I think one thing with Nova is the lack of clinical experience early on. With Nova you do lots of classes the first 6 months and then start the clinical learning. This could be good or bad for you depending on how you learn. For me I like the classes and clinicals intertwined so Nova wasn't my top choice. Emory's class sizes are large and you have to compete for some of the "sub-specialty" anesthesia rotations. Emory's staff also seems to be less friendly with their students which means that a lot of your success there is based on what you put in. They aren't going to help you find jobs or rotations as much as the other programs, so you have to be self motivated to get what you want there. South and Case still promote their 100% job placement, but Emory doesn't. I was told on my interview there that some of their students don't have job offers and the ones that do only have 1.
South and Case are much smaller class sizes and my interviews with both showed a really friendly environment where the teachers really cared about the students and want them to exceed both personally and professionally. Also, I was told during my interviews that most of the students have multiple job offers and typically do their final school rotations at the hospital where they will be hired.
With all that said I think cost is something that's important as well. From what I've been able to discern Case>Emory>South>Nova is the order of most expensive to least. I think the names of Case and Emory along with the teachers and rotations make up for the cost though. What do you guys think?
I typed all of this on my iphone so please excuse errors...and commas.
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