dimanche 31 janvier 2016
California Applicants (2015-2016 Cycle)
Posting this in case this might be useful for someone. I applied ED with average (actually below average for CSULB) GPAs and got in! Good luck to everyone applying!
University: University of California, Irvine
Majors: Dance Performance and Economics
Overall GPA: 3.31
Pre-Req GPA: 3.65
GRE: 160 (V) 159 (Q) 4.5 (AW)
Extra-Curric: Volunteer at church nursery, UCI Dance Department Student Advisory committee, Environmental Nature Center Volunteer, BLS certified, teacher's assistant/substitute teacher at ballet studio
Awards: Dean's Honor List, John Hollowell Composition Program Best Analysis Essay Award
Volunteer: 25 In-patient (geriatrics), 233 Outpatient (general orthopedic, oncology, pulmonary, home health, pediatrics, women's health)
Applied: CSULB ED
Acceptances: CSULB
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California Applicants (2015-2016 Cycle)
2015-2016 University of Miami (Miller) Application Thread
(All limited to 500 words):
Briefly describe the one clinical experience you have had that has most significantly influenced your decision to study medicine. Do not replicate your AMCAS personal statement.
Why have you selected the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for your medical education? Please be as specific as possible.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your clinical experiences/shadowing.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your community service/volunteering.
Please discuss a situation where you had to use your leadership skills.
Please briefly discuss your research experience.
Please provide a chronological list with dates of your employment.
[OPTIONAL] Please provide a description of any activities involving the FINE ARTS (dance, drama, music, art, photography, etc.)
[OPTIONAL] Please provide a description of any activities involving SPORTS (organized team sports, recreational activities that you play, watch or follow)
[OPTIONAL] Describe your most meaningful involvement in STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS.
[OPTIONAL] Please provide a description of your most memorable TRAVEL experience.
[OPTIONAL] Please provide a description of your HOBBIES and what you do for fun and relaxation.
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This photo is from an event UMMSM hosts for College Students interested in applying to their medical school. It's the formula they use to score applicants:
As you can see, GPA, MCAT, and undergrad "prestige" are only 120/300 points. Your experiences, LORs, overcoming adversity, etc. are actually given more weight at 180/300 points! So don't skimp on elaborating about those experiences
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Good luck to everyone applying!
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2015-2016 University of Miami (Miller) Application Thread
2015-2016 Loyola University Chicago (Stritch) Application Thread
That answers my question, thanks! I was mostly curious if students typically lived in Maywood, which isn't a place I would want to walk through alone at night (though I'm sure during the day it's fine). Is Hines the VA campus you're talking about? My dad used to go there, but I didn't realize it was so close the Loyola's campus.
Anyone who is applying OOS- Oak Park/River Forest is an awesome area with tons to do. Very diverse and safe area.
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2015-2016 Loyola University Chicago (Stritch) Application Thread
2015-2016 The Commonwealth Medical College Application Thread
Lol then don't apply. As you said, it's a private school. They can do whatever they want. No one here is going to argue with you about their OOS matriculation percentage. You either think it's worth applying or you don't.
Edit: I will caution you though about the way you're analyzing this information. You want to give more weight to the interviews offered than the matriculation percentage. Once a seat is offered, it's up to the applicant whether or not they matriculate. There's a large number of reasons why less OOS applicants choose to matriculate than IS (tuition, distance from family, etc). Of the interviews offered, almost 50% were to OOS students. Over 20% of the class is OOS. That's good enough for me to apply.
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2015-2016 The Commonwealth Medical College Application Thread
University of Toronto Pharmacy c/o 2020
Hey guys,
It is my second time applying. I initially applied in my second year and had a 3.7 cGPA in the first semester, but during second semester one of my full year courses took a bad turn and my cGPA dropped to 3.45 lol.
Went through the interview process and got lower half waitlisted in June. In September I received an email from them saying that the waitlist is now closed, but 22 out of a little over 40 people got off the waitlist and were offered entrance into the program!
I don't know if this is reassuring to anyone, or if this will be the case for this cycle as well, but if you get wait listed don't completely lose hope!
Btw, my PCAT composite was 82, with QA 85, BIO 95, CHM 85, VA 70, RC 29 (lolllll) and writing score of 3.0. Should I write the PCAT again in Jan?
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University of Toronto Pharmacy c/o 2020
The official MCAT May 20th 2016
I don't think you're starting too early by any means, especially if you recognize that you have a lot to review content wise. However, remember that CONTENT is in reality a minor contributor to your final score. You need the baseline, the foundation if you will, but you get points and perform well based almost exclusively on your ability to: `
1. Read and understand challenging experimental passages taken from actual journal articles and,
2. Answer CONCEPTUAL questions relevant to that passage and/or the topics it touches upon.
As you seek out Full-Lengths and practice materials, make sure you compare them to the AAMC standard (there are two FL exams to compare to now). There is still a major problem right now with the prep material not matching the actual exam. For example, many, many passages aren't experimental at all, aren't based on actual research or cited journal articles, don't contain appropriately difficult graphs and figures, use language that is far too simplistic, use questions that are not AAMC question types, etc. There are various resources available and some are definitely better than others. I think every student needs to become educated and decide for themselves what constitutes accurate practice via comparison to the AAMC standard. Best of luck!
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The official MCAT May 20th 2016
*~*~*~* Official 2015-2016 Interview/Acceptance/Rejection Thread *~*~*~*
Hey guys...I think I got an interview?
Midwestern Arizona
I didn't get an email, and my Aadsas still just says receivedcomplete but after reading old threads I decided to log in to my portal through their website...I didn't find any messages on there either.
However when I went to the "scheduling interviews" section it says I have been invited for an interview at the following schools "Midwestern AZ dental medicine" and I can either schedule a date in September or withdraw. Under it says a confirmation will be sent to my email.
So...interview invite??
School: Midwest AZ
Notification date: N/A?? on website at least by June 30
Method of notification: Checked website
Residency: UT
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/25/15
Application complete date: 6/3/15
GPA (science, overall): 3.88,3.93
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 24/23/24/28 (none below 17)
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*~*~*~* Official 2015-2016 Interview/Acceptance/Rejection Thread *~*~*~*
Vote for President
Blade, you know I love you in a totally platonic way, but if you think Trump will be the GOP nominee, you're totally off your rocker.
It's unpossible. The establishment won't stand for it.
If I recall correctly, last election the GOP poll leader changed about 6 times, and every single time you jumped on the current leader to be our Obama savior. It was BS then and it's BS now.
Polls mean N O T H I N G before the first primary. It's just 24-hour news cycle bull****. He's leading a broad and splintered field during a period of time when 95%+ of people polled by phone HANG UP as soon as they hear it's a poll.
It'll be Bush, Rubio, or Cruz, god help us. Of those I think Rubio is probably the most electable vs Clinton.
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STOP! DO NOT GO TO PHARMACY SCHOOL BEFORE READING THIS.
One of America's most reliable professions is producing too many graduates and not enough jobs
The Pharmacy school Bubble is about to Burst: By Katie Savadski.
Steven Pak was 17 when he committed to six years of pharmacy school in 2010. His family had struggled financially during his childhood, and his mother, an immigrant from South Korea, had heard about the career’s upsides: prestige, a professional degree, and a six-figure salary, all before his 25th birthday. Though he had originally wanted to study acting, Pak agreed that pharmacy was the more responsible choice. He was admitted to the PharmD program at St. John’s University, and began his degree there the following year.
Pak’s mother was not alone in urging her child to pursue this career: All across America, teenagers were making similar calculations. A predicted shortage of pharmacists over the last decade, combined with an expected expansion of the pharmacist’s role in medical care, made it a lucrative career path. Even as the economy struggled in the mid-aughts, pharmacy graduates easily found big salaries, 9-to-5 jobs, and the respect that came along with handling medications. Nicholas Popovich, a professor at the
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, tells me that, “Some signing bonuses even involved a car, that type of thing.”
Now, the profession is on the verge of a crisis: The number of pharmacy jobs has dried up but the number of pharmacy students keeps growing. It’s difficult to find a cushy, full-time job and metropolitan job markets are saturated. PharmD candidates are graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, and each year, there are more and more of them in a six-year-long pipeline. When Pak graduates in 2016 with a PharmD degree, he’ll have up to $150,000 in loans.
The pharmacy boom began in 2000. That year, a report from the Department of Health and Human Services suggested that 98 percent of Americans lived in an area adversely affected by a pharmacist shortage. Almost 6,000 pharmacist jobs stood empty, and the shortage was only predicted to grow worse. The following year, a group now known as the Pharmacy Workforce Center predicted a shortfallof 157,000 pharmacists nationally within two decades as demand and responsibilities increased while the number of pharmacists stood still. As Baby Boomers aged, the thought went, pharmacists would be able to fill some roles traditionally held by doctors, and would be able to counsel them on how to take the medications prescribed to them.
Quickly, the free market kicked in. Over the last 20-odd years, the number of pharmacy schools in the United States has almost doubled. There were just 72 such schools in 1987; today, there are more than 130.
At first, graduates found work easily. No matter where in the country a young pharmacist wanted to settle, the number of jobs available far exceeded the number of people qualified to fill them. Slowly, the numbers began to even out, and 2009 marked a turning point: The number of jobs available was roughly on par with the number of pharmacists searching for work. The days of signing bonuses and vast job choices were over.
Purdue University, whose pharmacy school is ranked as one of the best in the nation, makes employment information about its graduates publicly available. By and large, the numbers are impressive—from salaries to unemployment statistics. But some statistics have changed. In 2008, graduates got up to eight offers; in 2009, up to 12. These days, the range is from one to three offers per graduate. In 2008, only one student was still seeking work when the university surveyed the graduating class; by 2012, that number had grown to eight students, and by 2013, to 12. (The average graduating class has about 150 students.)
According to the Aggregate Demand Index (ADI), which measures pharmacist job outlooks, employers in the Northeast began reporting more job candidates than slots in December 2011. Quickly, everywhere from Hawaii to Utah became a tough market. Now, only about ten states have decent employment prospects, with enough openings for every job seeker. In the rest of the country, pharmacists are seeing either a surplus of candidates, or a rough balance of supply and demand.
