I can 100% say that without this program I would not have gotten into med school. Not going in to my history but touro master’s>>>>>> any other SMP or “normal master’s” if you really want to go to med school. I will say if you don’t want to put in the effort or if you want to make friends with everyone this is definitely not the place to be. Your “ real deal” and my experience probably contrast on many issues.
if you’re going to bash the program do it in the openly and not in DM’s. There most likely are somethings that I would agree with. I’ll even start.
Pro’s
Those that put in the work get a seat into medschool, it really is a equal playing field ( this is honestly worth a 1000 reasons to go)
You are almost guaranteed to be top half of your first year of med school because well you did it twice, so first year will be a cake walk.
This one sounds weird but it in the US. This was my last try before I went Caribbean or gave up on my dream. It gave me a chance to proof what I could do.
Cons
The sheer amount of time you have to study because it’s grade on a curve. I did well on every exam. This took a lot of work and alot of weekends but I never had to worry about not getting in
The cliques that form. This is definitely because of the grading curve and I’ll say I’m guilty of this. But also I would spend so much time studying with my group, why would I go teach someone who barely started studying when we we’re 20+ hours into questions. We all have the same hours in the day use them wisely
Mandatory classes for master’s. Not going to lie I never really paid attention in class so they were a time sink. I just did anki or study a question bank during class most of the time.
Edit: It’s hard to say these are cons really except the mandatory class. The other two are more about mind set. I walked in with the mind set of getting the grade, and not caring about making friends, but ended up make a few very good friends during the year. People that I’m going to enjoy going through med school with.