Touro University - Nevada (TUNCOM) Discussion Thread 2013 - 2014

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Good luck to everyone! I am a DO17 at TUNCOM. Loving every minute of it! Feel free to shoot me a PM if you have any questions!👍
 
Bobkar said:
I didnt know they were already giving interviews to people complete on 8/20. I hope I still have a chance.
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i got my complete email on this day too, when did you send your secondary?
 
andyh17 said:
Good luck to everyone! I am a DO17 at TUNCOM. Loving every minute of it! Feel free to shoot me a PM if you have any questions!👍
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hows life in vegas outside of casinoland? is there any good hiking or a place to get out of the heat besides mead? i love that scene, i just dont know if i can stand the heat after living in AZ for so long.. spent a lot of time in reno growing up, which has since gone by the wayside since the real estate bubble
 
Ask me anything you want to know. I'm a 1st year at Touro.
PM me if you have any questions.
 
andyh17 said:
Good luck to everyone! I am a DO17 at TUNCOM. Loving every minute of it! Feel free to shoot me a PM if you have any questions!👍
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Do you feel that TUNCOM offers an environment that is conductive to matching into competitive specialties? Do courses typically hit on topics that are important for board exams, are clinical research opportunities readily available, and are faculty/the administration supportive of students who are dead-set on specializing, etc?
 
Interview in two days for me!!!!! Good luck to everybody that is interviewing tomorrow!!!
 
circulus vitios said:
Do you feel that TUNCOM offers an environment that is conductive to matching into competitive specialties? Do courses typically hit on topics that are important for board exams, are clinical research opportunities readily available, and are faculty/the administration supportive of students who are dead-set on specializing, etc?
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Are all 3 Touro campuses exclusive of each other, or will this answer be relevant to CA, NV and NY?
 
ii today. complete 8/20. for people waiting for ii's, it looks like there are two dates available: 11/18 (mon) afternoon session and 12/3 (tue) morning session. good luck and hang in there. ..
 
circulus vitios said:
Do you feel that TUNCOM offers an environment that is conductive to matching into competitive specialties? Do courses typically hit on topics that are important for board exams, are clinical research opportunities readily available, and are faculty/the administration supportive of students who are dead-set on specializing, etc?
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Hey,

TUNCOM's recent residency matching trends have been phenomenal. I was accepted to Western Pomona, LMU-DCOM, and TUNCOM and chose TUNCOM becuase of their phenomenal residency matching. I was at the Q and A session for those of you who had the September 10 afternoon interview.

Courses are extremely board based, I think there is only one or two other DO schools that do the combined exam system which is essentially a practice COMLEX because you are asked 200 questions in 4 hours covering all the classes in a single exam.

Clinical research: I wouldn't worry about it yet. I know you are excited to start medical school (I was too) but once you start school you will realize that you need to prioritize studying before research. Most of the people who do research do them over the summer between OMS I and OMS II. We do have a wet lab on campus and our faculty that does do clinical research have an off campus site that you would go to. FYI, some of our staff are the residency chiefs at Valley Medical, so if you get to know them well and you want to stay in the area, they would be the people you want to get to know.

Dead set on specializing: Come on.. most of the students here (though it might just be that they don't want to admit it) are all pretty open minded. If you are really dead set on a specialty more power to you, but that won't affect you in any way. chances are you will change your mind once you go through your clerkship anyway.

Also I think i saw a post up there asking about life in vegas.

I laughed.

Most of us live and die at school. Some of us go out every weekend, but it's vegas, the entertainment capital of the world. Stuff to do outside of clubbing drinking and drinking... You can go hiking and i know brianhead in Utah is great for skiing, its a bit of a trip, but if you can keep up with school work and you love to hang out outdoors, go for it.

Sorry if I missed anyone's questions.

Cheers
 
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Are all 3 Touro campuses exclusive of each other, or will this answer be relevant to CA, NV and NY?
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To my knowledge, all touro campuses except for the new Touro campus that is opening up in upstate NY will have slightly different cirriculum. The new touro will follow Touro NY-Brooklyn campus.

