Who is on admissions committees?

[startswithb]

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I had two interviewers at one school, one was a nurse practitioner/professor of clinical surgery, and the other a pathologist.

Interview day, and my committee interview (the big, important, open file one) was the nurse.

I guess it's fair game for any faculty member to not just interview, but serve on admissions committees? Does this include PhDs? Not just MDs?

 

[Zona Pellucida]

A student interviewer was the one who presented my file to the committee post-interview at one of my schools.

 

[TaylorMDhopeful]

I had two interviewers at one school, one was a nurse practitioner/professor of clinical surgery, and the other a pathologist.

Interview day, and my committee interview (the big, important, open file one) was the nurse.

I guess it's fair game for any faculty member to not just interview, but serve on admissions committees? Does this include PhDs? Not just MDs?

Yea, fair game for members to be PhDs and have other degrees that are not MD. I had a few PhDs in Neuroscience as interviewers and they also served as committee members

 

[BlueElmo]

I've had PhD's, MD's, and med students as well.

 

[mvenus929]

One of my schools includes people from the community, so I was interviewed by a lawyer.

 

[Zona Pellucida]

One of my schools includes people from the community, so I was interviewed by a lawyer.

Wow, that's interesting.

 

[Bernoull]

I had two interviewers at one school, one was a nurse practitioner/professor of clinical surgery, and the other a pathologist.

Interview day, and my committee interview (the big, important, open file one) was the nurse.

I guess it's fair game for any faculty member to not just interview, but serve on admissions committees? Does this include PhDs? Not just MDs?

Others have already answered ur question.

This may be a stupid question, but I'm curious to know whether an NP who is a Prof of Clinical Surgery teaches medical students? Also what's the difference between surgery and clinical surgery, does the latter exclude things like rabbit surgeries for research which the former may include?

Thanks

 

[BBender716]

 

[LizzyM]

Sometimes "clinical" is appended to one's title to signify that the faculty member's salary support comes from the provision of clinical services rather than research funding (those folks sometimes have research in their title). Those with neither clinical nor research in their title are usually tenured or on tenure track.

The LCME, accrediting agency for medical schools, requires that admission decisions be made by members of the faculty. The adcom usuallly includes physicians of all specialties and ages, some faculty from the basic sciences, ethics, behavioral sciences, & medical humanities as well as the assistance of upper level medical students. Not all faculty members have MD degrees and in the first two years of med school you are likely to be instructed by a number of non-physicians.

 

[Morsetlis]

At UCSD every one of your interviewers will have done extensive research.

I think my MD interviewer did more research than my PhD interviewer...