How is your school handling COVID?

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TheaterOfTheme said:
3rd year here--rotations canceled until further notice. I will be missing out on IM and an elective in my specialty of interest. Pretty much worse case scenario. And the school is very confident our online modules "won't be busy work".
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At least you get online modules. We are being forced to use a vacation month. There is no way for us to get credit for April. People who were wrapping up cores that month now have to use audition time to finish the core and rural clinic rotation requirements.
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
At least you get online modules. We are being forced to use a vacation month. There is no way for us to get credit for April. People who were wrapping up cores that month now have to use audition time to finish the core and rural clinic rotation requirements.
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The question is, however, which situation will be viewed more favorably by PDs in the future? Losing out on auditions is horrible though.
 
Has anyone's school switched to pass/fail for their pre-clinical classes this semester? Students in my class are lobbying for it but our administrators have basically said that they can't change the curriculum that they submitted to the AOA last year (which I feel like is a lie :laugh:)
 
kuzy said:
Has anyone's school switched to pass/fail for their pre-clinical classes this semester? Students in my class are lobbying for it but our administrators have basically said that they can't change the curriculum that they submitted to the AOA last year (which I feel like is a lie :laugh:)
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KCU just switched over to P/F grading for the rest of the semester, which will now be all online. Details mostly still TBA.
 
kuzy said:
Has anyone's school switched to pass/fail for their pre-clinical classes this semester? Students in my class are lobbying for it but our administrators have basically said that they can't change the curriculum that they submitted to the AOA last year (which I feel like is a lie :laugh:)
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Our school said if you get >105 on COMAT you get H!!! So yes, seems your school is, in fact, lying to you (shocker)
 
kuzy said:
Has anyone's school switched to pass/fail for their pre-clinical classes this semester? Students in my class are lobbying for it but our administrators have basically said that they can't change the curriculum that they submitted to the AOA last year (which I feel like is a lie :laugh:)
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I decided for myself that med school was pass/fail a long time ago
 
It's a common theme in the DO world for your dean or admin to say "We just can't do that. They won't let us and our hands are tied." Then, for everyone else with friends and a computer (unlike your old leadership) you learn that it's just a bold-faced lie in 5 seconds. It's troubling that these people are incompetent *****s. It's doubly troubling that they think we are so stupid that we would believe a single word they say.
 
Medic741 said:
Our school said if you get >105 on COMAT you get H!!! So yes, seems your school is, in fact, lying to you (shocker)
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What? Ours is making the last rotations of this year P/F because they are online even though we will also take the shelves like normal (eventually).
 
Neopolymath said:
It's a common theme in the DO world for your dean or admin to say "We just can't do that. They won't let us and our hands are tied." Then, for everyone else with friends and a computer (unlike your old leadership) you learn that it's just a bold-faced lie in 5 seconds. It's troubling that these people are incompetent *****s. It's doubly troubling that they think we are so stupid that we would believe a single word they say.
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Ahh Bureaucracy...gotta love it :laugh:
 
bioarchaeologist said:
not looking forward to all the OS labs and CPAs we'll have to make up once this is all over.
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They're having you guys make them up? For M2, they are just being converted to fully online...maybe cause of the dedicated timeline and all that (they can't really keep us into the summer from what I understand since they submitted a certain dedicated start time to COCA).
 
fldoctorgirl said:
They're having you guys make them up? For M2, they are just being converted to fully online...maybe cause of the dedicated timeline and all that (they can't really keep us into the summer from what I understand since they submitted a certain dedicated start time to COCA).
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Not sure since they're still ironing out the details. More like a worst case scenario I guess. I heard they're figuring out a way to do the CPAs online or something like that.
 
How on earth can it be acceptable for us to still have to come to campus on Friday to take the COMAT? The NBOME itself literally has a page dedicated to asking schools to let students take them from home and provides a new platform to make it happen.

