Originally posted by starryeye81
I went to the Second Look a while back. It was a lot of fun! I really liked the people there. The students were very diverse, many non-trad with kids. It was kinda weird for me seeing how like 5 women in the graduating class this year all had babies during med school. One lady even had two. Guess it shows how supportive the admin is in terms of personally working things out for you. The curriculum is 60-70% lecture with 30-40% PBL. They're actually implementing a holistic health aspect to the curriculum which i thought sounds really interesting. Like you'd learn about massage and acupuncture and other natural healing methods throughout the first two years. It's not a big part, but it's there. About the hospital, it looks ok. About 15-20 minutes drive away from the med school. Our tour guide was pretty cool and he got us to visit the ER hubs and this awesome after-call room where they have like a Japanese tea room thing with relaxing music and little table top sprinkling rock streams ( not sure what those things are called). BTW, call ends at 8 pm which sounds really really nice to me.
The prospective students I met there were all Cali residents. Most were from the UCs, like UCLA, UCI, UCSD. Some were from East coast ivies. They seem genuinely down to earth and easy to talk to.
Housing. If you want guaranteed housing, sign up for the pre-entry summer program. Aks Gayle about that.
Well, I would pick UCI over UC Davis. I actually decline Davis interview so I can't really compare their campuses and other things. I used to live in North Cal but I've converted to So Cal for my undergrad. It's so hard for me to move up there again for med school, though I have to.
Hope all this info help.
Good luck with your decision.
