Hi everyone! As this cycle comes to a close, I’ve been lucky enough to get some acceptances and having trouble deciding. Although I don’t know what specialty I want to go into, I want to have my options open. Thank you for all the help and stay healthy!
USF Morsani
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USF Morsani
Pros
- Cheap (about 30k per year) and lower cost of living
- Has been greatly improving in ranking, reputation, and research in the past few years
- Brand new building in downtown Tampa right near Tampa General Hospital (main teaching hospital) and in a beautiful area
- Home residency program in every specialty
- Not a lot of driving in traffic required
- Student run clinics near the campus
- Tampa is a smaller city and not much to do as far as I know compared to Miami
- Family lives very close and I’m from Orlando, so I know the area
- Tiered curriculum, not pass fail
- there were 25 students who went through SOAP on this years match list
Pros
- 50% tuition scholarship so COA would be 57k per year
- PASS FAIL CURRICULUM
- Lots of competitive residency matching
- Lots of friends and social support in the area
- High step 1 scores
- Seem to care about student wellness tremendously
- Newer school without a set reputation
- Heard bad things about the NeighborhoodHelp program being irrelevant and stressful
- Extremely high step 1 scores, but now step 1 is pass fail so we don’t know how this will affect their residency matching
- No dedicated hospital, requires a lot of driving for rotations, and might hinder my ability to get good recommendation letters
- Medical campus is only a building on the undergrad campus
- Steps taken later than usual so less time to study for step 2
Pros
- Located in downtown Miami and teaching hospital is walking distance away
- No need to drive anywhere
- Amazing clinical rotations and experience
- Know lots of people at the school already and have established connections
- New curriculum looks amazing and more clinical years (1 yr preclinical) and PASS FAIL
- Research is super easy to get
- Step 2 scores are above the rest of the state
- Well reputed and home residency program
- Match list had lots of competitive specialties
- Lots of student run clinics and community outreach
- Love Miami
- Expensive compared to the other in state Florida school
- High cost of attendance and cost of living
- Our class would be the guinea pigs for this new curriculum