How common is block scheduling in MD school?

[osteohopeful09]

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And if a school does have block scheduling for a particular class, do you have trouble retaining all that information 9if a lecture goes on for, say, 3 hours)?

 

[justdoit31]

We have block scheduling (4 blocks each year- 1st year is Anatomy, Cells and Tissues, Physiology, and Host Defense)... lectures each day here vary from 2-4 hours a day. We have 50 minutes of lecture followed by a 10 minute break and then repeat. I personally don't go to lectures (we have them on audio online) but my friends who do seem to be ok with sitting there for 3 hours.

It doesn't really matter where you go you will have to retain information from numerous hours of lectures a day and then go home and review that material to make sure you get it down.