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University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Year founded: 1973
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University of South Alabama College of Medicine: Allopathic Medical School; Mobile, AL; In-State Applicants Favored

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SDN RANKING 3
INTERVIEW FEEDBACK 3 50 Responses
SCHOOL REVIEWS 3 2 Responses

Overview

School Stats

Resident Tuition $31,858
Non - Resident Tuition $62,862
Application Fee $75

AVG MCAT 509
AVG GPA 3.6
LIZZYM Score 66.0

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Admissions Information

Office of Admissions
Room 241
5795 USA Drive N
Mobile, AL 36688
United States

Phone: (251) 460-7176
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.usahealthsystem.com/com

School Overview

University of South Alabama College of Medicine Fast Facts

Application Service

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School Info

The University of South Alabama College of Medicine is a vibrant and expanding center providing all facets of medical education, research and patient care. In the undergraduate medical education program, the first two years are taught primarily on the main campus in the Medical Sciences Building. The last two clinical years are spent at the University of South Alabama Hospitals and clinics, as well as in offices of community physicians.

Curriculum

The primary objective of the curriculum is to provide the student a learning framework to obtain the information and attitudes necessary for the provision of health care to our society. This begins with a thorough knowledge of the normal structure and function of the body, and progresses to an understanding of the changes in the body and mind which lead to illness. During the first two years, the student is primarily concerned with the basic biomedical sciences. To give these studies more meaning, provision is made for contact of students with patients during these preclinical years. The junior courses (clerkships) provide training in most of the basic problems with which patients present themselves. Students learn to apply scientific principles to the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. Seminars, conferences, and clinical rounds with members of the teaching staff are important in giving the student a rounded perspective of human illness. The senior program is mostly elective in order to provide each student the opportunity to choose a program best suited to his or her individual needs.

Facilities

The College of Medicine has formal affiliations with Searcy Hospital, Keesler Air Force Base Hospital and the Biloxi Veterans Administration Hospital to provide teaching facilities for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. The College of Medicine also conducts a portion of its clinical teaching activities in other health care facilities in the area. These include the Providence Hospital and the Mobile Infirmary. Physicians? offices throughout Mobile and rural areas of Alabama are also important sites for education of medical students and residents.

Interview Feedback

Results Overview

How did the interview impress you?

Response	# Responders
Positively	47
Negatively	1
No change	2

What was the stress level of the interview?

Response Avg	# Responders
2.78	50

0 = low, 10 = high

How you think you did?

Response Avg	# Responders
8.13	39

0 = low, 10 = high

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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

"With such an emphasis on a low-stress interview day, perhaps offer 2 open/1 closed file interview." More from this Member | Report Response

"Get rid of snail mail... Takes too long." More from this Member | Report Response

"Create an online student status and application system" More from this Member | Report Response

