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[DreamJob]

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I just wanted to say that I currently go to lecom-bradenton. I am in my second year getting ready to take the boards. I have loved my 2 years here! Erie paid for us to have an in house Kaplan board review that was excellent and they bought us Comlex qbank. I am doing very well on both the comlex qbank and the usmle qbank. I am very confident that the boards will go smoothly. Just my 2 cents!

 

[Porphyria]

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The students who are most upset with the school are exactly those who are the best students, who got in elsewhere and made the mistake of going to LECOM, and who have and/or will earn the board scores necessary to attain residencies that leave LECOM..."

So, you have polled everyone then?

I know them personally and what their grades and board scores are. It's a small school you know...

 

[Porphyria]

Im sorry, I see far too much wrong with what you said. A) Why put it on SDN of all places where you know people are going to bash you and not believe you? Why not just submit to a newspaper (albeit forget your name of course 🙂). That would have a much greater impact. Get the real reporters to investigate. B)If you really want to hurt the school, bitching wont get it done. What kills any organization is lack of money. You stop students from coming in, you kill the organization, thus, accomplishing the goal. C)I know LECOM students, hell I am friends with a few MSII's, so there-in lies my bias. However, I also see far more differing opinions that deny much of what you said. And, even more importantly, D)I've been there, seen the school myself and did not get locked up or beaten down by a LIB (LECOMer In Black, for any who might have missed the conversation with my secret on-line lover steel_city 😍 ). I think you LECOM bashers need to stop posting these threads for you have accomplished nothing. If all of you were saying the same thing, it would have a MUCH greater impact. But, GO BACK and read what others have said from your same school! They are denying you at every step! Who am I to believe? I don't know you or them! It is just a circle, a long, needing to die circle. Maybe if we count we can get it to die?

I don't want to kill the school or publicize it's low quality! You're not getting my intention, which is to help applicants. As I've said, I tell laymen the school is great, because I don't want to devalue my degree. The only people on this board are people in medicine, and apparently they don't believe it anyway. If a newspaper published a story about the school, I would be very upset.

As for going back and reading what other people have said, I don't care what other people have said. This is not an organized revolution, I'm simply stating how I feel about the school for others to take into account when considering schools. You don't like what I say or want to believe it, that's your prerogative. I don't understand the vehement attacks on what I say. It's my opinion.

 

[Jamers]

I don't want to kill the school or publicize it's low quality! You're not getting my intention, which is to help applicants. As I've said, I tell laymen the school is great, because I don't want to devalue my degree. The only people on this board are people in medicine, and apparently they don't believe it anyway. If a newspaper published a story about the school, I would be very upset.

As for going back and reading what other people have said, I don't care what other people have said. This is not an organized revolution, I'm simply stating how I feel about the school for others to take into account when considering schools. You don't like what I say or want to believe it, that's your prerogative. I don't understand the vehement attacks on what I say. It's my opinion.

I will defend your opinion and your right to express it until the day I die. However, I am sickened by these threads. They go in circles and serve as much of a purpose as the MD VS DO threads which have been outlawed. Most of everything we post on here is our opinion. As a result it is bound to piss off someone who doesn't have the same opinion. I just think this thread has gotten out of hand. It was started by someone who did not express opinion as much as he claimed to express pure fact. As a result, he was ripped apart and proven wrong at every step. Opinions are fine but when people claim their opinions to be fact, it has gone too far. As good as your intentions may or may not be, you have entered this thread at the wrong time. Few will take it seriously anymore. Most most likely just tune in for humor. I am sure the few pre-MD's that read this laugh themselves to sleep or shake their heads in wonder because these threads would not last long on there. So, that is the reason for the blacklash and I cannot rightly dismiss it. I myself have grown weary of seeing these attacks, opinions or not, go on. The point has been made and the line drawn in the sand. Now, let us retire to our sides and forget the stupid fight. It will go no where.

