I'm an M4 at FSU ...
a nice, friendly learning environment, clinical education awesome ... I did more 3rd year than almost any other 3rd year I know. You work directly with an attending, etc, etc.
MS4 from tallahassee campus---I can tell. I too experienced the friendly environment---it lasted up to my third year. It now all gone except for the few butt kissers. Sorry pepsid---your either a female or a quiet nerdy male. The school hates anyone that speaks out and you become the enemy if you do. I have posted earlier about how bad fsu is. I have recently found out that 2 of my 30 classmates(class started out small) is repeating 4th year. I am not complaining because they did that to me, but because I tried to improve my school because I wanted to believe in the program as I love football and FSU is pretty good, so nothing could be better
. I will tell you that the current 4th year students hate FSU for the most part, which makes me unhappy that I made the wrong decision 4years ago and should have went to miami and paid the extra 15K/yr
. I speak to many of them---enough to find out that one of the current 4th years is being force to repeat 4ht year, while a "would be 4th year" suddenly dropped out of the program last year---I heard she was force out---and I know her well enough but she did not disclose all the information---probably out of embarrassemtn---andn she has not returned. She is not on the current 3rd year or 4ht year roster on the web page, nor has anyone seen her.
I know of 5 of the current 4th years repeating courses---one is repeating doctoring and he has to do it for 3 months---losing 3 possible externships/electives
. Bet you did not know that pepsid---tell them about doctoring and all the complaining. Tell them about REYES and psycho social classes. Tell them abo ut the school getting your class an outside source to resolve your issues during 2nd year.
One good comment---you do get a lot of first hands for some rotations such as surgery. But to say better than other programs is not true unless you have many friends to judge it by. I think many rotations is less hands on and less inpatient care(which is where you learn the real stuff). FSU sends to to all these outpatient clinics---good to see what it is like but to do internal medicine out patient for 4 weeks---that sucks.
The comment about all this one on one could be true and good, but if this person did so much one on one and loved it, then why is he not doing primary care---that is what most of 3rd year is except for surgery and sort of OB/gyn. I got tired of that crap and am glad I was not doing one on one so much so that the residents did most of the crap while I "help" and did one on one on the good patients( more interesting cases). One on one rules for surgery but sucks unless you really want primary. FSU does rock with surgery at all campuses( as what I have been told). You do most of the sewing and a lot of the procedure.
Some awesome faculty in some places, but a lot of power hungry faculty and admin that are now happy they have a new building that they can chill in and think of ways to make it harder for students to like the school---my opinion and you should get many.
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Good luck
Go where you get in
Students did well on step 1 this year because they told me that they had to do self studying and it was not do to the faculty. I did really well on it, no bragging, but I did the same. I studied and did well, while those who cant teach themselves did poorly.
If your quiet and timid , you will be fine here
If your a rule breaker, go to another school
The good thing about FSU is that they usually tell you within a week that you have been accepted. Has that changed?
I posted a longer thread but it did not submit so I am too lazy to type it again.
