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For those of you who are applying to Stanford, I was wondering about your thoughts on their new curriculum.
http://med.stanford.edu/md/curriculum/
They have a secondary essay where they ask you to describe how you'll take advantage of it to suit your academic interests. I'm a little confused by it though - it says that "majors" can be chosen in addition to the core science/clinical stuff. This is really cool because student interest thrives - I bet I'm a lot less likely to be beaten down by med school if I always have something unique to pursue. But does anyone understand how this works? I'm interested in patient advocacy, international health and pediatrics... is this my "Stanford major"? Do I just find random faculty and ask them to teach me about this stuff or does Stanford arrange instruction on everyone's major? They only have 86 new students each year, so it might not be so hard... I'm confused though.
http://med.stanford.edu/md/curriculum/
They have a secondary essay where they ask you to describe how you'll take advantage of it to suit your academic interests. I'm a little confused by it though - it says that "majors" can be chosen in addition to the core science/clinical stuff. This is really cool because student interest thrives - I bet I'm a lot less likely to be beaten down by med school if I always have something unique to pursue. But does anyone understand how this works? I'm interested in patient advocacy, international health and pediatrics... is this my "Stanford major"? Do I just find random faculty and ask them to teach me about this stuff or does Stanford arrange instruction on everyone's major? They only have 86 new students each year, so it might not be so hard... I'm confused though.