"Contrary to popular opinion, the U of U is not biased against white male Mormon returned missionaries."

 The University of Utah School of Medicine  

http://medicine.utah.edu/

Salt Lake City, UT

Total Students In Medical College (2008-2009): 412

Matriculated last year: 102

"A minimum of 75% of positions are offered to Utah residents."

Tuition

Resident:  $21,934

Non-Resident:  $40,840

Estimated room, board and living:  $17,560

Average 2008 graduate indebtedness: $132,170

Health Insurance:  (can be waived)

Quote of the day from the U of U med students that answered questions at our last pre-med meeting

"Contrary to popular opinion, the U of U is not biased against white male Mormon returned missionaries."

2008 BYU stats

Applied: 253 students

Accepted: 23 students

Matriculated: 16 students

What's Special About The University of Utah Medical School?

Curriculum

The U of U Medical School has recently changed its curriculum.  Here is a taste of their new plan:

"...we have designed a new curriculum that improves curricular integration, provides early clinical exposure, guides students through increasingly complex clinical situations and allows for expansion of medical class size. While not modeled after any individual

other institution, it incorporates new approaches to education that have been implemented in a variety of the other medical schools. It will place greater emphasis on competency based student assessments and will improve the coordination of teaching by an identified core of faculty members. The major changes include the following:

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Courses will no longer be organized around traditional academic disciplines corresponding to administrative departments. Instead, sections of the curriculum will be organized around clinical topics, with elements of Medical Science, Medical Arts, and Clinical Medicine used to teach each topic in an integrated format.

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The first two years of the curriculum will consist of an introduction followed by seven sections addressing clinical topic areas.

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Integration of material will be managed by pairs of basic scientist and clinician directors who will be responsible for assembling appropriate teaching faculty to deliver appropriate educational content. These directors will be responsible for the construction and coordination of the new curriculum. Later the directors will be responsible for maintenance, ongoing assessment, and modification of the curriculum. They will be required to commit a major part of their academic time to the curriculum.

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Students will gain exposure to clinical practice from the beginning of their training. Progression will be from simulations and standardized patients to real patients in increasingly complex situations from ambulatory care to tertiary care settings. Basic sciences will be taught throughout the curriculum, integrated with and reinforcing concepts of best clinical practice.

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Student assessment methods that evaluate competence in patient care and self evaluation will be enhanced.

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Greater emphasis will be placed on assigning faculty mentors to students

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Students will be required to engage in an independent scholarly activity

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Students will be required to engage in community service activities

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Faculty will be mentored more in how to be effective educators"

For more on the curriculum visit: 

http://medicine.utah.edu/medicaleducation/CIC/curriculum%20model%20implementation%20version.pdf

Research

The University of Utah is ranked among the top 30 public research universities in the nation with particular distinctions in medicine and genetics. As a result of our benchmarking research, the university received over $309 million in research and student aid funding from external sources and ranks 15th in the nation for significant awards to faculty for research efforts.

Admissions

We evaluate applications against minimum and average standards in 8 specific areas. Applicants must achieve at least the minimum level of performance in all 8 areas and be average or above in 5 out of the 8 areas in order to proceed in the admissions process. Successful applicants distinguish themselves with outstanding performance in one or more of these areas. The 8 areas are listed below.

8 Areas:

1. GPA
2. MCAT
3. Extracurricular activities
4. Community/volunteer service
5. Leadership
6. Research
7. Physician shadowing
8. Patient Exposure

http://medicine.utah.edu/admissions/criteria/index.htm

Wanna know how you're doing on the U of U pre-med requirements?

For a self evaluation form visit the following link: http://medicine.utah.edu/admissions/criteria/Self%20Assessment%202009-2010.pdf

Find out more at:  http://medicine.utah.edu/

-This information was obtained from the Medical School Admissions Requirements information book and the BYU pre-health advisement center.