"Great third and fourth year rotations. Faculty love to teach. University Hospital sees the worst of the worst in pathology. Culture is student-friendly and as a student you are expected to be hands-on and actively involved in patient care. You'll spend very little time standing in the corner shadowing. You will be well-prepared to become a great resident. Other things I love: flexible schedule MS1 & 2 with mostly optional attendance and recorded video lectures, 4th year is 100% electives, class collaboration and morale is great, MS2 ends in February thus giving you 4 months of extra time to do things like early rotations, step study, vacation, and research." | Report Response

"Class is very large (~210s). Even after four years I still don't know all my classmates. Also, the "new" preclinical curriculum (2012) is mostly very good, but there's a handful of required team-based exercises every week that I felt were minimally helpful." | Report Response

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"~20% of the time" | Report Response

"School uses VitalSource, which is an electronic library you must purchase and includes about 2 dozen textbooks. You can copy/paste texts and images, highlight, annotate, and print an unlimited number of pages." | Report Response

"Some of the books in the vitalsource library are unnecessary, but since it is part of a package you can't not purchase them." | Report Response

"No, the curriculum is balanced and does not seem to push students in any particular direction." | Report Response

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"30% are phenomenal, 40% are very good, 25% are good enough, and 5% are not good." | Report Response

"I would say 75% are excellent, with the remainder being good or very good. It is clear that the school values hiring and retaining the best educators." | Report Response

"A, B, C, F" | Report Response

"A, B, C, F" | Report Response

"3rd year: 8 weeks of medicine (some sub-specialty weeks built in), 8 weeks of surgery (4 weeks gen surg + 4 weeks sub-specialty), 6 weeks each of OBGYN, psych, family medicine, and pediatrics, and 4 weeks each of neurology and emergency medicine. You fill out a detailed preference form regarding the order you would like to do these mandatory rotations in, and then a lottery system is used to make it as fair as possible. 4th year: 100% elective. The only requirement is that you must do at least one month inpatient and one month outpatient." | Report Response

"You are an important part of the team. You almost always round on your own and then present your patients with complete assessments and plans. You then see patients again with the resident/attending and agree upon a final plan. You are expected to be present and usually participate in any procedures or exams." | Report Response

"University Hospital has a decades-long affiliation with the medical school. They are physically attached. I think they recently renewed their contract for another 15 years (or something like that). The VA is also attached by a skybridge." | Report Response

"University Hospital is a busy academic center that also serves as the county hospital. In addition to seeing academic "zebras" you also see the full process of diseases. Many of the patients haven't had any medical care in years and only arrive when their diseases are very advanced. The patient population, like San Antonio itself, is probably around 60% hispanic." | Report Response

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"The great majority of students are able to match into the specialty of their choice. I believe this has more to do with the individual than the school." | Report Response

"That UTHSCSA graduates make very good residents." | Report Response

"The match lists from this school are consistently balanced. Perhaps an above-average number of students go into emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, and anesthesiology." | Report Response