University of Wisconsin, Medical School Admission
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University of Wisconsin, Medical School Application

The Facts

The University of Wisconsin is a rather large, public institution located in the city of Madison, Wisconsin, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 35,000 students. The university's Medical School, however, is significantly smaller, and is home to about 620 graduate medical students. The average age of enrollment is around 24, and it is fairly rare for any of the students to enter the school directly from their undergraduate education. The school is perhaps best known for its terrific research facilities and programs, as well as its emphasis on the school's curricular flexibility. Aside from the basic MD degree, the school offers a joint degree in the MD/MPH.

Admission to the University of Wisconsin's Medical School is extremely competitive among the relatively few students who apply; last year, over 850 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 260 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 150 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming semester. The admitted students had average MCAT scores of about 10.5 in Biology, 10.3 in Physics, and 10.1 in Verbal, as well as an average undergraduate GPA of about a 3.7. Students are notified of their admissions status on a rolling basis, and are able to take advantage of the school's early application program if they so choose.

The Medical School has about 900 faculty members, all of whom come from relatively diverse medical and academic backgrounds; the school also boasts a very manageable student to faculty ratio of about 1:1, and the small classes allow for plenty of discussion and interaction between students and their professors.

Graduates of the university's Medical School often go on to be accepted to some of the nation's most prestigious and competitive residency programs in the nation, and most frequently specialize in the areas of general surgery, family practice, internal medicine, orthopedics, public health, as well as neurology.

Clinical Programs

Students are required to complete extensive clinical training including 8 weeks of medicine, 8 weeks of primary care, 8 weeks of surgery, 6 weeks of pediatrics, 6 weeks of ob/gyn, 2 weeks of anesthesia, 6 weeks of neuroscience, 4 weeks of psychiatry, 1 week of opthamology, 4 weeks of medicine, 4 weeks of advanced surgery, as well as a 6 week preceptorship. Students complete their clinical clerkships at affiliated facilities including the UW internal health exchange.

What's Good

"There are many opportunities to have patient contact, and you are able to put human faces on the theories you're learning."

"The faculty here are incredibly dedicated to their students and to the school itself."

"If you are an in state student the school is a very good deal."

What's Bad

"If you are an out of state student, tuition is actually quite high."

"There are some students who feel the need to be very competitive."

"You can't really expect to have much of a life while you're studying here."

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