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Looking at Oakland University's new school opening in 2011, Should I be hesitant to go to a new program? Will I have a lower quality medical education?
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Looking at Oakland University's new school opening in 2011, Should I be hesitant to go to a new program? Will I have a lower quality medical education?
Thanks😎
University of Houston?any medical schools opening in 2012?
I think that as long as medical school is accredited, you should be fine.
I have two friends who go to the Commonwealth Medical College at Scranton (PA), a medical school that was opened last year. The new medical schools are in need because this country has shortages in health care, and simply taking doctors from other countries will not do any job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/education/15medschools.html
So, in a short answer, as long as accredited, go for it.
all the risks have been said here (which i feel arent huge). The best thing about a new school is normally the 1st class all gets free tuition for all 4 years. That is sick. If i was accepted to a new school id most likely go just for this reason. As long as the school is associated with a major university id also have less of a concern.
Bolded is not true. UCF did that. FIU did not. I don't know about Commonwealth. It's up to the individual schools and what kind of funding they can get.
Edit: and I don't know if UCF's is for all 4 years. It may have just been the first year...anyone know for sure?
Looking at Oakland University's new school opening in 2011, Should I be hesitant to go to a new program? Will I have a lower quality medical education?
Thanks😎
University of Houston?
any medical schools opening in 2012?
Risk are:
1. that they don't have a set up curriculum yet with faculty that probably aren't used to teaching.
2. a lot of kinks to work out in terms of scheduling, tests and other admin BS.
3. no reputation to help you during residency application.
4. no established rotations during clinical years (maybe) again refer to #2
Benefits:
1. reduced tuition if you're the first/second incoming class.
2. it's a US medical school
3. you get to make your own mark and establish your school's reputation which is kinda fun
4. did I mention it's a US medical school?
Agree with this post. During the basic science years, the only issues will be scheduling tweaks and making sure to cover all the material in a way that students won't be relearning large swathes of material for the boards. The biggest issues I see are (1) during rotations, if they are starting those fresh too, nobody on faculty really knows what the role of the med student is on the team yet, so rotations can be good or useless based each attending's decision, and (3) a lot of residency PDs like to go back to the sources that provided them with solid residents in the past, so if you are at a new place, you don't have the prior grads reputation helping you. You also won't have prior grads reputations hurting you in some cases though.
As folks have mentioned, an accredited US allo school is the goal, and so if this is the one you get, go with it. If it's this place or someplace with a solid longtime reputation, I'd think it's a harder sell.
Agree with this post. During the basic science years, the only issues will be scheduling tweaks and making sure to cover all the material in a way that students won't be relearning large swathes of material for the boards. The biggest issues I see are (1) during rotations, if they are starting those fresh too, nobody on faculty really knows what the role of the med student is on the team yet, so rotations can be good or useless based each attending's decision, and (3) a lot of residency PDs like to go back to the sources that provided them with solid residents in the past, so if you are at a new place, you don't have the prior grads reputation helping you. You also won't have prior grads reputations hurting you in some cases though.
As folks have mentioned, an accredited US allo school is the goal, and so if this is the one you get, go with it. If it's this place or someplace with a solid longtime reputation, I'd think it's a harder sell.
Number 3 (the second one? 🙂) is very important but probably more obvious. Number 1 I think it arguably the most relevant and the one most people wouldn't think of. I think there are a number of kinks you have to work through as a third year starting rotations. Attendings and residents really have to be ready to teach and have to be willing to do it. If it's the first year they are taken over by med students, they might not know how to handle that well so teaching could really be sketchy. Going from a non-academic center to an academic center is a pretty big adjustment. And this also affects the residency issue- not only do PD's not know your program, but they know that you probably had some training hiccups here and there because of how new the clinical partnership is, so they can't trust that you've received the same caliber of training as someone who went to a school in which the integration between school and hospital is essentially seamless.