DMU Question

[BradenDO]

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Is it true that you have a test every week at DMU? This seems odd to me...do all med schools go at that pace? Thanks for any input!

 

[Portier]

Is it true that you have a test every week at DMU? This seems odd to me...do all med schools go at that pace? Thanks for any input!

The weeks without tests you're too drunk to remember. JK

Yep...test q week. sometimes tris iw or quatre iw.

I think this is common except in PBL and whatnot.

 

[Munchkin6245]

We don't have a test next week 🙂 Whoohoo!!!

But to be honest I like having this many tests. Especially since the finals, minus biochem, is not comprehensive. There's enough material to be tested on each week for each different class. I think it's great the way it is.

 

[somnolent]

Is it true that you have a test every week at DMU? This seems odd to me...do all med schools go at that pace? Thanks for any input!

I see how you are. I put my answer in the pre-DO thread.

I love tests. But i really miss my undergrad quests (get it...its test and quiz put together. is it a small test or a big quiz? will we ever find out?)

 

[(nicedream)]

I wish my school had tests more often (we have them like every 5 wks). Would make for a more manageable load of knowledge to compile for 1 morning of mental vomiting.

 

[Old_Mil]

Is it true that you have a test every week at DMU? This seems odd to me...do all med schools go at that pace? Thanks for any input!

You do have a test or two pretty much 3 out of every 4 weeks in a month from mid-September till December. I don't know that the pace is any different than other med schools, it's just that more frequent testing makes sure you stay up with the material (and allows the tests to go into the sort of hellish detail that a two-test class Biochem class couldn't go into unless each test had, say, 150 or more questions on it...). The frequency of testing isn't a big deal.

What is a big deal is the new format for the Anatomy practical exams. What was for a decade or more the old format of look, identify, write down the name (or perhaps the innervation) has been replaced by a shiny new "no-touch" multiple choice exam with plenty of second and third order questions...but you're still under the 60 second gun. The firewall that made practical questions stay on the practical and written questions stay on the written has been breeched and you're starting to see "in your cadaver" questions on the written and vice versa.

I really do wish they'd reconsider the change, increase the time, or rule out 2nd and 3rd order questions because personally, I hate it. There are questions that they put into the practical exam where, after orienting yourself, identifying the part, and starting to read the question the 60 second timer is up before you can read all the answer choices...in my opinion, this has pushed anatomy from just a hair this side of impossible to a hair that side of impossible.

 

[Portier]

I hate 3rd order questions, too! Still, they are the standard for the professional exams in our career path.

I was reading the Pediatrics Pre-Test book (I highly recommend the entire series), and had a question that sucked bad. Lemme' tell you why.

It was about rare congenital syndromes

It didn't use any names of the syndromes, but rather listed a set of symptoms.

It then listed in A,B,C,D format more symptoms.

You were supposed to be able to link the set of symptoms with the most likely associated additional symptom (or finding) in the syndrome.

AND Just to make it more fun, all the symptoms stayed away from classic buzzwords (chery red macula, etc.) and focused on presentations that occur in only 1-4% of cases.

That question made me break down and cry for a while.

 

[Munchkin6245]

cry baby

 

[Portier]

cry baby

I'm going to spank you now.

Answer the door when I knock this time. 😉

 

[Old_Mil]

2nd and 3rd order questions aren't fun, but typically when I take a test, I take it "twice". I run through once and answer all the 1st order questions and circle the ones that you need to think about. Then I come back and use the remaining time to answer them. While you can do that on a written test, the nature of an anatomy practical is such that not only are you restricted to 60 seconds per question, you can't go back and think about a previous question later as you've moved on to the next station. It's like taking two writtens, just that one is timed.

There were enough long questions on the practical that grade wise, it meant the difference between a B and an F. I guess the good news - if there is good news - is that I can get 60%s on the rest of my practicals and still pass the class if I keep my written scores where they are.

 

[babyruth]

I remember some 2nd and 3rd order questions on our anatomy practical as well... like identify this part and then identify what it came from embryologically, etc. (DO-2007)...