Hey everyone!
I attended the program a couple of years ago, and I still keep in contact with the staff. I had an amazing time and would absolutely recommend it.
However, also I wanted to let people know that the program recently changed ownership and the quality has gone down significantly. From what I can tell, while in the past it was part of the curriculum to perform surgery, now according to the website you ‘gain exposure’ to surgery, which I think is considerably different.
Some of the staff also said that the new owners have never actually been involved in the program before (aka so they won’t know how to run things), and the program isn’t going to be taught by surgeons and medical students anymore.
The owners started a new program in Maui instead (called AAMS) - i did it last year and had an absolute blast! Highly recommend for anyone interested in surgery!!
Just thought I’d share this information since the Stanford program is still charging the same amount of money, but now you get way less out of it 