What was your MCAT score?
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515 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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2007 | 0 |
2008 | 0 |
2009 | 0 |
2010 | 3 |
2011 | 0 |
2012 | 2 |
2013 | 0 |
2014 | 1 |
2015 | 0 |
2016 | 0 |
2017 | 0 |
2018 | 1 |
2019 | 0 |
2020 | 0 |
2021 | 0 |
2022 | 0 |
2023 | 0 |
2024 | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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No | 7 |
BA/DO | 0 |
BS/DO | 0 |
DO/JD | 0 |
DO/MA | 0 |
DO/MBA | 0 |
DO/MPH | 0 |
DO/MS | 0 |
DO/PhD | 0 |
MD/JD | 0 |
MD/MBA | 0 |
MD/MPH | 0 |
MD/MS | 0 |
MD/PhD | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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in-state | 5 |
out-of-state | 2 |
international | 0 |
Not applicable | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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Caucasian | 6 |
African American | 0 |
Hispanic | 0 |
Asian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
Native American/ Native Alaskan | 0 |
Other/Multiracial | 1 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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7.43 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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5.57 | 7 |
Response Average | # Responders |
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515 | 7 |
Response Average | # Responders |
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3.32 | 7 |
Response Average | # Responders |
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3.41 | 7 |
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"Diversity of students, patients, and cases seen on rotations"
"-clinical experience great -board prep excellent -strong match outcomes"
"Some great professors and deans who are always willing to help a student in need. Linda Costanzo, physiology guru!"
"The clinical experience really is top notch. I was allowed to do things that students at other schools never got the chance. I did multiple paracenteses, I opened during surgical cases and even got to sew using the Da Vinci surgical robot."
"My fellow medical students here are really cool. Most of them are laid-back and have fun when they are working."
"Solid board preparation."
"Dr. Costanzo does a board review course for Step 1 (she is the author of BRS Physiology). The hospital is incredible for 3rd-year clerkships."
"Research ease"
"-financial aid office is not helpful -hard to schedule electives during M3"
"Foundations of Clinical Medicine could be better integrated. Wish we had more simulation time in our first two years."
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"THE ADMINISTRATION!!! They are totally unresponsive to student concerns. Student mistreatment is a HUGE problem at VCU. Anytime student mistreatment occurs here, the administration always sides with the faculty member who is being charged with mistreatment. Also, students are discriminated against here for everything from having ADD to outside activities."
"Preclinical science year Foundations of Clinical Medicine course."
"It's in the south."
"-had a great time"
"The board prep is excellent."
"I am currently interviewing for residency. I have double 99 (averaged over 250 on steps I and II) so I got interviews at competitive programs. i cannot tell you how many interviewers have never heard of VCU. I have to explain at every interview that I do not go to UVA. I would not go here unless you have no other options. I only applied to three medical schools, and ended up going here to save money on in-state tuition. Apply broadly. Good luck."
Response | # Responders |
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Systems-based | 4 |
Traditional | 3 |
Response | # Responders |
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1 | 4 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 1 |
4 | 0 |
5 | 0 |
6 | 0 |
7 | 0 |
8 | 0 |
9 | 0 |
10 | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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<1 hour | 0 |
1-2 hours | 0 |
2-3 hours | 0 |
3-4 hours | 4 |
4-5 hours | 3 |
5-6 hours | 0 |
6> hours | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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Video recording | 6 |
Free note taking service | 2 |
Fee-based note taking service | 0 |
Powerpoint slides provided only | 4 |
None | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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1 | 0 |
2 | 0 |
3 | 0 |
4 | 0 |
5 | 6 |
6 | 0 |
7 | 1 |
Response | # Responders |
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Prosections only | 0 |
1-2 | 0 |
3-4 | 1 |
5-6 | 4 |
7-8 | 2 |
>8 | 0 |
Response | # Responders |
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3 months | 6 |
6 months | 1 |
9 months | 0 |
12 months | 0 |
24 months | 0 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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3.14 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 7 |
no | 0 |
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5.00 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 7 |
no | 0 |
"All have PDFs...Only true needed resourced are Qbank, Pathoma, SketchyMicro, and FirstAid"
"-course texts are available for free in med school computer lab if you don't want to purchase them -easy to buy used books from upperclassmen"
"Goljan, Micro Made Simple, First Aid"
"Bates Guide to Physical Exam An Anatomy atlas (I like netters and Rohen) The Haines Neuroanatomy atlas"
"Bates"
"None."
Response Avg | # Responders |
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7.29 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.71 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.43 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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Pre-clinical years | 1 |
Clinical years | 1 |
All years | 4 |
No | 1 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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4.71 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 6 |
no | 1 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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5.00 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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1.29 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 1 |
no | 2 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 6 |
no | 0 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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8.43 | 7 |
"Almost no one lives on the on-campus housing. Apartments are relatively cheap in Richmond. The more expensive apts run $1400 for a 2 bedroom. I live in a 2 bedroom about 2.5 miles from campus (10-15 min drive even in rush hour) for $1060/mo (split between 2 people)"
Response Avg | # Responders |
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4.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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4.86 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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Need-based | 1 |
Merit-based | 0 |
Both | 5 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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8.14 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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8.86 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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8.00 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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7.86 | 7 |
Response | # Responders |
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yes | 5 |
no | 1 |
"Solid"
"-great instruction"
"Generally excellent. There is going to be a move toward fewer PhD lecturers and more MD lecturers during the first 2 years which will make everything much more clinically relevant."
