University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth

[miraclemile2011]

-Just another powerpoint medical school.
-Tired facilities.
-Typical 'has been' professors (Team Baby Boom).
-Brown Bag presentations (means bring your own food).
-More interested in Bono and Africa, than our own ghetto neighborhood.
-Go here if your parents are Doctors with pull, politicians kids, and other St.Benedict/St. John's little rich kids.
-Home of the famous day of "10 hours of straight lecture!"
-Complete your ePortfolio (UMn's expensive clunky version of MySpace.com) before you talk to your professor. Thank you for another barrier
-On the plus side, everything is a slideshow ppt so you can go to medical school at home or in your apt.
-UMD sells your lecture time to WelchAllyn and other big corps, telling you it will be required for class. We get $2000 paperweights.
-The computer lab is 1985.
-One printer for over 100 medical students (and is usually is broken).
-SNAFU

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[bmason]

oh man, you should come to the TC campus.

-lunch lectures every day of the week
-4 printers that always work
-5 bars within walking distance of the library
-way cool people

 

[Green Grass]

what exactly is a "typical powerpoint medical school"?

 

[realgraverobber]

Interviewed at that school, the facilities, staff, and students were all so tired and seemed very antiquated.

 

[pkowser]

Does anyone else have an opinion of the school? I am looking for some more in depth information on any of the positive or negative attributes to the school. Any comments are appreciated.

 

[cjedin]

Duluth is a pretty sweet town... if you like outdoors activities and a smaller city feel. If you like the craziness/social atmosphere of a huge city, Duluth probably would be the place for you.

Also there's the whole rural medicine focus thing that probably turns a lot of people off. But... that's their focus and that's why I applied there.

 

[UMDdoc]

The school's mission is to provide rural family practice physicians as well as increase healthcare for native american populations. The campus is small as is the class size. If you went to a smaller undergraduate campus this might be better suited for you. Also, the school has a flex m.d. program that will allow you to practice in rural areas instead of your 3rd and 4th years *optional in the Twin Cities hospitals. The program is nice tho because even as a MS1 you begin a preceptorship which is sort of like "advanced" shadowing your first semester. The anatomy lab is nice and the county coroner performs autopsies on the campus so you have basically unlimited access to anatomy and dissection experience. If your looking for something like UCLA or John's Hopkins with the features and feel of a large city, this probably isn't the place for you. However, if you want to live in a nice small town with beautiful landscapes and nice people it's a great school to attend.

 

[RunningKing]

Another perk is that Eric Ellingson goes there. He is the best at everything he does.