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In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
This number seems ridiculously highIn one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
Yes, that is high. Were they all (or at least a majority) expelled for the same thing/event?In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
Different events. Some for not failing exams, some for unprofessional behavior.Yes, that is high. Were they all (or at least a majority) expelled for the same thing/event?
Please tell me no one was expelled for not responding to an email in 24 hours.Different events. Some for not failing exams, some for unprofessional behavior. Ultimately the administration is corrupt, negligent, and malicious. US allo med school.
unprofessional behavior includes anything such as being tardy, missing a mandatory class, or not responding to an email within the mandated 24 hours. Obviously, many students and faculty are guilty of this but when corrupt administrators want to have certain students removed, they can come up with whatever excuse they need. School is 4 years after all and a student is bound to slip up once at least some time.
.Please tell me no one was expelled for not responding to an email in 24 hours.
I guess everything is backwards about this school.Some for not failing exams
The school’s MO is to rack up as many counts of these unprofessional behaviors as possible to make their decisions look justified. A “not responding to email” here, a “late to class” there, and you have a problematic student that needs to be dismissed.
Found this from the AAMC:
Sounds like overall attrition of MD only students is 5%. This case seems a smidge higher (9%) but not outside the realm of reason. If it’s a lower tier school it would be reasonable to assume a few more students might fail out along the way.
As for admin going crazy with professionalism issues, I’ve never seen a single case where, once all the facts were known, that it wasn’t immediately obvious the student should have been canned months earlier. Usually it ends up looking like the school let a lot of stuff slide until they just had no more choice.
And yes showing up on time and responding to emails - especially important ones - is a professionalism thing. Even your attendings would get dinged for these things. If I start showing up late to my OR and delaying cases, you don’t think they would suspend my posting privileges in a skinny minute!?
It's just trolling until the school is named.The 5% attrition isn’t 5% of the class being expelled for professionalism. Most of that is people dropping out. 9% of the class being expelled for professionalism is high.
It’s not trolling, but it’s not really helpful without a name, I agree.It's just trolling until the school is named.
My school is closer to the OPs mainly has to do with step failures and failures in classesThe 5% attrition isn’t 5% of the class being expelled for professionalism. Most of that is people dropping out. 9% of the class being expelled for professionalism is high.
Yeah OP mentions that some of them were for exam failures and whatnot so I assume he’s lumping them all together.The 5% attrition isn’t 5% of the class being expelled for professionalism. Most of that is people dropping out. 9% of the class being expelled for professionalism is high.
That's highly abnormal. Med schools typically go out of their way to keep their students.In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
Its a question. Not meant to be helpful.It’s not trolling, but it’s not really helpful without a name, I agree.
If all of this is true, you should find a way to make this public so that applicants can avoid the school. They should not get away with doing that to students.
The way "professionalism" is used is so wrong.
Definitely agree. I think we've only expelled four in the past ten years. Would have been five but one appealed and won it.We had 1 person in all 4 years of my class expelled. 10 is crazy high.
With that last bit, remember that it's an N =1, and there are always two sides to every story.I'm really starting to think professionalism is exaggerated on SDN and it's really hard to get expelled for that unless it's a clear pattern of horrible behavior. Also faculty usually work with students to make sure they don't fail out, so expelling for academic reasons is very rare.
Now at DO schools? That's a different story especially with my recent discovery in finding how authoritarian some schools are to expel a student over failing a course (even a remediation).
With that last bit, remember that it's an N =1, and there are always two sides to every story.
And tip of the iceberg phenomenon is very real too. Just look at the dismissal stories in the general residency forum.
So then how do you know the students were expelled instead of chose to drop out or took a leave or something?From counting. Lmfao. Tf kind of question is that.
If there were 10 rapid fire dismissals my money is on a clandestine cheating ring.You're right. Although that would suck if it turns out OP in the other thread was hiding critical info and the school was in fact being a lot more lenient by offering a withdrawal vs expulsion. But it would fit the theme of the usual expulsion/residency firing threads on SDN
Very high. In my class of over 200, we had 5-6 drop out by attrition and one student who dropped to the year group behind us for academic concerns. No expulsions in the 4 years I was there.In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
I think my class had 2-3 expelled and a few others dropped out.In one medical school of about 110, 10 students being expelled for a mix of academic/professional issues as M2s out of place or excessive?
As mentioned above, delay in graduation is common for a wide variety of reasons, even at MD schools. This is not the same as attrition, which is the loss of students due to withdrawal, or expulsion.I go to LECOM and it's average that of the around 200 people the class begins with that we'll graduate about 175. Looks like we take the cake XD
of those 25ish from my class i can tell you the majority of them were dropped entirely due to not keeping up their grades during the first two semesters. The people who come from family's with plenty of money usually get to just get pushed to the class below and there were a handful that got dropped to the class belowAs mentioned above, delay in graduation is common for a wide variety of reasons, even at MD schools. This is not the same as attrition, which is the loss of students due to withdrawal, or expulsion.
That’s a crazy high number for expulsions and would be equally crazy if it were for drop outs. That’s a problem with either the admissions process or the school’s expectations.
Or, as I pointed out, it didn't actually happen.
LLU? LUCOM? That's a ludicrous punishment for simply drinking alcohol. I feel terrible for anyone who has to repeat a year of medical school because they threw a house party. And it's insulting to AA and the real addicts who rely on AA that a kid who had a few drinks at a house party is required to attend meetings. UFB.my experience was those that left wanted to. Multiple people repeated years for failing, and the school and strict rules about alcohol and tobacco which nabbed a few but they were always allowed to continue. One person got busted by cops having huge off campus party. School made him join AA because apparently any alcohol use makes you an alcoholic and repeat a year, but still graduated in 5 years instead of normal 4. Heck, i have one friend that failed 1st, then passed it, then failed 2nd. They told him take a year off, go get head straight and restart. He did that and next time through graduated 4 years.
I think 2 to 5 % attrition would be about the norm for most schools. Some drop out because it's not for them. My school bends over backwards supplying resources to get students through. Even cheating isn't mandatory expulsion. I caught a student with a cheat sheet during an exam. He was given the chance to repeat the year or leave. Turned into a $50k mistake on his part.Very few academic expulsions. Many times I would work with students and think we are just taking this guys money. Then, things would click and they would graduate. One went on to score 93 rd percentile on COMLEX. I am beginning to think new and for profit med schools are becoming more responsible for situations like this.
Can confirm. Some time ago we had a student caught red handed with a cheat sheet. He was suspended, and went into therapy. He graduated a year behind his classmates and is now a PC doc in a western state.I know I'm late to this thread, but I agree with this. My school hasn't really had any attrition so far, besides a huge incident a while back where 10+ students were basically expelled, but ~not,~ with a student or two dropping out so far. However, talking to M2s, cheating is completely a "slap on the wrist," so to speak. There are at least 1-2 M2s who've been caught cheating in multiple blocks since starting medical school, and they've been told it won't go on their MSPE, but they need to stop. It's incredible what medical schools will do to hold their students.