First off, I'd love to know who this Rodney Munch guy is. I could care less about a name, but are you a resident, or faculty, or what?
As far as the questions -- as I understand it, Wayne is a great clinical experience. As a third year tells it, "You will wade through rivers of BS your first two years, but once you hit the clinic it makes up for it." We were forwarded an email last year from a guy in residency who said his Wayne education "ran circles around" his colleagues.
Wayne's step 1 board scores are right on the national average. People who have taken it have told me that Wayne is "good enough", but that you're mostly on your own. Aside from a couple (mostly useless) information seminars and a genetics/nutrition packet, this seems to be the case.
Detroit sucks. *watching back for ddmoore* ... hell, I'd rather be in Grand Rapids. But that has nothing to do with crime - anyplace you will go as a medical student is safe as hell. I live downtown (off Jefferson, to be fair) and walk alone at night, and have never had a problem. You don't wander into a crack den by accident. The problem with Detroit is that people (myself included) expect it to be Chicago, and it never will be. It has an art institute, some sports teams, and for now at least, a zoo... but no (real) public transportation, no Michigan Avenue, very minimal late night (past 2am) food. Except for the food part, I've been too busy as a medical student to care and you will be too. We mostly go to Royal Oak to party anyway.
As far as "would you have attended another school", essentially every student at Wayne would have gone to Michigan if they had an offer. If you do, for god's sake go. But Wayne is a great second choice in my opinion, especially if you're in-state.
Regarding 'preparing students well for the future', I don't think any of us can speak to that with authority. But I'm interested in emergency medicine, and from the EM docs I've talked to, it doesn't get much better than Wayne to prepare you for that.
And I doubt that has so much to do with the DMC and orthopedic group contracts and whatever -- truth is, this is Detroit, and the combination of poverty, obesity, and lack of education mean that there are some medical cases you won't find many other places in America. It sucks for them, but it's more or less the best experience a medical student can get in my opinion.
Since they certainly don't give a **** about those of us that live over in the medical center.
Anyways, thanks ddmo for the backup. 👍 The symposium is for local and nonlocal premeds who are interested in medicine particularly Wayne med school. They have a panel set up that includes medical students, and possibly residents. There are also people from admissions on the panel and they all sit at the big table and give us premeds the downlow on getting prepared for the app process. I guess they recruit certain students to be apart of the symposium along with the ones who organized it. Just wanted to know if any of you guys were going to be there to assist in answering our questions. Also, I believe that I'm smart enough to realize that you guys are already current students or just accepted! 
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