sorry you're so butthurt over problems which exist or have existed at virtually every medical school ever. hopefully medicine doesn't chew you out too bad. and no, I'm not defending the school, no medical school is perfect and a new one will definitely have growing pains. make friends, make others happy, get rewarded. sit on your ass, be average, and not distinguish yourself, get the minimum experience.
Bruh that **** doesn’t happen at every medical school... Your upperclass man said some things that do warrant concern. Are they truthful? Don’t know... However, their concerns aren’t ubiquitous throughout MedEd. Schools/institutions do not need your support, it’s the students responsibility to question and criticize the decisions being made on the behalf of the students’. Voicing their concerns does not make them “butthurt” it gives future applicants a talking point in interviews to discuss these issues....
Alright guys let's not go after each other. We're all in this together here. Now, like I've said before ARCOM isn't perfect, but things have been slowly changing for the better. That's why I refrained from saying that our 3rd year colleague was not being truthful because he actually has a different perspective than us. The inaugural class had things a lot worse than us (like a more rigorous attendance policy and "at risk" policy, iRAT/tRAT every morning, and rotation site assignment wasn't as they were expecting, ect...). So it's understandable that he might not want someone to go through the same experience.
At the same time, they've been out of the school since April, many things are different now this semester after our feedbacks from last year (for exemple: FOPC grading being more standardized now). Just yesterday, we got an update from SGA on discussions they've had with Admin. So, it's not like the school ignore all our complaints and try to make things worst for us. Things are changing and will always be changing to adjust to new challenges, complaints, feedbacks ect... However, we have to do that in a civil way. Nothing will get done by being hostile, unprofessional, or by pointing fingers at the people on top.
Some students in the inaugural class wrote some very unprofessional stuff on the anonymous faculty survey and got reprimanded for that. I'm not saying they should have because it's an anonymous survey (although they were not careful enough since they were easily identified from their comments), but at the same time, as medical students, they shouldn't have done that. We're not in high school here guys. We're studying to become professionals, and we gotta act like it. My class always give good constructive feedback on those surveys, and professors always make the necessary changes that needs to be made. Nobody ever got reprimanded for a negative feedback they gave.
In terms of rotation site assignment, it is promised that things will be better this year especially with our new dean of clinical medicine who is a very experienced individual that previously worked at MSUCOM, so let's see what happens. Hospital day is next month, so I can definitely update you guys on that later. Good thing we have some pretty good rotation sites though, and I don't think you'll receive a subpar clinical education from majority of our sites with them being mostly at established teaching hospitals. The school also proved that they're working to affiliate themselves with residency programs and also creating new residency programs. So I'm definitely not worried about our chances of matching in the future.
Sometimes we're so focus on a the negatives that we forget all the positives things that we have. For exemple: we probably have one of the best OMM course directors in the country, and he makes OMM so fun and easy. Can you guys imagine being at one of those schools that have twice the amount of hours of OMM and having to struggle to even get a B in the exams and lab practicals. For boards, you don't even have to focus on Savarese green book because all his study guides that he gave us are basically boards' OMM on a platter. My 3rd year friend only used his study guides after he took the USMLE and got a high 600's. Can you guys even imagine how unnecessarily hard things would have been if he wasn't here? Additionally, 2nd semester of 2nd year we get out first week of April and we got till end of June to take our boards. That's almost 3 full months of dedicated study period. How many schools do you know do that? The answer is probably close to 0. Anyway, all that makes me say that ARCOM may be a new school with some growing pain like
@QuantumWolverine said, but it's definitely not a bad school to go to, and I can guarantee you will definitely be successful graduating from here.
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). During 3rd year, you also have a one-month non-clinical rotation which you can use to go back on your research project as well (or any other non-clinical activity).
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). During 3rd year, you also have a one-month non-clinical rotation which you can use to go back on your research project as well (or any other non-clinical activity).