The way my school has handled this is downright embarrassing.
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
How on earth can it be acceptable for us to still have to come to campus on Friday to take the COMAT? The NBOME itself literally has a page dedicated to asking schools to let students take them from home and provides a new platform to make it happen.

The way my school has handled this is downright embarrassing.
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My school is doing COMATs online/at home. Apparently the NBOME has sent (or is going to send) something out (a new software or something). I don't know all the details, but that's what I got from our virtual town hall meeting yesterday.
 
Moved first years completely online, including exams. Still working out the kinks with students on rotations. Basically, it's a mess.

Second years are on dedicated.
 
QuantumWolverine said:
Moved first years completely online, including exams. Still working out the kinks with students on rotations. Basically, it's a mess.

Second years are on dedicated.
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We're not. We still have one more week of lectures plus final exams. But yea, I consider it as sort of a dedicated period.
 
First year online for the time being, holding out hope that we can return in May to complete OMM requirements. Second years starting dedicated.
 
DrStephenStrange said:
We're not. We still have one more week of lectures plus final exams. But yea, I consider it as sort of a dedicated period.
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Same here - 3 exams over the next 2 wks, then block break and then dedicated supposed to get under way.
Latest news is that we are closed for the month of April, so into block 4 for M1's and dedicated for M2's.

If this thing pushes back test dates set in June, burn out gon' be realllll.

On the plus time, as you mentioned, this is essentially dedicated already which is nice.
 
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COMP/COMP NW are all online, went over two weeks ago, I actually think we were the first school to do it. No idea when or if we are coming back, Oregon is no school till April 28th so definitely not till May, two weeks before finals were scheduled. We are still taking anatomy, they are throwing around the idea of doing a photo based final exam, looks like we may have two S/P encounters right when we get back, no idea how they are going to smash a block of OMM into 2 weeks but it should be fun. Didactic is all online.
Honestly, I’m not sure if our seconds years are doing dedicated right now or not, I hope they are. All M3’s/M4’s were pulled from clinic, commencement was canceled.
 
Anyone elses school becoming Pass/Fail that wasn't already?

Edit: Nvm I see they are. I'm kinda pissed, I had a really great upward trajectory in my GPA and class ranking. I was on track to rise up even further this semester but now it's all pass/fail.

Idk what to think, I guess like cool, more time to focus on boards, but I'm pissed all the energy ive spent thus far in trying to rise up will be for nothing.
 
Our school just created a 4 week public health rotation for the current third years where they will work at local health agencies and do things like contact tracing, manning hotlines, patient monitoring/navigating etc. This will count as rotation credit for graduation.
 
GoCards05 said:
Our school just created a 4 week public health rotation for the current third years where they will work at local health agencies and do things like contact tracing, manning hotlines, patient monitoring/navigating etc. This will count as rotation credit for graduation.
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NurWollen said:
Well OMM conquered Spanish Flu so clearly it'll conquer Covid-19, nothing to fear.

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I heard a professor who is FM suggesting, seriously, that OMM was underutilized in the treatment of COVID and that we should be using it more to help our patients recover. Then compared it to spanish flu and then started talking about how medical students where treating flu victims back then and he thought we should be doing it now. This guy would have every DO student infected within a week if he was in charge.
 
BorntobeDO? said:
I heard a professor who is FM suggesting, seriously, that OMM was underutilized in the treatment of COVID and that we should be using it more to help our patients recover. Then compared it to spanish flu and then started talking about how medical students where treating flu victims back then and he thought we should be doing it now. This guy would have every DO student infected within a week if he was in charge.
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lol is this professor at DCOM?
 
Superrambo said:
Does anyone think incoming OMS I students might only learn remotely due to social distancing rules persisting?
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It’s possible even when things slow down and school just want to be extra careful. For M1 the curriculum really isn’t that different online other than anatomy lab, OMM lab and SPEs, which they either find an alternative for you or have you make up once school re-opens
 
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