University of Illinois College of Medicine

Negatively ☹️

6 out of 10

One of the panel interviewers was this old man that spent a lot of time asking me to slow down and repeat things...he kept saying that young people "turned him off" with their speech. Also, he said I have a South Asian accent (which I felt was offensive because he told me this after I had only introduced myself...btw, I grew up here and have no accent). He was quite rude throughout the interview and the rest of the panel just sat back and watched the show. I also disliked the numbers of hour devoted to lecture. Anatomy lectures tend to be 3-4 hours long. So you could have 8-11 hours of lecture alone on a given day - pretty inefficient way of learning in my opinion. The students don't really get out much, the dorm is literally connected to the medical school so you don't even have to go outside. I didn't like the facilities either - they are very old and I think it would be nice to spend four years of your life in a building with windows which was very lacking. Also, the panel was talking crap about other Chicago schools which I found to be unprofessional. I guess this is a good school if you are only willing to go to school in Chicago and don't mind working your ass off for your first two years engrossed in books and with little clinical exposure.

What draws you to Chicago for medical school?

I didn't

If there were not politicians, how would health care change?

Students loved all the hands-on dissections (half of them are interested in surgery as a specialty) and enjoyed the rigorous schedule. That is not something that I particularly want but I was impressed with the hardworking students.

UIC has a very inefficient teaching method - about 8 hours of lecture a day!

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