The Student Doctor Network has launched a School Reviews database application to help students achieve their dreams of becoming a health professional. SDN also is providing an updated version of its popular Interview Feedback database application. These applications are available online at www.studentdoctor.net/schools/.
The School Reviews database allows current and former medical students to provide feedback on what it is like to be a student at their institution. By completing a survey, students can paint a picture of life at their school, including their classroom and clinical education, the local area, social environment, and success of graduates. Pre-medical students can review the results of the surveys to help them choose the medical schools they want to target for application.
“We are very excited to be launching the School Reviews functionality for our users,” said Dr. Lee Burnett, SDN Executive Director. “This application, along with the updated Interview Feedback database, will enable prospective students to better understand what it is like to attend a school from the real experts – current and former students. We are launching the school review application for allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and will soon be expanding it to other health professional schools.”
In addition to the new School Reviews database, SDN is launching an updated version of the Interview Feedback database. The Interview Feedback database allows students who are applying to a health professional program to describe their interview experiences and view what other applicants have said about their interview experiences. Thousands of SDN members have completed Interview Feedback surveys, providing a rich source of information for pre-health professional students.
“The power of SDN is in the way our members help each other,” continued Dr. Burnett. “We are indebted to our current students for the information they have provided on their interview experiences. This new functionality will make it easier for our members to share information about their perceptions of life at medical school. The School Review and Interview Feedback databases support the mission of SDN, which is to provide free and unbiased information to students in their efforts to become health professionals.”
Students who complete a School Review or Interview Feedback survey in the month of January may be randomly selected to receive one of 50 SDN “Dress the Doc” magnets.
I like the new organization, but it would be helpful if feedback could be organized by date. The more recent comments tend to be the most relevant, especially during the interview process/season.
I agree. Can you please organize by date? It’s helpful to know the most recent feedback.
Where did the residency feedback go?
Andrea and Ricky are right. The date of the feedback questions is crucial. Questions change from interview cycle to cycle, and probably even month to month.
Not a fan of the new layout. There’s no way to tell newer comments from older ones. Wish you’d just left it alone.
Statistics are a nice feature but kind of irrelevant to why I use this which is for interview prep.
Thank you to everyone for your comments.
Based on user feedback, we will be adding the date that the comments were made to all the comments fields, so you can see when a particular comment was made.
Please let us know if you have any other feedback by entering a help ticket at http://help.studentdoctor.net/tickets/new
GREAT Compilation!
I am personally overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response of all those who gave their feedback and the time you guys have put into getting this organized.
great help, particularly the Comments on Most positive thing and most negative thing about the school gives an excellent perspective on the medical school itself, besides the interview process.
I am an international applicant and i feel it would be of great help if, apart from the In-state/Out-State option, there is one more for International status. that would tell me how many international students are interviewed and if there are any different set of questions for them.
Secondly, an option indicating whether the student applied for the MD alone or MD/PhD program would be great as well, coz my understanding is that MD/PhD applicants typically get more research based questions.
thank you once again for the great effort!
Awesome. I really like the “med school review” section.