 Florida International University, my undergrad has the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, which is pretty competitive. Stay tuned for all it has to offer. Hi, I'm Dr. Josie. This is right your acceptance. Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss a video. And if you want to chat personal statements, which is my expertise, definitely click on the link below. You get a free 15 minute strategy call to learn how I work with students and get some intel on your journey and your personal statement. All right, so let's get started. For the curriculum, they have a simulation center. You can actually tour the center now with COVID restrictions. It might be different, but hopefully those will be kind of, you know, not here forever. And I will link below the tour kind of request form that you can use to actually tour the facility. They also have a virtual tour, which I will link below as well so that you can kind of get a sense of the space and kind of learn a little bit about it. They partner with community health partners, right? So they collaborate with community health partners to really improve all the competencies that they focus on, right? So patient outcome, bedside experience, professional development, teamwork and building. They want to improve student performance and patient health outcome. And so they do connect and collaborate with local health partners for student experience. And so you should check those out too. The HW comment FIU has basic applied translational clinical interdisciplinary research opportunities. Not only that faculty are engaging in, but also for student experience. Some specific student research opportunities are cellular biology and pharmacology, human molecular genetics, immunology, translational institute, internal medicine, population health sciences. There are a ton of clinical departments, right? Dermatology, emergency pediatrics, pathology, psychiatry, radiation oncology, surgery, urology. So I'll link all of those opportunities below so that you can deep dive into the FIU that are really of interest to you. But you have so many opportunities to research as an FIU medical student. So let's talk about community outreach, which is my favorite. They have the FIU FAST team, FAST, is the Florida Advanced Surgical Transport. It is an all volunteer medical team of medical professionals and trained civilians. It is the only team of its kind in the nation, and they can supplement for critical care space. And they have ICU capabilities. There is the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health. And this, if you attended or if you are familiar with FIU undergraduate experience, you've also been able to, it's an opportunity for undergraduates as well. But this experience is, it's unique. It's immersive, right? Medical students are allowed to kind of basically connect and directly with the community and do community outreach and service. There are education and law students also that they partner with and go into homes and really address the needs of the kind of most underserved populations of the community of Miami-Dade County. The next community outreach program is Metswish. And it is medical students working to improve society and health. It is a student run community service offering health screenings. And they even have the wartime conference. And it's to engage students K through 12 with, you know, an engaging interactive learning experience within STEM, within the sciences. Do you want info on another medical school that you're applying to? Definitely list them below. So I get an idea as to what you guys want. These are very important type videos in the sense of they can be, you know, your introduction to a program. But if you're coming to them when you are already applying and you're writing about, especially for secondaries, and you have to make a case for the white us or best fit, or, you know, how do you connect with our mission statement or our principles in the mission statement? These types of very specific particular research driven details are what's really going to make your essay, your essays most compelling. So here are some fun facts for FIU 99% pass rate for step one and two. So number 42 in the ranking, number 15 in patent production. Now I couldn't find a specific academic stats of class profile on their FIU website. So this is from the student doctor network, the average MCAT is 511. The average GPA is 37 in state applicants are favored unlike the University of Miami, which is private FIU does favor in state students. And the medical school was founded in 2006. The class tends to typically be about 120 students every year. There is an international medical student program, which is pretty cool. It pairs you to learn the US health system and pairs you with faculty members of the college. It is first come first serve. There's an application kind of specific process for this program. I'll link that below if it's of interest. I hope you found this video helpful. If you did, give us a like share with your premed friends and come back to it when you're writing your secondaries for sure. If you are writing your personal statement, you have my free 15 minute strategy call to learn how I work with students on kind of helping you build your essay. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye