well I do have to say that EVERY school has good reasons not to go there, right? I am sure that a person from each and every DO school can state one bad thing about their school. I am a LECOM student, and I will point out some of the negatives.
1) Attendance policy: They make you stay in class 8 hours per day, and also schedule required assignments at the hospital after these eight hours. This honestly leaves you no time for quality studying, unless of course, you are a genius. If you fall behind on your classes and realize the only way you will excel is to just skip classes and study at home, the dean makes suprise visits to class and calls all of those that skipped into her office to explain why. It is a catsh 22, either go to class and perform poorly, or skip class and get busted by the dean and haqve her note on your dean's letter when you apply to internship that you are a chronic class skipper.
2) Favortism. I don't need to explain this one, I am sure this goes on everywhere, but at LECOM, you will notice that very beautiful attractive girls in yoru class can fail five classes and not have to repeat the year, so on and so forth. Again, schools playing favs is everywhere.
3) I do hate that LECOM can just change the curriculum in the middle of the year, give you one weeks notice, and threaten to give you a failing grade on your rotation if you do not comply. Current LECOMers know what I am talking about here.
4) I really do think that the Ferretti's think they are gods. They like to run your life for you, this is definitely a negative of LECOM.
Anyways, yes, there are negs for LECOM. They are frustrating, but in the end, you do get a DO degree and get to be a doc. The best advice I can offer anybody that wants to go to LECOM is to talk to an upperclassman and ask them "the ropes". I really wish I did this!! There were things I just should have known better and would have made my first and second years easier if I did this.
At LECOM you will be threatened by rules and policies that you have to comply to. Some of these are extreme nonsense, but hey, Bottom line, wherever you go, its your education and you're paying for it, and what you learn is up to you. Don't ever forget that, no matter where you go!!!!
LECOM does have some positives too, its just that the school can be frustrating sometimes to many people, so I am not suprised that somebody came on this board and smashed LECOM. But I will say this, I am now in my fourth year, it has been over a year since I stepped onto the LECOM campus and let me tell you, I am much more relaxed. So, in summary, medical education does get better as times goes on.
Would I go to LECOM again, if I could do it over, probably not, but hey, in the end, I still get to be a doc, so I survived, you can do it to, just have to be a patient person.
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