To Be...A Spartan MD

Second-year student and  content contributor  for the admissions office , Harminder Sandhu, is taking his experience as a current College of Human Medicine student from the page to behind the camera as he gears up to take over the college's official Instagram account . From his morning routine through class, clinics, and group study, Harminder will spend two days taking followers on an inside look of what it's really like to be a modern medical student. Follow the college's Instagram stories on Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 20-21) as Harminder will be video streaming about his training and giving his thoughts on the benefits/challenges of medical school as well as the Shared Discovery Curriculum. Who knows? Maybe a guest or two may join. ;) Feel free to interact with Harminder in real-time and DM us your questions/comments. We'll see you then! For now, we'll let Harminder take it from here... Harminder Sandhu is a second-year  College of Human Medici

Just a few months down the line in April, new guidelines will soon affect how applicants handle acceptances. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is enacting new procedures that guide how an applicant chooses their preferred medical school. The Choose Your Medical School Tool is an online resource to help applicants make indications about where you may attend.  It's important to note, however, that while the AAMC has set the following deadlines, each medical school still may set their own policies and deadlines. As for the schools, the tool will assist in managing enrollment. Per the AMCAS , "Using the AMCAS Choose Your Medical School tool as directed by each school gives admissions offices a better idea how many seats they need to fill in their entering classes and helps other applicants receive timely notification about the outcome of their applications." "PLAN TO ENROLL" While the big decisions come down to April, the Choose Your Med

With Shared Discovery only in its third year of implementation at the College of Human Medicine , the truth is that we in the Office of Admissions naturally still receive plenty of great questions about our relatively new, innovative curriculum. For this reason, we chose the SDC as our topic of discussion in this, the third installment of our Facebook Live Stream series. Francisco, from the admissions team, moderated the hour-long discussion and was joined by second-year students, George and Enrique, as well as first-year student, Maryssa. The panel touched on a variety of points regarding the curriculum, including the transition to a curriculum without lectures or constant testing. The students gave their own takes on how the curriculum, as a vehicle for medical training, has prepared them well for boards and offered some anecdotes about the great opportunities they've had with patients as part of real clinical teams. You can watch the whole discussion here: Don