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Hello everyone! I have been fortunate enough to get into a couple schools this cycle and have narrowed my choices down to these two.
I am born and raised in Michigan and currently go to OU for undergrad. I am pretty unsure about my long term career plans and would like to keep my options open but I could see myself going into IM and possibly specializing afterwards. I have an interest in the serving the underserved and hope to continue volunteering a little in med school but mostly throughout my career down the road.
Rush
Pros
OUWB
Pros
Thank you so much!
I am born and raised in Michigan and currently go to OU for undergrad. I am pretty unsure about my long term career plans and would like to keep my options open but I could see myself going into IM and possibly specializing afterwards. I have an interest in the serving the underserved and hope to continue volunteering a little in med school but mostly throughout my career down the road.
Rush
Pros
- Love the location, it would be super cool to live in Chicago, very exciting and a big change from the suburbs
- I really feel like I "fit" their mission. Everyone there seems to really care about their community and theres ample service opportunities to show it
- Diverse patient population with a large concentration of my own ethnicity
- Rush seems to be a hospital with a lot of resources that would be beneficial to my medical education (although not as much as Beaumont)
- P/F
- Cook County Hospital- getting to see a lot of progressed pathologies and a high density of trauma cases
- About 5 hour drive away from home (being close to family is important to me)
- New curriculum (100% flipped classroom)- I have taken courses that use TBL in undergrad and I really liked it but I'm not sure how I would fare in a curriculum with no lectures at all
- Getting used to city life/public transport would be a change and might hinder my studying ability? (especially since this would be my first time moving away from home)
OUWB
Pros
- Familiar environment- I already go to OU so I already know where everything is and what there is to do
- Close to home, about a 30 min drive, would make a lot of things easier and might allow me to do better in school/on board exams
- Beaumont is an incredible health system with many resources that would allow me to learn a lot about newer procedures and equipment (maybe rush has this too idk)
- More traditional curriculum but still with some flipped classroom components
- They're switching to focus on more low yield material in their curriculum (through more professor-written questions rather than NBMEs), not sure if I want to spend time in school studying material that probably won't be on my boards
- honors/high pass/pass/ low pass/ fail grading system
- Feels like I've been here forever and I just want a change (not a very logical reason I know lol)
- Worried the proximity to my family would enable them to force/guilt me into family events that would keep me away from studying when I should be
Thank you so much!
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