 

[therealdeal]

Im sorry, I see far too much wrong with what you said. A) Why put it on SDN of all places where you know people are going to bash you and not believe you? Why not just submit to a newspaper (albeit forget your name of course 🙂). That would have a much greater impact. Get the real reporters to investigate. B)If you really want to hurt the school, bitching wont get it done. What kills any organization is lack of money. You stop students from coming in, you kill the organization, thus, accomplishing the goal. C)I know LECOM students, hell I am friends with a few MSII's, so there-in lies my bias. However, I also see far more differing opinions that deny much of what you said. And, even more importantly, D)I've been there, seen the school myself and did not get locked up or beaten down by a LIB (LECOMer In Black, for any who might have missed the conversation with my secret on-line lover steel_city 😍 ). I think you LECOM bashers need to stop posting these threads for you have accomplished nothing. If all of you were saying the same thing, it would have a MUCH greater impact. But, GO BACK and read what others have said from your same school! They are denying you at every step! Who am I to believe? I don't know you or them! It is just a circle, a long, needing to die circle. Maybe if we count we can get it to die?

You're histarical dude. Your arguements are just ******ed. I can't believe 17,000 views later you're still following this thread and posting you're tremendously UN-insightful viewpoints. You miss the point completely. Me and Steel and Porphyria are not trying to bash the school. You think I want the city of Chicago to know what I think of LECOM? You think they care....no. We're trying to help out uninformed, naive premeds like yourself. I know you have convinced yourself that you are in someway knowlegable regarding these issues, but c'mon man...get real. I know...I know...you'll post on retaliate with some lame message and try to make some dumb point but geeeez man.

To all you premeds that are listening: I hope some of you are hearing what we are saying. I have gotten many personal messages from people who are concerned about going to LECOM. I always tell them the real deal...hands down and no BS. If you guys still wanna go to LECOM and it's you're only shot, then by all means do it. If I had to do it again and it was either LECOM or year off...I can honestly tell you that I would take the year. It's just not worth the hastle.

This is funny...LECOM sent us a memo a few weeks back about advice taking the COMLEX PE (Performance evaluation) exam. This exam requires you to drive to Philly and see 12 standardized patients. They said that a large number of LECOMers were failing this and they got concerned. On the first page they tell us to Fantasize about our future office and take a warm bath the night before the test. Funny S&$t. Anywayse, listen dudes and dudettes, make the best of your med school career, but don't subject yourself to a school that doesn't have your best interests in mind. I say this unbiased and with sincerety.

 

[scpod]

I say this unbiased and with sincerety.

 

[toothless rufus]

Fantasize about your future office and take a warm bath the night before the test

Yep! 👍

 

[Jamers]

You're histarical dude. Your arguements are just ******ed. I can't believe 17,000 views later you're still following this thread and posting you're tremendously UN-insightful viewpoints. You miss the point completely. Me and Steel and Porphyria are not trying to bash the school. You think I want the city of Chicago to know what I think of LECOM? You think they care....no. We're trying to help out uninformed, naive premeds like yourself. I know you have convinced yourself that you are in someway knowlegable regarding these issues, but c'mon man...get real. I know...I know...you'll post on retaliate with some lame message and try to make some dumb point but geeeez man.

To all you premeds that are listening: I hope some of you are hearing what we are saying. I have gotten many personal messages from people who are concerned about going to LECOM. I always tell them the real deal...hands down and no BS. If you guys still wanna go to LECOM and it's you're only shot, then by all means do it. If I had to do it again and it was either LECOM or year off...I can honestly tell you that I would take the year. It's just not worth the hastle.

This is funny...LECOM sent us a memo a few weeks back about advice taking the COMLEX PE (Performance evaluation) exam. This exam requires you to drive to Philly and see 12 standardized patients. They said that a large number of LECOMers were failing this and they got concerned. On the first page they tell us to Fantasize about our future office and take a warm bath the night before the test. Funny S&$t. Anywayse, listen dudes and dudettes, make the best of your med school career, but don't subject yourself to a school that doesn't have your best interests in mind. I say this unbiased and with sincerety.

