hey guys - my deposit is due next week. i'm having a REALLY difficult time choosing between pcom philly and nova - they are both great schools. any thoughts? oh, and both schools are almost equally far from my hometown in texas...
Nova: Warm weather, hot women, huge campus.hey guys - my deposit is due next week. i'm having a REALLY difficult time choosing between pcom philly and nova - they are both great schools. any thoughts? oh, and both schools are almost equally far from my hometown in texas...
Don't forget to think about other opportunities at the schools. I don't know about PCOM, but Nova offers these:
Research Fellowship: Complete work on a research project between your second and third years of school. You can either work on a project of your own, or work with faculty on their on-going projects. I believe that the school picks up your tuition for your last two years afterward, and you get first choice for rotation sites for your clinical years.
OMM Fellowship: Spend the year between your second and third year treating patients one-on-one with our OMM faculty. The OMM fellows do the bulk of the treatment in our OMM and sports medicine clinics, as well as assisting in teaching our OPP labs. In addition, afterward your third and fourth year tuition is payed for, and again you get priority in selecting your clinical site.
DO/MPH Program: Nova offers the opportunity to get concurrent degrees in DO and an MPH. Best part is, if you complete your MPH by the time you graduate, there is no cost to you! The classes are all in the evenings or online, and is very do-able in the schedule!
Other combined programs: There are programs for doing combined DO along with DMD, JD and MBA. I don't know much about any of those programs, but they're there.
There is also the "nice" weather...Although it probably DOES beat Philli!
I'm sure there's more...but I should probably be studying for finals and NOT fooling around on SDN!
Nate.
That's crazy that NOVA offers an MPH joint program free of charge! Can you post evidence for that??
...do you...not believe him?
Look, I am not saying that I don't trust him. But- if you claim that a program offers a free degree, I think I have the right to be sceptical! Wouldn't you agree?
...Since Nate is a student at Nova, and has absolutely no reason whatsoever to lie to you....not really. But, whatever floats your boat!
I did some digging for you and unfortunately, I can't provide you with a link to anything that says that it's free for DO students. I just e-mailed the asst. dean about it and he said that it wasn't written online, but as we just had a speaker on it, and a meeting about it...I can say with absolute 100% confidence that it is in fact a free degree..
I think you misunderstand.
SDN should not be used as a fact-checking, or fact-gathering, tool. It is a great source of subjective opinions. It is also a good base to start your own research, much like wikipedia. The only thinkg I know about you singinfifi and TerraMedicX is what you know about me: that we all have valid email addresses and can use a keyboard and mouse. There are people on the internet that are less than 100% truthful (this includes SDN). What 'floats my boat' is concrete evidence for what is an amazing and incredible claim. If you truly are pursuing a career in the evidence-based science that is medicine, then you'll understand.
It seems to me that a free master's degree normally worth around $50,000 is (a) unheard of and (b), if true, is kind of a big selling point. It would seem odd...well, more like idiotic, if a school did not advertise that outstanding benefit. NOVA's school of public health is an accredited program which is huge. I accepted an invite to interview at NOVA, but I was not planning on going. But if what you say is true, then I'll pay the $600 for a ticket/hotel. I won't use you or Nate as my only reference point. I have emailed the admissions and I hope they get back to me.
In the mean time if someone else has some helpful information, please post! Thanks.
http://hpd.nova.edu/catalog/forms/college_of_osteopathic_medicine_catalog.pdf
page 64.
The MPH isn't "free" but it's doesn't cost the student anything. Yeah, that's what the Dean said.
Nice, thank you m015094!
So there is a scholarship available...that is a far cray from being a free program as others had claimed. I guess my next question is, how competitive is it and how many awards do they give out per applicant? I will copy/paste the response I get from NOVA.
Regardless of the number of awards they give, kudos to NOVA for funding public health education!
Nice, thank you m015094!
So there is a scholarship available...that is a far cray from being a free program as others had claimed. I guess my next question is, how competitive is it and how many awards do they give out per applicant? I will copy/paste the response I get from NOVA.
Regardless of the number of awards they give, kudos to NOVA for funding public health education!
Its free. You get it if you want it. I haven't met one person that was rejected from it. They have it laid out nicely with the regular curriculum unlike the other master's programs they have. Its just that it is more work on an already busy schedule. It isn't a far cry from anything. It really is a free MPH if you want it. I won't pursue it because I have no interest in it and it won't do anything for my career goals. They might call it a "scholarship" but if you are accepted into the DO program and want it then you get it. It isn't like there are knife fights and competitions for 5 spots. I understand your hesitancy to believe it but its true. They made a big fuss about it during my interview. Any information you find on a school's website isn't any better many times. It could be 5 years old or just wrong in general.
Anything that is "Free" education wise is considered a scholarship. The funds have to come from somewhere. Its not like the teachers or administration are doing it for free. Much of it is online, so the cost is reduced quite a bit. There really is no reason or benefit to lie about it.It isn't for random people walking off the street. You have to be accepted into the DO (maybe DMD?) school. It'd be a pretty grand scheme to have you fly out, book a hotel, and interview if it were a lie. South Florida isn't hurting for tourism that much.
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