Students
Students at IUSM hark from both home state and out-of-state, at a ratio of 1,549 to 497. There were 3,950 applicants for the 2011-2012 cycle. The average GPA of that entering class was 3.70, and the average MCAT score was a 30.2/O.
The School is notable for its Tour the Life Student Blogs, in which medical students from all years write about their academic, clinical, and personal experiences at IUSM.
The School of Medicine offers several combined degree programs: the MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MPH, and MD/MA. The MD/MBA is in conjunction with the Kelley School of Business. The MD/PhD program, which offers full-tuition and stipend to acceptees for all years of training, is one of 40 medical schools in the nation to be designated an MSTP by the NIH. Typically about five students a year are accepted into the MD/PhD program at IUSM. MD/PhD students can choose to conduct research with faculty at either the medical school or at Purdue University.
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Famous quotes containing the word students:
“Separatism of any kind promotes marginalization of those unwilling to grapple with the whole body of knowledge and creative works available to others. This is true of black students who do not want to read works by white writers, of female students of any race who do not want to read books by men, and of white students who only want to read works by white writers.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)