MS4 Class Information – March 31, 2022

If you haven’t already, please take the AAMC Graduation Questionnaire and the Explore & Focus Phase Survey

You can win prizes worth up to $50!
AAMC Graduation Questionnaire 

A message from Sara Kim, Associate Dean for Educational Quality Improvement: Thank you for helping raise the response rate to 39.2 percent compared to 34 percent last week. We are about 10 percent behind the national average, which is normal for this time of the year.

 

Looking at the regional campus breakdown, Idaho continues to register the highest response rate at 45 percent (last week: 42.5 percent), followed by Spokane (42.9 percent vs. 41.3 percent) and Wyoming (42.9 percent vs. 38.1 percent), Montana (37 percent vs. 33.3 percent), Seattle (36.5 percent vs. 28.1 percent), and Alaska (27.8 percent vs. 22.2 percent). Kudos to Seattle students for the largest jump of 8.4 percentage points in a week!.

Incentives:

  • Four $50 items you select from Amazon
  • Sixteen $25 items you select from Amazon
  • Three $50-value WWAMI gift packs

We will randomly draw students and if your name is picked, we will request from you the AAMC receipt of survey completion. Please keep a record of it!

Survey Link:

AAMC sends the survey link to your email (Contact GQ@aamc.org to request the link). A reminder email will be sent on April 1 to your email address.

 Explore & Focus Phase Survey

Response Rates:

We are at 43.6 percent this week, a jump by nearly 10 percentage points in the response rate over the past week. THANK YOU!!

 

Incentives:

  • Two $50 items you select from Amazon
  • Twelve $25 items you select from Amazon
  • One $50-value WWAMI gift pack

Survey Link:

You have and will continue to receive a survey link directly via email. Your email address is only used for tracking purposes and your responses will remain anonymous.


Updates from Student Affairs:

Financial Aid: Recording available for AAMC Loan Repayment Webinar  No. 2!


Today’s the deadline to pay it forward to future UW students

Congrats to many of you! As you stand towards the end of your medical school journey, we ask you to please pay it forward.
ROL survey due March 31

Students regularly ask Student Affairs for UWSOM data, and many of you told us how much you benefited from the 2017-2020 UWSOM interviews & match specialty data we shared with you when you were creating your program lists. The ROL survey is for our internal UWSOM resource, an example of which is pictured below: UWSOM Interviews & Match data. By completing the survey, you’ll be helping future students identify which programs they might want to apply and strengthen UWSOM data to provide evidence-based, specialty-specific advising for future students.

NOTE: This survey is optional, and the data will only be shared in aggregate without student identifiers. If there are only one to two students in a specialty and for all smaller specialties, we aggregate the data across five or more years to ensure anonymity.

If you choose to complete the ROL survey, please do so by March 31.

 


Contribute to the TexasSTAR by April 11

As you may recall from last fall, the TexasSTAR is a national resource used to demystify the residency application process. This tool allows you to review specialties and programs, and to compare your profile against students who received interviews and matched to programs in your specialty. Many students reported finding it helpful when building their original program lists.

All graduating MS4s across the country are invited to submit data about their residency application experience in order to build out the resource for future classes. The survey is delivered in REDCap and is completely anonymous. If you applied to more than one specialty, you’ll need to submit a response for each specialty.

Please complete the survey by April 11. The more students who submit data, the more useful the information will be to future applicants!

 


In case you missed it:

Here is a link to the March 24, 2022 Weekly Student Newsletter information for MS4s.