Choose your schedule in medical school

[Fluffyone]

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Hi,
I'm sorry If this is a stupid question or has been asked before, but are you able to choose your schedule times in medical school like undergrad or do they give you a pre made schedule with the times? Also, do medical schools usually have class on Friday? I usually don't have class on Fridays in undergrad. Thanks in advance.

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[longhaul3]

As the above poster said, everything is scheduled for you and you just show up. There aren't enough students in a given med school class to offer multiple sections and, since there is usually a different lecturer for each topic, he/she just comes once and everyone shows up (or skips it). At my school we could also take any class at the university except at other professional schools as an elective in the pre-clinical semesters, which I did one semester.

Our Fridays were hit or miss. We usually had lecture 5 mornings/week and then other things 2-3 afternoons/week, with the other 2-3 afternoons free.

 

[Fluffyone]

As the above poster said, everything is scheduled for you and you just show up. There aren't enough students in a given med school class to offer multiple sections and, since there is usually a different lecturer for each topic, he/she just comes once and everyone shows up (or skips it). At my school we could also take any class at the university except at other professional schools as an elective in the pre-clinical semesters, which I did one semester.

Our Fridays were hit or miss. We usually had lecture 5 mornings/week and then other things 2-3 afternoons/week, with the other 2-3 afternoons free.

Oh I see. So you don't need to register for classes each semester and just tell them ur still in school?

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[TelemarketingEnigma]

For schools that have scholarly concentrations or other similar tracks that require additional coursework, how does scheduling work? I know at stanford for example the scholarly concentrations can involve coursework from across the university. do you just have to look for courses that happen to work with the existing med school schedule?

 

[longhaul3]

Oh I see. So you don't need to register for classes each semester and just tell them ur still in school?

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At my school the medical education office took care of registering us and everything. All we had to do was pass our classes and make sure our tuition was paid within a month or two. It gets a little more complicated in the clinical years when you have to get your rotations set up, but at my school they did all that for us as well, just with our input on rotation sites.

For schools that have scholarly concentrations or other similar tracks that require additional coursework, how does scheduling work? I know at stanford for example the scholarly concentrations can involve coursework from across the university. do you just have to look for courses that happen to work with the existing med school schedule?

There are several such tracks at my school. One option was to take a year off and do it all during that time. Otherwise there were sections of classes (like biostats, etc.) either specifically for med students or specifically scheduled in the other schools so that med students could attend. My school has an associate dean who handles these programs and makes sure that everything is properly aligned.

I don't know of any cases in which a student had to go fishing for classes and hoped that something would work out, except for pure electives like art and history classes as I mentioned above.

 

[Goro]

Hi,
I'm sorry If this is a stupid question or has been asked before, but are you able to choose your schedule times in medical school like undergrad or do they give you a pre made schedule with the times? Also, do medical schools usually have class on Friday? I usually don't have class on Fridays in undergrad. Thanks in advance.

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You should go to the websites of different medical schools to see how they set up their curricula.