This would not be a problem if there were not so many new pharmacists in the pipeline. Students who entered six-year programs in 2009 will only graduate next spring. Now, young people who committed early on to a long, expensive program worry about finding a stable, well paying job upon completion. By the time the last of these students graduate, jobs will be even harder to find. And with every passing year, the graduating classes get larger as the field gets worse.
"My estimate [is] 20 percent unemployment of new grads by 2018," Daniel Brown, a pharmacy professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2013. "The job market is [stagnant], but we're still pumping out graduates every year.”
The tough market is complicated by the fact that the field didn’t quite expand as expected. Pharmacy was supposed to go from a profession of pill-dispensers to that of people-people: In 2000, the standard bachelor’s degree that was until then all that was required to practice pharmacy was phased out, replaced by a four year professional degree. Instead of a five-year BPharm, aspiring pharmacists were shuffled into six-year programs (of two undergraduate years and four years of professional-level education) and many others into four-year programs that supplement a bachelor’s degree.
This new degree program expanded the pharmacist’s repertoire: More than just being well trained in different drugs and side effects, this new batch of pharmacists focused heavily on client interaction. The new degree was meant to enable pharmacists to take on some client counseling roles—what is referred to today, in pharmacist shorthand, as “provider status.” These ideas were taken into account when calculating the 157,000 shortfall: If pharmacists were able to counsel patients about their drugs in order to maximize patient outcomes, they might be able to bill for their services and spend more time on each patient, which would in turn create more demand.
This, however, didn’t work out as planned. The expansion of pharmacist roles and responsibilities has to be approved on a state-by-state or federal basis, and such initiatives to hand over nurse and physician roles to pharmacists have not gained much traction. (Providers, no doubt, are reluctant to abandon their share of the market, though pharmacy organizations don’t want to assign blame.) Yet without provider status, pharmacists can’t get reimbursed for the counseling and advisory services they provide to clients.
Some individual states have made advances in recognizing pharmacists as healthcare providers, and through Obamacare, pharmacists will be included as members of care teams through Accountable Care Organizations for Medicare Part D recipients. They will provide medication therapy management services, and will be reimbursed for their time. But still, the expansion is not yet what had once been predicted.
Many of those enrolling in six-year programs do so as teenagers. They choose the field while still in high school, and many come from families where a salary like the one promised to pharmacists—$100,000 a year, and up—is an unbelievable accomplishment. The debt they will incur pales in comparison to the promised salary, and often, the outlook they set out with does not hold true.
That was the case for Diana Gritsenko, a warm and outgoing student going into the final year of a six-year program. She began considering pharmacy at a career path at a friend’s suggestion days before the application deadline, and it “just clicked.” She submitted her sole application to St. John’s. “It was the most frantic career researching I’ve ever done,” she recalls.
“I really like talking to people, and I like being around people. I like being really helpful,” Gritsenko tells me. She had planned to study biology, but the programs she looked at before her pharmacy epiphany were focused on lab work. Pharmacy would allow her to focus on people. And, the older pharmacists she consulted assured her that work was easy to find.
But Gritsenko entered pharmacy school just as supply was beginning to meet demand. She will graduate with about $120,000 of debt, which she tries to minimize by working part-time on top of a full 40-hour workweek of pharmacy school rotations. “And whatever money I need for living expenses, I’ll add a little extra to the private loan,” she says.
Now that she’s in school, Gritsenko sees that job prospects are not as plentiful as she had hoped. Many of her friends have had trouble finding full-time work. “You know, the ideal job to have when you graduate is a full time job, with benefits, preferably nine to five but with some evening shifts, the occasional weekend,” she says. “In most cases, though, a lot of my friends had to have a bunch of part time jobs, or per diem jobs.” Yet another friend is graduating with close to $300,000 in debt.
Many careers have their moment in the spotlight, but few have as much institutional support for expansion as pharmacy has. Daniel Brown has suggested that institutions came to see pharmacy as a sort of “golden goose”—a never-ending supply of eager students, willing to take on loads of debt for a seemingly never-ending supply of jobs. (For context, a 2013 survey of pharmacy graduates found that the average debt load at graduation was $133,694, going up to $152,901 for private schools.)
The key is being able to pay off those loans. Though Brown doesn’t dispute that an increase to about 10,000 graduates annually was warranted, the number is instead expected to top 14,000 a year shortly, with no end in sight. With each year, thousands more pharmacists than needed are entering the workforce, driving up competition for jobs. Before long, jobs will not only be hard to come by—for many young pharmacists, they may not exist. “The math is not complicated, which suggests that it may have been overlooked due to the lure of economic gain,” he wrote in a 2013 article:
The health needs of aging baby boomers and the Affordable Care Act could serve as mitigating factors to increase the demand side of the pharmacy manpower equation, though it is likely to be a matter of “too little too late.” Even if the job market is able to accommodate up to 12,000 graduates a year for the next several years, that still translates into at least 3,000 graduates each year who will not find suitable employment—20% of the cohort of new graduates! Despite the overall unemployment rate for the profession remaining relatively low, the joblessness rate among new graduates could be staggeringly high.
Those hardest hit would be young people just out of college, with mountains of debt. None of them expected 4 in 5 odds of employment upon graduation. By the time first-year unemployment rates reach that 20 percent number, six additional years of pharmacy graduates will have already begun studying for their degrees.
What makes the situation in pharmacy slightly more sinister than a comparable crisis in law is that students commit to many of these six-year programs straight out of high school. (About half of graduating pharmacists each year are aged 25 or under.) Not only do they have little understanding of what such a debt load may mean for them, but they also tend to rely more heavily on the suggestions of parents and friends. And, even if they made the decision to pursue pharmacy through their own research, the rapid growth in the number of pharmacists means many are gambling on a job market six years into the future. Further, while a law degree can be useful in a wide range of professions, including business and consulting, pharmacy degrees have relatively narrow purposes: PharmDs are equipped to oversee the dispensation of medication and counsel patients on how to take it and its effects.
Gritsenko messaged me again a week after our interview: “Thought I should let you know that NYS is planning on opening three more pharmacy schools," adding "that would bump New York’s total number of pharmacy schools up to ten” with a sad-face emoticon at the end. With her friends already unable to find full-time positions, the three new schools and hundreds of new pharmacists could worsen the situation even more. “Some of us students are thinking of starting a petition but that's going to take time and not sure if they'll really do anything with [it].”
In New York, where she lives and hopes to work, there is already a surplus of graduates, based on data employers are reporting to the Pharmacy Manpower Project. Overall, the state has just a moderate surplus, but jobs in New York City are far more competitive than those upstate.
Popovich, for his part, also worries about the quality of pharmacists. The proliferation of new schools has also created a new demand for pharmacy faculty members. Though Popovich, a professor of more than 30 years, praises the curricula he’s seen at many of these new schools, the fact remains that there were only so many faculty members circulating when the boom hit. Schools now have to draw from the pharmaceutical industry and from recent graduates. Paradoxically, the demand for new faculty positions has helped mask some of the surplus graduates. They have been put to work teaching at the more than 60 new schools.
And there’s little incentive for schools to slow down this expansion. PharmD students are cash cows, taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and often committing to a longer course of study. (At St. John’s University, for instance, the last two years count as professional education, and many students pay entirely out-of-pocket.) Though for-profit institutions are not as prevalent in pharmacy as other fields like law, more have been cropping up in recent years. Setting up a pharmacy school does not require the same large-scale investment in equipment as setting up medical or dental schools, but it brings in the same type of eager students.
Some of the new, for-profit institutions offer a five-year first professional degree that covers both undergraduate and graduate training, or a three-year professional degree. These programs help them stay competitive by allowing students to save a year’s tuition on their education, but raise quality concerns. “I think for a doctorate degree, that’s too short,” Popovich says of these programs. While pharmacy programs used to be five-year bachelors degrees, they grew longer as they added provider status to the curricula. Typically, students in six-year programs now devote a whole year not to taking classes but to being out in the field, working alongside pharmacists and getting first-hand experience in pharmacy’s many areas.
Those skills were at the core of the projected growth for pharmacists 15 years ago, but today, only about half of states reimburse pharmacists for some medical services. Many more states and services would be covered if they were recognized as providers federally, through changing the Social Security Act. A bill currently pending in the House of Representatives, HR4190, seeks to expand the role of pharmacists on a national level. Sponsored by Kentucky’s Brett Guthrie, the resolution will amend Medicare benefits legislation in order to allow pharmacists to provide (and be reimbursed for) services provided to patients in specially defined medically underserved communities.
It’s not clear when, or if, that bill will pass. Lucinda Maine, head of the pharmacy membership organization American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, acknowledges that it was introduced quite late in the 113th Congress, with little chance of passing before the next time around. Even if it does pass, the language of the bill means it will affect a narrow part of the population—by and large, pharmacists still won’t be able to fully deploy the skills their new degree grants.
As for Pak, his interests have developed somewhat from when he first applied to pharmacy programs as a teenager. When the professional years hit and he began questioning his choice to pursue a PharmD, he had invested too much time and money to drop out. Eventually, he found a home for his interests in research, and his eyes light up when he talks about it. (He was recently accepted into a research position at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.)
But the PharmD degree is so narrow that most of the research that falls under its purview is clinical trials. In order to pursue the kind of research he is most interested in, Pak will likely have to pursue further education and get a PhD.
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STOP! DO NOT GO TO PHARMACY SCHOOL BEFORE READING THIS.
samedi 30 janvier 2016
Telling med school about children on secondary or during interview
I've conducted hundreds of interviews in another profession, and I can say it goes both ways. A single parent that consistently mentions their child is someone that raises a red flag, because it comes off as desperation -- someone that needs the job, as opposed to really wanting it. Most of the positions mandated 70+ hour work weeks, and while the time sink of a child was a consideration I can also say that aspect didn't affect the decision making process as much as the true motivation for their career choice. Let's be honest, though; an employer does not want to deal with you being MIA for several days due to a sick child if it's very time sensitive work. So making clear mention of your support system is also of vital importance.