Sure, next time I will start off an effective argument by calling the person before a "******." What debate class did you attend? I believe you miss the point as well, no one cares about you and your "unbiased" complaints. The fact that this thread continues can be likened to the pimple that just will not pop. People need to make their OWN decisions and not be told WHAT to do. You seem to think that you can just take everyones hand and guide them down life's path. I don't know about you, but my mother will not be there to pick out my clothing when I am a physician. Maybe she will lay your's out on your bed and make your breakfast for you, but, I think I will choose a more independent path. Also, you have you steel and the other, to use your words, "dude," saying one thing and others FROM THE SAME SCHOOL saying something different. Who do you want me to believe? Maybe you should consider taking your argument to them or, maybe you should just save time and energy and stop posting on this useless thread. I will continue to defend free-will until the day I die. This has nothing to do with LECOM but it does have EVERYTHING to do with the fact that you are supposed to be older and more mature to realize that PEOPLE NEED TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. Telling them not to go the school is, in lue of another word, *****ic. It makes no sense. No effective argument can be made to say otherwise. Sure, if you all were saying the same thing, it would have more weight. But, as said before, you are not. You are just adding more crap to the pile that people who actually want to come on this forum and learn have to shift through. Not only that, you are making future D.O.'s look like a bunch of cry babies that are upset with the plans that they themselves made. Grow up, stop crying and let people have their own free will.

 

[Sundarban1]

I think if anything, the negative posts, or in their opinion "truth" about LECOM exemplifies more of their failure as students to chose the "right" school for them, rather than expose any glairing faults in the school itself.

 

[DOtobe]

Can't everyone accept that some people like LECOM, and some people don't. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some people are happy there, some aren't. I have said time and time again on SDN throughout the years that I have been happy with LECOM in general. Sure, some things are annoying (like one time when Dr. Stano told me I would be "killed" if anyone saw my bottle of water I had sitting beside me), but every school has things that annoy their students. And I resent the assumption that I am "dumb," "******ed," or "should be in the Special Olympics" (as someone so eloquently put it a few pages ago) just because I liked my school. And news flash, there are hospitals/rotation sites who rave about the education we get at LECOM. I have heard it first hand. I don't even know why I just said that, because I know nobody will believe me anyway. I just don't like the "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong" tone that some of these threads have. SOME LIKE THE SCHOOL, SOME DON'T. THAT IS ALL.

I really need to stop reading this f*cking thread...

DOtobe, LECOM CLASS OF 2005 (far from a premed...)

 

[DOtobe]

Having said everything above, that part about "visualizing your future office" and "taking a warm bath" is pretty funny...

 

[therealdeal]

I think if anything, the negative posts, or in their opinion "truth" about LECOM exemplifies more of their failure as students to chose the "right" school for them, rather than expose any glairing faults in the school itself.

Look...LECOM isn't the "right" school for anyone. Some people just deal with the BS better than others...bottom line. Kinda hard to "fail as a student" in picking the "right" school for them when LECOM ambassators are selected to sell the school and they, as well as other students get puniched by the dean for speaking badly (honestly) against the school.

 

[therealdeal]

I will defend your opinion and your right to express it until the day I die. However, I am sickened by these threads. They go in circles and serve as much of a purpose as the MD VS DO threads which have been outlawed. Most of everything we post on here is our opinion. As a result it is bound to piss off someone who doesn't have the same opinion. I just think this thread has gotten out of hand. It was started by someone who did not express opinion as much as he claimed to express pure fact. As a result, he was ripped apart and proven wrong at every step. Opinions are fine but when people claim their opinions to be fact, it has gone too far. As good as your intentions may or may not be, you have entered this thread at the wrong time. Few will take it seriously anymore. Most most likely just tune in for humor. I am sure the few pre-MD's that read this laugh themselves to sleep or shake their heads in wonder because these threads would not last long on there. So, that is the reason for the blacklash and I cannot rightly dismiss it. I myself have grown weary of seeing these attacks, opinions or not, go on. The point has been made and the line drawn in the sand. Now, let us retire to our sides and forget the stupid fight. It will go no where.

