NSUCOM Interview Via Medical School Experience Program

[TheSeanieB]

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[patel2]

I am scheduled to interview at Nova in the beginning of January and I was wondering if I could get some advice. I was invited to the "Medical School Experience Program" which "replaces the traditional interview." According to my invitation, it was because of my previous academic performance (32 MCAT, 3.55 GPA).

Can anyone tell me how this interview format is different from the traditional? Who generally does the interviews? Can you give me any names? At what points during the day are you judged and how? I am interested in going into geriatric. Does the school have any additional expertise in this area? Is there anything else that would be helpful to know?

Thanks a bunch. Nova is one of my top choices.

It's (virtually) guaranteed admission should you choose to attend. All the people were admitted who were invited to the program (at least in the first session in October, and this included 20+ people). There is no one on one evaluation, though they claim they are watching you all day and evaluating on things like professionalism, communications skills etc, but I doubt this actually occurs. In other words, to not gain admission you'd have to do something to stand-out, like being a jerk to the faculty, or being anti-social to other interviewees. One thing to know, though, is that if admitted they want a $1300 non-refundable deposit within 4 weeks to hold your spot...I found this a little unusual since most places require just a letter and much smaller refundable deposit by only May 15.

On the experience day, you do some cool stuff like suture pig's feet, and learn skills in the patient simulation lab...it's a new program which is basically Nova's play of recruiting you to try and up their overall stats. It's an interesting dynamic, since it's sort of a role-reversal of student/faculty in an interview setting. I don't know too much about the geriatric program... on my experience day I had a good time and liked the school in many ways (rotations/clinicals and location), but disliked other aspects of the curriculum (mandatory attendance, numerical grading system etc)

 

[deleted336217]

on my experience day I had a good time and liked the school in many ways (rotations/clinicals and location), but disliked other aspects of the curriculum (mandatory attendance, numerical grading system etc)

...how does their numerical grading system work? this is the first time i've heard of a medical school not using pass/fail

 

[schussboarder]

...how does their numerical grading system work? this is the first time i've heard of a medical school not using pass/fail

some classes are p/f, majority are numerical...need to get a 70 to pass the class....most would agree that there is some curving of grades that occurs (especially 2nd year)