"friendly" | Report Response

"Good clinical experience, physicians willing to be mentors, good prep for Step 1 and 2" | Report Response

"extreme cost" | Report Response

"Price" | Report Response

"A decent school, but a total rip-off. Your medical education is almost totally determined by your own effort. All the information you learn in the first two years is available on the internet on in textbooks. During the last two years you perform a large amount of scutwork which the hospital bills for, so you actually make them money. So why is it so expensive? They have a small army of deans that make north of 500K, while the secretaries do most of the work, and a large facutly that give a few lectures a year and otherwise do research. My advice is to go to the cheapest school available. A US public school, or an overseas school. Whatever you do, do not borrow money for school. It seems benign but can easily ruin your life. If you borrow from AMC and you stumble financially , you go into default and AMC bumps up your interest rate by 25%! They call it a collection fee and it is perefctly legal." | Report Response

"Seems to get a bad rap on SDN, but most students here are happy. Very non-competitive environment. All the resources you need to succeed are provided. AMC is by far the biggest game in town for a couple hours in any direction, so you see patients with just about every imaginable problem." | Report Response

"A few hours per week, more os first year with anatomy." | Report Response

"There are a lot of e-books through the library. Need a good anatomy book and atlas, Blumenfeld's for neuro, Robbins path, Lilly's pathophysiology of heart disease, and a few others. Really not that many" | Report Response

"Most,." | Report Response

"Possibly primary care, but not really" | Report Response

"dorm" | Report Response

"They're good for the most part. It's very standardized, and attendance is optional. If you want to listen to lectures, listen to lectures. If you'd rather read books read books. This is a very personalized decision." | Report Response

"Mostly good with some bad. Certain rotations have faculty more interested in teaching students than others. Overall though I developed many good relationships with faculty." | Report Response

"Modified pass fail (Good = pass, Excellent = high pass, Excellent with honors = Honors)" | Report Response

"Modified pass fail (Good = pass, Excellent = high pass, Excellent with honors = Honors). During the clinical years, the Shelf exam will be 25-50% of your grade for a given rotation." | Report Response

"3rd year required: Medicine, Psych, OB/GYN, Peds, Family med, surgery. Scheduled by lottery. 4th year required: Acting internship, ED, Neurology, Learning to teach (learn how to be a good teacher to med students as a resident and beyond), Critical care. Also scheduled by lottery but with much more freedom to change schedule." | Report Response

"It varies from resident to resident. In an inpatient setting you might follow 2-4 patients, see them every day, write notes that get cosigned by residents. At a good outpatient setting you'll see lots of patients, over 10/day and write their notes, discuss plans with preceptors, etc." | Report Response

"In good shape, expanding as we speak." | Report Response

"It varies widely. There are large Caucasian and African American populations in the area and socioeconomic classes span the entire spectrum, so there is no true "typical" population. Albany is also very closely surrounded by lots of rural land, so there is a mix of urban and rural medicine." | Report Response

"drink" | Report Response

"Go out to bars, go to NYC, Boston, Montreal. Go hiking in any of the 4 nearby mountain ranges. Just hang out and relax. Ski, bike." | Report Response

"average" | Report Response

"They do well. They are all over the country in every conceivable specialty." | Report Response

"good program" | Report Response

"no" | Report Response