gona miss the peeps.Has anyone heard back from April 9th or April 16th interviews?
I heard yesterday- high waitlist too. Bad deal with the state of limbo but better than a rejection I guess. Good luck
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Anyone else relinquish their spot today with the second deposit deadline?
Same exact situation here. Got the same response in early April when I emailed them. Chances of an ii aren't 0% in May, and I have heard of students on SDN that have matriculated after a May interview. I'm just worried they forgot about us.I am a little annoyed with this school! I am guessing there will probably be no more interviews, I emailed Lynn 4/12 and she said my app was still under review by admissions comittee best case scenarion i was hoping for an ii by now, but considering how late it is I was expecting for rejection email so that I could come to terms with it. I havn't received event that! What does this mean??? No rejection email no interview invite?
1) Panel interviews suck. "If you can't stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen." Stop complaining, you got an interview. There's a lot of people that would do anything for a spot.
2) There is too much talk and information about the public health program. That should be moved to the end of the interview day and students who are interested can stay the extra 20-30 minutes. I personally want to go to med school to be a doctor, so I provide medical care with autonomy to people who need it, and I don't think I need an MPH for it. I understand that an MPH is not for everyone, but I spoke to a 2nd year who says that many of her peers wish they had done the MPH despite the extra work. I feel bad for you that you seem to be so close-minded. I think you'll miss a lot of opportunities in life by assuming you already know things. Did it really kill you to listen to it?
4) I mean, it's Turlock and Fresno, how much is a house there anyway? I'm from one of these areas, so I'm used to this kind of sarcasm. But please stop judging an area based on its cost of living.
5) I was under the impression that Touro is for you if you are the kind of person who takes initiative, but mostly because opportunities aren't abundant. This is a very ignorant statement without any factual evidence. Touro is close enough to Berkeley, SF, and the East Bay. That's more than can be said for a lot of the rural DO schools, so I don't understand why you're saying there aren't "opportunities" for community outreach, rotations, etc. The Suitcase clinic alone offers more "opportunities" for DO students to practice than a lot of other DO schools I've seen. Please do your research.
8) Did you know this is a Jewish school? And that the T and U symbol for the school kinda looks like a menorah? I didn't. Did you seriously go to the interview without knowing that it's a religiously-affiliated school?
9) Everyone kept mentioning how amazing the faculty was, but I'm skeptical. While there are good faculty, I do not think it's any different from the professors at any other osteopathic school. You obviously didn't meet/converse with Dr. Glover.
Hi. I am a 3rd year at Touro also in the MPH program. I read wingardium's review of his/her interview and think a lot of their concerns are warranted... I'm not going to comment on all of them but here are my thoughts on a few:
As far as sharing intimate details of their life during panel interviews, I don't think applicants would do this outright unless they were comfortable. I think for this you have to trust the individual's judgment. They would not reveal things that they are uncomfortable with other interviewees knowing. I think this problem can be easily side-stepped by such an applicant by saying something like "As you may have read in my application, I..." and giving a broad but not detailed sense of the subject. If it was relevant enough a experience for them to be mentioning it in the interview, it's probably going to be in their personal statement/application and the interviewers will have looked over that.
There is a lot more to public health than simply recognizing "that sometimes the root of poor health is often poverty and inaccessibility to things like clean water." In fact there is a lot of overlap between what you learn in medical school and what MPH coursework teaches you. I excel on the public health/preventive aspects of my DO coursework and on board exams b/c of my public health background. I am leaps and bounds ahead of many of my classmates in terms of research/study/program design and data analysis b/c of it.
The reason why they have the MPH talk during the interview is mainly to increase enrollment/grow the public health program. It's also to get the word out to interviewees who might not be familiar with what public health is and how and MPH could benefit them. You can think of it as more beneficial to those interviewees who haven't quite figured out "what kind of doctor they want to be."
I don't think I've ever heard either of these being an issue on rotations from my classmates.
The problem with rotation sites is that they are not always stable. Meaning they change year to year. It wouldn't make sense for Touro to buy property if there is no guarantee that they'll still have rotations there 5, 10 years from now. I do think Touro can place more emphasis and effort on getting more quality Bay Area rotation sites for its students though.
Loma Linda is not a core site btw...
The main draw of the faculty is the closeness they have with the students. You may be right that Touro faculty may not be any better than other schools (however our OMM dept is definitely top-notch). Last week a COM student passed away unexpectedly. The whole campus, professors and students, came together to put on a candlelight memorial service in his honor within just a few days. There were eulogies from several professors about this student because they knew him so well! Touro really does have a family environment with regard to its students/faculty.
Not sure where this is coming from. Sure there are problems with how the school is run; I think that can be said about any school. But how that reflects on the credit/respect of osteopathic physicians.... you're losing me there.
Judging from your posts alone it would seem that you also interviewed at schools like Western and PCOM? I think you'll find that the experience in terms of quality of education at Touro is pretty much the same as at Western. I can't speak for PCOM though. Touro is a relatively young school (established 1997) so it's definitely still got some growing to do.
Anyway I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you have about our school.
best of luck
You just made my dayNot true buddy. From the students I have communicated with, Touro has spots for ya if you are interviewing, even if it is late. This is also around the time they interview the AMPH students and they hold spots for those kids in the incoming class. Their seat or yours? You decide
Good luck to you! Thanks for responding.Not me...still waiting on another top school so have to wait