On occasion, though, I have seen it significantly benefit an applicant if it was presented the right way. Someone with a spouse, and a child, and has already seen success in other jobs, definitely presents as a more mature and stable person than a bachelor that recently graduated. I've also seen people change when they have children, and as a result develop a new-found motivation on life which can be an asset if utilized correctly.
Bottom line: As a general rule I would say it's more trouble than it's worth to mention it, but in the right circumstances it can be done in a way that will help your application. If you're a single parent, though, I would not mention it in a "look at me juggle!" kind of way. Broken homes are not seen as impressive, no matter how harsh that sounds.
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Telling med school about children on secondary or during interview
2015-2016 APPIC Internship Interview Thread
-Site name & Match ID number
-Track (if applicable)
-Invite or rejection
-Date notified
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone)
-Interview date
-What you've done lately to cope with this crazy internship process
Thank you to everyone who provided updates on notifications for the past couple of months. Feel free to keep sending me notifications if there are anymore that come in. I wish everyone well during the interview phase and look forward to hearing where everyone matches. Best of luck!
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Updated on 12-28-15 (New posts in bold; updates for a site in blue)
Invitations to Interview:
AHRC New York City (1708); 11/24 mass; interview - 12/15, 12/29, 1/12
Adler Juvenile Justice Internship (1254); 12/10 personal; interview - they'll contact to schedule
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (1263); 12/4 personal, no interview dates given
Agnesian Healthcare (2261); 12/14 personal; interview - 1/6
Alaska Psych Internship Consortium (2149); 12/8 mass (family medicine residency/providence family medicine center & Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API) general track); interview (family med & general) - 1/19, 1/20, 1/21
Alaska VA Healthcare System (2067); 12/16 mass; interview - they will email on 12/23 with dates/times for 1 hour phone interview
Albany Consortium (1440); 12/10 & 12/11 mass; interview - week of 1/11 (5 slots per day)
Albert Eistein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center (1443); 12/1 mass (combined, child, adult); interview (combined) - 1/4, 1/5, 1/8; interview (child) - 1/6, 1/12, 1/14, interview (adult) - 1/13, 1/15, 1/19
Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital (1273); 12/3 (neuro & sleep), 12/9 personal (eating disorders/self-injury), 12/21 personal (child/adolescent); interview (neuro) - 1/15; interview (sleep) - 1/21; interview (ED & SIB) - 1/11; interview (child/adolescent) - 1/27
Alfred I. DuPont/Nemours (1197); 11/24 mass; interview - 12/10, 1/4, 1/8
Allegheny General Hospital (1540); 12/10 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29
Alpert Medical School of Brown Univ Clinical Training Consortium (1551); 11/30 mass (adult, child, juvenile justice, & health psych/behav med); interview (adult) - 1/4, 1/5, 1/11, 1/12, 1/19; interview (child) - 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15, 1/20; interview (juvenile justice) - 1/8, 1/11, 1/2o; interview (health psych/behav med) - 1/5, 1/8, 1/11, 1/14
American UCC (1778); 12/3 mass
Ancora Hospital (1422); 12/8
Ann Arbor VA; 12/17 phone; open house - 1/13, 1/20
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (1257); 11/25 personal; interview - 1/7
Appalachian Psychology Internship (2304); 12/23 personal; interview - 1/28
Appalachian State UCC (1406); 11/30, 12/3, & 12/10 phone; interview - skype - 1/4; on-site - 1/5, 1/6, 1/7
Applewood Centers (1506); 11/30 phone; 1/8, 1/11 (morning or afternoon slots)
Arizona State UCC (1109); 12/10 mass; interview (phone) - throughout January
Arkansas State Hospital (1104); 11/20 mass; interview - 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
AspenPointe Behavioral Health Services (1994); 12/11 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/12, 1/21, 1/22
Astor (1488); 12/10 personal (day tx - Bronx); interview (day tx Bronx) - 1/5, 1/26
Atascadero State Hospital (1113); 12/2 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
Atlanta VAMC (1235); 12/11 mass; interviews - 1/11-1/14
Aurora Mental Health Center (1692); 12/2 & 12/7 personal (child); interview - 1/4, 1/5, 1/8
Ball State UCC (1297); 12/3 mass; interview (Skype) - 12/3, 1/11, 1/13, 1/14, 1/15
Baltimore VA (VAMHCS/UM SOM Psychology Internship Consortium (1347); 11/25 mass (neuro, trauma, comprehensive tracks, health psych, school mental health, both SMI tracks, & child outpatient); interview (neuro & comprehensive) - 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28; interview (trauma & both SMI tracks) - 1/21, 1/28; interview (child outpatient) - 1/21
Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital/ Department of Behavioral Medicine (205213); Pediatric Neuropsychology; 11/19 personal; interviews – 12/14, 12/16, 1/11, 1/13; interview (school mental health) - 1/7; interview (child outpatient) - 1/21
Baruch College CC (1785); 11/16 & 11/18 mass; interview 11/18, 11/20, 12/2, 12/4, 12/9, 12/11, 1/29
Bath VAMC (234411); 11/19 mass; interview – 1/8, 1/11
Battle Creek VA (1361); 12/11 mass (general & primary care tracks); interview (person or phone, general track) - 1/7, 1/13, 1/19, 1/20; interview (primary care) - 1/7, 1/12, 1/13, 1/19
Bay Pines VAHCS (1198); 12/1 personal (general); interview - 1/7, 1/14
Baylor College of Medicine (1577); 12/4 personal (Menninger adult/adolescent); interview (Menninger) - 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15, 1/22, 1/25
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital (1948); 11/23 personal (Track I: Clinical Child/Pediatric Health Psychology), 12/3 (ped neuro); interview (Track I) - 1/8, 1/15, 1/22; interview (ped neuro) - 1/22
Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department (1946); 12/15 mass; interview - 1/11, 1/13, 1/15, 1/18, 1/20, 1/22
Boise VAMC (2166); 12/7 mass (neuro & general); interview - 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
Boston Children's Hospital; 12/14 personal; interview - 12/21, 1/4, 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15
Boston Univ, Danielsen Institute (1327); 11/30 personal; interview - 1/8
Boston Univ Medical Campus/Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (1326); 11/10 & 11/20 personal; interview - 11/19, 12/3 (have other dates later, but sounded as if they were scheduling as needed)
Boston VAHCS (1325); 11/25 personal (PTSD, general, inpatient mental health, neuro); interview (all tracks) - 12/10, 12/14, 12/18, 1/6, 1/13, 1/19
Bridge View/Challenger Day Schools (1271); 12/10 mass; interview - will send email next week w/ link to schedule interview
Bronx VA (1446); 12/15 email; interview - 1/8 open house, interviews scheduled next week
Brooke Army Medical Center (1738); 11/9 personal; interview - 12/4, 12/7
Broughton State Psychiatric Hospital (1415); 12/1 personal; interview - 12/8, 12/11, 1/8, 1/15
Butler UCC (1293); 12/10 mass; interview - 1/21, 1/22, 1/25, 1/26
Calgary Clinical Psych Residency (1802); 12/4 notification
California Consortium (1119); 11/22 personal (Fresno State Center CC), 12/14 mass (Porterville Developmental Center); interview (Fresno State) - 1/14, 1/15, 1/21, 1/22; DSH-Coalinga, CA: 12/11 email; interview - 1/22, 1/25, 1/26 AM and PM slots; Sutter Center for Psychiatry: 12/11 mass & personal; interview - 1/4, 1/6, 1/7 AM & PM slots; interview (Porterville) - 1/5, 1/11, 1/13, 1/25, 1/27
California Pacific Medical Center (2262); 12/11 phone; interview - multiple January dates
California Psych Internship Consortium (1119), Psychological Services Center; 12/2 mass; interview (phone) - 12/16, 1/6, 1/13; interview (onsite) - 1/20
California State Prisons, Sacramento; 12/15 phone; interview - 1/13, 1/14, 1/20
California State Univ, Northridge, Counseling Center; 12/15
California State Univ, Long Beach (1127); 12/7 mass; interview - 12/16, 12/17
