ATTENTION - ALL WHO WERE NOT ACCEPTED AT UMKC
If you still want to be a doctor, have you considered osteopathic medicine?
I applied to the LECOM EAP program as a backup for allopathic med school programs, and I wonder if it really is a back up!
DOs income the same pay as MDs - I have been told that to think a DO gets less money is not only incorrect, it is very incorrect (see above).
All things being equal, I have been told MDs get better residencies. BUT UMKC med students get low step 1 scores, while LECOM medical students get #1 score on Step 1 in the country (1 year they had second highest average, instead of number one). So wouldn’t they do better than UMKC med school graduates for a residency?
But, UMKC is no MCAT, and people are afraid of the MCAT. Well fear no more, you do not have to take the MCAT in another program if you maintain a 3 year gpa of 3.5!!
What is the EAP/accelerated BS/DO program? You must have a 1200SAT or 25 ACT and 3.5 gpa. You interview while a high school senior, or wait until freshman in college, up to you. If you pass your interview - then no MCAT! Yes, NO, NONE, NO MCAT. Go to an affiliated college and get a 3.5 gpa and after 3 years you are automatically a medical student at LECOM (3,4 gpa if you take 4 years of college).
And the affiliated colleges are easy - if you cannot get a 3.5 gpa at one of them, you cannot get a 3.0 at any other college!
I just raise this, because what I am seeing about UMKC makes me wonder if many applicants would have been better off considering LECOM? I know those that were not accepted should consider LECOM!
Internal medicine is the specialty of UMKC - this I have read and re-read here.
And yet the UMKC residencies are full of DOs and foreign medical graduates from Jordan, India and elsewhere
http://med.umkc.edu/im/residency/pgy1/ So if they got residency here at UMKC, you can too, and via LECOM’s EAP program with no MCAT!
So do not give up if UMKC did not accept you, you may be better off with a higher Step 1 as a DO than as a UMKC grad (and you will be less in debt too)! Do not limit yourselves, find a way to be a doctor! Look at UMKC internal med residencies - surely you can go to almost any school and come here!