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Rosalind Frankin Loss of Accreditation
Started by RussianRiver
Did you hear that? That was the sound of 95% of SDN withdrawing their applications from RFU
This is just a rumor I heard from a medical student at another university. I am trying to figure out if its true or not but havent found any info yet.
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Why not just wait until you get an interview, THEN see if this information will be relevant?
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This is not the first rumor of a school losing it's accredation...is there objective evidence or is it just bull**** word of mouth like usual.
Didn't they lose their accreditation, or were threatened with losing it when they had their old name? I think you can find out more on some old threads. If this is something new then, so much for increasing the number of allopathic doctors.
Yeah, with their old name.
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it reminds me of last night's episode of House. One of the doctors competing for a position to work with Dr. House acts like the people she's working with are all going to be fired but he's just having them do dirty work first (cleaning his car). She convinces all but one to leave with her, but returns alone a while later. The last person asks why she came back and she says she never intended to leave.
Moral? Maybe someone started a rumor to get other people to withdraw, as the first response to this thread suggested.
Or... maybe it's true, although I doubt it. I think there'd be a bunch of articles about it online if it were true, and when I did a search for "Rosalind Franklin loses/lost accreditation" nothing came up but a link to an old SDN post touting the same rumor.
Moral? Maybe someone started a rumor to get other people to withdraw, as the first response to this thread suggested.
Or... maybe it's true, although I doubt it. I think there'd be a bunch of articles about it online if it were true, and when I did a search for "Rosalind Franklin loses/lost accreditation" nothing came up but a link to an old SDN post touting the same rumor.
omg!
What are you talking about? Harvard never was accredited. That school is for hacks!
I heard that U Chicago doesnt actually exist... Makes sense as no one actually knows anyone who goes/went there
weird, huh
weird, huh
When they were Finch University, they were put on probation, so they changed the name, changed the curriculum, and a bunch of other stuff, and they were taken off probation some time in 2006. They are fully accredited right now. 
When they were Finch University, they were put on probation, so they changed the name, changed the curriculum, and a bunch of other stuff, and they were taken off probation some time in 2006. They are fully accredited right now.
Yup.
here's more info.
They'll give you the same education any other school will.
I had a buddy who graduated from U of Chicago... he went by the name Bill Brasky
I see they have gotten to you too... You are not to be trusted 😎 (this is the closest thing to a suspicious smiley I could find)
PS This is the best smiley EVER!😆
That link really makes me feel uncomfortable about going there. Specially the Deans following words, "This means that our next survey will be in academic year 2011-2012." 2011-2012 is when I will graduate. And's that's a big risk. What if they receive a warning? or god forbid, lose accreditation the graduating year?
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I have heard from a source (that attended a professional school there) that part of the reason they lost their accredation was due to the BMS program. Apparently when the BMS program was first initiated it guaranteed it's students admission into medical school if they met certain specific requirements (gpa and mcat). However, one year the applicant pool was so strong that students in the BMS program (that had met the requirement) were rejected for more qualified applicants in the general applicant pool. Well, one student didn't take to this too kindly and decided to sue the school. The student won the law suit, loads of $$, a seat in the medical school class, and the school was put on probation as a result (in addition to some other fishy stuff they were doing with the faculty, curriculum and funding). They have their accredation back now though, and the BMS program no longer has that guarantee (which is why most smp programs did away with that clause...they didn't want to get into a law suit over it).
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schools have accreditation surveys on a regular basis. The fact that they were taken off probation means that the LCME is no longer concerned about the program at RFU. Furthermore, one can infer that since RFU had recently been dinged by the LCME, they're likely to work hard to maintain a strong program and avoid losing their accreditation/going back on probation. (it is incredibly rare for a school to lose its accreditation)
Hmm...if the student won the suit and was granted a seat in a school on probation, what good was that?
Bill Brasky once sired an entire RFU entering class.
Ha, I just watched that episode half an hour ago. Now i'm off to withdrawing my App from RFU. 🙄
Bill Brasky had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese.
He got a seat in a medical school, and most likely his M.D. Probation means nothing until it becomes a loss of accreditation. Probation is a scolding. You would be happy to receive a diploma from a school on probation vs. no diploma at all.
This thread (and some of you brighter bulbs have picked up on this) is so ridiculous I just had to find the most poignantly ridiculous post of all and quote it in my response. As a current student, let me just take this opportunity to reflect a little for you on this pre-med obsession with propagating "RFU accreditation" scares and skepticism.
The funny thing is, it's literally only pre-meds who seem to obsess about this and propagate it, and you're the people (no offense) who know the least about it. Every once in a while you'll hear a med student at another school spout it off almost in reminiscence of his own pre-med days, but that's about it and when I hear about it I find it funny and a little petty.
Med students here do the same damn thing they do at every med school in the country, we study. We spend hours and hours in lecture. We do small groups. We do physical exam labs. We do PBL sessions. We have clinical experiences. We do research. We hone our H&P and SOAP notes. We practice on standardized patients. We practice on real patients. We do our rotations. We take call. We study hour after hour, we get involved in leadership/admin/student government at our school. We hold national positions. We initiate philathropy/research/social projects with faculty and admin at our school. We study some more. We take exam after exam, and we bond as classes.
No where in that list do you see "scramble to convince people we're still accredited", because that's ridiculous and frankly, none of this stuff even registers on our radar as a concern in the least (except as a sobering reminder for admin) unless you visit SDN to hear the latest preposterous rumor. I wouldn't even dignify it with a response, but hopefully it speaks to how some of us students here feel about our school that I take the time to (once again) dispell your little rumors.
Here, we all know there's not a snowball's chance in hell that CMS is losing its accreditation, and that we're all getting a great medical education. You can't touch that.
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