Cambridge Health Alliance (1334); 12/4 personal (child/adult combo track), 12/7 personal (wiley/child), 12/8 personal (cultural/linguistic), 12/9 personal (adult); interviews (child/adult combo track) - 12/14, 12/15, 12/16, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6 ; interview (wiley/child) - 12/15, 12/17, 1/5, 1/7; interview (cultural/linguistic) - 12/16, 12/17, 1/6, 1/7, 1/11; interview (adult) - 12/14, 12/15, 12/16, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/11
Canandaigua VA Medical Center; 12/24 personal; interview - 1/15, 1/29
Captain James A Lovell Federal Healthcare Center/Psychology Service (116B) (1280); 12/1 personal; interview - 12/14, 1/8, 1/13
Carle Foundation Hospital (2270); 12/11 personal (generalist); interview (skype) - beginning week of Jan. 4th
Carlos Albizu Univ, Miami; 12/15; interview - 1/11
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families (11526); 11/18 mass, 11/20; interview – 12/11, 12/14, 1/8, 1/15, 1/19, 1/22, 1/29
Case Western Reserve Univ (2177); 12/17 personal; interview - 1/8-1/15
Catholic Univ (1910); 12/3 mass; interview - 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7
Center for Behavioral Medicine (1393); 11/12 personal; interview - Monday mornings 11/30 through January (call to set up time)
Centerstone Consortium/Psychology Department (1967); 12/7 mass (Centerstone Hospital outpatient generalist (child/adult)); interview - 12/18, 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/29
Central Alabama VAHCS (CAVHCS) (1936); 11/25 mass; interview - 12/10, 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
Central Arkansas VAHCS (1105); 11/25 mass; interview - 12/11, 12/17, 1/8, 1/14, 1/22
Central California Psych Internship Consortium, DHS-Coalinga (1119); 12/11, 12/12 mass; interview - 1/22, 1/25, 1/26
Central Regional Hospital (1908); 12/7 mass (adult & child-youth focus), 12/8 mass (forensic, neuro, & gero); interview (all tracks) - 1/11, 1/14, 1/19, 1/22
Central Texas VA (1591); 12/14 mass (all tracks); interview - 1/4, 1/6, 1/8 (all tracks)
Central Washington Univ - Student Medical & Counseling Clinic (1730); 12/1 personal; interview - 12/15, 12/16, 12/17, 12/18 (Skype/phone)
Central Western Mass VAMC (1335); 11/25 (WIT & general); interview (WIT) - 1/7, 1/12; interview (general) - 1/6, 1/8, 1/11
Charles George (Asheville) VA (2066): 11/21 phone; interview - 1/7, 1/14
Charleston Consortium (1552); 11/17 personal (child), 11/18 personal (applied to the Adult Track and the Traumatic Stress Track. I wasn't told which I was being interviewed for); 11/23 personal (general & behavioral medicine emphasis (155214), 11/24 personal (neuro), 11/30 (substance abuse); interview (ALL TRACKS) - 12/7, 12/11, 12/14, 1/4, 1/8, 1/9, 1/11, 1/15, 1/18, 1/22, 1/23, 1/25 (update on 11/30 - remaining dates include 1/8, 1/9, 1/15, 1/18)
Cherokee Health Systems (Knoxville, TN) (1324); 11/18 mass; interview – 1/8, 1/11
Cheyenne VA (2302); 12/14 personal; interview - 1/8, 1/12, 1/19, 1/22
Chicago Area Christian Training Consortium (CACTC) (1673); 12/7 mass; interview - 1/15, 1/122
Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health (1502); 12/7 phone; interview - 1/4, 1/11, 1/22
Child and Family Guidance Center (1143); 12/8 personal; interview - 12/14-12/23, 1/4, 1/28
Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota (1379); 11/13 email; interview - 12/17
Children's Hospital Colorado (1171); 11/30 mass (pediatric health & integrated primary care); interview (pediatric health & integrated primary care) - 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15
Children's Hospital of Orange County (1146); 12/9 personal; interview - 1/6, 1/8, 1/11, 1/14, 1/18, 1/21, 1/22
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP, 1538); 12/4 mass (ASD track), 12/7 (behavioral health integrated care); interviews (ASD track & behav health): 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
Children's Mercy Kansas City (1390); child clinical; 11/12 phone; interview - 1/11, 1/12
Children's National Medical Center (1187); 11/23 phone; interview – 1/6, 1/13
Chillicothe VAMC (2204); 12/4 mass; interview - 12/17, 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
Christian Psychotherapy Services (1392); 12/22 email; interview - TBD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital (1503); Child clinical; 11/10 & 11/18 personal; interview - 12/18
Cincinnati VA (1504); health track, trauma, general; 11/20 mass; interview (all tracks) – 12/9, 12/14, 1/5, 1/13, 1/21
Citrus Health Network (1217); 12/15; interview 1/6, 1/13, 1/20
Clemson Univ (1720); 12/14 mass; interview (phone) - 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8
Cleveland State Univ (1920); 12/15 phone; interview - 1/7 (phone)
Coatesville VAMC (1529); 12/1 mass (neuro), 12/14 mass (general); interview - it looks like they're inviting students in blocks until they fit in all interview slots on their schedule - applicant who received notice scheduled for 1/6; interview (general) - 12/18, 12/29, 1/4, 1/6, 1/14, 1/15, 1/19
College of William and Mary CC (2072); 12/14 personal; interview (in person or phone) - 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/12, 1/14
Colorado Department of Corrections (1795); 12/8; interview - 1/7, 1/13, 1/15
Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan/Department of Psychology (1172); 12/10 mass; interview - 1/5, 1/6, 1/12, 1/13
Colorado Psych Internship Consortium (CO-PIC; 2324); 12/10 personal; interview - 1/20, 1/21; site visits - 1/19, 1/22
Colorado State Univ Health Network (1177); 12/11 personal; interview - follow up email will provide instructions on interviews
Columbia Univ Medical Center (1465); 12/3 phone (adult); interview - 12/15, 12/22
Community Reach Center (1170); 12/10 personal; interview - 1/6, 1/13, 1/20
Comprehensive Outpatient Recovery (2314); 12/11 personal; interview - 1/11, 1/13, 1/14, 1/15
Connecticut Valley Psych Internship Program at River Valley Services (1182); 12/14 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/11, 1/12
Connections Day School (1777); 12/15 mass; interviews - 1/5, 1/6, 1/11, 1/13, 1/19, 1/20 (3 spots per day, 9AM, 11AM, 1PM)
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VAMC, Philadelphia VA (2173); 12/7 mass; interview - 12/18, 12/21, 12/22, 1/4, 1/5
Cypress Fairbanks ISD (1578); 12/3 mass; interview: 1/5, 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/14
Dallas ISD (1571); 12/9 mass; interview - 1/7, 1/13, 1/19, 1/25
Dartmouth Geisel School (1420); 11/19 personal (child), 11/23 personal (neuropsych), 12/1 mass (child/family); interview (child) - 1/19; interview (neur0) - 1/20, 1/25
Dayton VA (1512); 12/3 mass (neuro); interview - 1/6, 1/12, 1/14
Denver Health (1173); 11/20 mass (Adult Psychology), 12/10 mass (health), 12/11 email (child); interview (adult psych) – 12/15 (if you can't make that one they will have another date in January - date TBD by 12/11); interview (health) - 1/6, 1/11, 1/26; interview (child) - 1/11
Department of State Hospitals - Vacaville (DSH-V; 1169); 12/14 personal; interview - 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
Detroit VA (1365); 12/2 mass; interview - 12/18, 1/11, 1/18
Devereux (1548); 12/4 mass; interview: 1/6, 1/8, 1/13, 1/15, 1/20
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services (1116); 12/1 personal; interview/open house - 1/4, 1/11
Drexel UCC (2260); 12/9 mass; interview - 1/7, 1/12, 1/14
Duke Univ Medical Center (1413); 11/23 mass (CBT, Health Cancer Behavioral Management (141326), child tracks); interview (CBT) – 1/15; interview (Health Cancer) – 1/15; interview (child) – 1/21
Durham VA (1414); 11/20 mass; interview - 12/8, 12/9, 1/13, 1/19
Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (1236); 11/8 personal; interview - 12/11, 12/14
Eastern Colorado Health Care System Denver VAMC(1174); 11/30 phone (general), 12/14 phone (gero); interview - 1/4, 1/11, 1/25
Eastern Kansas Healthcare System, VAMC (Topeka) (1304); 11/17 personal; 1/7, 1/8, 1/14, 1/15
Eastern Kansas Healthcare System, VAMC (Leavenworth) (1304); 11/30 personal; interview - 1/8, 1/15
Eastern Virginia Medical School (1607); 12/1 personal (adult inpatient/med hospital line & adult inpatient/medical track); interview (adult inpatient/med hospital line) - 1/11, 1/19, 1/25 ; interview (adult inpatient/medical track) - 1/19, 1/25
Edison Court, Ravenhill Psychological Services, Doylestown, PA (2257); 11/25 phone; interview - 12/4 (full), 12/11, 12/21 from 11-2:30 pm.