I knew you'de respond with a rediculous paragraph of wasted words. Just like you man. So now you're endorsing that students should be punished for speaking out against their school? Nice......

 

[Sundarban1]

Look...LECOM isn't the "right" school for anyone. Some people just deal with the BS better than others...bottom line. Kinda hard to "fail as a student" in picking the "right" school for them when LECOM ambassators are selected to sell the school and they, as well as other students get puniched by the dean for speaking badly (honestly) against the school.

OK, let me put it this way. Any rational pre ped with any sense of self responsibility would read your post and say, wow, that sounds like the opinion of a very bitter student who obviously did very little research on their school before deciding to attend.

Furthermore, your lack of respect for your institution says more about you your level of maturity than the quality of your school.

 

[Doctortobee]

Hey I'm a MS3 and didn't get the email about the warm bath!!!

 

[Jamers]

I knew you'de respond with a rediculous paragraph of wasted words. Just like you man. So now you're endorsing that students should be punished for speaking out against their school? Nice......

Actually, the one for you is a bit lower on the thread, just scroll up and look for your username, you are bound to see it. Also, when did I endorse a punishment? Actually, I have no clue what the hell you are even talking about. I think I may haved killed more brain cells trying to understand it than a long night of binge drinking...Man, I need a beer.

 

[Jamers]

With your low MCAT scores you better hold off on that beer afterall. Way to go!!!

Haven't heard that one before. Hey, sit down and think of a real insult that can beat the fact that, with my wee MCAT score, I am still going to my top choice in schools. While you, are moaning about how bad off you are, aww, poor baby. Let momma make it all better. 😍 But, hey, shhh, do you hear that? *looks up* OMG, it's Elaine Morse and Silvia Ferretti in a black helicopter carrying baseball bats and shotguns. It seems they have tracked these emails back to their sources and why are they dressed in black suits?!! You are such a tool, if you dont have the gonads to say it on the public forum they dont say it at all.

 

[KyleSBU]

Actually, the one for you is a bit lower on the thread, just scroll up and look for your username, you are bound to see it. Also, when did I endorse a punishment? Actually, I have no clue what the hell you are even talking about. I think I may haved killed more brain cells trying to understand it than a long night of binge drinking...Man, I need a beer.

I just wanna say the debate between Jamers and Threrealdeal is quite entertaining.....as far as the debate topic I agree with both of them at certain points but I really do have to wonder about LECOM...I mean you dont see these debates about other schools such as NYCOM, AZCOM, NSUCOM etc and that kinda makes me wonder...maybe LECOM does have problems.....that being said...Jamers id get a beer with you anyday 👍

 

[Jamers]

I just wanna say the debate between Jamers and Threrealdeal is quite entertaining.....as far as the debate topic I agree with both of them at certain points but I really do have to wonder about LECOM...I mean you dont see these debates about other schools such as NYCOM, AZCOM, NSUCOM etc and that kinda makes me wonder...maybe LECOM does have problems.....that being said...Jamers id get a beer with you anyday 👍

Score 👍 👍 👍

 

[DragonWell]

The "Do not go to PCOM" thread is closed as a "junk thread" after 6 posts while here 13 pages later the same old fereti statue jokes are still going strong. The same points have been made, disputed, summarized and then made again in this thread. Haven't we had plenty of time for any serious debate to play itself out on this topic? What is the point of this thread now - to provide some Friday afternoon entertainment by bashing a school's reputation? 👎

Even if all the accusations are true, IMHO it's pretty tacky.

 

[Ypo.]

I believe you miss the point as well, no one cares about you and your "unbiased" complaints.

Since when are any complaints 'unbiased'?

A student who attends LECOM posting their opinion of their school is not an unbiased source. Neither are the opinions of the administration. When you talk to other students; often the question you most want answered is "do you like it there?" That requires an honest answer, not an unbiased one.

