Which med schools are known for ..?

[Lucky Louie]

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This may be totally obvious to some here, but I'm compiling a list of med schools to apply to. I'm a true novice, despite my post count. Got my MSAR account, but still looking for advice. Aside from the basics of finding schools that fit my gpa and MCAT score, I'm trying to figure out which schools are known for a specific focus. (Please add other factors too.)

So please fill in. Med School known for …
research-heavy …..
community service …..
publics that are okay with OOS ….
starting clinical rotations early ….
specialists in …..
school likes non-trad applicants ….

 

[Cinclus]

University of Virginia SOM's class is comprised of about 50% OOS students, if I recall correctly.

 

[Amba]

Vermont has a really high OOS% (~70% if I remember correctly) .

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[An MD Hopeful]

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine is research-heavy and also starts clinical rotations early. On interview day, we were told that during first year, students see patients for 3-4 hours once every other week, and during second year, that happens once every week. And for research, students are required to do research the summer before first year, the summer before second year, and for one full year (usually either the fourth or fifth year).

 

[Daodejing]

This may be totally obvious to some here, but I'm compiling a list of med schools to apply to. I'm a true novice, despite my post count. Got my MSAR account, but still looking for advice. Aside from the basics of finding schools that fit my gpa and MCAT score, I'm trying to figure out which schools are known for a specific focus. (Please add other factors too.)

So please fill in. Med School known for …
research-heavy …..
community service …..
publics that are okay with OOS ….
starting clinical rotations early ….
specialists in …..
school likes non-trad applicants ….

research-heavy: top-tier and upper middle-tier schools
community service: look at usnwr primary care rankings for a starting point. in addition, look at msar for schools that have a community service req.
publics that are okay with OOS: again, look at msar. this is what I used.
starting clinical rotations early: baylor, vanderbilt, etc. (many top-tier schools) and some have switched over including vcu, uvm, etc.
specialists in: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=906704 (crude but helpful)
school likes non-trad applicants: i have no idea, check the non-trad forums or school-specific threads

 

[cerno]

Ohio State is both community service heavy and early clinical rotations.

 

[dsoz]

OHSU both primary care (about 50% match primary care) and non-traditional (average age is 26-28). Not known to be really good for OOS friendly (unless high stats... 3.6/32 or higher).

dsoz

 

[deleted127837]

So please fill in. Med School known for …
research-heavy ... the top 15~25 of the USNWR Research list.
community service … All those with PRIME programs (I think all the Cali publics), Tufts' Maine Track
publics that are okay with OOS …. UCLA, UCSF, UVA, UVT...
starting clinical rotations early …. Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke
specialists in ….. ???
school likes non-trad applicants …. Northwestern, Brown(?)

 

[red doctober]

Mt Sinai is very community service oriented in spite of its high research ranking.

Add Michigan and Arizona-Pheonix to OOS-friendly publics (~50%)

NYU starts clinicals in Jan of M2. Students take Step 1 after 3rd year.

I hear OHSU likes non-trad applicants.

 

[Lucky Louie]

Thanks for the input.

FWIW, I've heard Loyola, Creighton, Loma Linda, and Georgetown favor lots of community service and/or service with the disadvantaged.

 

[Plue00]

University of Virginia SOM's class is comprised of about 50% OOS students, if I recall correctly.

Sigh, no/little love to us residents 🙁

 

[Ismet]

This may be totally obvious to some here, but I'm compiling a list of med schools to apply to. I'm a true novice, despite my post count. Got my MSAR account, but still looking for advice. Aside from the basics of finding schools that fit my gpa and MCAT score, I'm trying to figure out which schools are known for a specific focus. (Please add other factors too.)

So please fill in. Med School known for …
research-heavy …..
community service …..
publics that are okay with OOS ….
starting clinical rotations early ….
specialists in …..
school likes non-trad applicants ….

Pitt qualifies for most of those

• Definitely research-oriented, as every student must complete a scholarly project, but I wouldn't exactly say "research-heavy" in that the goal isn't necessarily to churn out researchers like some other schools do.
• Community service - we have so many organizations geared towards helping the community in almost any capacity you want, plus the resources and support to create a new organization if you see the need for one
• Pitt is semi-public (still rather high tuition 🙁) and is very OOS friendly
• Clinical starts in May of MS2, Step 1 has to be taken by the end of April, I believe a lot of schools have their students take Step 1 in June, so this is slightly earlier
• Specialists in...anything really. Pitt is a good place for people who have no idea what specialty they want to go into because we rank highly and match well in many specialties
• Non-trad - I don't have the numbers or anything, but there is definitely a good number of non-trads in my class (a few 30+ in my class, i think there's someone over 40 in the 2nd year class)

 

[deleted127837]

We should probably clarify whether "non-trad" predominately refers to:

1) those people who took a year off to do research or wander a hospital and are pretty much qualitatively the same as someone who just graduated from college (personality-wise - essentially someone who did a victory lap on or near campus),

2) the people who worked in other things and had pretty serious experiences for a couple years (TFA, Peace Corps, etc.) and are qualitatively different from fresh grads,

3) or what the SDN forum mostly is: people who had careers for awhile and are now returning.

"Non-trad" somehow applies to all of them, even though they're wildly different applicant categories, and schools like to include #1 because they can boost their non-trad numbers.

 

[wonderdog]

community service …..

Loma Linda University

 

[mvenus929]

Sigh, no/little love to us residents 🙁

You have 3 other allopathic and one osteopathic school in the state. Some of us aren't so lucky.

 

[An MD Hopeful]

UCSF likes non-traditional students.
Stanford likes students who have activities that demonstrate leadership

 

[nysegop]

Vermont has a really high OOS% (~70% if I remember correctly) .

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Still they accept 40% of in-state applicants. It's just Vermont is such a small sate that they usually only get ~110 in-state applicants. They get more than 5,000 OOS apps.

 

[CriticalCond]

For community service, Tulane and Howard are the only schools I've come across that require students to do a certain number of service hours.

 

[saveourpens]

You can add Iowa-Carver to the OOS friendly schools.

 

[Daodejing]

You can add Iowa-Carver to the OOS friendly schools.

^great, oft-overlooked school.

 

[metalgirl14]

Penn State is OOS friendly (41% for my class), as well as non-trad friendly (many of my classmates are married and older than 25). It is also very community-service focused.