Edith Nourse Rogers VA (1322); 12/13 mass; open house 1/7, 1/12, 1/14, 1/19
Elmhurst Hospital Center; 12/15 personal; interview - 1/7, 1/8, 1/12
Emory Univ School of Medicine (1230); 1/23 person (neuropsych, e-mail said 1 of 4 positions, so I am assuming it means both peds/adult and adult/geri), 12/9 (general & trauma); interview – 12/11, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22; interview (general & trauma) - 1/6, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15, 1/21
Fargo VAHCS (2207); 12/3 mass; interview - 1/4, 1/11, 1/25
Faulk Center for Counseling (1199); 12/8 phone; interview - have to call to get interview dates
FCC Butner; inpatient forensic & general (1407); 11/9 mass - invitation for USAJobs app; 12/3 mass (forensic); interview dates not provided
FCC in Petersburg, VA (2169); invitation to complete USAjobs screening (no additional details)
FCI, Terminal Island (11469); 11/9 personal; invitation for usajobs process
Florida State Univ/Louise R. Goldhagen Regional Multidisciplinary Evaluation and Consulting Center (1224); 11/20 personal; interview - 12/14
Florida Atlantic UCC (2282); 12/4 mass; interview (in person or Skype) - 1/4-1/7
Florida International (1767); 12/12 mass; interview - 12/21-12/28, week of 1/8
FMC Devens (1722); 11/9 mass (inpatient forensic & general) - invitation to complete USAjobs app/tentative interview; 12/1 personal - interview offer; interview - Mondays & Fridays in January
FMC Lexington (1311); 11/9 mass - invite to complete USAjobs app; 12/3 mass interview invite; interview - call to schedule, no dates provided in email
FMC Rochester (1385); 11/9 mass (inpatient forensic & general tracks) - invitation to complete USAjobs app; 12/3 mass interview invites; interviews - 1/19-1/25
Fort Worth ISD(1651); 12/3 mass; interview - 1/5, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
Franciscan Hospital for Children (1328); 12/5 personal (school); interview (school) - 1/12, 1/19
Friends Hospital (153511); Adult & child; 11/20 mass (adult & child); interview (adult & child) – 12/17, 12/18, 1/8
Frontier Health Services (2182); 12/11 personal (adult); interview - 1/13, 1/14 (adult)
FSU CC (1223); 11/30 mass; interview - 18 skype dates offered 12/10-12/18 and 18 onsite dates offered 1/5-1/15
Fulton State Hospital (1783); Forensic Evaluation; 11/10 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/11, 1/22, 1/25
Geisinger Medical Center (1503); 11/16 mass (child), 11/17 phone, (adult/health), 11/20 mass (neuro), 11/24 personal (adult); interview (child) - 12/14, 12/18, 12/21, 1/11, 1/18, 1/22; interview (adult/health) - 12/11, 12/14, 1/8, 1/11; interview (neuro) - 12/14, 12/21, 12/22, 1/11; interview (adult) - 12/18, 1/8, 1/11
George Mason UCC (2057); 12/11 mass; interview - TBD
George Washington UCC (1189); 11/24 personal, interview - 12/17, 12/18, 12/21, 12/22
Georgia Southern UCC (2146); 12/2 phone; interview - (on site) 1/4, 1/8 & (skype) 1/5, 1/6, 1/7
Georgia State Univ Counseling & Testing Center (1231); 12/11 personal; interview - Dec 14-Jan 14 (via video conference)
Georgia Tech UCC (2012); 12/9 personal; interview (skype/phone) - January, Training Director will call to schedule
Girard Medical Center (2298); 12/2 mass; interview - 1/18, 1/22, 1/25
Green Chimney's Children's Services in Brewster, NY (2058); 11/17 mass; interview – 12/7, 12/10, 12/14, 12/17
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (1425); 11/25 mass; interview - 12/7, 12/8, 12/9
Guidance Center in Long Beach (1128); 11/24 email; open house - 1/11, 1/20; interview - 1/12, 1/13, 1/21, 1/22
Guidance Center in Kansas (2102); 12/13 mass; interview - 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29
Gulf Coast VA (1401); 12/7 mass; interview - 1/6, 1/8, 1/11, 1/13
Halifax QEII Clinical Psych Residency (1813); 12/7 mass (health psych); interview - 1/18-1/28
HAPTC-Central Region (1925); 12/1 personal (family psychology of Springfield); interview (family psych) - 12/18
Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess (1331); General; 11/17 personal, 12/1 & 12/3 (PREP & general); interview – 12/14 (general), 1/11 (PREP & General)
Harvard/MGH (1329); 11/9 personal (behavioral medicine), 11/17 phone (adult clinical psychology), 11/21 phone (neuropsych), 11/23 personal (CBT), 11/24 phone (child); interviews (behavioral medicine) - 1/5, 1/12; interviews (adult clinical psych) - 1/4, 1/11; interview (neuropsych) - 1/7, 1/14; interview (CBT) - 1/8, 1/15; interview (child) - 1/6
Headway Emotional Health Services (2281); 12/14 mass; interview - 1/14
HealthEast Care System (2301); 12/9 mass (no track); interview - 1/5, 1/6
HealthPoint (2044); 12/7 mass; interview - 1/22
Heart of America Psychology Training Consortium (HAPTC), Great Lakes Region (2288); 12/1 personal (Four County Counseling Center & Wabach Valley Alliance); interview (4 county & Wabash Valley) - 12/18
Hefner VAMC, Salisbury, NC (1756); 12/14 mass (health psych); interview - 1/4, 1/6, 1/11, 1/13, 1/15
Help Group (1164); 12/10 mass; open house - 1/6, 1/11, 1/20; interview - Mon-Thurs 1/4-1/21
Hennepin County Medical Center (1380); 11/24 personal; open house - 1/4
Henry Ford Health Sciences (1364); 11/16 mass (health psychology/consultation liaison), 11/18 personal (pediatric neuropsych); interview (health psychology)- 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22; interview (pediatric neuropsych) 12/15, 1/7, 1/11, 1/18, 1/21
Hines VA (1275); 12/2 personal (general mental health & interprofessional outpatient mental health) & 12/3 (neuro); interview - 1/4, 1/5, 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/12, 1/15, 1/19, 1/22; interview (neuro) - 1/14, 1/20, 1/21
Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems (1961); 12/8 mass; interview - 1/11, 1/12, 1/15
Houston ISD (1579); 12/10 mass; interview - 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
Howard Univ (1191); 12/21 personal; interview - contact to schedule
Huntington VAMC (2175); 12/10 personal; interview - 1/4, 1/7, 1/14
Hutchings Psychiatric Center (1494); 12/14 mass; interview - 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/11, 1/13, 1/15, 1/20
I Ola Lahui (2059); 12/15 personal; interview - 1/21, 1/22 in person, skype, or phone
Illinois School Psych Consortium/Illinois State Univ (1132); 12/1 - e-mail just notifying people that they received applications from 80 applicants and that there were 23 spots; 12/11 personal (all tracks) - interview offers; interview - 1/7
Illinois State Univ Student Counseling Services (1279); 12/3 personal; interview - 1/5-1/9 (phone or on-site)
Indiana Univ CAPS (1289); 12/15 personal; call to schedule interview
Indiana Univ School of Medicine (1294); 12/8 mass (generalist open emphasis); interview - 1/5, 1/11
Institute for Child and Family Health (1210); 12/15 mass; interviews - will follow-up to schedule
Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital (1180); 12/4 mass, 12/7 mass (adult), 12/10 mass (CBT); interviews - 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29; interviews (adult) - 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27; interview (CBT) - 1/12, 1/19, 1/26
Integrated Behavioral Health Consortium of Indiana (2220); 12/7 personal (Jane Pauley Community Health Center); interview (Jane Pauley) - 1/12, 1/14
Iowa City VAHCS/Coralville Clinic (2074); 11/27 personal; interview - 12/15, 12/17, 12/21
Iowa State UCC (1245); 12/11 mass; interview - will be contacted to schedule
James A. Haley (Tampa) VA (1225); 11/30 mass (general); interview (general) - 1/8, 1/15, phone interviews also available
James H. Quillen VAMC (Mountain Home VA, 1561);11/18 phone; interview – 12/7
James Madison CC (1649); 11/4 phone (prelim interview), 11/20 phone (invite for in person interview); prelim interview (phone) - 11/10; in person interview - 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8
Jefferson Center (2180); 12/15 mass; interview - Jan 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20
Jefferson County Internship Consortium (1313); 12/14 mass; interview - 1/15, 1/22, 1/25
Jesse Brown VAMC, Chicago (1268); 11/23 mass (general), 11/27 mass (health psych); interview (general) – 1/4, 1/6, 1/11, 1/19, 1/25, 1/26, 1/27; interview (health) - 1/13, 1/20
Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA; 1482); 12/10 (all tracks); interview - 1/7, 1/12, 1/19
John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (1353); 12/8 phone; interview - every Tues. & Weds. in January
Johns Hopkins UCC (1669); 12/14 personal; interviews 1/4, 1/5, 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/12, 1/14, 1/15, 1/19, 1/21, 1/22
Kaiser Permanente, Fresno (2106); 11/25 personal; interview - 1/4, 1/5, 1/11, 1/12, 1/18, 1/19, 1/25
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care-San Diego (1118); 11/30 mass; interview - 1/11, 1/13
Kaiser Walnut Creek; 12/26 mass; interview - 1/14, 1/19, 1/29
Kennedy Krieger (1344); 11/23 mass (Child and Family Therapy, pediatrics, & neuro tracks), 11/23 mass (pervasive development disorders); interview (Child and Family Therapy & pervasive dd) – 1/5, 1/11, 1/12, 1/14, 1/21, 1/25
Kern County MH (2009); 12/10 personal; interview - 1/8, 1/22
Kings County Hospital Center (1450); 11/20 personal (child & adolescent); interview (child & adol) - 12/29, 1/8
LA County Dept of Mental Health Correctional and CMH; 12/15; interview - 1/14, 1/5, 1/6, 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/19, 1/20
Lancaster General Health (1986); 11/18 mass; interview - 1/7
LeHigh Univ CAPS (2116); 12/14 mass; interview (in-person or Skype) - 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, 1/12
Lenox Hill Hospital (1471); 11/19 mass; interview – 12/18, 1/8
Lewisville ISD (1585); 12/15 personal; interview - 1/13, 1/20, 1/27
Lexington Kentucky VA (1312); 11/27 phone; interview - 1/8
LIJ/Zucker Hillside (1459); 11/29 mass (adult); interview (adult) - 12/7, 12/9, 12/15, 12/21, 1/4
Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake Schools Internship on Adolescent Clinical and Forensic Psychology (1636); 11/19 personal; interview - 12/18, 1/8, 1/11
Loma Linda School of Medicine (1709); 12/11 mass; interview - 1/11, 1/20, 1/26
Loma Linda VAMC, Jerry L. Pettis VAMC (1126); 11/30 mass; interview - 12/15, 1/5
Long Beach VA (1129); 12/9 mass (general & neuro); interview - 1/6, 1/11, 1/13, 1/20
Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1459); 11/13 mass (neuro), 11/30 email (adult), & 12/4 mass (child); interview (neuro) - 1/5, 1/7, 1/13 (9am or 2pm rounds slots for each day); interview (adult) - 12/7, 12/9, 12/15, 12/21, 1/4; interview (child) - 12/22, 12/28, 1/4, 1/5, 1/11
Louis Stokes VA (1508), Cleveland; 12/2 email stating interview offers will be extended by 12/15, as they are still wading through apps; 12/11 mass (mental health, health, gero, neuro, & rehab tracks); interview (mental health) - 1/4; interview (health) - 1/7; interview (gero, neuro, & rehab) - 1/8
Louisiana School Psych Internship Consortium (1683); 12/1 email; interview - 12/7, 12/14, 1/4, 1/11
Louisiana State Univ Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine (1316); 12/2 personal (adult), 12/9 personal (adult/child), 12/11 personal (child/adult), 12/14 personal; interview (adult) - 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15, 1/22 (though these dates may have changed); interview (child/adult) - 1/11, 1/15, 1/22, 1/25; interview (track unknown) - 1/22, 1/29
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and the Children’s Health Council (1165); 11/19 mass; interview - 1/6, 1/7, 1/11, 1/15
