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Hello, does anyone know of an osteopathic school that accepts transfer students in the Southeast. I am currently an OMS I at a school in the midwest and would like to transfer somewhere warmer. I am from the midwest but lived in Georgia for a couple years after undergrad and plan to do so again once I graduate. I am not impressed with my school's as a whole and would like to be somewhere warmer. I get high grades in all my classes but just need a new change of scenery. Thanks for the help.
Also, all of the clinicals at this school are in the state so I would not be able to leave for the clincal years anyways.
That is one of the worst reasons I’ve heard for wanting a transfer.Hello, does anyone know of an osteopathic school that accepts transfer students in the Southeast. I am currently an OMS I at a school in the midwest and would like to transfer somewhere warmer. I am from the midwest but lived in Georgia for a couple years after undergrad and plan to do so again once I graduate. I am not impressed with my school's as a whole and would like to be somewhere warmer. I get high grades in all my classes but just need a new change of scenery. Thanks for the help.
Also, all of the clinicals at this school are in the state so I would not be able to leave for the clincal years anyways.
Yeah I was looking into transferring after my second year. Does that require life extenuating circumstances?Unless its a life altering issue, transfers only usually happen then after 2 years, I mean part of the issue is diff curriculums. Ive heard of medical issues being warranted, but change of scenery? Probably not.
Better tell your Dean of Students now then if you are serious, otherwise you are gonna delay yourself a year. Might already be too late if your 2nd year. Someone transferred into PCOM-GA posted a while back I think, but he said it took him a year to set up.Yeah I was looking into transferring after my second year. Does that require life extenuating circumstances?
A lot of DO schools have rotations scattered all over the place. Does your school not have one south?Yeah I was looking into transferring after my second year. Does that require life extenuating circumstances?
I think the releasing dean and the accepting dean both have to discuss and agree before it can occur, usually for extreme circumstances only.This is literally the worst reason I’ve ever read for wanting a transfer.... and from a state school none the less....
It’s not going to happen.
I think the releasing dean and the accepting dean both have to discuss and agree before it can occur, usually for extreme weather circumstances only.
Hello, does anyone know of an osteopathic school that accepts transfer students in the Southeast. I am currently an OMS I at a school in the midwest and would like to transfer somewhere warmer. I am from the midwest but lived in Georgia for a couple years after undergrad and plan to do so again once I graduate. I am not impressed with my school's as a whole and would like to be somewhere warmer. I get high grades in all my classes but just need a new change of scenery. Thanks for the help.
Also, all of the clinicals at this school are in the state so I would not be able to leave for the clincal years anyways.
Trading a state school for Lecom Bradington? I really have heard it all now. You know like half the class doesn't get to stay in Florida for rotations?Actually the "state school" that I go to hikes their tuition up to over 50 grand for the clinical years (their reasoning being you are in school for 12 months instead of 9), making it cost quite a bit more than some of the private schools that charge in the 40's for every year. Was thinking about lecom considering I would be saving like 20 grand a year. Also I believe clinical education quality depends more on site and not institution.
Didn’t know that about the price. My school shares some sites with ouhcom and can tell you right now they’re better than most DO schools and almost definitely better than anything LECOM B has to offer.Actually the "state school" that I go to hikes their tuition up to over 50 grand for the clinical years (their reasoning being you are in school for 12 months instead of 9), making it cost quite a bit more than some of the private schools that charge in the 40's for every year. Was thinking about lecom considering I would be saving like 20 grand a year. Also I believe clinical education quality depends more on site and not institution.
Not going to claim your curriculum isn't messed up or that I know your school better than you, but to trade a school with a home hospital and residencies for one that ships half its students all over the eastern US like a Caribbean school is dumb. And that situation is pretty much most schools in the Southeast.Well I can tell you first hand that the state school I go to is not high quality . The overgrowth of bureaucracy (that all public universities seem to have these days) is completely out of control here and is leading to the school having an extremely disorganized curriculum and overall functioning. The school I go to is also already exceptionally easy and I believe it intentionally recruits less competitive people in hopes of increasing numbers of primary care graduates (and is doing other things in the curriculum to sabotage people's changes at landing competitive specialties) (I might to do primary care anyways but this is still concerning nevertheless).
What opportunities exactly would I be missing out on? Many of these schools appear to have the same opportunities with similar or some even better residency placements. I am looking at LECOM (who everyone bitches about) and they seem to always place people in high competitive residencies and are fairly well known as far as DO schools go.
Maybe Campbell, really none of them. Some of them do a better job at 'regional sites' like ACOM KYCOM and LMU-DCOM. I believe NSU does actually get all theirs in Florida, but they have some terrible 4th year policy with mandatory rural rotations that are mandatory for both time and location (Pahokee, fl I believe is one of them). Just a bad trade.Oh haha I did not no that, but perhaps another one of the new DO schools in the Southeast (there are many). What is wrong with lecom anyways, they are one of the only do schools that have name recognition in the allopathic world and do have decent residency placements
LECOM up north is fine and gets a bad rep on SDN. LECOM B notoriously has had issues finding 3rd year rotations IN THE SOUTHEAST for several years.Oh haha I did not no that, but perhaps another one of the new DO schools in the Southeast (there are many). What is wrong with lecom anyways, they are one of the only do schools that have name recognition in the allopathic world and do have decent residency placements
If those physicians want to teach you. But if their group is pocketing the cash and not paying them, you can see the interest go down real fast.I have heard that rural sites can actually be better because you get more one on one with the physicians and hands on. Don't have a problem with that here.
We all have gripes about our school, but its bad form to trash your institution on SDN. All that really does is make people think poorly of your school and by extension, you.Well if other schools have lower quality education than Ouhcom that is a scary thought for the future of medicine