many may even say rural. However, there are a great deal of stores and the main mall (Manassa Mall). D.C. is about a 35-45 minute drive depending upon traffic.

Overall, this program is awesome and I highly recommend it. It was a lot of work, and definitely you will work at least 2-3X harder than in ugrad to get the higher grades. I would say also to use every possible resource including the TAs. Also, I would say that if you can refrain from working for the year, do it! If not, make sure you have an understanding boss...so,that when exams roll around you'll have the week/weekend before off to complete your studying...especially considering that tuition for the year is ~24,000(at least this year it was, it may be slightly higher). You want to make sure that you do all you can do to ensure that you are successful and have made a wise investment! From this year's class there are (3)MD acceptances; (3)DO acceptances; (2) Dental school acceptances (that I know of); and the rest are going into Master's programs and/or working and applying this June. Total class size was about 45-50.

Best advice: stay on top of the material and take advantage of all the resources! Best to you all in your future endeavors!!!🙂

 

[MegaSonic]

I've been accepted too. I applied later so I just got in. I wish we had some more info. I also applied to another program and I may have to make a decision before hearing from them.

 

[rdamehta]

I've been accepted too. I applied later so I just got in. I wish we had some more info. I also applied to another program and I may have to make a decision before hearing from them.

I feel ya, Im in the same boat.

Does anyone know how this compares to the Barry 2 year biomedical program?

or the John hopkins school of public health MHS in environmental Health Sciences?

I got into those two as well and i have to decide this week which school I should attend.

 

[flodhi1]

I was accepted to this program about a month ago and will be attending see you folks that are attending on the 25th at the orientation and 29th in classes!

EDIT:- GMU is an excellent school, I went here for undergrad and decided to stick with them for post-bacc especially since it's a combined program with Georgetown!

 

[Koala08]

i know you guys are busy but i really am starting to like this program so any updates about the program would be greatly appreciated.

 

[TinaBina22]

Hey! Do any of you guys wanna connect?

 

[sal24]

Greetings Everyone!

I was privileged to be a part of the inaugural class of the ABS program, and I must say that it was a huge blessing for me! I was not a science major in college, but I was pre-med. So, I felt that in order for me to be succesful in med school I needed this type of program.

Fall semester we took, Biostats, Histology, Biochemistry and Physician & Society. Histoloy is taught by GTown Med professors and Biostats and Biochem are taught by George Mason professors. Awesome courses, but very intense.

Spring semester you take the Fundamentals Physiology (bascially medical physiology) and Human anatomy (where you attend GTown Medschool gross anatomy lab on Saturdays for anatomy review sessions using pre-dissected cadavers once a month).

Classes will be held at the Prince William campus of George Mason University in Manassas, VA. Living is not too bad, if you live in Manassas. It is a quite area, and many may even say rural. However, there are a great deal of stores and the main mall (Manassa Mall). D.C. is about a 35-45 minute drive depending upon traffic.

Overall, this program is awesome and I highly recommend it. It was a lot of work, and definitely you will work at least 2-3X harder than in ugrad to get the higher grades. I would say also to use every possible resource including the TAs. Also, I would say that if you can refrain from working for the year, do it! If not, make sure you have an understanding boss...so,that when exams roll around you'll have the week/weekend before off to complete your studying...especially considering that tuition for the year is ~24,000(at least this year it was, it may be slightly higher). You want to make sure that you do all you can do to ensure that you are successful and have made a wise investment! From this year's class there are (3)MD acceptances; (3)DO acceptances; (2) Dental school acceptances (that I know of); and the rest are going into Master's programs and/or working and applying this June. Total class size was about 45-50.

Best advice: stay on top of the material and take advantage of all the resources! Best to you all in your future endeavors!!!🙂

I am currently a Masters Student at GMU doing in a non-science and am wrapping it up.I have decided long and hard that Medicine is the route I want to go, but I have very little science backround.I am familiar with the curriculum, but was not able to find out when the classes would be held, mornings, evenings.I live in Alexandria and am a bit far from Prince County campus.Are classes five days a week?Would really appreciate it if I could get more information.