The only reason I posted on this thread to begin with is because I find it ridiculous that people can argue for 13 pages that we shouldn't be allowed to hear any negative opinions of a school from students who attend that school. I don't think that anyone entertained the idea that Steel or any of the LECOMers who posted in this thread were unbiased, but if you are going to whine and complain about them posting their opinions-just don't read SDN. Or better yet, post your reasons about why you like LECOM. If you are sitting here arguing that students who attend these schools should not be allowed to share their views of the school, it kills one of the purposes of SDN as a resource. Or, are you arguing that only 'good opinions' should be shared of their schools? Don't you realize how silly that is? If we wanted that kind of information, we could all just read the school website, because we all know how 'unbiased' that information is. 🙄

 

[Jamers]

Since when are any complaints 'unbiased'?

A student who attends LECOM posting their opinion of their school is not an unbiased source. Neither are the opinions of the administration. When you talk to other students; often the question you most want answered is "do you like it there?" That requires an honest answer, not an unbiased one.

The only reason I posted on this thread to begin with is because I find it ridiculous that people can argue for 13 pages that we shouldn't be allowed to hear any negative opinions of a school from students who attend that school! I don't think that anyone entertained the idea that Steel or any of the LECOMers who posted in this thread were unbiased, but if you are going to whine and complain about them posting their opinions-just don't read SDN. Or better yet, post your reasons about why you like LECOM. If you are sitting here arguing that students who attend these schools should not be allowed to share their views of the school, it kills the one of the purposes of SDN as a resource. Or, are you arguing that only 'good opinions' should be shared of their schools? Don't you realize how silly that is? If we wanted that kind of information, we could all just read the school website, because we all know how 'unbiased' that information is. 🙄

I have tried to break away from this thread over and over again; it just keeps sucking me back in. I am not arguing that you shouldnt lay down your opinions, scroll up, I say just that. I am, however, arguing that when opinions are expressed as pure fact, it has gone too far (go back and read almost any of Steel's comments and you will see what I mean). This thread isn't expressing opinion as it is saying, "hey, I am right, you are just a premed, don't do this." If you think you can get any positive feed back from that then I suggest you don't have children. People need to see things for themselves, that is what makes us human. The ability to make our own decisions and express our own freewill based upon our own observations. Having people sit on here telling you that they know more and that their opinions are fact is just pure bs. Ive seen about six or seven LECOMers who were happy with the school get bashed and told that their opinions were wrong. In addition, this thread makes D.O.'s both furture and present look like a bunch of cry babies. You think that the pre-MD students who read this think how well off our hollistic approach to medicine is? I insert that they feel that we can't even handle our own choices. The same goes for anyone who may have been considering a D.O. path to medicine. They come on this forum and BAM what do they see: "DO NOT GO TO X SCHOOL." I don't know about you, but I would see that as a sign of immaturity. Maybe I am a hypocrite because, by trying to get this thread closed, I have to type on here. However, I would rather be a hypocrite then sit back and watch my future degree be put to shame. I am not the only one who feels this way, I am just the loudest. Opinions are opinions and should not be represented as facts. People should be free to express themselves, but they should remember that their own expressions do not represent the majority.

 

[Jamers]

The "Do not go to PCOM" thread is closed as a "junk thread" after 6 posts while here 13 pages later the same old fereti statue jokes are still going strong. The same points have been made, disputed, summarized and then made again in this thread. Haven't we had plenty of time for any serious debate to play itself out on this topic? What is the point of this thread now - to provide some Friday afternoon entertainment by bashing a school's reputation? 👎

Even if all the accusations are true, IMHO it's pretty tacky.

I find it even more sad that this is one of the most viewed threads on the D.O. forum. Makes you wonder what people who were actually considering osteopathic medicine now think about us. I swore the beating a deadhorse picture I put would stop all this, that was about three pages ago hahaa.

 

[Ypo.]

