January start date question!?

[JPagan]

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I am curious, if you start in January at SGU, ross etc. do you get back on schedule by taking classes during the summer? I would be worried that you could get off by a semester and have a hard time getting back in synch with residencies, etc. Anyone know the answer either from reading it somewhere or from experience?

I would love to be able to start in January so hopefully someone knows the answer! Thanks!!

 

[spyyder]

SGU does not have a summer semester, so if you start Jan 06 you will be in the c/o 2010 match. Ross and AUC have summer semesters and will put you on track for c/o 2009 match.

 

[McGillGrad]

SGU does not have a summer semester, so if you start Jan 06 you will be in the c/o 2010 match. Ross and AUC have summer semesters and will put you on track for c/o 2009 match.

That is true.

 

[NRAI2001]

I know of someone who is starting the Jan semester. They plan to take a semester off later on after completing their basic sciences to study for the USMLE. That will put them back on track, but a match year behind.

 

[NRAI2001]

So for the people who start January, when they reach their clinical years since their are less people in their classes, do they have an easier time getting rotations at some of the more competitive sites?

 

[GonnaBaMD7]

So for the people who start January, when they reach their clinical years since their are less people in their classes, do they have an easier time getting rotations at some of the more competitive sites?

I could be wrong, but I don't think they have any less people in the January class. I think it works out to be about 325 in both the August and January classes.

 

[McGillGrad]

I could be wrong, but I don't think they have any less people in the January class. I think it works out to be about 325 in both the August and January classes.

Apparently SGU is cramming more and more students in for both semesters, so you may be right.

I wonder if it has to do with more applications or more qualified applicants (due to advertising).

 

[NRAI2001]

Apparently SGU is cramming more and more students in for both semesters, so you may be right.

I wonder if it has to do with more applications or more qualified applicants (due to advertising).

Do you think its a good thing? Having more and more carrib grads every year?

Is it that the more carrib grads there are out there, the more the public and other docs learn of them? Or is it the more grads each year, the more they infringe upon other docs practices? Or is it the more grads each year, the lower the quality of the grads become, making carrib. grads in general look bad?

 

[McGillGrad]

Do you think its a good thing? Having more and more carrib grads every year?

Is it that the more carrib grads there are out there, the more the public and other docs learn of them? Or is it the more grads each year, the more they infringe upon other docs practices? Or is it the more grads each year, the lower the quality of the grads become, making carrib. grads in general look bad?

According to everything I have been seeing and hearing, the quality of the applicants are rising so it can only help caribbean grads to have more residencies awarded to them.

With that being said, it is never a good thing to overload classrooms because students get a raw deal while the schools gets more money.

 

[NRAI2001]

According to everything I have been seeing and hearing, the quality of the applicants are rising so it can only help caribbean grads to have more residencies awarded to them.

With that being said, it is never a good thing to overload classrooms because students get a raw deal while the schools gets more money.

Hmmmm... I think its bad in some ways, but good in others. The more carrib. docs there are out there, the more people become aware of them. Its up to the grads to make a good impression and to dispell any stereotypes that other docs may have of them, bc many docs that i have spoken with really make fun of carrib. students and docs. But these were older docs and probably had experience with carrib. students and their friends applyign to carrib. schools when the carrib. schools were still budding.

 

[McGillGrad]

Hmmmm... I think its bad in some ways, but good in others. The more carrib. docs there are out there, the more people become aware of them. Its up to the grads to make a good impression and to dispell any stereotypes that other docs may have of them, bc many docs that i have spoken with really make fun of carrib. students and docs. But these were older docs and probably had experience with carrib. students and their friends applyign to carrib. schools when the carrib. schools were still budding.

About the doctors making fun, it is their right as american medical school graduates. That being said, reminding them that we all have to take the USMLE and prove ourselves during rotations will quiet them because they know that we work harder to get to the same place while jumping the same hurdles after the caribbean.

 

[NRAI2001]

About the doctors making fun, it is their right as american medical school graduates. That being said, reminding them that we all have to take the USMLE and prove ourselves during rotations will quiet them because they know that we work harder to get to the same place while jumping the same hurdles after the caribbean.

Yea, but most of them were nerds and this is one of the few things that they can hold on to and rationlize why they wasted away their youth in the library, when many premeds had a better time in school and still ended up becoming docs also. I don't think that they will change too readily in their opinion, but after some time and experience with some carrib. docs they may.