<p>Hello. I am currently looking for more safeties that have strong premed programs.</p>
<p>Quick Facts
Arab American, 4.0 W, 2000-2200 SATs, 790 IIc, 700, 690
ECs and Essay Strong</p>
<p>Can anyone suggest any "safety" schools for me that decent-strong premed programs?</p>
<p>My current list:
Rutgers
TCNJ
(Boston University - not really a safety)</p>
<p>BUs Premed program isnt a safety for anyone. It's one of the best.</p>
<p>no im not talking about the selective baccalaureate programs, just schools that have strong science programs and best prepare one for med school</p>
<p>My grandparents live in Florida and say University of Florida - Gainesville is very science-focused and has a reputable pre-med program. I think it would definitely be a safety for you despite the fact that you're OOS...might want to look into it.</p>
<p>Ill def. look into it. Are there any towards the northeast?</p>
<p>You might want to try SUNY-Stony Brook. It has exceptionally strong science and pre-med programs.</p>
<p>Oh wow, I was told to look into Binghampton. Stony Brook's mail to me about science has been quite agressive. Thanks for that, will look into it!</p>
<p>yeah Stonybrook>Binghamton for pre-med. I was going to recommend it as well. If I'm not mistaken they have a hospital right near by, so the facilities are really great.</p>
<p>Florida State has an early-entry Honors path (Honors Medical Scholars Program) to it's med school. As probably the newest allopathic med school in the US, it's reputation has yet to be set. However, this can be an advantage in securing entry. It features a distributed campus in population centers around the state for latter-year students, providing great diversity in medical training.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.med.fsu.edu%5B/url%5D">www.med.fsu.edu</a></p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
University of the Sciences Philadelphia
Canisius College
Hood College
College of Wooster
Allegheny College
Ohio Wesleyan University</p>
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<p>Well, spreading out upperclassmen means students won't be centralized or "on campus," and it might be more difficult to establish the type of research and clinical centers of excellence that gives a med school its advantages. It will definately be easier to get into initially, and this set up will be better than, say, an off-shore school. It is just to early to know if the organization of the med school will make for a good medical education. And there will be different issues concerning housing, the distance of the "population centers" from the campus and from each other. Florida is a rather "long" state geographically, and FSU is not exactly in a central location. But since the population in the area/hospitals in the area)are not enough or diverse enough for what a med school needs, their solution sounds reasonable on paper. Especially if the mission of the new med school is to educate primary care physicians.</p>
<p>Let's not associate a fully-accredited U.S. allopathic medical school akin to some sort of offshore non-US medical training. That's plainly wrong.</p>
<p>The FSU Sarasota med campus, for example, is affiliated with Sarasota Memorial - possibly the best hospital in Florida, if you believe recent ratings - exceeding both Shands (UF) and Jackson Memorial (UMiami) in sub-unit quality metrics.</p>
<p>Here's more detail on it:</p>
<p>and:
<a href="http://www.smh.com/sections/corporate/smh_news/USNEWs2006.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.smh.com/sections/corporate/smh_news/USNEWs2006.htm</a></p>
<p>since you have mentioned 2 NJ schools. Here is another</p>
<p>The Richard Stockon College of NJ.</p>
<p>Not to hijack this thread but...</p>
<p>It's really not that unique of situation to spread third and fourth year medical students out. Many schools have programs that place third year students in towns throughout the home state (even geographically long states). My own medical school puts students into small towns for three weeks during the summer between the M1 and M2 years. Our family practice clerkships in the third year are also put in rural towns. The hospitals that participate in the programs are required to provide housing and meals for students (some have bought houses nearby, others put students up in motels...and all the hospital food you can stand).</p>
<p>I know for a fact that a significant portion of the University of Kansas' third and fourth year students are moved to Wichita from Kansas City to complete their clerkships - there's a lot of going back and forth for the students. </p>
<p>Further, when you factor in that many 4th year students are completing two to three clinical rotations at outside institutions (I have a friend who is an M4 who is completing an anesthesiology rotation in Gainesville right now), the "disseminated campus" approach is really not something that should raise a flag with potential students.</p>
<p>In the end, there will be some locations which students will try to avoid, but the idea is far more cost effective than trying to build and recruit to a new academic medical center, and probably with no ill effects on the quality of clinical education. One of the biggest complaints about the major medical center model of medical education is that the patients seen, and the severity of their illnesses are not representative of what a practicing clinician will actually see when through with residency. The patients are invariably much poorer (since most acadmic medical centers are in urban areas) and the patients are much, much more sick (acadmic medical centers are sort of the last ditch effort). Going through a clinical education that is more community based might be beneficial.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help everyone. Happy 900th post BRM</p>
<p>Consider the University of Florida (although it's not really a safety)</p>
<p>Muhlenberg</p>