I have tried to break away from this thread over and over again; it just keeps sucking me back in. I am not arguing that you shouldnt lay down your opinions, scroll up, I say just that. I am, however, arguing that when opinions are expressed as pure fact, it has gone too far (go back and read almost any of Steel's comments and you will see what I mean). This thread isn't expressing opinion as it is saying, "hey, I am right, you are just a premed, don't do this." If you think you can get any positive feed back from that then I suggest you don't have children. People need to see things for themselves, that is what makes us human.

Do you honestly believe that there has been even 'one' person who couldn't see that Steel had an agenda or a bias? The point is that you seem unable to place confidence in other people's ability to read opinions and realize them as such.

I'm not saying that I personally agree with the tactics that Steel took. If it were me, I would say "PM me for reasons why I don't recommend my school"-(and then no doubt someone would flame me for not stating them publicly). But I more strongly disagree with the tactics that you and some of the other posters have taken. While it is true that Steel came on very negative against his school, you guys came down on him so hard that I worry that other people will be afraid to post any negative opinions of their school, understand? I think that most people are able to read this thread, say "oh, well I'll keep that in mind when I interview there" the same way they do when they read the interview feedback site. But that is 'their' decision to make, isn't it? Why do you want to censor what someone is saying about the school they attend? Thats ridiculous. I think you are doing it more out of insecurity than a genuine desire to 'protect' other people who might be reading this thread.

 

[Jamers]

Do you honestly believe that there has been even 'one' person who couldn't see that Steel had an agenda or a bias? The point is that you seem unable to place confidence in other people's ability to read opinions and realize them as such.

I'm not saying that I personally agree with the tactics that Steel took. If it were me, I would say "PM me for reasons why I don't recommend my school"-(and then no doubt someone would flame me for not stating them publicly). But I more strongly disagree with the tactics that you and some of the other posters have taken. While it is true that Steel came on very negative against his school, you guys came down on him so hard that I worry that other people will be afraid to post any negative opinions of their school, understand? I think that most people are able to read this thread, say "oh, well I'll keep that in mind when I interview there" the same way they do when they read the interview feedback site. But that is 'their' decision to make, isn't it? Why do you want to censor what someone is saying about the school they attend? Thats ridiculous. I think you are doing it more out of insecurity than a genuine desire to 'protect' other people who might be reading this thread.

If I was attending the school, you could make that argument. I am not even going there. I just have a problem with people trying to forcefeed me crap and telling me that I should enjoy it. As for tatics I used, since when has good argumentative skills been a bad tatic? I have taken the information they laid out, the information others have laid out and put them side by side. I don't use threats, I use only what they give me. If I am so wrong in that, then we should really stop reading Socrates in school. Yes, people can make their own decisions, but, don't you think a 13 page hate letter about a school will influence a lot of people? Express your opinion but do it in the way that you described! There was another thread similar to this where the OP said, PM me for the real reasons I hate this school. The debate on that thread lasted maybe a page or two. Most of it at the end was gibberish trying to find out who she was. Also, look at the forum, MD vs DO threads are outlawed. Is that a censoring? Or is that just trying to avoid the useless banter that results from such topics? I maintain that these types of threads are exactly the same. We have started a circle, much like bodymechanic pointed out, where we have ended up back at the beginning. The same thing has been said over and over again. To censor this thread would have been to remove it a long time ago. However, go back to when I first posted on here. It was about three pages into it. After the argument had already started to repeat itself. I asked then if the thread could be closed because insults were the only thing be generated. If I wanted to censor it, I would have asked it to be closed from day one. The opinion was made and the the topic still continues to be debated.