Cheers
 
novafan3000 said:
hows life in vegas outside of casinoland? is there any good hiking or a place to get out of the heat besides mead? i love that scene, i just dont know if i can stand the heat after living in AZ for so long.. spent a lot of time in reno growing up, which has since gone by the wayside since the real estate bubble
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Red Rock Canyon apparently is great for hiking and rock climbing. we have a hiking club on campus that hits up the awesome places. (I'm not part of that group so I can't really speak for them!) I spent some time in Tucson as well, Henderson is not the same kind of heat. I actually like the weather here. 🙂
 
Post-interview thoughts:

Although I have nothing else for comparison, I think the campus was nice. It's kind of weird in that it's a warehouse converted into a school, but the facilities are impressive.

The school is expensive. Their estimated COA is ~$96k/year, although I expect they over-budged by $10-15k. Housing and apartments are reasonable -- I think on the order of $600/mo for a single bedroom?

Attendance is only mandatory during labs or whenever there is a guest speaker or special appearance. Everything pre-clinical, with the exception of maybe one or two classes, is graded on an A/B/C/F scale, I believe.

I'm not sure how I felt about the interview. I misread and expected two 20 minute interviews. It's actually a single 20 minute interview with two faculty members at once. It was very low stress. I remember the following questions:

Why do you want to be a doctor, and why osteopathy?
Why Touro Nevada?
What do you expect of the faculty?
What do you think of "Obamacare?"
Medical school is stressful and time consuming. How will you deal with this?

My two interviewers didn't give much back-and-forth feedback; it was strictly question and answer, and then move on to the next question. The interview concluded with the standard "do you have any questions for us." I finished the interview early, as did the person before me, who was interviewed by the same two faculty members. I'm not sure how I feel about this -- whether they weren't interested in my application, or maybe much of the decision making is behind the scenes?

Overall I liked the school, I just wish the interview had been a little different.
 
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Wipeout416 said:
Just got an II!
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Congrats!!! I'm way jealous! Instead of an ii i just got my completed email, lol. This is my top school so I'm hoping to hear back rather quickly! When were you completed and was the ii via email?
 
ChaseJ said:
Congrats!!! I'm way jealous! Instead of an ii i just got my completed email, lol. This is my top school so I'm hoping to hear back rather quickly! When were you completed and was the ii via email?
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Yes. Complete July 20
 
Hey Guys!
I had my interview here and I liked this school a lot. My interview was little tough, especially compared to other I had last month. They do question your reasoning, and contradicts what you are trying to tell them. They will not buy traditional, "I love people, I love holistic medicine stuff". I like my interviewer's, they did know my file very well. In addition to above post, I would say they have more traditional curriculum, with cumulative exam system. I do agree cost of living kind of seem a lot, but it should be half that according to my search of the area, especially if you share place with other student. They had butt ugly building, Initially I was like What in world is this🙂, but in end I liked the school a lot, I hope to have a acceptance. I would for sure go here:luck:
 
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The interview may be a little scary, but it is how we do it here at touro. One piece of advice that I may give you is that you need to try to influence one of the interviewers your way. In a double panel interview, if you sway one, you sway them both. If you sway no one, then you are so out of luck. Just be true to yourself and answer their questions as best as you can. Good luck!
 
andyh17 said:
Hey,

TUNCOM's recent residency matching trends have been phenomenal. I was accepted to Western Pomona, LMU-DCOM, and TUNCOM and chose TUNCOM becuase of their phenomenal residency matching. I was at the Q and A session for those of you who had the September 10 afternoon interview.

Courses are extremely board based, I think there is only one or two other DO schools that do the combined exam system which is essentially a practice COMLEX because you are asked 200 questions in 4 hours covering all the classes in a single exam.

Clinical research: I wouldn't worry about it yet. I know you are excited to start medical school (I was too) but once you start school you will realize that you need to prioritize studying before research. Most of the people who do research do them over the summer between OMS I and OMS II. We do have a wet lab on campus and our faculty that does do clinical research have an off campus site that you would go to. FYI, some of our staff are the residency chiefs at Valley Medical, so if you get to know them well and you want to stay in the area, they would be the people you want to get to know.

