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awesome, what does 'auditing' entail?
Knowledge, no credit lol
awesome, what does 'auditing' entail?
If you take that summer anatomy course, does it mean you don't need to take anatomy again during the regular school year, and you can work as an anatomy lab assistant?
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Thanks Gold 5, How about if you want to brush up on some anatomy before classes, do you recommend any resources? (btw, I do not want to spend $3500 on their summer course)
I'm starting to look at laptops....is there a big preference by current students for mac or pc? I vaguely remember someone saying mac at my interview but I can't remember for sure. Just wanted to see if one was more compatible for lectures/course materials than the other.
Not sure if this interests you, but I think it was mentioned at my interview day that we can audit that class for $1000, still pricey, but much less than I paid for it in undergrad & there's a cadaver...
If you have the money its not a bad idea. I wish I had that option, the masters students in the class are ahead of you already because they have taken most of the first year classes already including anatomy.
Does the graduation date fall in early to mid June?
Yes, I believe this year it will be around June 6th or 7th.
yea early june. Just heard today that the decision to do it then instead of mid may (when most places graduate) is so that we can put off doing random cores until may so that we can fit more electives in before the match. And you know... you need to finish your may core before you graduate in may so they made graduation early june.
Ohhh that's cool. It looks like there are 4 electives, 1 med sub-I, and 1 surgerical sub-I during the 4th year, plus all of the other required cores. Does this mean you get to choose the order that everything is done during 4th year ie squeeze in those electives all during Fall before match? If so, do you get to choose the order of rotations for 3rd yr or do they come up with the schedule?
The way they set it up this year (can change year to year, but I think this format may stay) is that pretty much everyone will have 4 or 5 months of electives prior to december. They did say that a few (either 13 or 26. its complicated to explain, but 4th year slots go in groups of 13 "similar" schedules) people will only have 3 months of electives before that december. Given you have up to 2 months of electives in 3rd year too, you can get some pretty decent elective rotation time racked up before you and the hospitals both have their match lists submitted.
The cores (aka what you have to do at a touro hospital) is *only* the med sub-I, surg sub-I, Intensive Care and Outpatient Care. There is a requirement to do an additional surgical specialty and medicine specialty month, but those two can be done anywhere. They're basically electives with a stipulation that it has to be medicine and surgery related (so cant do... like... radiology and path for them). Everything else is 100% elective.
Thanks for all the info! That's awesome that we have that much time for electives, and for them to be before match. There's also the option of using the summer 'month off' as an elective, right? It's way too soon for me to know if I'd do that and I'll prob want to take a breather once I'm actually rotating, but it'd be nice to know I have the option.
Hi fellow class of 2016ers!! I just wanted to say I'm really excited to start this new chapter of my life with you all. Any advice for an aspiring pediatrician?
Its almost Feb, and i havent heard from Touro since my deposit in July (defered student). When do you guys think we will get Fafsa stuff (or anything else).
August 1st
Actually July 30th
DocE do you think the school would have an issue with us starting an unofficial facebook group? I'm asking because it seems (from reading previous comments) that touro usually gets one of their admins to start the group?
There is now a facebook group but I'd like to get 2 more admins to make things easier and get things going. Private message me if interested in becoming an admin and I'll send you my facebook contact
Looks like the facebook group has made this thread obsolete.
hmmm....now when I think about it, DocE must be one of the helpful upper year touroites who joined our group.