"Not very approachable"
"Highly varied. Some excellent instructors, some terrible instructors."
"Solid"
"-great instruction"
"Really excellent on average. Most attendings do teaching rounds where a few times a week you sit down and they teach a pertinent subject. Of course there are the normal teaching rounds during actual rounds where they will discuss pertinent topics about that patient and go over important clinical maneuvers."
"More approachable"
"P/F but students are also placed into quartiles. Specific classes are issued a numeric value on a 100 percent scale"
"Honors/High Pass/Pass/Marginal/Fail"
"Fail, Marginal Pass, Pass, High Pass, Honors"
"Fail, Marginal, Pass, High Pass, Honors"
"H/HP/P/M/F"
">92 Honors 86-91.9 High Pass ~70-85.9 Pass"
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.71 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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5.43 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.00 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.29 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.00 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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7.86 | 7 |
"Lottery. Required rotations are Ob, Peds, IM, Psych, Neuro, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Ambulatory"
"Peds, Surgery, Family, Neuro, Psych, OBGYN, Medicine"
"Yes they are scheduled. 4 weeks FP (outpatient) 4 weeks Neurology (both inpatient and outpt) 6 weeks OB/GYN (mostly inpt with some outpt clinics) 6 weeks Psych (all do some inpt, some do all inpt) 8 weeks surgery (all inpt) 8 weeks peds (4wks inpt, 4 outpt) 12 weeks medicine (8 inpatient, 4 outpt)"
"Surgery, IM, FM, Peds, Neuro, Psych, OB/GYN"
"Manage their (1-4) patients"
"-as much responsibility as you seek out"
"Each will carry multiple patients. They will admit the pt and write an H&P when they enter the hospital (so will the intern). They will follow that patient during their entire hospital course and present on that patient every morning. During those morning presentations they will discuss the change in clinical status and offer their own plan as to what should be done. The attending will then discuss their plan and the merits and why that course or another should be taken. In the OR they will scrub for every case and will assist (generally not first assist). In OB they will help deliver babies doing a few on their own, will do tons of pelvics, ultrasounds and other stuff."
"Pre-rounding on all patients"
"Medical University and a Veterans Hospital"
"-both MCV hospital and VAMC are in pretty decent shape, though the VA is a bit run-down"
"MCV Hosp is a roughly 800 bed hospital on the medical campus. The vast majority of rotations are here. It is attached to where you take classes first and second year. The hospital is in good shape. We have a large level 1 trauma center that sees the major trauma for central Va, we have a new critical care tower (that is gorgeous) so all of our ICUs are brand new. This hospital has been taking students since the 1800s so it is a great place to train. There is also a VA medical center that is one of the largest VAs in the country. That is right down the road (10min drive) and you can choose do do some rotations like surgery here. All students must do 4 weeks of in patient medicine there. Outside of that 4 weeks, you can choose to do some rotations there. INOVA- 24 students choose to go up to northern virginia to do rotations here. This is almost universally people who grew up in northern Va so they stay with their parents. There are a ton of students each year from NoVa so there is often a waitlist for this program. You will not be forced to go if you dont want to."
"Average"
"Excellent condition."
"Both are huge (even the VA is >400 beds)"
"Underserved / Minority"
"-at MCV hospital it is largely a mix of inner-city indigent and the poor with lots of referrals for weird stuff mixed in, great mix -the VA is a mix of 50+ older male vets with chronic conditions as well as active-duty injured soldiers"
"For the most part, the patients are the indigent, underserved patients of Richmond. MCV/VCU serves almost all of the indigent patients of Richmond and more than half of the indigent patients in the state of Virginia. I would guess 60% are African American, 10% are latino, and 30% are white."
"Poor. Urban. Non-compliant."
"Inner city population."
Response Avg | # Responders |
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8.43 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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7.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.57 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.86 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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5.29 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.86 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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4.86 | 7 |
Response Avg | # Responders |
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6.86 | 7 |
"Socialize, City festivals, Hike/Run/Bike, Outdoor Activities, River Activities, Beach trips, ski trips"
"-lots of outdoor activities -drink/party"
"Play sports together (basketball, golf) volunteer at free clinics, go out, go to shows or plays, hang out at Belle Island, run (lots of marathoners) and normal everyday life stuff."
"Drink heavily. Hike. Mountain bike. Go to VA Beach. See live music. Wine tours. Team sports."
"Abundant outdoor activities available. James River runs right through the city."
"Well"
"-they fare excellently"
"They fare well. The main match has not yet happened this year but the early match has. We have multiple matches to the most competitive specialties and one of my friends is doing her Urology at MGH (Harvard)"
"Average"
"Solid match list."
"Solid but not the best"
"-during residency interviews I got very good feedback from program directors about graduates from VCU"
"Generally it is a well respected program especially in the Mid-Atlantic where many of our graduates stay. I have interviewed at almost all of the top programs in my field including 2 Harvard programs, Johns Hopkins, Penn, and a slew of others. I had no problems with interviews. I'll let you know how the match goes."
"Most directors at top programs have not heard of VCU"
"-internal medicine, radiology, PM&R, OBGYN, surgery are very strong programs -neurology by far the weakest program"
"Transplant and GI are traditionally very strong. The Internal Medicine program is very highly regarded nationally."
"No"
What was the zip code of your residence in high school?