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"Tell me about the PRE-Path program you are in." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want to know about South?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why would you like to attend South Alabama?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What specialties are you considering going into?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why South?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What classes did you like/dislike?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why med school and not public health?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you believe that macroevolution continues to occur?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could change one thing about healthcare what would it be?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to go to medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor (how standard could that be)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were accepted into USA but you could not start for 5 years, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think the biggest problem in healthcare is and how would you fix it? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was your favorite class as an undergrad?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think are some problems in healthcare?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you were accepted into medical school, but could not begin for five years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Based on your experience, what is the greatest problem facing healthcare today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why South? (especially since I was out of state)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Are you sure you want to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine? Are any of your family members doctors?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why do you want to become a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor? What is your medical experience? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Tell me about yourself? What do you like to do in your spare time?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's your best quality/worst quality?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What books have you read?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if your 34 year old patient was pregnant with a child with life threatening birth defects?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What motivates me?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do in your free time?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your study habits?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What should I tell the admissions committee about you tonight?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine? What do you think will be the most difficult part of medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What book have you read recently?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did you prepare for the MCAT?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to go here?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"What do you do for fun outside of school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What have you been reading lately?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is one of the challenges in healthcare today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Roleplaying exercise: I am a busy single mother bringing her obese teenaged daughter in for a checkup. You are the doctor. Show me how you would inform us of our health issues." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your hobbies?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you couldn't go to medical school, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"how would you attack the epidemic of childhood obesity?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions about my family and their influence on me..." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If a woman brought her extremely overweight son to you and you could tell he was very unhealthy and at risk for diabetes, as well as other diseases, what would you do to help?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is my favorite book?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Would you rather be the President or Vice-President of a country?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing too interesting. The usual, why do you want to come to med school, etc." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"You found out a pregnant woman has ovarian cancer. If you start treatment now, the baby will die, if you don't treat, the mother will die. What do you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would be something that could make you lose your cool in medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If I could keep you out f medical school for the rest of your life, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where exactly in the Constitution does it guarantee a basic right to healthcare?(this was prefaced by me saying that I thought the biggest problem in healthcare was a lack of universal coverage)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Who would you eat dinner with and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Asked sort of obliquely about my views on abortion. I indicated that I'm interested in women's health so the interviewer wanted to make sure I'd thought about reproductive rights issues that may come up in practice. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Name this structure (the interviewer drew an organic chemistry structure); if you were the attorney general what would you do." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is there anything that could make you fail in medical school? AND If I had the power to keep you out of all the medical schools in the world for the rest of your life, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the last book that you've read and why did you pick to read it?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research. (nothing really too interesting)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you want to see a tumor? (I was interviewed by a pathologist.)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was asked about the Dignity with Death act." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you feel about abortion and cloning?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think is the biggest problem facing healthcare today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What were the similarities between the cultures of Kenya and Mexico that I noticed during my medical outreach trips?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your opinion of assisted early death?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"To talk about my hobbies." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you fix the situation at USA Medical Center in that it is running a large deficit by seeing indigent patients without health insurance, and is in jeopardy of closing?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My role model? My accoplishment I am most proud of? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What type of music are you listening to? What's in your CD player right now? ( happened to talk about musical interests during the conversation)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about marriage in medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do I speak Japanese? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you choose your undergraduate school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What brought your family to Alabama from California?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What has been my greatest disappointment in life?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Since HIV/AIDS is a preventable disease in most cases, how do you feel about public money going towards HIV/AIDS patients?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you feelings on euthanasia?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you feel abortion should always be available as an option, in limited circumstances, or never at all?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your family. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"questions about 9-11-01" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Most were very conversational." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Mostly about my military background and how that related to 9-1-1." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

Response Avg	# Responders
6.00	3

0 = Terrible, 10 = World Class

What do you like most?

"I like the cooperative spirit of the student body and all the hands on experiences incorporated into the first two years." | Report Response

"The independence they encourage and foster." | Report Response

"Most of the actual physicians here are excellent professors. The curriculum has been completely redesigned for the new classes and I have heard good things about it so far. The new simulation labs are top-notch and very well facilitated. The clinical teaching staff (physicians, nurses, PAs, etc) are amazingly dedicated and knowledgeable, during the few opportunities you have during MS1 and MS2 to escape the misery of PhD education. If you are an MD/PhD applicant, then you will probably love this school (and my hat is off to you). If you want to become a physician and actually learn medicine (and eventually treat patients), then you will hate everything about this place." | Report Response

What do you like least?

"There have been some bumps in the road implementing new curricula. These are getting better as we go though." | Report Response

"The hospital and facilities are from state of the art. If that's a deal breaker, would avoid." | Report Response

"The majority of professors at this school are PhDs (and all that this implies). To say that these people are out of touch with modern clinical medicine education would be a gross understatement. If you want a PhD oriented education without an actual PhD to show for it, then you should absolutely apply here. The new curriculum may be better implemented, but bear in mind that the same people teach it (i.e. non-physicians). If the administration simply replaced the PhD staff with actual physicians, the vast majority of education issues here would be resolved. Unfortunately, the administration is also comprised almost exclusively of PhDs (the Dean of Medicine is a PhD, for example)." | Report Response

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