Hi Guys,
I visit this site once every year or so and came around it again today just to see some of these negative posts.
Come on, get real. Any Carib medical school is just that...a Carib medical school. They're not US schools. Yes, some have better rotation sites than others.
But the main point of it all is, just study your butt of for your Step 1 and 2, build some good connections during your rotations and land some good interviews.
I graduated /walked in May of 2008 and I know of plenty of students from my class and before who are doing very well in practice and are building solid careers.
I prematched into residency (actually was offered THREE different prematches). However prematches are a thing of the past as most hospitals are no longer doing that.
I myself am a FM residency trained physician who has been doing Emergency Medicine/ Hospital Medicine since graduation.
-Medical Director of an Emergency Department/ Hospital Medicine Department.
-Medical Director of a County EMS and am the Medical Director of EIGHT counties in the State where I live.
-Medical Director of a National ACO group of Hospitals.
-VP of my State's Academy of Family Physicians.
-Faculty at 2 Medical Schools in my State.
I'm not trying to brag, just wanted to you to see that you can do well even if you're an SMU alumnus. It doesn't matter if you want to Ross, AUC, SGU, SMU or wherever, just do well on the USMLE Steps 1 and 2, impress folks on your clinical rotations and build good connections and land good residency interviews. It's definitely NOT easy, but I will tell you it's VERY doable. I wasn't a gunner at SMU, but I got my work done and did decent on my boards.
No, I'm not a "fake student" or any other crap that I read on some of those forums. I'm just an SMU alum that wanted to remind those current and prospective students that it's definitely doable. I know the whole school loan situation is very different from when I was there, but if you can get through the semesters and stay the course, you're going to be fine.
Like I said, I don't log onto these forums very often and if you post a comment I probably won't see it for a while. If you want to PM me I might be able to reply but might not be super quick with the reply.
All the best!
I visit this site once every year or so and came around it again today just to see some of these negative posts.
Come on, get real. Any Carib medical school is just that...a Carib medical school. They're not US schools. Yes, some have better rotation sites than others.
But the main point of it all is, just study your butt of for your Step 1 and 2, build some good connections during your rotations and land some good interviews.
I graduated /walked in May of 2008 and I know of plenty of students from my class and before who are doing very well in practice and are building solid careers.
I prematched into residency (actually was offered THREE different prematches). However prematches are a thing of the past as most hospitals are no longer doing that.
I myself am a FM residency trained physician who has been doing Emergency Medicine/ Hospital Medicine since graduation.
-Medical Director of an Emergency Department/ Hospital Medicine Department.
-Medical Director of a County EMS and am the Medical Director of EIGHT counties in the State where I live.
-Medical Director of a National ACO group of Hospitals.
-VP of my State's Academy of Family Physicians.
-Faculty at 2 Medical Schools in my State.
I'm not trying to brag, just wanted to you to see that you can do well even if you're an SMU alumnus. It doesn't matter if you want to Ross, AUC, SGU, SMU or wherever, just do well on the USMLE Steps 1 and 2, impress folks on your clinical rotations and build good connections and land good residency interviews. It's definitely NOT easy, but I will tell you it's VERY doable. I wasn't a gunner at SMU, but I got my work done and did decent on my boards.
No, I'm not a "fake student" or any other crap that I read on some of those forums. I'm just an SMU alum that wanted to remind those current and prospective students that it's definitely doable. I know the whole school loan situation is very different from when I was there, but if you can get through the semesters and stay the course, you're going to be fine.
Like I said, I don't log onto these forums very often and if you post a comment I probably won't see it for a while. If you want to PM me I might be able to reply but might not be super quick with the reply.
All the best!