"Physician-scientist training (MD << Cleveland Clinic < MD/PhD) for those interested in more that straight MD training, and less than MD/PhD. VERY small class size: It's like family. Except your family has some of the brightest students from around the world and every walk of life - which can be very humbling. World-class hospital faculty, access to some really unique patient populations (not so much zebras - more like unicorns). No grades, class-rankings, lectures, exams, or AOA. We have the rights and privileges of all Case Western Reserve students, and additional perks similar to residents at Cleveland Clinic. And chill." | Report Response

"It is like a family, or like Cheers, where everyone knows your name. The personal attention and available resources can't be beat. Neither can free tuition!" | Report Response

"The very small group-learning sessions (often 8 students, but sometimes as low as 4 or 6) means that each student must show up, be prepared, and participate / share the learning workload. Students who cannot or chose not to participate and those not truly interested in a research career can be disruptive to the learning environment. Small class size and high-achieving classmates tend to invite close scrutiny of your performance and can cause anxiety - although this is partially mitigated by the (true) lack of exams, grades, rankings, AOA." | Report Response

"Sometimes families can be a little dysfunctional. :-P" | Report Response

"Not for everyone - research is integrated into every aspect of our training, and there is an additional mandatory year for all students." | Report Response

"Always...Always." | Report Response

"All classes have mandatory attendance. You spend about 20 hours per week in class first year (including clinic), and 24 hours per week second year." | Report Response

"You will receive a list of books in your orientation materials." | Report Response

"Most of the recommended (supplementary) books you can do without." | Report Response

"Promotes physician-scientists in all areas of medicine (academic, public health, the business of medicine, bioethics, nutrition, engineering; and basic science, translational, and clinical research)" | Report Response

"No, but it is designed to produce academic physicians (clinician investigators). So if you're looking to go into private practice somewhere, this is probably not the best program for you." | Report Response

"There is housing at Case for grad students, but none on the Clinic campus." | Report Response

"There are no lectures, but mandatory small-group and seminar based discussions with (very) active student interaction." | Report Response

"They range from good to excellent. We evaluate their teaching regularly, and those that are less interactive or otherwise not as good tend to be culled out." | Report Response

"Traditional clinical rotations are identical to the "regular" Case Western Reserve "University Track" program - students from CCLCM can and do rotate at the exact same locations (several hospital systems within NE Ohio)." | Report Response

"Same as before: good to excellent. Again, we evaluate them regularly. I only had one attending that I would say was awful." | Report Response

"None. All promotions (from first to second year, for example) are done after reviewing portfolio performance of each student confidentially by an anonymous committee." | Report Response

"P/F" | Report Response

"AE - for core rotations "AE" is given on the transcript for all rotations passed with an End-of-Rotation the descriptive evaluation score of "Meets OR exceeds expectations" as a combined (and purposefully ambiguous) maximum possible score. Acting Internships, however, are now use a more traditional "Meets Expectations" and "Exceeds Expectations"" | Report Response

"P/F" | Report Response

"CCLCM students are scheduled along with all other Case students for basic core rotations. Therefore there are lots of students and many sites. Done mainly centrally through Case. Students choose preferences, but not all requests can be honored, although there is a mechanism for students to swap with eachother." | Report Response

"Our rotations are exactly the same as the regular Case program. Go to the Case website for the latest schedules. But in a nutshell, we have three core blocks. Core I is medicine and surgery. Core II is peds, family med, and OB/gyn. Core III is psych and neuro. We are also required to do a month each of geriatrics and EM. Fourth year we do two acting internships, one of which must be medicine, surgery, or peds." | Report Response

"YMMV - I did several median sternotomies (with supervision, of course) and sewed on the heart in one rotation, and then was essentially observing on the next. I feel it is probably as good, if not better than most student experiences, and highly dependent on your personal motivation as much as the rotation/circumstances.." | Report Response

"It varies by rotation and rotation site. My experience was that on peds you don't get to do as much, unfortunately. On medicine, I felt like we had to do too much, including taking 30 hour Q4 call with the team." | Report Response

"In a word - full-spectrum and world-class. CCF is like a spaceship and a great surgical center with Tertiary/Quaternary Care center which has a massive main campus with something like 18 Family Health Centers and outpatient satellite facilities (including a rural medicine option). It's minimalist and modern ("very white" is how visitors often describe it) vs. a place like Mayo which has a warmer feel, but more of an "old money" decor. Metro is a legit county hospital (think ER or Scrubs) , with a large trauma center and burn unit and a great national rep and a excellent teaching record. University Hospitals is a VERY well established academic center also nationally ranked in the heart of a vibrant college campus and cultural center. And let's not forget the very large and well-regarded Stokes VA center in town as well." | Report Response

"There are four main hospitals where students rotate: University Hospitals (academic teaching hospital), Cleveland Clinic (gigantic private group practice), Metro (county hospital), and the VA. A new affiliation with a community hospital is also being started." | Report Response

"This is a silly question. Let me see: Sports super-stars, indigent homeless, white middle class, hispanics/latinos, rural, Amish neonates and wealthy retirees, working poor. International patients life-flighted there, VIP foreign dignitaries and heads of states. Servicemen. Stay-at-home moms. Horses, the occasional zebras. The rare unicorn. A Billionaire in bed 4 and a one-in-a-billion in bedspace 5. But most importantly, you'll see bread-and-butter." | Report Response

"Depends on rotation site. At UH, you get your regular variety of tertiary care center patients plus local patients. At the Clinic, you get the zebras that even tertiary care hospitals have a hard time dealing with, plus all kinds of bigwigs from abroad and around the country. At Metro, you get an inner city population. At the VA, you obviously see veterans, so mostly men." | Report Response

"You name it - things are very cheap in CLE. Most students find lots to do with their spare time. Run/hike/b-ball are all popular." | Report Response

"Your typical med student activities. Go out, have parties, have dinner, volunteer in the community, hang out." | Report Response

"This school has yet to limit anyone that I know of from pursuing their dream schools - most get their 1-3 choices for matching." | Report Response

"So far two classes have graduated, and both have matched very well. No one is in practice yet." | Report Response

"In the past the "no grade/rankings/exam/AOA" used to trip up RDs. However, given that we now have graduated many classes, our reputation has greatly improved. This is nearly a non-existent problem currently, and not anticipated to be a barrier to anyone graduating going forward." | Report Response

"They are apparently doing well according to the CCLCM student affairs office, which asked the PDs at the places where our grads matched." | Report Response

"Research. We have a rep at NIH and Sarnoff etc for selecting and grooming excellent candidates for competitive fellowships and research opportunities." | Report Response

"Again, no one has finished residency yet, but the expectation is that we will be academic physicians." | Report Response