Help me, give me some advise

[bunnybear]

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If you had the options between Touro-CA, DMU, KCUMB, Western, and WVSOM, which one would you go for?
Please don't tell me it depends on me and what I want. I want to go to school to work hard, get high scores, and get matched to a good Surgery and Ortho Surgery residency. Please help me out. Any advise or suggestions would be helpful.
Thank you

 

[DocFox]

It depends on you and what you want...

But seriously I heard that DMU has a great reputation and stellar match list

 

[Depakote]

Hard call. I personally am interviewing at more than one school on that list b/c I want to get a feel for the schools before making the decision...

but of the schools I already have interviewed at... loved DMU. 😍

 

[bunnybear]

DMU is a great school and totally agree, I was there 2 weeks ago, however I want to go into Ortho Surgery or Surgery for now, and even though I like OMM skills, I'm too concern about them. For me it's very important to get a good board scores, so I can get a good residency. Anyother pointers. Thank you for your help guys.

 

[DiverDoc]

KCUMB has excellent first time pass rates

 

[Natatiap]

My advise is to spell advice correcly....and go to the school you want LOl. I'm just playing 😀 if I were in your shoes Id go to Touro but its just a personal opinion. In all honesty you may not want to hear this but you have to go where you feel comfortable. Good luck no matter what you do

 

[czanetti]

Honestly try to get into the cheapest school with the best reputation aka. High boards good residency placements and very competitive. From there you way out all those catagories and make a choice but don't make a choice until you go to each school first. My advice take it if you want might not work for everyone

 

[Trevelyan]

DMU is a great school and totally agree, I was there 2 weeks ago, however I want to go into Ortho Surgery or Surgery for now, and even though I like OMM skills, I'm too concern about them. For me it's very important to get a good board scores, so I can get a good residency. Anyother pointers. Thank you for your help guys.

DMU has a 96% pass rate for the first attempt on the COMLEX Step I, as compared to the national average of 90%. For Step II, DMU has a 90% pass rate, as compared to 89%.

 

[bunnybear]

Hey guys, i'm not so concern about first time pass, which school's students do the highest on the boards and are also most ready for the MD boards and residencies?

 

[NjD00]

one of the DMU deans is a surgeon and puts a lot of money into their surgery program, which produces a lot of surgery residencies

 

[bunnybear]

That's true, my interview group met with him, he is pretty nice

 

[Orthodoc40]

Well I would steer away from WV b/c of their emphasis on primary care.
I think COMP has fantastic rotation sites - which is what you are after if you want surgery b/c program directors want to know you've rotated at well reputed surgical sites.

Keep in mind, over 75% of entering med students have one idea of what they want to go for when they start, and change their minds along the way. The reason I say this is because for that reason, you should seriously consider going to the school that feels like the best fit for you. Where you stand today is very different from where you will be when it comes time to decide on your specialty.

 

[Krazykritter]

Bunnybear,

Last year DMU had 5 or 6 match into Ortho position, not to mention I believe 6 or 7 others in G. Surg. Here is the link for I think a couple years ago. Still good, but we are getting better every year...

http://www.dmu.edu/com/residencies/MatchSpecialty.cfm

 

[rub1003]

from what it seems, you're basing your future scores and your match on the scores and matches that OTHER students have gotten in the past. i think this is a big mistake. at one point during this process, i thought the same. but someone gave me some enlightenment. just because students of a certain school did well on their boards, does not mean you will. just because they did poorly on their boards, does not mean you will. same goes with matches. everything depends on you and what you put in it. each of these schools will provide you with a great education. i am sure that students from each school will say that. just my two cents

 

[Orthodoc40]

from what it seems, you're basing your future scores and your match on the scores and matches that OTHER students have gotten in the past. i think this is a big mistake. at one point during this process, i thought the same. but someone gave me some enlightenment. just because students of a certain school did well on their boards, does not mean you will. just because they did poorly on their boards, does not mean you will. same goes with matches. everything depends on you and what you put in it. each of these schools will provide you with a great education. i am sure that students from each school will say that. just my two cents

👍 This is very important. How well you do WILL depend on you. That means - whether the OP wants to hear it or not - you need to go to the school that is the best fit for you, because that is the place that you are most likely to do your best and excel!

Match lists reflect many things. Including the individual interests of the class. So if no one was interested in surgery that year, guess what? No matches. Does that mean that if you go there, you will have a tough time matching?? It just doesn't make sense to worry so much about that. Let it give you an idea, but don't put too much weight on that alone.

 

[Orthodoc40]

Bunnybear,

Last year DMU had 5 or 6 match into Ortho position, not to mention I believe 6 or 7 others in G. Surg. Here is the link for I think a couple years ago. Still good, but we are getting better every year...

http://www.dmu.edu/com/residencies/MatchSpecialty.cfm

COMP had 5 or so match in surgical specialties, too, including plastics - and I think it is a smaller class size. But anyway - I still would not place that much importance on these numbers. This doesn't tell you anything like 100% of those who WANTED to match into surgical specialties did, or only 50% did, or whatever.

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

If you had the options between Touro-CA, DMU, KCUMB, Western, and WVSOM, which one would you go for?

Preferentially
1) DMU
2) KCUMB
3) Any of the other ones

 

[NjD00]

Preferentially
1) DMU
2) KCUMB
3) Any of the other ones

I haven't been to KCUMB and didn't apply, but everything i've read and heard makes it feel that KCUMB and DMU are pretty similar institutions

 

[bunnybear]

you know what, I totally agree with you, I went to both, and it seems like they have copied each other, however KCUMB is much more MD oriented and they have a lot of money.

 

[Orthodoc40]

you know what, I totally agree with you, I went to both, and it seems like they have copied each other, however KCUMB is much more MD oriented and they have a lot of money.

What does "more MD Oriented" mean??

 

[bunnybear]

MD-oriented = they don't kill you with OMM, prep u up for the MD boards as well, don't have to stick with primary care

 

[Krazykritter]

LOL...this is such a pre-med conversation. None of the schools you listed MAKE you stick w/ primary care. Your choice of specialty is just that...YOUR CHOICE.

As for boards...you do most of the prep for boards wherever you go to school. However, DMU provides all second year students w/ the Kaplan review course taught by their instructors. Throughout second semester different faculty members hold board review sessions & teach specific sections for people who think they might need more help in that area. If you are so worried about being 'prepped for the boards'...you should really do some research regarding that subject.