As someone who had a preclinical average in the low 80's and towards the bottom of the class, I can tell you that getting low 80s in most or even all of your preclinical coursework does not mean that you are destined to fail COMLEX. Just be disciplined about your studying and you can pass just fine even as a below-average student.
5 years? Are you kidding? I'm jealous of my friend 1.5 years pre-clinical curriculum. In fact, his school performs so well on the USMLE (~245) and their students are saying the curriculum play a major role on it. Further, 2 years of clinical + 6 months of electives give them so much freedom to do whatever they want in term of getting multiple publications and prepare for residency apps. If anything, DO schools can learn to cut back and follow this type of curriculum.
Faculty is generally too stupid to understand very basic concepts and instead push things with idiotic idealism. At my school, they don't tell professors what to teach and what is important at all. They just give them resources like Kaplan, NBOME and other stuff to use as reference for what to teach. They then allow them to write the questions they want in the way they want. On top of that, they pile on garbage that's not board relevant because somehow PhDs think they know what is important when treating patients.
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This is not always true. There are multiple reasons why stuff happens. During pre-clinical I got lower grades than most of my class. I wasn't being lazy. I spent most of my time learning what was in FA and pathoma to supplement holes in our lectures. I also avoided spending too much time on stuff that was not board relevant that our school pushed. In our class, the person ranked 197 overall ended up with one of the top 10 COMLEX scores.
How do you know that these people were in the bottom 40% of their class? Or is this something you're just assuming because they are making mistakes?
Wow. That's not something I'd advertise if I were them.
Maybe they're not insecure and realize they'll be doctors either way
Depends. If asked by a colleague, sure whatever. I can't imagine a 3rd year coming up to you as a resident and asking your class rank. If you're not asked and actively say how you did poorly, that's not a thing about being "secure." That's just idiocy to go around saying it. It's also something that regardless of being "secure" or "insecure" that you shouldn't share with patients. Everyone wants their doctor to be AOA 300, and telling patients you were at the bottom serves no net value and instead just hurts your relationship with them.
Did you just try justifying your ridiculous point by making up an imaginary scenario where you have to explain to your patients your class rank in medical school? How did you even get into medical school with that thought process?
No, I explained to you why sharing class rank is not a black or white scenario and used both how it works with your peers and patients. Maybe thinking beyond fixed answer choices isn't your strength.