Madison VA (2172); 12/17 personal (gero); interview (gero) - AM and PM half-days on 1/12, 1/19
Mailman Center for Child Development/U Miami School of Medicine (1213); 11/24 personal (all tracks); open house - 1/7, 1/12, 1/15
Maimonides Hospital (1451); 12/9 mass; interview - end of Dec and early to late Jan
Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic & Surgery Center at Joint Base Andrews (1343); 11/15 personal; interview 12/9
Manhattan Psychiatric Center; 12/24 phone; open house - 1/11, 1/19
Marcus Autism Center (1306); 11/30 personal (behav tx); interview (behav tx) - 1/8, 1/14, 1/21; email noted assessment track has not finished reviewing apps
Marin County Health and Human Services (1927); 12/3 (Latino family health, forensic, SMI recovery tracks); interview (Latino family) - 1/7, 1/14; interview (forensic) - 1/15, 1/21, 1/28, 1/29; interview (SMI) - 1/8, 1/13, 1/20, 1/21, 1/28, 1/29
McGuire VAMC (Richmond, VA, 2069); 12/4 mass (all tracks); interview (telephone/V-tel) - 1/4, 1/8, 1/11
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1323); 11/24 personal (adolescent), 11/30 & 12/2 mass(track unspecified), 12/11 personal (adult & unspecified); interview (adolescent) - 12/4 (previous years had multiple dates); interview (track unspecified) - 12/9; interview (adult) - 1/8, 1/22
Medical College of Georgia - Charlie Norwood (Augusta) VAMC (1233); 11/23 phone (General Health Psychology, Medical Psychology HIV/AIDS, Psychology of Women, & forensic tracks); interview – 12/7, 12/11, 12/14, 12/18, 1/4, 1/11, 1/15, 1/22
Memphis VA (1558); 12/14 (neuro & general); interview (both tracks) - 1/8, 1/11, 1/25, 1/29
Mendota Mental Health Institute (1627); 12/11 mass
MercyFirst (1493); 11/13 & 12/9 phone; interview 1/7 (additional dates in Dec & Jan), 1/14, 1/21
MetroHealth (2297); 12/7 mass; interview - 1/18, 1/21, 1/22
Metropolitan Detention Center LA (1133); general track; 11/9 mass; invitation to complete USAjobs app; more info to follow after USAjobs screening is completed
Metropolitan State Hospital (1144); 12/16 mass; interview dates not provided
Miami Univ Student Counseling Service (1515); 12/9 personal; interview - 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
Miami VA (1220); 12/7 mass w/ attachment (health psych & psychiatry, gero); interview - 1/4-1/29 (call to schedule)
Michael E. DeBakey VAMC/Houston VA (1583); 12/4 mass (neuro & general); interview - 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15
Michigan State Univ CC (1369); 12/7 mass; interview (skype) - 1/4-1/7; interview (on-site) - 1/22
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc. (2050); 12/16 personal; interview - 1/12, 1/15
Milton Hershey School (1727); 12/9 mass; interview - 1/5, 1/7, 1/11, 1/13, 1/15, 1/18, 1/20, 1/22
Milwaukee VAMC (1634); 11/23 personal; interview – 12/8, 12/15 (interview day full), 1/7, 1/12; session from 8:30 am – 4 pm
Minneapolis VAHSC (1383); 11/24 personal (neuro & standard), 11/25 (neuro); interview (neuro) - 1/11; interview (standard) - 1/4
Minnesota DOC, MCF-Shakopee (176415); 12/15 personal; interview - to be set up this week
Minnesota Sex Offender Program (2090); 12/10; interview (group) - 1/7
Mississippi State Hospital (1657); 11/25 personal email & phone; interview - 12/18, 1/8, 1/11, 1/15, 1/22
Missouri Health Sciences Psych Consortium (1388); 12/1 phone (Columbia, Missouri VA), 12/14 (UM-DHP neuro); interview - last 4 Fridays in January, 12/4 phone (Truman VA); interview: 1/8, 1/15 (Truman VA); interview (UM-DHP neuro) - last 4 Fridays in January
Momentous Institute/Therapeutic Services (1572); 12/8 & 12/9 personal; interview - 1/6, 1/13, 1/14, 1/19, 1/20
Monterey County Behavioral Health (2205); 12/11 mass (Children’s Division), 12/11 personal; interview - 1/14, 1/15 (Children’s Division)
Morrison Child & Family Services (1524); 12/10 mass; interview - 1/4, 1/21, 1/25
Mount Sinai/Beth Israel Dept. of Psychiatry (1464); 12/8, 12/9, 12/10 phone; interview - 1/8, 1/11, 1/13, as well as additional dates in January
Mount Sinai Hospital, Adolescent Health Center (2013); 12/15 personal
Mount Sinai Medical Center- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (1474); 12/11 personalized; interview - 1/7, 1/11, 1/15, 1/19
Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals (1479); 11/24 email (adult & child), 11/28 mass (adult), 12/18 mass; interview (adult) - 11/30 & 12/11; interview (child) - 12/17, 12/18; interview - 1/15
Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital (1982); 11/19 personal; interview - 12/22
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2015-2016 APPIC Internship Interview Thread
2015-2016 Oakland University (Beaumont) Application Thread
Since the secondary questions have been the same for the last 3 years, I'm willing to bet it's going to be the same again:
Essay #1: What have you done to make your community a better place? (400 Words)
Essay #2: (Optional): Is there anything you want the admissions committee to know about your qualifications for medical school that is not already represented in your application materials? Note: This space is provided for new information only, not to promote qualifications already highlighted in your other materials. (400 Words)
Essay #3: (Optional): Please explain any gaps in your education, if applicable. (400 Words)
Oakland is one of my top choices and where I think I might be competitive, so it is the first secondary that I will pre-write. Any tips on how to approach Essay #1? I'm thinking of going in depth on two activities that I'm involved in. Do they want us to write about medically related activities, or can it be about anything?
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2015-2016 Oakland University (Beaumont) Application Thread
Midwestern University Arizona (AZCOM) Discussion Thread 2015 - 2016
After some digging around the internets, I have some questions I'm hoping current students could shed some light on.
Rotations - I cannot seem to find any list on the website, does one exist? Also, are 3rd year rotations still limited to AZ?
COMLEX / USMLE - Does the school offer any form of review or time for it?
PBL / small groups - Are there many chances for smaller group-work vs lecture style?
Early clinicals - Are there many chances for clinical experiences in 1st and 2nd years?
Thanks! I've seen these questions answered before, but not in a few years. I'm wondering if there have been any changes
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Official 2015-2016 Help Me Rank Megathread
Most important to me: friendly/warm program w/minimal egos, sharp/hard-working/chill co-residents, primarily resident-driven services, fellowship match possibly to GI (but maybe Card or ID)
Rank pls: Stanford, NW, UofChicago, UNC, UVA, UWashington, UWisconsin, Vandy, Baylor, Yale, BIDMC, UCLA, UMichigan, Duke, UCSD, Wash U
Thanks!
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*** The Official LECOM Class of 2020 Interview/Acceptance Thread ***
I was helping a lady with directions at one of my school's pre-professional fairs a couple months ago, and it ended up being a LECOM rep. She was very nice, but she didn't have a lot of information on their graduating class----they just graduated their first one, no?
So what's the latest info on how things turned out for them... academically, pass rates, match rates, etc.?
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*** The Official LECOM Class of 2020 Interview/Acceptance Thread ***
Tufts c/o 2020 Applicants!
I'll add my voice to the chorus---absolutely check out Magoosh. You don't even need to use the paid version for it to be helpful. I used the free flashcard app to review vocab in the week leading up to the test and raised my verbal score from 164 V to 170 V without doing any additional prep. The decks (20 decks of 50 cards each for vocabulary) cover the most commonly tested vocab words, and allow you to weed out the words you already know and mark words you have trouble remembering for additional review. I didn't run into a single piece of vocab on the test that I hadn't learned through these flashcards. Find them here: http://ift.tt/1Q6Y0yj.
I also went through Magoosh's Quant flashcards to see what I might have forgotten over the years, but I would actually recommend Khan Academy instead when it comes to studying for Quant. ETS has a page mapping the subjects tested to the relevant videos/playlists here: http://ift.tt/1jcC6j1. You can play the videos 2x speed to go more quickly through the subjects you remember well. They work through tons of example problems to make sure you really get the application down. This is the only Quant review I did (concentrated in the 3 or 4 days before the test, oops) and I stilled managed to score a 161 Q.
I did, however, find that I ran out of time on the second math section and had to make wild guesses for the last 3 questions--so if doing it over again, I think I would definitely have benefited from taking timed practice tests. It sounds like the Magoosh tests @wheelin2vetmed mentioned above are probably a great resource. I know there are free ones out there too (like these from McGraw Hill: http://ift.tt/1jcC6j3) but I can't speak to their quality.
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RAVE HERE thread
Alright, I've been pretty quiet for a few days, but I've had this post brewing.
I am a ridiculously lucky person.
I have been with my husband for seven years (three months, four days) now, and I love him more, right now as he brushes his teeth in the bathroom around the corner, than I have during any moment that has come to pass. We understand each other and get along in such a way that I can't really explain it without sounding braggish or superior somehow, so I won't. It's remarkable, though, and for this reason alone I feel like I could post here a million times over - once for every minute I've spent with him so far.
Sorry, that was pretty damn squishy. Haha.
On top of that, I have a wonderful house, very little debt, loving parents, friends and family that are dear to me, and three pets that make my life a joy.
Given all this, I refuse to even approach the idea that my life is somehow incomplete or unfulfilled without the privelege of attending a veterinary school, much less consider it. Yes, it's what I have wanted to do for the longest time, and yes, I have spent the last six years thinking of little else... but would another round of rejections really make my life any worse? Could it change what I have now?
I've spent the last few weeks deep in thought about where my priorities lie, and honestly, I'll probably spend a few more. I have no doubts that veterinary medicine is what I want, but I am considering what would, for me, be too much. Like, living separately, etc. etc.
Haha... this began as a rave and ended in a rant. Sorry!
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2015-2016 Johns Hopkins University Application Thread
Incoming MS1 here, so I can't speak on very much aside from my interview and second look experiences – which were awesome. I'm sure the MS2+s will be much better sources. Just want to say that I am pumped to matriculate here and cannot wait to meet (and possibly host!) some of you guys for interviews!
Stats [source]
~6,500 applicants
~4,500 secondaries completed (though no screen)
~600 interviewed (MD) + ~60 interviewed (MSTP)
As per interview day, about 200 are accepted, 200 waitlisted, and 200 rejected.
~250 total acceptances
118 matriculated (10-12 MSTP students)
As per interview day, there is no in-state bias.
2014-2015 Secondary Application (there is no screen)
- If you have already received your bachelor's degree, please describe what you have been doing since graduation, and your plans for the upcoming year. (700 characters)
- If you interrupted your college education for a semester or longer, please describe what you did during that time. (700 characters)
- List any academic honors or awards you have received since entering college: (600 characters)
- Briefly describe your single, most rewarding experience. Feel free to refer to an experience previously described in your AMCAS application. (900 characters)
- Are there any areas of medicine that are of particular interest to you? If so, please comment. (1100 characters)
- Briefly describe a situation where you had to overcome adversity; include lessons learned and how you think it will affect your career as a future physician. (900 characters)
- Briefly describe a situation where you were not in the majority. What did you learn from this experience? (1100 characters)
- If applying to the dual MD/MBA program, please describe your reasons for wishing to obtain this degree. (1100 characters)
*Note: you can discuss experiences already selected as "most meaningful" or discuss entirely different ones; applicants from either approach received interviews and acceptances so do not fret. Yes, the secondary questions are somewhat redundant, but trust me... JHU is worth it.
2014-2015 Important Dates
First secondary: July 2nd, 2014
First interview: August 13th, 2014
First acceptance: December 12th, 2014 via portal update (with email alert)
First waitlist: December 12th, 2014 via portal update (with email alert)
First pre-interview rejection: December 16th, 2014
First acceptance off waitlist: April 19th, 2015
JHU is semi-rolling, so post-interview decisions were relayed solely on Dec 16th, Jan 30th, and March 30th. As per JHU’s Facebook page, waitlist movement should occur by mid-May.
Update Letter Policy
Updates are not accepted pre-interview. Post-interview updates may be sent to Ms. Valerie Mazza at: vmazz[email protected]
Curriculum
Genes to Society 1.5 year condensed preclinical. Preclinical has been P/F since 2009.
- Pass is set to 70%
- Clinicals are graded honours/high pass/pass/fail
- Lectures are non-mandatory and recorded; labs and small group activities have 80% required attendance
One faculty interview, one student interview. Faculty interview is open-file.
Of Note
- As of 2014-2015, JHU offers a $20,500 unit loan and need based aid only. As per interview day, the average graduate debt for the class of 2013 was $108,000 (not including undergrad debt).
- Johns Hopkins Admissions has an informative and frequently-updated Facebook page. Check it out.
- There does not appear to be an internal ranking in the preclinical years. According to this evaluation of MSPEs, the Johns Hopkins’s Dean’s Letter provides: “Incomplete data. The summary paragraph sometimes concludes with a Most Confident and Enthusiastic recommendation, or with a Confident and Enthusiastic recommendation. But there are no appendices that define a student's performance relative to his or her peers.”
Oh, and we have a cool dome.
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2015-2016 Johns Hopkins University Application Thread
2015-2016 Texas A&M Health Science Center Application Thread
As an incoming M1, I wrote this along with a current M2’s insight. I saw a similar post last year on TTUHSC’s thread (credit to them) and thought it was a great idea and huge help! Here are some of the important questions from last year’s thread and what a lot of applicants were curious about when applying. I will update this post as new information is released.
Note: Do NOT make the mistake of waiting for a Texas A&M secondary application invitation. Secondary applications are not by invitation only, they are available to everyone applying. Submit it ASAP, CHECK WITH THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE AFTER A FEW WEEKS (AT ALL SCHOOLS) TO ENSURE THEY HAVE YOUR COMPLETED APPLICATION (some schools have glitches/never received it and applicants never knew until months after and have to re-submit late).
Secondary link: http://ift.tt/1OaEuRH
Secondary app deadline: October 1, 2015
Pictures of TAMHSC B/CS & Round Rock campuses/facilities, and student life: http://ift.tt/1WUzVSQ
(2015) Admissions Statistics of Acceptances:
(will update w/ 2015 entering class matriculants when they are posted, these are preliminary numbers including all acceptances)
- http://ift.tt/1WUzVSS 2015 Report.pdf
Avg MCAT: 32.1
Avg GPA: 3.80
First Interview Invites: begin ~June 20-July 1
Interviews: 848
Acceptances: 387
Matriculated: 200
Tuition+Fees: $16,400 - most (all?) accepted out of state students will pay this in-state tuition – 2nd cheapest medical school in the nation
Prerequisite Courses:
http://ift.tt/1OaEuRH
http://ift.tt/1WUzUOT
Note: Texas A&M requires 3 semester hours of both Biochemistry and Statistics (math or stats department)
Grading/Curriculum/Schedule:
Grading: H/P/F
- Honors: top 15% in each course receive honors
- Pass: 70-100
- Fail: 69 and below
Curriculum:
- 1.5 years pre-clinical/2.5 years clinical curriculum
- All 200 M1’s begin in College Station for 1 year (1.5 years for Houston track) before dispersing to other rotation cities or remaining in B/CS, where they will then finish the last half year of pre-clinical curriculum before beginning rotations.
- All are required to complete a scholarly research project as well as a concentration area (in areas such as public health, global health, rural and community health, leadership and health advocacy, business, law, research, healthcare policy, biotechnology, etc.). If you’re not big into research like me, understand that having a guaranteed (and plenty) of opportunities to graduate with research and a minor will help us greatly for residency applications – we’ll appreciate it come match day for residency.
Schedule:
Labs, clinical correlation lectures, as well as weekly "Intro to Clinical Skills" and "Becoming a Physician" classes (total ~10 hours/week) are the only classes with mandatory attendance. Usually 3 half days per week w/ afternoons off for self-study time. The non-mandatory attendance classes (which constitutes most classes) are all video/audio recorded.
Year 1:
Year II (Pre-Clinical):
Rotation Cities/Hospital Affiliations:
You will submit your campus preferences shortly after Texas match day in February (you rank them 1-5 and justify why you want your preference). Here are some of the hospital affiliates:
~30 students to Houston: #1 hospital in Texas – Methodist Hospital
~50 students to Dallas: #2 hospital in Texas - Baylor Univ Medical Center & Cook Children’s
~50 students to Round Rock/Austin: two tied at #31 hospitals in Texas - St. David's Medical Center in Austin & St. David's Round Rock Medical Center
~40 students to Temple: #10 hospital in Texas/top 15 teaching hospital in the U.S. (Baylor S&W)
~30 students to B/CS: AIM rotation program - St. Joseph Hospital, College Station Medical Center
(Most get their 1st-3rd choice. If you are unhappily assigned your 2nd/3rd choice, you can request a change during M1 year - several have switched already - or just use travel credits to rotate at other hospitals and be away from your assigned city for awhile.)
M.D. Plus Program:
Texas A&M offers the following dual degree programs: M.D., M.D./PhD, M.D./MBA, M.D./MPH, M.D./MS in Medical Science, M.D./MS in Education of Healthcare Professionals.
If interested, (excluding M.D./PhD) you will apply to them once accepted to Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine. If accepted to a dual degree program, you will defer your M1 year, complete the master’s program, and then begin M1 year (5 years total for M.D. + Masters). You may also apply later on if you become interested during medical school. Last year, at least 5 scholarships worth $8,000 were given specifically to M.D. Plus students. This will cover the cost of the M.S. and MPH degrees completely.
(Optional) Medical Spanish / Pre-Matriculation MedCamp Program
For those interested, TAMHSC offers a free, 1 month long pre-matriculation MedCamp program that allows you to get accustomed to medical school prior to officially starting. Your housing and food are also paid for by TAMHSC completely during the program. This experience will allow participants a head-start to medical school by putting you in medical school classes, exposing you to medically relevant experiences, and pairing you with mentors that include faculty and current 2nd year medical students.
TAMHSC also offers a free, 1 month long medical Spanish course "Introductory Spanish for Health Professionals" during the summers, which you will receive a course certificate through the COM’s Office of Medical Education upon completion.
Step 1/Match Lists:
USMLE Step 1 average: 228/99% 1st time pass rate
Free USMLE prep course after MS2 year. A&M also provides USMLE UWorld question bank. We are given 7-8 weeks time off for USMLE Step 1 studying.
2012 match list: (class size was previously smaller than the current 200)
http://ift.tt/1WUzVT2 Texas AM Match.pdf
2013:
http://ift.tt/1WUzUOV Texas AM Match.pdf
2014: You will get a detailed match list, including hospital name, on interview day. Until it's published - Out of 156 students:
12-Anesthisiology, 21-Emergency Med, 12- Family Med, 34-Internal Med, 5-Gen Surgery, 2-Derm, 5-Opthamology, 1- Integrated Plastics, 1-Otolaryngology, 6-Ortho Surgery, 7-Diag Radiology, 2-Rad Oncology, 2-Urology, 1- Vascular Surgery, plus a few others.
Texas A&M University undergraduate affiliation:
As a Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine student, you also have access to Texas A&M University’s undergraduate campus – including rec center, sporting events, intramural sports, libraries, facilities, etc.
For matriculating students, we used “Texas A&M University” federal school code for FAFSA: 003632
Class Environment/Global Health & Clinical Volunteer Opportunities:
I think most TX schools seem pretty supportive, and this definitely holds true for A&M as well. For example, it's just May and the our new entering class has had more class hangouts than I can count already, and set up a shared google drive well before M1 orientation/class even started haha. M1-M4’s have helped us immensely before we even started with housing, class notes, free textbooks, advice, etc. They're awesome.
Students are able to volunteer at the nonprofit, free “Health For All” Clinic in B/CS where you can take patient vitals, history, physical, present to physician, write SOAP notes, etc. Also annual international mission trips available through Global Health Outreach and Christian Medical Association (2014 trips to Peru, Panama, Haiti, Belize, and McAllen), community health hullabaloo, health circus, and others. I will update with more opportunities as I learn about them!
