Comments from the Class of 2013

Barnard College

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience
• I love my classmates (personality, diversity)

LIKED BEST:

• The friends I met

STRENGTHS:

• 3rd and 4th year clinical experiences were superb
• Residents & attendings always willing to teach

LIKED BEST:

• Camaraderie among class
• Mix of academic & extracurricular activities that you are able to achieve

STRENGTHS:

• Education tools like anatomy lab, podcasts and notes
• Intense clerkships where student play a real role in patient care

LIKED BEST:

• My friends

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates and faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Diverse student body
• Undeserved patient population
• Experienced & knowledgeable teachers and mentors

LIKED BEST:

• Diverse student population
• Patient population
• Brooklyn location
• No frills!

Berklee College of Music

STRENGTHS:

• The people

LIKED BEST:

• The people

Boston College

STRENGTHS:

• Great education
• Great value
• Great clinicals

LIKED BEST:

• Good friends
• Good people
• Ability to help people who need it

Brandeis University

STRENGTHS:

• The community, urban environment, attendings and faculty who are passionate about teaching students

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd & especially 4th year clinical rotation
• Treating patients

STRENGTHS:

• Strong clinical years
• Good prep for the boards
• Class is like a family

LIKED BEST:

• My class
• My clinical experience

Brown University

STRENGTHS:

• Diverse student and patient population
• Great clinical education with many opportunities for self-directed learning

LIKED BEST:

• I am well prepared for residency

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience!

LIKED BEST:

• The sense of community

CUNY Brooklyn College

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical experience (3rd & 4th)
• Student camaraderie

LIKED BEST:

• Student camaraderie
• Noncompetitive

STRENGTHS:

• My experience at SUNY Downstate has been phenomenal, I think a major strength here is the comprehensive way in which each organ-based system is tackled during
• the preclinical years.  Combining physiology, anatomy, radiology, and clinical vignettes (CBL’s) in the study of each system really deepened my understanding of the organs and helped bridge me into the clinical years, where I had to interpret scans and physiological signs to diagnose disease.  Having had a preclinical foundation really helped me. 

LIKED BEST:

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Neighborhood

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on learning experiences

LIKED BEST:

• Making life long friends

STRENGTHS:

• Great students
• Strong clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Wide array of clinical exposures during clerkships

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience in the MS3 & MS4
• Getting to rotate at different sites
• Deans were very helpful and organized
• Anatomy was strong

LIKED BEST:

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Wide pathology diversity
• Lots of exposure to procedures

LIKED BEST:

• Sense of community

STRENGTHS:

• Caring faculty
• Kings County Hospital- great institution to learn clinical skills

LIKED BEST:

• Support from faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• Everything

CUNY City College

STRENGTHS:

• Exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Students

STRENGTHS:

• Experience

LIKED BEST:

• The funny faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Lots of clinical experience
• Great faculty

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience
• Learning about the patient population

CUNY Hunter College

STRENGTHS:

• Excellent clinical exposure- blood draws, IV placements, pelvic exams, ABG’s
• Awesome residents and attendings- great teaching

LIKED BEST:

• My clinical experience at Kings County and UHB for sure and the amazing mentors I’ve met through the years

CUNY Queens College

STRENGTHS:

• Breadth of clinical exposure (esp. subinternship)

LIKED BEST:

• Friends and faculty

CUNY Sophie Davis

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My fellow classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Great leadership
• Strong mentorship
• Interesting diversity of patients
• Variety in teaching techniques

LIKED BEST:

• The people were really wonderful and shaped my time here, I enjoyed working with each one of them

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical Experience, you see everything!

LIKED BEST:

• Faculty’s, residents and attending teaching

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical experience was the strength

LIKED BEST:

• The experiences with the class were wonderful and a lot of fun

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical pathology
• Learned from amazing attendings during MS3 year
• Learned how to develop strong work ethic being here

LIKED BEST:

• Finally graduating

STRENGTHS:

• The faculty was interested in the student’s interests and their education

LIKED BEST:

• Fellow students were very welcoming and always willing to help me
• It felt like an extended family

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Rotations

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

• Rotations

STRENGTHS:

• Got to do a lot of hands on
• Excellent teachers- learn by doing

LIKED BEST:

• Everyone was friendly
• Good atmosphere

STRENGTHS:

• Attendings loved to teach

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience
• Loved patient population

STRENGTHS:

• Strong clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Very strong clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Attendings
• Residents were great

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Good clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical

STRENGTHS:

• The program gave me a lot of hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• Learning how to manage multiple patients at once

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Greater than any other medical school

LIKED BEST:

• Residents all extremely willing to teach and have students involved

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience
• First hand experience
• Variety of the setting

LIKED BEST:

• Friendships
• The residents of KCHC

STRENGTHS:

• The variety of hospitals

LIKED BEST:

• The residents at Kings County

STRENGTHS:

• Good hands-on experience
• Wide variety to pathology

LIKED BEST:

• It was only 2 years

College of Staten Island

STRENGTHS:

• Strong clinical experience
• State tuition for excellent education
• Public hospital helped clinical strength

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd year clerkships

Columbia University

STRENGTHS:

• The faculty are receptive to student’s wishes
• The clinical experience is superior to any other program in NYC

LIKED BEST:

• The friendships that I made

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience
• Great camaraderie among students and faculty

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Autonomy during clinical years

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on medical experience

LIKED BEST:

The exposure

Cooper Union

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Great rapport and support from fellow students
• Diverse student body

LIKED BEST:

• Learning from amazing attendings- especially in the ID department

Cornell University

STRENGTHS:

• Amazing clinical experiences and a good variety of clinical sites around the NYC area

LIKED BEST:

• The community is amazing and my classmates are always there for me

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Independence with patients

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Kings County

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years

LIKED BEST:

• Rotating at County

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Professors
• Attendings

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical faculty

LIKED BEST:

• The relationship I’ve had with the department to which I’m applying

Davidson College

STRENGTHS:

• Patient population
• Textbook diseases

LIKED BEST:

• Low tuition
• Textbook diseases

Emory University

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience
• Dedicated faculty

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates
• Student Center & Gym
• Clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Close to home in Brooklyn
• Good clinical professors during MS3 and MS4 years

LIKED BEST:

• Extracurricular activities and clubs

Fordham University

STRENGTHS:

• The professors

LIKED BEST:

• The freedom to do procedures during clerkships

STRENGTHS:

• Availability of faculty
• Podcast service
• Emphasis on clinical correlation

LIKED BEST:

• Group learning with classmates

Georgetown University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The diversity of students

STRENGTHS:

• A lot of hands on experience
• Tons of pathology
• Our clinical skills are above other students

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical years

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training & experience
• Warm faculty open to questions

LIKED BEST:

• Fellow students
• Mentorship
• Seeing my own patients
• Sub-I at KCH

Harvard University

STRENGTHS:

• The independence afforded to me in most rotations and the impact that I could have on a team
• The hands-on approach to learning in many rotations, this is one of the main reasons I came here
• The inspirational EM Department

LIKED BEST:

• Feeling like our class made a collegial and supportive atmosphere
• Feeling like I was able to make a positive impact on Downstate

Haverford College

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Clinicals
• Students
• faculty

Indiana State University

LIKED BEST:

• Friendly staff
• Classmates

John’s Hopkins University

STRENGTHS:

• Hands-on experience

LIKED BEST:

• The wards

McGill University

STRENGTHS:

• KCH
• Sick patient population

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical years

New York University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience and variety of patients

LIKED BEST:

• Orthopedics & anesthesia rotations
• Student Center activities

STRENGTHS:

• I think that the breadth of pathology seen at Downstate has been unparalleled.  My
• Clinical years were some of the most interesting years of my life.  My hands-on experience has been invaluable compared to the experience at my friends at other medical schools.  Also, the camaraderie of my student class was a great asset in getting me through the years.

LIKED BEST:

• See above

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical 3rd & 4th years
• Independence on wards
• Trauma exposure at KCH

LIKED BEST:

• KCHC

STRENGTHS:

• Great faculty & clinical exposure
• As a student able to have enough autonomy & supervision

LIKED BEST:

• As above

Northeastern University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure & experience

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd & 4th years

Northwestern University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Anatomy lab

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd & 4th years
• ENT Department

Rutgers University

STRENGTHS:

• The exposure to diverse cases & autonomy given to the students

LIKED BEST:

• The students
• The faculty

Skidmore College

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical work

LIKED BEST:

• CBL

St. John’s University

STRENGTHS:

• The Academic Development
• The clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

• The many friends I made

SUNY Albany

STRENGTHS:

• The people (peers & professors)
• Hands-on experience

LIKED BEST:

• Being close to friends & family
• Learning medicine in an underserved community

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on clinical training
• Great faculty/staff
• Amazing community

LIKED BEST:

• Connections/friendships made

STRENGTHS:

• Opportunity to be involved with care of patients from diverse backgrounds with differing levels of disease severity and a variety of clinical entities
• Ability to significantly contribute to the medical team in meaningful ways

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience

SUNY Binghamton

STRENGTHS:

• The strengths were the diverse student body and the variety of pathology in the patients here

LIKED BEST:

• The clinics and the wards
• Great clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education
• Supportive residents and faculty
• Independence
• Breadth of case load

LIKED BEST:

• Autonomy

STRENGTHS:

• Cultural and economic diversity
• Anatomy and basic sciences
• Exposure to variety of affiliated hospitals offering different types of patient populations

LIKED BEST:

• The students and faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical skills
• Great attendings
• Great anatomy

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates were supportive

SUNY Downstate

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical exposure of 3rd year rotations

LIKED BEST:

• My fellow classmates

SUNY Purchase

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• People & Carrels

SUNY Stony Brook

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical exposure
• Friendly attendings and faculty

LIKED BEST:

• My co-students

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• Good people around me

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience
• Great faculty

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical time

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years especially medicine clerkship

LIKED BEST:

• clerkships

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

Swarthmore College

STRENGTHS:

• Diverse clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• the camaraderie between classmates

Syracuse University

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Working with my class

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Terrific people that I have met!

Touro College

STRENGTHS:

• Student diversity
• Clinical encounters

LIKED BEST:

• Meeting wonderful people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Camaraderie among classmates

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates
• Interaction with professors

Tufts University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Brooklyn

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Patients
• Attendings

LIKED BEST:

• The people- colleagues and friends

Tulane University

STRENGTHS:

• Strengths were the clinical experience and rotation sites
• Many students at other medical colleges are not exposed to as much hands on experience as Downstate students

LIKED BEST:

• I liked the diversity of both the student and patient population

University of California, Berkley

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Autonomy
• Supportive resident
• Preparations for internship

LIKED BEST:

• 4th year
• Clinical exposure

STRENGTHS:

• Good training in the 3rd year

LIKED BEST:

• The school was supportive

STRENGTHS:

• My fellow classmates
• Excellent hands on learning opportunity
• I feel ready for next year after my training at Downstate

LIKED BEST:

• The people I met

University of California, Davis

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity of student body and clinical diseases
• Introduction to ethics
• Student independence on wards
• Help with studying during 1st and 2nd year

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical diversity

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience during MS3
• Attending physicians at UHB
• Supportive and collegial house staff
• MS4 scheduling
• Pathology seen

LIKED BEST:

• I liked the hands on experience during the clinical years and peers

University of Chicago

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Patient care responsibility

LIKED BEST:

• People

University of Delaware

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• The friendships I have made

University of Florida

STRENGTHS:

• Practical skills
• Good knowledge

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Great Peds attendings
• Students are wonderful
• Great camaraderie

LIKED BEST:

• The people

University of Maryland

STRENGTHS:

• Great population
• Great student responsibility

LIKED BEST:

• See above

University of Michigan

STRENGTHS:

• The people: nurses, doctors, patients and students

LIKED BEST:

• The friends I’ve made
• The way it opened my eyes to see things differently

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

• The people

University of Notre Dame

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Great support from faculty

University of Pennsylvania

STRENGTHS:

• Amazing anatomy lab
• Great patient population
• Wonderful classmates

LIKED BEST:

• The relationships I formed with classmates and mentors

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Research opportunities
• Professors

LIKED BEST:

• Students
• Clinical rotations

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity of student body

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical rotations

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My friends

University of Puget Sound

STRENGTHS:

• Professors
• Clinical clerkships

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical rotations

University of Rochester

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on experience with patients
• Great clinical teaching

LIKED BEST:

• Meeting such a diverse group of medical students

Washington University in St. Louis

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years
• Anatomy

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical education
• Being in NYC

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical years

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical education is unparalleled
• My ownership of my patients on the wards is something I doubt I could find at any other med school

LIKED BEST:

• The friends I made and the excellent camaraderie of the student body

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Time at KCH

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• A lot of autonomy

LIKED BEST:

• Great student body

Yale University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical

LIKED BEST:

• People

Yeshiva University

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

Other Comments

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical years

STRENGTHS:

• The people

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• The education

LIKED BEST:

• The administration

STRENGTHS:

• Classmates
• Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• That I’ll earn an MD

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people I met

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical training
• Small group sessions in 1st & 2nd year

LIKED BEST:

• The closeness of the class

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical experience and autonomy specifically

LIKED BEST:

• The friends I’ve made

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotation

LIKED BEST:

• Rotations
• Students

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Attending physicians

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd year

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations
• Experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Easy commute

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical

LIKED BEST:

• KCHC rotation

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Early exposure
• Community service
• Tutoring

LIKED BEST:

• Broad exposure
• Responsibility on floors

STRENGTHS:

• Diverse community

LIKED BEST:

• The community

STRENGTHS:

• Involvement in patient care