I've heard only positives about Pikeville from a faculty standpoint. Apparently, they "stole" a bunch of faculty members from other schools when they opened. I'm assuming most of them are still there?? I know the Pathology course is well done b/c the primary instructor used to come to my school to do some lectures and he was great!
Ok, so far all that I have heard of the USS PIKEVILLE is a load of somthing, but it sure is not the truth. Frist, the pathology is the worst of the coms, the staff consists of 2 folks, a wantabe reteriee and a high school teacher who is trying to learn the material and present it in the past two years. The only clinical and OMT staff worth mentioning is dr. stiles and dr. litmann, the rest are a bunch of navy jerks who only concerns themselves with how to kill the moral of low end students. The worst of the group is a dr. murphy, who the board of trustees should be made aware of the childishness he brings to the school. dr callan, he is just clueless and the new dr lovins is dr murphy's side kick. It is sad to see how this school has deterieated since the "good ol' days" with Dr Stro's talks, Dr Betz's humuor and sense of fair play/ How money is wasted on oral health classes, that take two weeks to complete with about 80 hrs of class time and the final exam is handed out a few days before the class. what a joke you guys. I also laugh at all these folks who say "I'll put my education against any other school's" medical school is what you make of it, it really dosn't matter where you go, if the school is accredited, and you put the time in, you can go the distance. PCSOM puts not person ahead of any other school. in a bizzare fashion, the folks at the school encourage you to take boards close to end of classes without the time to study. The school faculty and instructors say that board scores don't matter, you just gotta pass them "The competition is over once you are accepted" That is whateveryone is told, funny there are folks who are placed in rotation sites according to grade and kiss up points, not need or ability. Yea right, competition is over, just a another load of somthing that is not the truth. Best steer clear of this school folks, the facility is poor, the options for students and student facilitities are greatly needed/// let us not forget the daily sign in sheets, yea, by dr. murphy edict we must sign in every class and he even passes by the doors at the same time twice each day checking out who is in class...guys don't waste your money, there is nothing for free here or value added, students don't have a voice, the rotation sites are poor to ok, oh yeah, they have norwalk and dayton, but I heard they are going to loose both sites soon, go somewhere else if you can! and for you few voices who support the school, if the school was so GREAT since the schools inception we should have at least 10 percent of each class supportng the school, we don't. Any support is faculty logging on as a student and tryign to boots its image, or one or two from the previous 4 years who just didn't care to see beyond thier privelaged noses......simply put....dump PCSOM move on to another school if you have the option...
