I don't understand how calling me an idiot, socially awkward, or a troll is productive to a discussion - and I'm especially surprised that another student at UVA is referring to me in this manner, because I tend to find most of the students at UVA SOM as incredibly helpful, humble, modest, and flat out awesome people - just because it's an anonymous forum, I would imagine that students at UVA would still refrain from attacking other students, so I'm actually inclined to call you a troll since I can't imagine any of the students in my class refer to someone in this manner when there just adding in their experience. Again, I was merely stating my experience at UVA, that's it, and I've said numerous times that I don't deny that other people may have had much better experiences. My point in posting this is that these experiences have caused me to regret coming to UVA SOM, especially when considering that many of my other friends on clerkships at different medial schools have had much better experiences. I find myself thinking at times that perhaps I should've done more researching before picking UVA as the school to attend, and I'm posting this so that I could underscore the importance of making sure you know what you're getting into. I found that the interview day really won me over, and I never would've thought I'd be having such experiences given how awesome the interview day is - so again, do consider much more about the school instead of the interview day, as I found the awesome lunch, friendly faculty, and the new medical school to flat out win me over in an instance. And just as I've said that I don't deny that other students at UVA have been having better experiences, I also know a number of fellow students that are close friends of mines at UVA that share similar negative experiences regarding clerkships, and most of us are fearful in disclosing such experiences with our names tied to it as almost everything you say has the potential to be put into an evaluation and make it's way into the dean letter, as well as the fact that third-year clerkships are graded at UVA. One more thing, many medical schools have decided to revamp their entire curriculum into pass/fail, including the notorious third-year clerkships. I feel that this would've made me exponentially more comfortable in explicitly stating my experiences to faculty as I wouldn't care since it's pass/fail and it wouldn't lower my grade. Some will say that turning third-year into pass/fail has no way in differentiating students scholastically, however I disagree with that - I scored in the 90th percentile on step 1 and similarly on all of the shelfs that I have taken so far, and this is because I end up teaching myself everything since I personally find most of the didactics at UVA to be useless, but again that's just my experience. Furthermore, if you've made it to medical school and have gotten accepted to a school like UVA, you will more than likely score just as well if not better on all standardized tests, which I personally believe is more than enough with a solid deans letter in matching into the residency of your choice. Oh, and to the other "student" at UVA who decided to attack me and ask me to prove that I'm a student here, I'm not going to provide my name or any other personal identifiers for obvious reasons. But I can pretty much answer anything about UVA SOM: you morning classes are usually in the learning studio, afternoon classes up to noon are usually at in the auditorium on the third floor. We tend to have these sessions called "TBL's" during the first two-years that are mandatory in attendance and are typically held in the learning studio. And if that's not enough to prove I'm a student at UVA, the make of the piano in the student lounge is a steinway, take a look at it next time your in there buddy.
