Advice on Choosing a School

[clarkbar]

School does, in fact matter, matter. Allopathic is much more cuthroat with morally errant nerdism. Any school that has a large percentage of post-baccalaureate students with 1-2 years of mock medical school, must be completely avoided. Any school that hides its expulsion rate behind people leaving for personal reasons, ditto. The percent graduation in FOUR years is the only real metric. There are lost souls stuck for 6 years in the worst places.
If a school can’t ‘condescend’ to putting lectures online, get out. If a school has an in-house exam, for edification of the nerd-phd-mds ,with a miniboard slapped on at the end, get out.

Medical school is the most toxic, inhuman institution known to man. The easiest school, is the only school you should be focused on, even to the extent of going to an osteopathic school.

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[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

Mostly agree with you about the things to look out for minus the weird slap against postbaccs. Not everyone decides to be a doctor at 18. I went back in my early 30s and am just barely above median/mean on most of my exams thus far.

My med school experience hasn't been toxic as you describe, but there are always going to be weird people in any cohort. My experience with the couple weirdos in mine is that they mostly mean well but probably have zero social skills. Very few people are intentionally malignant.

 

[LunaOri]

Med school is tough but shouldn’t be toxic. There are a few schools loaded with gunners, but most schools have reasonably supportive students and faculty. Sorry you landed at one of the bad ones.

 

[amoxicillin_resistant]

did OP go to med school? from a quick glance at their profile I would think they went to pharm school

 

[m1redsox]

Very weird post from a pharmacist I’d argue that most allopathic med schools are not toxic, and most people who take a year or two off during med school are just fine lol. Sure, there are exceptions, but this post just feels off