1. First year is how the normal body works. Classes are histo, physio, anatomy, biochem, immuno, neuro. Second year is when the normal body goes awry: path, pharm, micro. Is that what you wanted to know? Or something else?
2. They are 'videoed' in that the lectures are recorded with the power point slides. This is a student run thing so occasionally a lecture is missed, or it can take a week or more to get posted on line, but usually theyre good about it.
3. Usually just midterms and finals. Some classes do have quizzes (intro to patient, biochem, pharm). Most are just midterm and final.
4. 4/cadaver but 2 people dissect at a time. Then next lab, those two explain what they did to the other two and leave. And the other two dissect. Instructors/PTs circulate answering questions. And you ask around do you have a good
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5. In labs, groups are usually 4-5 and instructors circulate. There are also some other classes that are more patient based where you are divided into groups of 20 or so and discuss a given thing.
6. One month
7. Theres a boners club that goes to the (basically only) local bar for wing night. There are also sports (flag football, soccer) that are student run. There have been some game nights, and with 140 students, birthday parties are fairly common. More often its hey guys wanna
I wouldnt say there are cliques because that to me implies individuals are getting shunned. There are groups however. Mostly because you meet the people in your small groups, and kind of just stick with them. You slowly meet others, but when it comes to who you hang out with, I think most people have 20 or so people they are really cool with.
8. 2012. And theres a new ambulatory building being delivered 2010.
9. There are no undergrads at Rush, with perhaps the exception of the nursing students. Other than that, all other students are grad students. Center Court is apparently a private thing not owned by Rush. (Its weird). But supposedly anyone, even those not affiliated with Rush can live there but it is almost all Rush students.
10. Have lots of lunch lectures (which usually feed you) but also expose you to something medical that you wont be tested on. Lectures are usually very interesting and exposes you to something you may not have thought about. Also, departments have rounds where they focus on a specific topic/problem within its field.
11. Cons- every university has them
-class is not diverse. We have 2 AAs and 4 or 5 Latinos out of 140.
- profs are a mixed bag. Some are AMAZING, others, you might as well just bang your head against a brick wall. I kinda expected them all to be great. -there is no place to hang around campus. There is one local bar, and its really not that exciting.
-maybe the schedule. It changes day to say and sometime you have class X five times in a given week, even 3 times in a given day, and the next week, you dont have it at all. I would prefer if the individual classes were more equally dispersed.
Commentary to your feedback
The M2s create an M1 survival guide. People definitely want to help others.
Instructors do provide syllabi which are course notes. Depending on who the prof is. Some will only pull questions from the syllabus, others will pull out of the syllabus and text book, some pull questions of of thin air (Im not bitter about a recent exam)
Classes tend to be from 9-5 but attendance is not mandatory to most. Next quarter, I plan to skip most classes as I feel my time is better spent reading the syllabus.
