Also if you notice the screenshot I sent yesterday said we could change Test optional option till Nov1. But today it has changed to Oct 15.
If you have applied to the Accelerated Premedical-Medical Program, you may only change your test-optional answer prior to the program’s Oct 15 deadline.
You need to ask your kid to create status portal accounts for all colleges they applied to.
They would have received a confirmation email after submission of the common app. This contains the instructions on how to setup the status portal account
Once status portal account is created, your kid can then edit or add to their profile from there.
Yes, she is creating portals as and when they receive that information. But this is really an experience!
We have been following up with Penn, requesting them to mark her Test optional since Saturday. Today they finally marked her test optional acknowledging that our mail thread started on 10/15 when it was still within the deadline. So finally we can see her application complete.@Vicky2019 @cheer2021
Great relief!
The scholarship program you are talking about does require a service repayment . The newly graduated attending physician is required to spend a minimum of 1 year in a federally/state designated area of healthcare shortage for each year of scholarship received. (These site include both rural and urban area.) Some require 1.5 years of service for each year of scholarship received.
BTW, primary care does NOT include all the specialties you listed, Only family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatric and Ob/Gyn are primary care. EM is not primary care, although the ER serves as a source of primary care for many uninsured/underinsured patients. Surgery is not primary care.
I don’t know why U of Houston SOM trains their residents in EM and surgery, but they tout their program as primary care.
EM and surgery are NOT primary care under any definition.
Family medicine doctors used to be able to work as emergency medicine providers, but that’s no longer allowed unless they were grandfathered into the specialty prior to the 1980s. Family medicine physicians can also do obstetrics, including C-sections if they have completed a 2 year women’s health fellowship.
However, complex OB/GYN (anything beyond L&D and routine well woman care) is not considered primary care. So that means all OB/GYN subspecialties are not primary care.
BTW, HCA is a for-profit healthcare provider that has discovered a predatory business model. HCA keeps opening up more and more low quality residency programs because they discovered they can make money by using poorly supervised residents in their EM and surgery depts instead of hiring a sufficient number of physicians to staff their hospitals.
UHouston’s GME page says it offers residencies in surgery and EM, but does not call them primary care fields.
It says the mission of Houston’ Ferritta College of Medicine is to increase primary care providers, but it doesn’t say the HCA-partnership residencies are all primary care.
The residency programs do not have to match the stated mission of the medical school themselves.
OTOH, the goal of UH is to serve the underserved communities in Houston and without having ER or surgery, they would not be able to support such a mission.
Any one know stevens bsmd supplements requirement?
Did you submit the Steven’s essay on the subject why you want to be a doctor? Based on that and your entire Stevens’ application, Stevens will decide whether to grant you an interview with Stevens. A subset of candidates interviewed with Stevens will get forwarded to NJMS for interview consideration.
Hi! Does anyone know the average SAT/ACT for Temples BS/MD?
@collegegirl104
1350 appears to be the min combined SAT score, and 31 min composite ACT is what is required by the Temple BA/MD program. In reality, higher stats, academic rigor, stronger profile & ECs are required due to cut-throat competition for this program, as a matter of fact for any BSMD program. Including @grtd2010 as grtd2010’s Daughter is in this program.
You can look into accepted candidates’ reported stats for Temple and other BSMD programs in the below thread. Good luck.
You should expect it to be greater than 1550 for SAT and 34 for ACT
FYI —
Penn State has started emailing interview finalists.
The interview date is Jan 18.
Is this done on a rolling basis, or everyone who applied will know on a particular date?
If they only have one interview date, everyone should probably be notified about the same time?
Did anyone get the Penn State Interview yet?
My S received interview invite , it is in person interview on Jan 18
@collegegirl104 It is just about right as NoviceDad stated.
P.S It is a new profile but a seasoned participant here.