Let me start by saying this I was happy that they accepted me and am appreciative for being in medical school but being a 2nd year now and looking back at my selection I truly regret picking this school. There arent too many in depth reviews on UT College of Medicine and reasons probably being many of the students are probably scared to speak their minds for fear of the administration, alright, here ya go
Education- Anatomy and immune are pretty well taught here, micro is poorly thaught, pharmacology is awful and you are pretty much reduced to learning it by nitpicking a few things here and there from certain lectures. Organ systems -- the average of our class (170 or so students in our class) at the end of hematology module was 69!!! (passing grade is 68 here)
barely passing as a whole class. Same thing happened (very low grades as a class in cardio and renal modules). They even erased all the exams from the system. The administration said they do not have a clue of what happened.
They curved ALL of the exams that we took throughout the Spring semester--believe it or not, out of 6 exams, all scores got VERY curved in the end. All our grades were pretty bad on all the exams before curving.
Of course, rumors circulate that they manipulate grades. Some people think that if you are borderline passing but you earn a barely passing grade that they actually fail you
say you earned a 69 or 70 barely passing. You get your score report and somehow you failed according to the score report
many people have asked to see their exams to review and they are denied being able to look at them.
Fortunately, I have not cut it this close but this has happened to a few of my friends
there are multiple other occasions where it appears they manipulate grades to their liking
which just unnerves some people. Overall, UT picks and chooses who they help, who they screw; who they accommodate, who they won't tolerate
Administration is by far my biggest complaint and many students will agree. There is a rift between administration and students. They say they work for their students but the fact is that they care more about their own reputation than they do about their students. They rule with an iron fist and work by scaring their students into doing things out of fear. I could go on and on there are just too many things to honestly write down
It boils down to the school feels very oppressive and administration is not friendly at all, education is very poor overall
I am sure some people wil say that I am one of those disgruntled medical students or whatever but fact is I appreciate UT for accepting me and giving me the opportunity
they are oppressive, multiple courses are taught very, very poorly, high turnover of curriculum, administration is not friendly at all or helpful, sometimes even the opposite of helpful, the school is run like a business (a bad one).
Again, believe me or not it does not matter to me but just wish someone had put this sort of information out there before I made my decision on UT because I would have 100% percent chosen somewhere else or not gone to medical school. Unless you are looking to become a crappy physician, I'd stay away unless you have no choice or you like this kind of system.
If you have multiple choices for schools I would think long and hard before attending at UT
Being a medical student is stressful enough let alone dealing with the crappy administrative staff, arbitrary grading, personal vendetta, and so on
Hard to describe unless youre here
And that's a special date to me, so hopefully it brings luck!