Work/life balance? With 3+ half days every week, these 2 videos from the class of 2014 & 2016 answer that:
Interview Process:
For MD applicants: Two 30 minute 1-on-1 interviews. May be interviewed by MD’s, PhD’s, or current upper level students I believe. (open file – they have access to your MCAT, GPA, & app)
The questions from this page and other TX school pages prepared me perfectly for interviews:
http://ift.tt/1OaEv83
(click "questions" and then "show more responses")
A&M offers student hosts for those interviewing and need a place to stay.
Application Tips:
In addition to applying early, which is the biggest piece of advice you should follow, set yourself apart from others outside of academics/research. There are thousands of applicants who excelled academically, so what makes you different? Talk about and show HOW you are compassionate, HOW & WHY you want to help people. Outside of academics, schools want to see what makes you the caring and selfless physician your app says you will be. Continuous volunteering, shadowing, healthcare experience, involvement with EC’s, etc. can help you answer some of these qualities.
Why Texas A&M?
Additionally, feel free to ask here or PM me or other students why we chose A&M over other schools, or if you need help comparing them like I did last year (I would love to help and answer any questions)! I could write forever on why I chose A&M, I couldn’t be happier that I decided to come here and wouldn’t change my decision at all. A&M is growing rapidly and immensely, and I am excited to be apart of it. Here are a few of the many examples: within the last few years, they gained the top 2 hospitals in Texas as main rotation hospitals, and now the majority of our class will train in 3 of the top 10 hospitals in Texas. In 2015, they just built a brand new gross anatomy, teaching, and research building with offices, teaching labs, specimen rooms, prep areas, tank wash rooms, chemical and specimen storage rooms, locker rooms, etc. This building was designed so that it can be further expanded in the future. Additionally, in 2014, A&M HSC received a 68% increase in federal funding and crossed the $100 million threshold in total annual research expenditures. You will hear all about the ambitious vision/growth at interview day, it’s exciting times.
I encourage you to ask students at any school you interview at why they chose that school, if they’re happy with their decision, and what they do outside of school – I found that most students at all the TX schools seemed pretty honest and extremely helpful. Since most TX schools are pretty similar educationally, find what else is important to you (location, opportunities outside of school, support, etc) and compare them. Finally, any other questions, feel free to ask me, other current students, or A&M admissions - they are extremely welcoming and WANT to help you (they’ll even meet with you individually should you not get accepted to help you improve for the next application cycle). Good luck everyone!
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Tools for starting a private practice
From what I can ascertain in my admittedly limited search, it seems like my state doesn't clearly differentiate PLLCs and LLCs, and I don't think there's any special requirements with the medical board or anything like that. If there were, I'd guess going the solo proprietorship route would make the most sense in someone in my situation (small private practice, no employees).
The address thing remains a bit of a catch because getting an address requires some upfront money, but you won't really have money coming in for a few months.
I'm also curious about the cash only versus insurance thing. In my market, it seems like everyone accepts insurance, so being cash only, especially as a new provider, seems really presumptuous. However, I love the idea of not dealing with insurance, and I've got other more stable sources of income, so I can eat while I'm getting things going.
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Tools for starting a private practice
vendredi 29 janvier 2016
Successful Applicant Stats - Class of 2020
I was going to wait until I've heard back from everywhere I applied until posting in this thread, but I'm too impatient! I'm a third-time applicant, and this is going to be one of those "even if you don't have a perfect application, you can still get accepted!" type of posts, which I definitely appreciated reading the past couple years. Anyway, about me:
23-year-old female, Missouri resident
First attempt (c/o 2018):
Applied: Mizzou, OK State, Purdue
Interviewed: Mizzou
Rejected: Mizzou, OK State (due to a pre-req issue that I overlooked), Purdue
That cycle I applied with only ~250 vet experience hours, and hadn't yet passed organic II (more on that later...). In retrospect I really had no chance getting accepted anywhere that year, but it was good experience being able to familiarize myself with the application process!
Second attempt (c/o 2019):
Applied: Mizzou, OK State, Purdue, Florida, Illinois
Interviewed: Mizzou, Illinois
Waitlisted: Illinois (they either accept or waitlist everyone they interview)
Rejected: Mizzou, OK State (due to a different pre-req issue they didn't tell me about the first time, and which was not clearly explained on their website ), Purdue, Florida
Third attempt (c/o 2020):
Applied: Mizzou, Illinois, Kansas State, SGU, Midwestern
Interviewed: Kansas State
Declined interview: SGU (I had an interview scheduled, but cancelled it after getting accepted to K-State)
Interview waitlist: Midwestern (I also withdrew my application there after getting accepted to K-State)
Rejected: Mizzou. Long story short one of my evaluators was trying to submit his letter on the night of the VMCAS deadline, but there was a glitch with the website and he couldn't submit. Every school I applied to was willing to work with me and have him email them the letter, except for Mizzou, my IS. They don't accept late LORs under any circumstances. I'm still a little bummed, especially to miss out on IS tuition, but there's nothing I can do about it now. I haven't yet received an official rejection from them (they don't send interview invites for IS-ers until early February), but Kathy in the admissions office told me this would disqualify me back in September.
Accepted: Kansas State!!!
(I'm still waiting to hear from Illinois, they should be sending interview invites this week and I'll update this post once I know something!)
Degree: BS in Biology from Missouri State University, psychology minor, graduated May 2014.
Overall GPA: Well, it really depends on how you calculate it, because I had to take organic chem II five times. Yes, five. The first time I got a D (with the same professor I had for organic I -- I got a C in organic I, and he was just a terrible professor. His class average for organic II was around 50%, and he has since been fired), then an F (with a different professor who I just really didn't mesh with), then a D again (with a third professor who was actually decent. I was really close to a C that time), then another F (same professor I failed with the first time), and then finally a B (same professor I got the second D with). I do think a lot of my problem was that I didn't get a good foundation with organic due to the terrible first professor I had, but I didn't blame/mention the professor(s) anywhere on my application or in my interviews. I really should have applied myself better the second time if not the first -- gotten a tutor, gone to the professor for help, studied more/differently, etc. Seriously, don't do what I did. The other large part of my problem was that I had never struggled like this with a class before. I graduated high school with something like a 3.98, and I had a 4.0 my freshman year of undergrad, but then everything fell apart with organic. I was too embarrassed with how much I was struggling to seek help, but also overconfident considering I had taken the class before, so I underestimated how much I needed to study. I addressed this in my explanation statement on VMCAS my second and third attempts, and also put a positive spin on it -- I got a B in biochem, so I don't think I have trouble applying the concepts from organic in more advanced courses, almost all of my other grades are A's or B's, and the semester I finally got a B in organic II I was taking 19 credit hours, working, and holding two officer positions, so I seem to thrive when I have a lot on my plate. This did come up in my interviews (except for Illinois, which was closed file), and I kind of reiterated/rephrased the same things from my explanation statement. I've really learned from the whole mess and improved my study habits, and I'm not going to let anything like that happen again.
Anyway, my cumulative GPA is 3.70 if you only include my final attempt at organic II (FWIW that's the only class I've ever retaken), or 3.42 if you include all attempts.
Science GPA (based on my calculations, each school includes different courses): 3.50 or 3.07, again depending on if you include just latest attempt or all
Last 45 credits: 3.68 or 3.29
GRE: (Q/V/W): 159 (74%)/165 (95%)/5.5 (97%) (On my first attempt after only studying for around two weeks! I'm one of those weird people who's really good at standardized tests...)
Veterinary Experience:
~1800 hours at the time of my most recent application as a vet assistant at an SA clinic. We also see a lot of exotics (birds, rabbits, reptiles, pocket pets) and occasionally take in wildlife. I've still been working there about 20-25 hours a week since applying, but I'm too lazy to add up how many hours I have now. Around October they started training me as a receptionist as well, but obviously that didn't make it on my application, and I don't think I mentioned that in my K-State interview.
~230 hours shadowing and working at a different SA clinic for a couple summers.
~12 hours shadowing at a couple SA clinics in high school, just one-day experiences.
Animal Experience:
40 hour internship at my local zoo
32 hours volunteering at a local shelter
I took a horseback riding class in undergrad.
Research Experience:
None
Non-Animal Employment:
~900 hours at the time of application as a customer care rep in the call center for a well-known chain of outdoor retail stores. I started out on the phones, but I'm now in the email/chat department (I answer emails from and take live chats with customers). I'm also still working there about 20 hours a week. It kinda sucks, but it pays the bills, and schools seemed to like my customer service experience.
~100 hours as a phone survey caller for the sociology department in undergrad
Extracurriculars:
Morale committee member for my undergrad's Dance Marathon benefiting Children's Miracle Network
Phi Eta Sigma national honor society, member for a year and a half, co-induction chair my junior year, secretary my senior year
Tri-Beta biology honor society, member my freshman and sophomore years, event coordinator junior year, vice-president senior year
Pre-Vet Club member
I took dance lessons (ballet, jazz, and modern) 1st-12th grade, and I did competitions junior and senior year of high school.
I was also really involved in Thespians in high school.
Latin Club member freshman and sophomore year of high school
Volunteered at a hospital for a couple summers in high school (specifically in the office of the outpatient surgery center, nothing too exciting)
Volunteered at my local library in high school for another couple summers
Awards/Honors:
One of several salutatorians from my high school graduating class. I was also a Distinguished Graduate (basically had a high GPA and took a lot of AP and other advanced classes) and Distinguished Service Graduate (completed over 200 service hours during HS).
Graduated cum laude from undergrad, and I was on the Dean's List for three semesters
I was a member of the Honors College in undergrad, and I had a scholarship covering my tuition.
I also listed my honor society memberships in this section.
LORs:
My undergrad advisor
My supervisor at my customer service job
The vet I worked with for a couple summers
Personal Statement:
Started out talking about my first cat we adopted when I was ten, and how he was attacked and killed by two neighbor dogs in December 2013. Tied this into my passion for client education, and also discussed my interest in surgery and a couple of the more interesting surgeries I've observed/assisted with. There's a bit more to it, but that's the gist.
Sorry for the long-winded post! I'm not sure what Kansas State saw in me, but I'm so excited, grateful and relieved to finally have an acceptance!
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