Med School of the Week: Case Western Reserve

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Case Western Reserve

Does anyone know very much about this school? Is anyone applying to this school? When I was an undergrad in MI, I heard rave reviews about it. Many of my classmates applied there. I have only recently begun to research the school in depth. Please let me know what you all think. Below are details from the AAMC Medical School Admissions Requirements US and Canada 2000-2001 guide. (p. 170-171)

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio http://mediswww.cwru.edu
Tuition: $28,600

Average matriculant?s stats: 3.6 GPA 10.6 MCAT
Some characteristics of the 1998 entering class are 435 women, 14% minority students, 10% over the age of 28, Ohio residents 60%?majority of undergraduate majors were in the sciences (65%)

Applicants: 7,308 Total; 1,091 In State; 6,217 Out-of-State
Interviewed: 1,013 Total; 398 In State; 615 Out-of-State
Entering Class: 145 Total; 84 In State; 61 Out-of-State
(Source: AAMC Data Warehouse 1998-199 class)

AMCAS Application deadline: 10/15

Curriculum: Integrated teaching of the basic sciences includes case-oriented problem solving. There is early clinical experience with M1 students are responsible for a patient in the family care clinic. They offer ?significant time for electives in the pre-clinical years? and encourage students to pursue their individual interests. Fourth year students may take clinical rotations at other institutions or abroad. A Primary Care track is available for students interested in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. In the Primary Care Track, students work with primary care physician mentors and complete a summer research project exploring health care delivery.

Dual degree programs available in schools of management and law, PhD through basic science departments of School of Medicine and also special Master?s programs including Anatomy and Biomedical Ethics.
-Health Services Research (MD/PhD)
-Medical Scientist Training program (MD/PhD)

Past Medical Schools of the Week:
Columbia (11/20): http://www.studentdoctor.net/bbs/Forum1/HTML/000256.html
U Penn: http (11/29): http://www.studentdoctor.net/bbs/Forum1/HTML/000265.html



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-Tanya
Class of '05 at ????
"Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise" -Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"


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Hello,

Just wanted to mention that Mike Smith is an MS1 at CWRU. I've got a link to his web-page in my Links page under the category "Specific Aspects of Medical Admissions" (shameless plug!).

My page is found here:

www.geocities.com/mdpremie

Alternately, you can click here on his site:
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home.cwru.edu/~mds

Ian
 
Thanks Ian, for that posting and here's another personal homepage from a medicine resident at CWR http://www.alma.com/~whf/index.html

Department of Physiology and Biophysics http://pout.cwru.edu/

CWR Center for Biomedical Ethics http://www.cwru.edu/med/bioethics/bioethics.html

News Clipping http://www.hhmi.org/annual/grants/cwru.htm

News Clipping http://www.ahaf.org/genemice.htm

Here are some general listings of all the US med schools. I welcome any suggestions for future Med schools of the week features. Please email me with feedback.

Rankings by GPA and MCAT http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~amsa/medgpa.html

List of US Schools can be found at http://www.medicalstudent.net


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-Tanya
Class of '05 at ????
"Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise" -Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"
 
I just got back from Case about 3 weeks ago! It was wonderful! It's very technologically advanced, and the students are very friendly. I recommend Case to everyone with a friendly attitude!

Tey even assign you to a pregnant woman or geriatric person (your choice), and you follow their case for your 2 classroom years! Talk about clinical right off the bat!

And, even better, their class schedule has free afternoons to take extracurriculars, study, and have fun! When you frist show up, you get a laptop with the first two year curriculum on it. Very groovy!

I'm praying that I will get into their MSTP!

[This message has been edited by MedScientist (edited 12-10-1999).]
 
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