Originally Posted by coolaid

1) Hostels are OK....and that means how much you can adapt to India...but its safe, has back up power, and has wifi connectivity or cable connectivity for internet.If u r a guy u will probably will be in New AC hostel.
2)Bring 'packaged snacks' from canada or USA.......when I visited my relatives here at KMCIC, to check out the school, I brought tons of snickers, cereal bars etc etc.
3)There are only 4 students right now in the US who will sit for the USMLE...out of which I am in contact with one of them, he has postponed taking the steps, the reason he said was , that he found a BIG GAP between what he learned at KMCIC and what KAplan taught him. But the good news is that in MD1, they are using Kaplan notes ...Dr C[who spend some time at AUA], is trying to integrate Kaplan in this semester for Physiology.
4)Yes KMC has all the great ones....a majority of KMCIC students are taught by fresh MSc's from Manipal University. A few classes in Bio Chem are taken by Dr U, a few classes by Dr.C and Dr.R in Physio and for everything else who taught by MSc's...............KMCIC cannot be compared to AUA's quality....on a 10 point scale if AUA is 8, KMCIC is 3.5.......