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Did you hear back? I’ve read the second round of interviewees are hearing about acceptances last week and this week.

It’d be easier if you’re associated with a university center and go through their IRB. They’ll have more of the information you’ll need, because controlling and executing that study would be difficult. You’ll need a large volume of patients over a set period of time, controlled materials (saline locks, tubing, saline, flushes, pharma, etc...) buy in from staff and management for policy mitigation (as I am sure your hospital has a specific policy for adenosine in dysrhytmias), a way to record it all and hopefully some undergrad or med students to do r values and data interpolation/extrapolation. you may be better off collecting data in ncbi, nejm, jems, up to date, and er wiki. Then you could do a meta analysis and submit it to the the peer reviewed journal of your choice.

Where’d you end up? I’m flying out next month to look at houses in Lawrenceville, Oakland, Stanton heights, and the south side. Lawrenceville was awesome the last time I was there.

Depends where you live and who your hospital is affiliated with. For Riverside and San Bernardino counties, they use crafton hills in Yucaipa. Typically the base station has an allotted amount of spaces with whichever ems regulatory body. They’re usually associated with a local community college where the courses take place. For me it’s REMSA (since I live in riverside, ca). Here are some of the neighboring counties: https://www.healthdisasteroc.org/ems/emt/micn_authorization http://dhs.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dhs/ems/certification https://www.rivcoems.org/ There may be a way to register with the college and take the course, but you’ll likely need a sponsor to get the license.

I seem to have forgotten that I’ve been accepted at 2 universities thus far this year, with 1 being in the top 5 on US best lists and have one interview with the #1 left for this week. The second time around I applied I only applied to my top six and got into my dream school. My best advice is to keep trying. Nothing beats experience. If you’re offered an interview great! If not you’ll gain a contact in the admission office that can help build your resume from there to be as specific for your dream school as it can be! I hope everyone on this page got in where they want to go.

Got my acceptance call from Dr ******** yesterday. Super excited to get started. Looking forward to meeting all 45 of my classmates!

I am interviewing on the 24th in the afternoon. The second round of interviews I’ve been told is in March and the final round is in june

Looks like I am a little late to the party, but am glad to have found this thread. I’ve been up all night with the thought of CRNA school forcing my eyes open. I am in the same boat:cashing out stock and selling surfboards to eliminate debt and fund the upheaval of my family as well. We’re moving clear across the country-away from all of our family with the baby. I hope I have the same experience as all of you. My unit is busy, there have been a couple people that have gone through school, and two of my coworkers are in applications with me, and yet I still feel vehemently underprepared and anxious about the whole experience. Hopefully a year in the future you’re all doing well and have some wisdom to share.

Interviews Invites went out Friday for February.

The first deadline is the priority deadline as far as I am aware. They take the first group of students and assign March interview dates sometime in February. Dr O'donnell said they assign points for different criteria-GPA, research, GRE scores, residency status, etc-and that the interview is the last set of points. If you meet a specific threshold, they'll call you the following week (or two in some cases) and offer you a position in the program, inform you that you'll be waiting to compete against the second round of applicants (which is where they start creating the alternate list), or a rejection letter. From personal experience, the cutoff for the GRE is 300. If you score above, you are competitive for this program. If not, I'd heard of a student being told to retake the GRE and reapply for the summer interviews. One of the students two years was placed on the alternate list and offered a position fairly close to the start date. if you do apply, there is a list somewhere in one of these blogs that is very close to the actual questions we were asked. Other than that, they really like research on applications. Hope this helps!

I am so glad that I found this thread. I am a non-traditional applicant. I applied to 18 schools last cycle and have some insight to the application process at these universities. I interviewed at USC (Ca), Pitt, and Kaiser's (phone interview) last year, but was rejected from all three programs. I applied for 2 schools in Florida, 3 in Pennsylvania, 4 schools in Ca, 2 schools in Connecticut, 1 in Rhode island, 1 in Boston, 1 in Washington, and 1 in Oregon. I had 3 months of ICU experience, 4 years of ER, 6 years of EMS experience when I applied last cycle, 3.1 overall 310 on the GRE, CCRN, TNCC, MICN, ENPC, decades of volunteer experience, and several other certs, but no research or publication. I've spent the last year in the CVICU recovering hearts, am published, retook chemistry, got my CEN (for fun), Impella, Balloon pump, CVVHD courses, and arranged some school specific letters of reference. I received some very specific advice from programs that I've interviewed with and some that I didn't and would love to help anyone that has questions here. some reoccurring themes were: 1. A preference for CVICU experience. In all 3 of my interviews there were very specific PA catheter questions and at least 1/4 of the interview panel had come from this background. 2. Leadership experience. Many of the schools had questions about my precepting experience, charge positions, and project leadership. With one school asking how I got my students ready for challenging cases and critical thinking scenarios. 3. Go to information seminars and local Nurse Anesthetist seminars. At two of my interviews students had gone to CAANA, met the director of the program, and had mock/informal interviews from the program director and were over-prepared for their interview. They had also gotten an opportunity to sit in on courses to get an idea of the program, meet the current students, and speak with instructors who were later part the interview panel. Ask whoever the admissions liaison is for this opportunity as it is not often advertised on the program website. If you have any program specific questions from list, please don't hesitate to ask. 4. Certs, Certs Certs. Everyone should have the CCRN. Consider it essential to your application. I've yet to meet an SRNA who didn't have their CCRN and I've been to three schools in three states. I would highly recommend certs specific to your unit as well, like NIHSS, TNCC, MICN, ENPC, CEN, Advanced arrhythmia/dysrhythmia courses, CCN through flex ed in Neveda and California-I'm sure your seeing a theme here. At Barry University I they had literally changed the application criteria after my application (adjusted the gpa and experience requirements) after I applied and though I didn't qualify, they kept me in correspondence and competition because of my long list of certs. 5. A competitive GRE score is anything above 300. Shoot for 320 though in my experience as long as your score is competitive it isn't too influential. 6. A high science gpa. Several schools offer accelerated science courses online. Take advantage of these. I majored in molecular biology and took 2 years of chemistry, 2 years of biology, 2 years of math, and physics at university while several of the other applicants were taking Organic chemistry and physics with online labs at the University of Phoenix. 7. Lastly, shadowing. At the California schools, the university offered shadowing experience as long as you had the requisite ICU experience and were applying their program in the upcoming application cycle. I was lucky enough to speak with someone from my interview panel before I interviewed. Thanks for reading if you've made it this far. I hope that this helps those considering any of the programs I've mentioned. I realize that I was ambitious applying with essentially no ICU experience, but I am glad that I did. There is no substitute for first hand experience.

Hello all! Creating a new thread for the 2021 cycle. I applied and interviewed last year and Pitt is my dream school. Looking forward to meeting you all. Last year I got a call from admissions in February about and interview in March and I imagine that they'll follow a similar timeline.

The interview is candidate specific. They used my experience/background to direct questions and scenarios. Overall it was very relaxed and the panel was very inviting. I was supposed to interview in the afternoon originally, but was changed to the morning about a month after I was sent my original time. You’ll all do well. Brush up on CCRN stuff and your unit specific material. Know you hemodynamics if you’re from the SICU/CVICU-I had questions from this area-if you’re from peds then know your baby pressers and NIRS/BIS stuff, and general knowledge of labs and procedures.

That’s a good idea. I was hoping to scan and submit my actual passport picture, but that sounds easier.

Did all those accepted get their required paperwork in? I was wondering how everyone submitted their passport picture.