UMKC - is it brutal?

ldt6v8
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:39:20 +0000

Hi,

I’m a graduate student at UMKC. I’m not in the MD program, but I got my undergraduate degree here and made really good friends in the med program. Honestly, some of them party just as hard as everyone else, but strategically. (If there’s a test on Wednesday, no one’s definitely going out on Monday and Tuesday.) In 4 years for undergraduate, I’ve seen many people dismissed – for a numer of reasons (cheating, bad grades, head butts). The honesty policy is heavy. The school is set up where classmates are around each other all of the time too, so people complain about each other after a wihile – like marriage. I think you’re even FORCED to live in the dorms together for the first year.

It’s brutal, but I constantly hear that, once you make it pass year 3 and “boards”, it gets considerably easier. The major issued regarding opponents of the program are age and maturity. Is 18 too young to handle the stresses of a medical program?