UNE opinions- good or bad

[MicroBugs]

Hey all- Just wondering about anyone's thoughts on UNE- good, bad, in between. I'm from NE and would strongly consider it, but I worked with a nurse down in VA who said to stay far away. I could take his opinion with a grain of salt though. Just wondering what people had to say about it. Thanks!

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[MikeyLu2010]

good

 

[newyorkcougar]

I have only heard good things (if you are okay with the country side). 😉

 

[n0chi]

I have only heard good things (if you are okay with the country side). 😉

its my top choice 👍

 

[HunterGatherer]

Very friendly people in the city and at the school. Very positive experience both times I visited the area. Perhaps you should be more specific with your concerns or ask the nurse to be more specific.

 

[MicroBugs]

Very friendly people in the city and at the school. Very positive experience both times I visited the area. Perhaps you should be more specific with your concerns or ask the nurse to be more specific.

Thanks guys. I know the area is good, my hometown is an hour away. It's more the quality of education that the nurse was questioning. But I guess everything is what you make of it...

 

[docbill]

I researched UNE fairly well over the last 2 years. AND I will tell you that I heard great things and was consistantly told that UNE produces great doctors. They have a decent match list. Not only that, but students are nomally friendlier and more supportive of each other. THe smaller class size ~120 now is also not bad. UNE has set 3rd year rotation sites and even though they are spread out they are good places to train. Research is just starting to be more important there, but still very small.

Only negative thing about UNECOM to say, slight change in curiculim that lead to a slightly lower pass rate. But then again, its the same as anything else. I takes some time to adjust.

MY BIGGEST BEEF, is the lack of awards or funding to offset the high tuition. Report about UNECOM grads having the 2nd greatest dept in the country.

The area is great. Right on the beach and quite town (maybe allow students to study more). Rent is a bit cheaper. Campus is beautiful. Mixed with undergrads and other professional programs (be it on a different campus).

 

[docbill]

BTW, when people tell you something is bad, push for real reasons. Not just ohhh its bad. Like anything, everyone has a different opinion. I would tell people.. ohhh I hate McDonalds stay away.. but many will say no its good.. Or Walmart.. or whatever.

 

[ShyRem]

UNE is said to have one of the best anatomy programs in the country. I heard that from several people not associated with UNE.

 

[wook]

Good things. I have yet to hear bad things said about UNE graduates. In fact, I met a few before applying to med school and they are/were top notch. Hence, it was where I decided to go to school.

Definitely ask why the nurse had such a negative opinion on the school. You never know why he may feel that way. You may also want to ask him if he ever applied to the school.


Wook

 

[spazwow]

what does a nurse know about medical school?

next time you're in the hospital, talk to one of them about it. they don't know squat.

UNECOM is has a reputation for training people well.

the guy that wrote "the handbook of antibiotic therapy" that all the medicine residents use-teaches at UNECOM (richard reese)

approxiamtely 1/3 of all the practicing atteding physicians in Maine are DO's (many UNECOM grads)

the medical chief of staff at maine med (THE tertiary care center in NE north of boston) is a UNECOM DO

the program director of my internship at the University of Connecticut (who is himself a nycom grad) consistently states "UNE produces the best resdients around"

if you ask around the various teaching hospitals in new england, the housestaff will consistenly tell you that the UNECOM med students are among the best prepared and are the hardest working. (curiously, everyone notes that the worst med students are always from Brown)

the top 3 in my graduating class are in a neurosurgery, ortho, and OB residencies. two others will be the chief ER residents at UMASS med this year, a third will be the toxiology fellow at UMASS this year
several of my classmates are in OB residencies, two are in radiology residencies, one is in urology, one is about to start an endocrine fellowship at UVM

all this from a school which pushes primary care.

if you go to UNECOM and do well, things will work out for you just fine

 

[silas2642]

It's a good school; would have definitely applied there if I hadn't been completely broke during application time and if I hadn't been completely sick of filling out primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, IRS forms, tax forms, birth certificates, personal weight loss formulas, and forms stating my mother's maiden name.

It is in Maine (duh), and if you like warm weather or are really into city life, then this might not be the school for you. It gets really really cold here (I know, I'm from Maine), and there have definitely been times during my undergraduate years that I was cursing myself for not picking a warmer location.

Med school, in general, is med school. I wouldn't worry too much about board scores, match lists, whatever. They don't really tell you how well YOU are going to do there. Generally, when I'm checking a match list for a school I'm interested in, I just make sure that people are getting a variety of residencies across the country-- if everyone is ending up in Bum****, North Dakota, a place where I do not want to live, then I probably wouldn't apply to that place. We all end up learning the same stuff (except you guys have to learn OMM on top of everything-- kudos to you!) and everyone ends up reaping what they sow. If you like the location, the feeling of the school, then definitely consider attending there. Work hard, play hard, and you'll end up doing fine.

 

[Kuba]

How big a deal is it that the clinical training site are all over the place? what are the cons to this? for some reason, I feel like this is a big deal, but I don't know why specifically.

 

[MicroBugs]

It's a good school; would have definitely applied there if I hadn't been completely broke during application time and if I hadn't been completely sick of filling out primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, IRS forms, tax forms, birth certificates, personal weight loss formulas, and forms stating my mother's maiden name.

It is in Maine (duh), and if you like warm weather or are really into city life, then this might not be the school for you. It gets really really cold here (I know, I'm from Maine), and there have definitely been times during my undergraduate years that I was cursing myself for not picking a warmer location.

Med school, in general, is med school. I wouldn't worry too much about board scores, match lists, whatever. They don't really tell you how well YOU are going to do there. Generally, when I'm checking a match list for a school I'm interested in, I just make sure that people are getting a variety of residencies across the country-- if everyone is ending up in Bum****, North Dakota, a place where I do not want to live, then I probably wouldn't apply to that place. We all end up learning the same stuff (except you guys have to learn OMM on top of everything-- kudos to you!) and everyone ends up reaping what they sow. If you like the location, the feeling of the school, then definitely consider attending there. Work hard, play hard, and you'll end up doing fine.

No worries on location or cold weather. I grew up in NH and did my undergrad in VT. I might even in fact say I love the cold weather...
Thanks for all the advice guys. I've def put UNECOM near the top of the list. I was just curious about others thoughts, since I place almost no faith in some of the ranking systems and such...

 

[wook]

since I place almost no faith in some of the ranking systems and such...

👍

Ranking systems tend to be very biased and too simplistic.


Wook