Podcasts about unique curriculum

I am taking a week off for family time this week. As a result I decided to air an encore of our most popular med podcast so far in 2019, and it is: Writing for Med School, which I presented at the end of January. It’s an excellent time for this podcast. Many of you are knee-deep in secondaries. Others are starting to think about your personal statement for a 2020-2021 application, the cycle that starts in June. And beginning early, with self-reflection is a great way to start. AMCAS will begin processing applications right around June 1, and you want to be ready. And hopefully by this time next year, you may even have a few interview invitations in your hip pocket. For those of you beyond secondaries, and either awaiting interview invitations or perhaps already having received an interview invitation, I’d like to invite you to Accepted’s next webinar, Ace the MMI, a live Q&A with 2 MMI Experts, Dr. Herman Gordon, former director of Admissions at the University of Arizona Medical School, and Dr. Barry Rothman, founder and former director of several post-bac programs at Cal State San Francisco. Today they are both Accepted consultants who bring their prior experience to bear as they guide our clients preparing for their interviews. And Drs. Gordon and Rothman are happy to share their expertise with you at the webinar on Sept. 17 at 5 PM PT/ 8 PM ET. They have decades of experience in med school admissions, and they will reveal what you can expect and how to prepare for a multiple mini interview, that intimidating MMI. We expect a packed house for the webinar so sign up today! Whether applying this cycle or next, I hope that you have all had a wonderful summer And thanks for listening to Writing for Med School. For the complete show notes, please check out the original blog post. Related Links: • Ace the MMI, upcoming webinar • How to Create Successful Secondary Applications, an on-demand webinar • Secondary Essay Questions and Tips Organized by School • How to Write a Winning Med School Personal Statement • Accepted's Medical Admissions Consulting Related Shows: • Accepted to Med School in Mid October: How Did He Do It? • Get into University of Washington Medical School • All About Duke Medical School’s Unique Curriculum and How to Get In • How to Get Into NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine Subscribe:     Podcast Feed hbspt.cta.load(58291, '724b2ff2-b46c-4656-87b9-4a3e2ecb58e8', {});

I am taking a week off for family time this week and we are airing an encore of our most popular med podcast so far in 2019: Accepted to Med School in Mid-October: How Did He Do It? It’s an excellent time for this podcast. Many of you are planning to work on your med school applications over the spring break or ASAP after final exams. You know that AMCAS will begin processing applications on May 31 and you want to be ready. One of the things that this successful med student did is have an outstanding personal statement. I want to invite you to our next free, live webinar, How to Write a Winning Med School Personal Statement. During the webinar on May 1 at 5 PM PT/ 8 PM ET Lolita Wood-Hill will share her 25 years of experience in pre-health advising and postbac program direction. We expect a packed house for it, so be sure to reserve your spot. I assume that many of you are also taking a spring break right now be it for a day or two or a whole week or more. Have a wonderful time and thanks for listening! For the complete show notes, please check out the original blog post. Related Links: • Get Accepted to Medical School in 2020 • Medical School Acceptance Rates: In-State vs. Out-of-State • School-Specific Secondary Essay Tips • Work with Alicia McNease Nimonkar • Accepted's Medical Admissions Consulting Related Shows: • Get into University of Washington Medical School • Endocrinologist, Writer, and Bollywood Critic Tells Her Story • All About Duke Medical School’s Unique Curriculum and How to Get In • What Do Scribes Do – And How to Become One Subscribe:     Podcast Feed hbspt.cta.load(58291, '1d2df5cf-1a21-4396-91eb-035040f8bc40', {});

Interested in a non-traditional medical path? How about considering a medical program that completely integrates engineering into its curriculum? Carle Illinois College of Medicine might be the right choice for you! Interview with Dr. Nora Few and Dr. William Pluta [Show Summary] Dr. Nora Few and Dr. William Pluta discuss the highly innovative and multi-disciplinary curriculum at the Carle Illinois College Medicine. This fairly new medical school took advantage of the opportunity to design its curriculum from the ground up and integrates engineering and medicine throughout. In this interview we gain insight into the program as well as Carle Illinois’ pioneering approach to medical school admissions. Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Unique Curriculum and Approach to Admissions [Show Notes] Our guests today are Dr. Nora Few and Dr. William Pluta. Dr. Few, who earned her Ph.D. in Health Behavior, has been with the University of Illinois since 1990, including 15 years at the UIC College of Medicine. She became the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first Director of Admissions in 2017 and managed the enrollment of its first class in 2018. Dr. Will Pluta earned his PhD in Educational Psychology at Rutgers University in 2015. From 2012-2015 he worked at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons as an Education, Assessment, and Evaluation Specialist. He then headed to Georgetown Medical for a year as Assistant Dean for Assessment and has been Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first Director of Curriculum since 2017. Dr. Pluta, can you give us an overview of the Carle Illinois med school program? [2:34] It is a four-year curriculum that leads to an MD degree, with a focus on engineering and innovation across the curriculum. We emphasize the development of competent and caring patient-centered physicians. It is a 3-phase program. The first is basic science with engineering built in, introduction to systems and early clinical exposure. The second phase is built around clerkships, with time for electives early on to explore interests, and students are encouraged through the IDEA course to generate innovative ideas to impact healthcare. The third phase has the relatively standard electives around medicine – with the opportunity to specialize, and students are expected to complete a capstone project and data science project. Why combine the teaching of medicine with engineering? [4:51] Engineering has the emphasis on technology, and that is where we see the real opportunity to move medicine forward. What is the IDEA course? [5:21] IDEA stands for Innovation, Design, Engineering and Application, and is a year-long course integrated into the core clerkship period of the curriculum. On Friday afternoons students come together and talk about the challenges they are seeing in their clerkships and work on solutions. Engineering rounds are incorporated with rounds, where an engineer from our faculty will help students think about problems in different ways to promote innovation. The Carle Illinois website says it has a “Paradigm-shifting Curriculum.” How so? [6:47] The critical part is that engineering is built into every part of the program. The emphasis on technology is all part of our mission. We are different in that we have integrated these two subjects from the very beginning. The Carle Illinois Site discuss 4 pillars of its curriculum basic sciences, clinical sciences, engineering and innovation, and medical humanities. Basic and clinical sciences are taught in all med schools. Engineering and innovation are distinctive at Carle Illinois, but including medical humanities as one of the pillars of your curriculum means that Carle Illinois expects it students to use the right side of the brain as well as the left. What is “medical humanities” at Carle Illinois? What role does it play and how is it as important as the other 3 pillars? [8:31] It is critical in how technology helps physicians interact with patien...

Duke Medical School’s Curriculum and Admissions [Show Summary] Dr. Linton Yee, Associate Dean for Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine, shares with us the unique curriculum of the program and the thought process behind it. He also fills us in on what applicants should consider as they fill out their Duke Medical secondary applications, which will make it more likely to be invited for an interview. Interview with Dr. Linton Yee [Show Notes] Our guest today, Dr. Linton Yee, earned his bachelors and MD at the University of Hawaii. He then did his residency in pediatrics at Harbor UCLA Medical Center and a Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. From 1996 to 2007 he practiced and taught pediatric emergency medicine in Hawaii and California before taking a position at Duke University as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine and as a pediatric emergency room physician. He is also Duke Medical’s new Associate Dean for Admissions, having been appointed to the post in May. Dr. Yee, can you give an overview of the Duke Medical’s highly distinctive curriculum? [2:15] The curriculum is a little different than the vast majority of US-based medical schools in that you do the basic sciences in the first year, a clinical year in the second year, a research or advanced degree in your third year, and the last year is the same as most schools, with rotations and other preparations for graduation. The curriculum has been different than most schools for the last 40 years, with the goal to produce leaders in medicine. We believe research works hand in hand with the advancement of clinical medicine. How does Duke Medical condense what many schools take 18 months or more to teach into one year? [3:42] You have to be efficient in how you are presenting material and make it relevant to how students are learning. We put our students in the clinical realm really early, seeing patients even in the first few weeks of school. A lot of it is integrating material, taking fairly complex ideas and clinical scenarios that go back to basic science in order to see relevance to the basic realm. One example I always talk to students about is shock. The definition of shock is inadequate profusion at the cellular level. If you look at that definition, how are you going to treat it? You have to reverse the profusion, so you need flow, so your carrier would be fluid, you need delivery of oxygen, and an energy source. To maximize oxygen, you need a pump to circulate what is carrying oxygen and fluids, and you need to maintain pump stability. You learn a lot of this stuff in basic biology in junior high school. You have a complex clinical scenario that you actually knew how to treat way back when, you just didn’t know how to integrate it. Can you give me a few examples of how students spend their 3rd year at Duke Medical? [11:52] The goal of the third year is to choose their own direction. Most of their academic life to this point has been pre-determined, so allowing them to choose is key in determining their thought process and ability to think critically and objectively about things. Some examples are we have a scholarship to Singapore to do infectious disease research. A lot of students do work in Tanzania as well. People have gone to Geneva to the World Health Organization, or gone to the London School of Economics for a masters there, and people go all over the place for research opportunities - it is pretty much an open book. We have people do MBAs, Divinity degrees, or an MPH. Not too many people go the JD route but every now and then we do have a student that does that. Let’s turn to medical school admission, your secondary application is one of the more thorough and demanding secondary applications. This year, old questions 5 & 6 were removed and Duke added several – from what I can see ( 1,2,7, 8 and 9).

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