 

[Jamers]

If I was attending the school, you could make that argument. I am not even going there. I just have a problem with people trying to forcefeed me crap and telling me that I should enjoy it. As for tatics I used, since when has good argumentative skills been a bad tatic? I have taken the information they laid out, the information others have laid out and put them side by side. I don't use threats, I use only what they give me. If I am so wrong in that, then we should really stop reading Socrates in school. Yes, people can make their own decisions, but, don't you think a 13 page hate letter about a school will influence a lot of people? Express your opinion but do it in the way that you described! There was another thread similar to this where the OP said, PM me for the real reasons I hate this school. The debate on that thread lasted maybe a page or two. Most of it at the end was gibberish trying to find out who she was. Also, look at the forum, MD vs DO threads are outlawed. Is that a censoring? Or is that just trying to avoid the useless banter that results from such topics? I maintain that these types of threads are exactly the same. We have started a circle, much like bodymechanic pointed out, where we have ended up back at the beginning. The same thing has been said over and over again. To censor this thread would have been to remove it a long time ago. However, go back to when I first posted on here. It was about three pages into it. After the argument had already started to repeat itself. I asked then if the thread could be closed because insults were the only thing be generated. If I wanted to censor it, I would have asked it to be closed from day one. The opinion was made and the the topic still continues to be debated.

Anyways, with all this being said, 31 posts by me on here is far too much. I don't care, let the moderators, LECOM students or anyone else that gives a damn take care of it. I am sure that, due to the extended nature of this thread, others will sprout up about it next year. I have said my peace about them and I will stick to it. To anyone who read this, visit the school and see for yourself, don't belive someone you have never even met before. In fact, don't even listen to me. As the penguins said on that movie Madagascar, "you didn't see anything..." This has all be a dream and you will wake up! Ha! So, with that, I insert my picture in hopes that it will end this years debate.

 

[Canuck99]

I just have a problem with people trying to forcefeed me crap and telling me that I should enjoy it.

you better call someone for help. that is crazy that there is a person sitting with you at your computer holding your head to the screen making you read every word of this thread. 9-1-1 quick.

 

[toothless rufus]

Who cares how long this thread goes on? Seriously. As long as they aren't posting porn: and at least it's entertaining at times! Take a LECOM bubble bath! Now that's comedy!

 

[therealdeal]

The following is a message I received tonight from a very highly respected MS IV at LECOM. It's a shame that MOST of us feel this way about our school. Know that it's the general consensus at LECOM.

"I wanted to let everyone know about this before you hear about it from the academia. I wrote an Alma Mater early in our career for the school when we began this harsh experience and presented it to Dr. Sylvia. I was so bright eyed and ignorant about this place and those who ran it and didn't know yet what we would have yet to experience.

Early this spring, when I had decided and hoped it would be forgotten, since i got no feedback for about 3 yrs, my song was reevaluated and I had no choice then to give the hierarchy what they wanted. I have and will not receive any stipend nor scholarship nor any estate land in the Caribbean. In due part, I did this to leave my mark and for my class. In fact, for graduation, I will state I dedicate this to my class of '06 and am requesting that be placed on the itinerary, though that might go unnoticed.
After hearing what everyone, including myself has endured from Clin Ed, Med Ed, Student Affairs, boards, exams, the Ferretti's, I wish I didn't write the damn thing.

Please, say something to me if you want; I want to know what my classmates have to say. This has been buggin the **** out of me for some time!"

 

[scpod]

The following is a message I received tonight from a very highly respected MS IV at LECOM. It's a shame that MOST of us feel this way about our school. Know that it's the general consensus at LECOM.

The following is a message I received from a highly respected member of the SDN team. It is a shame that most of us feel this way about therealdeal. Know that it's the general consensus at SDN.

"WTF!"

 

[KyleSBU]

are we talking about a song?....LECOM students are making songs??...tey really must hate tht place

 

[CatsandCradles]

All right this thread is getting wierd, I made a few post on this thread somewhere - and thought I would look around a little bit more.

I looked at the AOA Residency and Internship page and Lake Erie is associated with next door Mill Creek Hospital. They got some programs that are looking pretty good:

Orthopedic Surgery, Neurology, Otolaryn & Facial Plastic Surgery, and GI.

Not bad. Those are pretty lucrative specialties if you ask me. 🙂 And I will be going to WVSOM, and the Greenbrier hospital nearby us only offers FP. So naturally I sort of envy LECOM for that.

And give them a few more years to get LECOM working smoothly. They opened up in what? 1996? That's perhaps only 2 or 3 years of physicians comming out of Lake Erie.

