Ok, I'm a first year Scholl student that is currently taking the anatomy course with lab component. So here is how the dissection breaks down. The health science students take the course in the summer (PA's, Pt's, Path assistants, and some others). In the fall/winter the Pods take the same class as the Medical students. We have the same lecture, same tests, and just as good of grades if not sometimes better. In the lab there are 6 people to a cadaver. They usually don't put med students with pod students. In my dissection group there is 6 Pod students. There are two dissection labs a week, so these 6 students are broken into groups of 3 (an A group and a B group). The A group dissects on Mondays and the B group dissects on Wednesdays. It is a rolling dissection, so the two groups dissect different parts of the body. On Wednesday the A group shows up for 15-30min to go over what was dissected on Monday, and then the B group takes off from there. The dissection lab is 50% of our grade for the anatomy course, and there are two lab exams. Once again, the Pod students and the Medical students are mixed together. No one is treated as a second class citizen. I have many medical school friends. Remeber, Scholl is an excellant Podiatric Medical School and our classes are just as hard and almost identical to our medical school counter parts.
