Alright, I'll try to answer some of your questions here. For those of you who don't know, I am a current 2nd year at NYCOM
Anybody know/have information about what hospital options we would have for clinical clerkships 3rd and 4rth years? Also are there any oppportunities with like a student clinic? What about mission work or something overseas? There are 300 students in a class? I imagine everyone commutes...and there is not much interaction amongst the students. NYCOM is across the street from where I did my undergrad at LIU CW POST.
12 weeks of surgery. Wow that sounds intense....but also 12 weeks of IM.
Anyone know the percentage of NYCOM grads that specialize versus going into family medicine? Are some schools just better at preparing students for specialization.....is NYCOM one of those schools?
As far as hospital options for 3rd year, the link posted earlier is correct, and those are all places you could potentially do 3rd year rotations at. 4th year is different and we can do SUB-Is and electives in almost any hospital. I know friends that have gone to Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Downstate, Stony to do 4th year SUB-Is. Some of the 4th years, you have to do at NYCOM sites, but there are many more than what you see on the list for that.
If you are in the DPC program (PBL based) then you are matched up with a doctor and you are in the clinic with him/her on certain afternoons observing and maybe assisting in taking a history. Honestly, doing clincials during your 1st and 2nd year are a waste of time IMO. You just don't know enough medicine to be in clincials to be getting much use out of it. Once you study for your boards, then you will ready for the wards.
Sorry I can't answer more of your questions, but I don't think there are any mission trips.
Ill answer these both together. There are actually a bunch of mission trip opportunities nycom offers. We have a department for global heath and last year during the summer, students went to Ghana where they helped build a clinic and to saw patients there. I knew other friends that went to China to shadow surgeons and yet more friends went to Ecuador for mission trips. The opportunities are there and if you are interested you will have chances to get out there. Just this past year, we got a new head of emergency medicine, who also has an MPH in public heath. He was the one that organized the Ghana trip and he is organizing more trips for future classmates.
There are about 250-270 or so people in the class. It isnt a problem. Lecture halls are big and everyone gets a seat. Labs are fine and no one is left out of any learning experiences. Study spaces might get a bit cramped during exams because we have other professional schools on campus that use the library and study room.
Many people actually live close by to each other in then glen cove area. We party all the time after tests, we have BBQs, get-togethers, Halloween events, go out to the city for birthdays. Others do commute but everyone is social around campus and as long as you dont isolate yourself, you will have friends. In fact, I would be at a party right now celebrating the end of cardio/resp block if i wasnt sick. There are about 4 or 5 other events happening in the coming week that I know of. Friday/Sat many of my classmates are going to the city to party it up.
As I said in a previous post, you do 10 weeks of surgery and IM in 3rd year.
Specialization depends on yourself and yourself alone. Do well in school, rock the boards, kick arse 3rd year, shine in electives at places you want to go to. If you do all that, you will have no problem going to a field you want to go to. Not to mention the NYCOMEC system has every residency possible. No school can make you into specialists, it all depends on how well you do in school.
Hey guys, new forum member here.
Regarding anyone accepted or in NY-COM's BS/DO, I know the high school GPA requirements are a 90% and the SAT minimum is a 1600... Does anyone know if the 90% GPA can be weighted or unweighted?
I am nearly positive I have over a 90% unweighted but I am taking the IB Curriculum and I will be definite I have over a 90% weighted, just for assurance.
Also, how hard is it to keep a 3.5 in NYIT's undergrad classes? Comparable to AP/IB classes?
-Jesse
In regards to the BS/DO program, I heard from others that NYCOM is getting rid of it in the next year. Many people say NYIT is a joke and is basically like high school. You don't learn much. It's a commuter school so you get no real college experience and cheating is rampid with the undergrads. If i were you, I would get a REAL college experience rather than trying to short track my way into med school.
