Opinions on 1 year preclinical vs 2 year traditional?

[sunflowerpeaches]

Hi everyone! I am currently struggling between choosing a 1-year preclinical curriculum that seems very innovative and a 2-year traditional school. Anyone have any insight into the major differences, pros, and cons? Especially with Step 1 going P/F... does this change things? Would love to hear from current med students with experience.

I am just curious on major opinions across the two types of curricula!

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[Putkernerinthehall]

What is the pre-clinical grading scheme ? P/F ? 12 month preclinical sounds pretty intense. Does the school tout the advantage of the accelerated curriculum as providing more research time ? What benefits do they assign to it ? Sorry for the line of questioning!

 

[sunflowerpeaches]

What is the pre-clinical grading scheme ? P/F ? 12 month preclinical sounds pretty intense. Does the school tout the advantage of the accelerated curriculum as providing more research time ? What benefits do they assign to it ? Sorry for the line of questioning!

P/F, and yes clinical year is 2nd year and then 3rd year is a research year/scholarly project/dual degree which is pretty flexible. I was thinking that with Step 1 going P/F that the 3rd year will become even more beneficial now. The current schools that have a solely 1 year preclinical are Duke, Vandy, UMich, and Harvard. Several other schools have a 1.5 preclinical and apparently in the future this will be the way most med schools start moving