any current touro medical schoool students confirm the above as far as the policy on clickers and attendance goes?
The reason I ask is because I like to study a lot on my own. So, if I can choose whether to go to class, do clickers, or study on my own, that option alone would really sway me to Touro.
Am not sure of the current schedule, but this was how it was 3 years ago when I started.
First year
Mon: test
Tues: clickers from 8-12. 4 classes, 1 hour each
Wed: pd clickers from 8-9, then lab from 9-12 (usually only 1- 1 1/2 hours, groups were split up)
Thurs: clickers 8-10, then OMM lab from 10-12, then anatomy lab from 1-3, then histo from 3-5 (easy to leave after signing in to histo)
Fri: Clickers 8-9, anatomy lab 9-11. (only 1st semester, 2nd semester we had no classes)
Total first semester: 17-18 hours per week, 8 hours of clickers. Second semester: 14-16 hours per week, 7 hours of clickers.
Second year
Mon: test
Tues: OMM clicker 9-10, Path lab 10-12, OMM lab 1-3
Wed: CS clickers 10-12, Primary care/OSCE 1-5 (1 credit class, not a big deal, easy A. Sometimes had clickers, but usually broken up into groups, usually not more than an hour per group, so sometimes you left at 2, other times you had a long lunch break and left late)
Thurs: Clickers 8-12
Fri: No classes
Total hours per week: 12-14, 7 hours of clickers
Clickers do count for 10%, but the 2 lowest grades were dropped, and really, if you did well enough on exams the clicker grades didn't make much difference. Never had clickers from 9-4, the longest was 4 hours when we had to get through 4 classes.
Many of the labs were broken up into 2-3 groups, so depending on your schedule, may have 3 hour break in the middle of schedule which you could use to study. Labs are mandatory, and you will fail if you miss more than 3 per course. For OMM, this is required at every DO school as there is a minimum number of hours that must be completed.