Dead set on specializing: Come on.. most of the students here (though it might just be that they don't want to admit it) are all pretty open minded. If you are really dead set on a specialty more power to you, but that won't affect you in any way. chances are you will change your mind once you go through your clerkship anyway.

Also I think i saw a post up there asking about life in vegas.

I laughed.

Most of us live and die at school. Some of us go out every weekend, but it's vegas, the entertainment capital of the world. Stuff to do outside of clubbing drinking and drinking... You can go hiking and i know brianhead in Utah is great for skiing, its a bit of a trip, but if you can keep up with school work and you love to hang out outdoors, go for it.

Sorry if I missed anyone's questions.

Cheers
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Close....the questions are MUCH less than 200. For every lecture hour we have, there are four questions. Depending on the number of lectures you will have, the number can be small or large.
 
Does anybody know how old MCAT scores can be? I took it in Sept of 2011
 
I was released 8/15. 3 sGPA/3.2 cGPA/34 MCAT. Still haven't received a secondary. Did I get screened?
 
chizledfrmstone said:
I applied to 25+ schools. This is the only school that didn't send me a secondary.

I'll probably call them tomorrow.
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+1

I applied to 18, was released the beginning of September, have received and completed all secondaries, and am in review status in all except this one also!! I don't know if I got screened or what?!
 
AkGrown84 said:
+1

I applied to 18, was released the beginning of September, have received and completed all secondaries, and am in review status in all except this one also!! I don't know if I got screened or what?!
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What are your stats?

~3.6 cGPA and sGPA w/ 27 MCAT here.
 
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So, what's so special about this school? What's good? And what's bad?
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There are only two medical schools in the entire state of Nevada: U Nevada, and Touro Nevada. I want to assume that third and fourth year students will have no trouble finding excellent rotation sites with a lot of hands on work, especially if they choose to rotate at the hospitals near the Vegas Strip.
 
zerochaosx said:
Woohooo! II here received today about 10:45AM PST! Earliest they have open is 12/11 & 12/16.

OOS 3.1/30
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Congrats buddy boy!! 👍👍 When were you complete if you don't mind me asking?
 
circulus vitios said:
There are only two medical schools in the entire state of Nevada: U Nevada, and Touro Nevada. I want to assume that third and fourth year students will have no trouble finding excellent rotation sites with a lot of hands on work, especially if they choose to rotate at the hospitals near the Vegas Strip.
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Thanks for the reply. What about the students? Do they like the school? Curriculum? Faculty? Do they match into a variety of specialties and do well on boards?

That's all I want to know 🙂
 
I am currently a first year at TUNCOM. I really enjoy the school.The curriculum is mainly traditional lecture based but their is some team based learning in physio and biochem. Some of the faculty is really strong (anatomy/biochem) some departments are weaker (histo/physio) but you will find every school has their strengths and weakness in departments. We have combined exams for all subjects meaning that we have one giant test with questions from all classes random. This will help you with boards and limits your cramming. All lectures are recorded with audio/visual and most are not mandatory. I prefer to study at home and view them when I have studied the material already. It seems our board scores are fine from what ive heard. And residency placement doesn't seem to be an issue. Honestly if you want to place a good residency it matters how much work you do not where you went to school. I have attached the link for the last match list

http://www.tunlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-TUN-Residency-Placements-Summary.pdf
 
jmarkant said:
I am currently a first year at TUNCOM. I really enjoy the school.The curriculum is mainly traditional lecture based but their is some team based learning in physio and biochem. Some of the faculty is really strong (anatomy/biochem) some departments are weaker (histo/physio) but you will find every school has their strengths and weakness in departments. We have combined exams for all subjects meaning that we have one giant test with questions from all classes random. This will help you with boards and limits your cramming. All lectures are recorded with audio/visual and most are not mandatory. I prefer to study at home and view them when I have studied the material already. It seems our board scores are fine from what ive heard. And residency placement doesn't seem to be an issue. Honestly if you want to place a good residency it matters how much work you do not where you went to school. I have attached the link for the last match list

http://www.tunlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-TUN-Residency-Placements-Summary.pdf
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Thanks so much for your thoughts!
 
jmarkant said:
I am currently a first year at TUNCOM. I really enjoy the school.The curriculum is mainly traditional lecture based but their is some team based learning in physio and biochem. Some of the faculty is really strong (anatomy/biochem) some departments are weaker (histo/physio) but you will find every school has their strengths and weakness in departments. We have combined exams for all subjects meaning that we have one giant test with questions from all classes random. This will help you with boards and limits your cramming. All lectures are recorded with audio/visual and most are not mandatory. I prefer to study at home and view them when I have studied the material already. It seems our board scores are fine from what ive heard. And residency placement doesn't seem to be an issue. Honestly if you want to place a good residency it matters how much work you do not where you went to school. I have attached the link for the last match list

http://www.tunlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-TUN-Residency-Placements-Summary.pdf
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Thanks so much for the info! I am really looking forward to interviewing here!
 
Back 5 said:
Any interview tips?
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My advice for interviews is be yourself. This school has a wide range of personalities and seems to like outgoing individuals. I was proactive and addressed my weaknesses in my application early on and used them to reinforce my strengths. Be able to address why you would want to live in henderson, we have a couple people from vegas but most are OOS, make sure you let them know you can handle living in Vegas. (the strip can be a huge distraction for some). Also be prepared to explain why you want to learn OMM. Also know obamacare and your stance on it. I found my interview to be pretty stress-free, I spent a couple minutes talking football with my interviewers. During the tour make sure you look at our school. Outside the school isn't much but I really like our anatomy lab, and the school really has everything we need to succeed. The student body is great try to make friends with upperclassmen they will help you with both knowledge and resources (books).
 
I had an interview here on 9\10. It is a very laid back interview. My interviewers were very nice and asked very direct questions. They also made sure we stayed on topic and didn't ramble. They basically asked me why Touro and why Osteopathic medicine. They addressed weaknesses in my application (why I dropped 2 classes). Just answer honestly and explain how you learned from your past mistakes. They also asked me about some research I did in undergrad (which surprised me because none of my other interviewers asked me this before). The school is very nice and the faculty and student body were very warm and friendly. I think my interview went really well and I hope I get the chance to attend!!! We find out on 10\18 or 10\21!!!
 
I'm thinking of adding this school. Is it too late or should I try?
 
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teres said:
I'm thinking of adding this school. Is it too late or should I try?
3.8+, 30Q, if it matters.
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Their first round of interviews was less than two weeks ago. I don't think it's too late at all.
 
Do any of the recommended hotels in the interview email provide transportation to/from the airport? I'd hate to rent a car for a 15 mile drive each way.
 
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Do any of the recommended hotels in the interview email provide transportation to/from the airport? I'd hate to rent a car for a 15 mile drive each way.
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I asked this a month ago and I was told no.

I stayed at Sunset Station because it was cheap. The taxi from the airport was $45 each way; hotel to TUNCOM was about $20, I think. It was a real pain in the ass getting a taxi to pick me up at TUNCOM, too. Apparently no one uses a taxi "that far" off the Vegas strip. I don't recommend using taxis -- maybe it's best to swallow the cost of renting a car.
 
I only spent about 55 bucks for a car rental. I had it for maybe 24 hours total and it was WELL worth the ability to go where I wanted, when I wanted.
 
Spindrift11B4 said:
I only spent about 55 bucks for a car rental. I had it for maybe 24 hours total and it was WELL worth the ability to go where I wanted, when I wanted.
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Alrighty. I arrive in Las Vegas around 7pm, so I suppose having a car to find a spot to eat won't be the worst thing in the world.
 
I would reserve it ahead of time and see if you can get a discount from either the airline, the school (I know a few schools have a discount for some rental agencies), or your car insurance. I have rented cars at every interview and I have been able to get a discount each time from one of these sources. I'm lucky in that I have USAA insurance which equals a discount with any rental car agency, but I have also been able to get discounted just because I flew with a particular airline.

Just don't let them sell you any of their insurance, extras or upgrades...they can be pretty sneaky with those things, "hey I can upgrade you to XYZ car for 10 bucks!" "Ok, sure why not!" Then when you bring the car back and actually pay for it they neglected to mention it is 10 bucks extra PLUS 30 some odd dollars of extra fees.....
 
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