No, they would reject for tough questions tho, which is what I was addressing in that comment. If my school got any inkling you were difficult: I.e. asking too many questions, circling back to questions they brushed off/gave incomplete answers or even flat out stated verifiably not true answers like the old stand in: ‘our board pass rate is above the national average.’ Those would definitely be a demerit, they do not want students who do anything other than ‘shut up and move along.’
This is true at my school as well; it's not unique to just DO schools. I've been publicly shouted down at by administrators for questioning certain mandatory attendance policies (certain team-based activities that actually had no team component at all). I guarantee that if an applicant started to ask too many questions at an interview they would definitely be flagged.
How do you have a team-based activity without a team???
Trust me I had the same reaction.
What penal colony is this?????Trust me I had the same reaction.
It's labeled as a team activity because you're supposed to attend with your team, but in reality there is no necessary team interaction.
I would love to say, but fear admin retribution. 🙁
wait that's the same exact thought I had when they told us about it
Thank you so much. I scored low in just one area due to timing so I should be able to handle preparing for it I’ve over the next three weeks. Really appreciate you sharing those resources!
Besides the fact that the logic behind your reply is terrible,
This is paranoid thinking. Just because the nail sticks out, it doesn't mean it's going to get hammered.
That's absolutely what that means. While it didn't happen during the admission process, once admitted during the course of schooling we as a class and as individuals asked several similarly invasive questions about policy, procedure, and consistency within. With few exceptions we were answered with language akin to:
My sympathies that you are at a penal colony instead of a real medical school.
They sure didn't treat Roxas well
I'm done now, so it doesn't matter. I have my 300k piece of paper. But from talking to all the people I've met along the way and assuming you are correct, then your school appears to be the exception and mine the rule.
I'm not trying to go on about poor old me. There were several cases I think of where classmates got screwed way harder than I did. It was more the disdain with which we were talked to as a whole. Which goes to support the reality of many of the above comments.
Thank you, I feel like half the posters work for COCA sometimes with all the gas-lighting. Ah ‘DO school isn’t that bad, no one really likes med school.’ Bull crap! At my academic aways their chairs were talking about creating transition years out of thin air for unmatched students so they had full Medicare funding available to try and match again. Compare that to my school where they won’t even give you official time off rotations if you don’t match. They literally told me to ‘work it out’ if I fail to match. I have no intention of not matching but the difference in response is amazing.
Right? What galls me is the 2 days off per rotation rule for interviews. The MD PDs at away I attended didn’t give a flip if I took days off to attend interviews. They even encouraged it. The 4th yr I was rotating with at an MD school in a specialty elective was present maybe 10 days the whole rotation since she left so often for interviews.
Thank you for calling it like you see it.
I'm so glad to see your post and posts by others who've endured the same abuse (that is the appropriate label) at the hands of DO school administrators. I really thought I was going insane in the thick of things this year. They make you feel like a criminal with how impersonal and punitive the process feels. It was a huge strain on me, mentally and emotionally, and very distracting during a time in which I needed to concentrate.
I found your post. Thanks so much!
N=1 i asked about board prep during my interview and what the school does to support students during dedicated. Interviewer was an MD and told he how he was sad because students sometimes didn’t attend his class even though he wanted to share his experience as a physician (tips and tricks) before “this old computer stops working.” During interview day, school was very transparent about board prep and material given.