 

[KyleSBU]

The following is a message I received tonight from a very highly respected MS IV at LECOM. It's a shame that MOST of us feel this way about our school. Know that it's the general consensus at LECOM.

"I wanted to let everyone know about this before you hear about it from the academia. I wrote an Alma Mater early in our career for the school when we began this harsh experience and presented it to Dr. Sylvia. I was so bright eyed and ignorant about this place and those who ran it and didn't know yet what we would have yet to experience.

Early this spring, when I had decided and hoped it would be forgotten, since i got no feedback for about 3 yrs, my song was reevaluated and I had no choice then to give the hierarchy what they wanted. I have and will not receive any stipend nor scholarship nor any estate land in the Caribbean. In due part, I did this to leave my mark and for my class. In fact, for graduation, I will state I dedicate this to my class of '06 and am requesting that be placed on the itinerary, though that might go unnoticed.
After hearing what everyone, including myself has endured from Clin Ed, Med Ed, Student Affairs, boards, exams, the Ferretti's, I wish I didn't write the damn thing.

Please, say something to me if you want; I want to know what my classmates have to say. This has been buggin the **** out of me for some time!"

I still dont understand this ???

 

[allendo]

All right this thread is getting wierd, I made a few post on this thread somewhere - and thought I would look around a little bit more.

I looked at the AOA Residency and Internship page and Lake Erie is associated with next door Mill Creek Hospital. They got some programs that are looking pretty good:

Orthopedic Surgery, Neurology, Otolaryn & Facial Plastic Surgery, and GI.

Not bad. Those are pretty lucrative specialties if you ask me. 🙂 And I will be going to WVSOM, and the Greenbrier hospital nearby us only offers FP. So naturally I sort of envy LECOM for that.

And give them a few more years to get LECOM working smoothly. They opened up in what? 1996? That's perhaps only 2 or 3 years of physicians comming out of Lake Erie.

They are also opening an opthalmology residency with Hamot/Millcreek and another ER residency in Scranton Pa, pedning approval from the AOA.

 

[therealdeal]

All right this thread is getting wierd, I made a few post on this thread somewhere - and thought I would look around a little bit more.

I looked at the AOA Residency and Internship page and Lake Erie is associated with next door Mill Creek Hospital. They got some programs that are looking pretty good:

Orthopedic Surgery, Neurology, Otolaryn & Facial Plastic Surgery, and GI.

Not bad. Those are pretty lucrative specialties if you ask me. 🙂 And I will be going to WVSOM, and the Greenbrier hospital nearby us only offers FP. So naturally I sort of envy LECOM for that.

And give them a few more years to get LECOM working smoothly. They opened up in what? 1996? That's perhaps only 2 or 3 years of physicians comming out of Lake Erie.

Millcreek hospital is one of the worst hospitals on the face of the earth. It is seriously a complete $hithole. Any one in ERIE will gladly tell you that. Any other comments on Millcreek?

 

[Dr Trek 1]

I think this thread would qualify as a junk thread. But, that's just me.

 

[DOtobe]

Millcreek hospital is one of the worst hospitals on the face of the earth. It is seriously a complete $hithole. Any one in ERIE will gladly tell you that. Any other comments on Millcreek?

I don't know how anyone can learn anything in residency at Millcreek. There can't be any more than 50 people admitted to that hospital at any one time. I don't know how they have as many residencies as they do.

 

[Nate]

This thread has deviated from what the OP intended for some time now and after more than the 330 posts and the months that it has been open, sufficient opportunity to discuss has transpired. Where originally people argued opinions and ideas, now we find ‘tit for tat’ style arguing and poking fun which can both be hurtful not only to guests here, but our profession as a whole. I am closing the thread now and hope that if in the future anyone decides to exercise their freedom of speech and start a similar thread, that they remember our TOS agreement and that posting threads with the purpose of inciting anger or harassing other members is not tolerated so be cautious of your motives before you do so. Thank you