MEDICINE AT WESTERN - A Site for Prospective Students

[Pantaloons]

New updates to the prospective site!

 

Now with more purple and brand new, shiny testimonials

 

http://www.uwomeds.com/prospective/

 

Site looks great!

 

Everybody come to Western!

Looking back, from my perspective, these past 4 years have been an amazing experience. I've pushed my limits and broadened horizons; I've made some wonderful friends; I've truly had a fantastic time here at Western. I look forward to meeting some of you!

 

We train some of the best medstudents in the country and create some hilariously fun memories along the way.

Come join us.

[sds]

I'm trying to understand the timetable online but can't really... generally speaking how does our day look Monday to friday? 830-330 M-F?

[nosuperman]

I'm trying to understand the timetable online but can't really... generally speaking how does our day look Monday to friday? 830-330 M-F?

 

For first year its basically every morning 8:30-11:30. You'll get the odd morning off or small group session in the morning but its rarer. Afternoons is where there is variability

 

Monday afternoons are ethics or population health or epidemiology (depending on time of year) for 2-3 hours (1:30-3:30 or 4:30).

Tuesdays are PCCIA 1:30-3:30. Small group less content-related (though still very content related) more about social aspects in general but its highly varied to be honest.

Wednesdays are generally off.

Thursdays are PCCM 1:30-4:30, clinical methods - learning to take histories, interview patients, do physical exams, etc.

Fridays are sometimes off, sometimes small group, but I think they're supposed to generally be off.

[duck_season]

friday afternoons off...aww yiss

[ellorie]

Hm. If you guys all had PCCM and PCCIA T/Th that's different. Ours alternates - half the class has T/F and half has W/Th

[nosuperman]

Hm. If you guys all had PCCM and PCCIA T/Th that's different. Ours alternates - half the class has T/F and half has W/Th

 

Probably just a Windsor thing that emerges from having less people.

[rmorelan]

Probably just a Windsor thing that emerges from having less people.

 

Exactly

 

Plus I think people should understand WHY you have a predictable schedule with afternoons off - that by the way flip in years one and two (mornings are off in year2, afternoons in year 1).

 

That is a structure that allows you do schedule research or observerships - even long term repeated oberserships - with the same group or people. Not everyone does of course, or needs to depending on the specialty of choice, but it is a nice option to have. I used it to complete a lot of the research I did in radiology, attend lab meetings, do a series of observerships with a core group of doctors.

 

So while of course people will use it for free time etc, I think you should keep in mind the reason it was put there in the first place. ha -it is a lot of fun working with the people that build the curriculum and seeing why they did certain things. It is all there for a reason.

[mddegree]

Check out the updated Prospectives site for the future Class of 2018!

http://prospective.uwomeds.com

Very useful for current and future applicants.

[PreMed#219099]

Hi! Just wondering if there's a new one of these since the aforementioned links are giving an error: "404 Error: Not found"

 

Thank you!!

[hbmed]

17 hours ago, PreMed#219099 said:

Hi! Just wondering if there's a new one of these since the aforementioned links are giving an error: "404 Error: Not found"

 

Thank you!!

The site looks to be in its annual update- one of the sublinks is to the 2021 Interview page, so this should be available soon

[hbmed]

Hello! I'm sure this will probably get shared via email or something as well, but the website is now updated and live for this cycle  https://prospective.schulichmeds.com/home/