The sdc is basically a curriculum that is still it's in a pre-production alpha stage. As with any new implementation, you are going to have kinks and dead weigh, however I doubt the program will be a finely greased wheel until they have had a few more rounds of m1s classes. The education itself was extremely frustrating the first half of the year,. They reference multiple chapters for reading and only expect you to learn the learning objectives, essentially fish the text for facts and concepts. This was my number one gripe with sdc, as it doesn't give you a strong wholesome foundation for these topics. This is really frustrating, as when the money they had going towards lectures and PowerPoints is now going towards paying the doctors and MAs at your clinic. I don't know how they made the leap that the knowledge that was otherwise learned in lectures can now be learned/reinforced by going to clinic (remember you are literally just rooming patients and answering phones, hoping to God that you have a nice doctor that offers you chances to sit in with him giving the physical exam). My clinic was only 30 min away, but some people had to drive over an hour to get to theirs. Overall, it's shakey. Everyone has decided to fizzle into their own corner and do whatever it takes to learn outside of class, most of which is subscribing to board prep materials to fill the knowledge gaps. SDC offers a lot of freedom in terms of allowing you to do this, but you feel compelled to pick up board prep and start studying when you see everyone doing it. The fact that there are no domain topic exams is good if you have the discipline to study for an exam that really isn't there, otherwise it becomes really easy to slip if you don't notice it.
Idk, I somewhat adjusted to it now, but if i could go back I feel my learning styles would have been better tested in a school with the traditional lecture, power-point, block exam.
