Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Number of students: 25
Application Cycle: April – November through CASPA
Interview dates: September – December, notification by March 1st
Start date: August
Length of Program: 28 months
Public/Private: Public
HCE: Minimum 1,000 hours of direct patient care completed by December of the year before matriculation
Shadowing: No specific requirement
The Good Stuff:
- One unique feature is that part of the didactic year is actually with the medical students
- Only accepts US citizens
- LOR – 3 total, must have 1 academic and 1 from healthcare supervisor
- They will accept the MCAT instead of the GRE
- They report a 100% employment rate after graduation
- No one has failed boards since 1996! That’s pretty amazing
Program Link: University of Iowa
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