I'm a 4th year at tcom, only 5 months left. If you have had offers from other schools you should take them. Tcom is a highly political school where the students come last. Your orientation week is the best, once they get your check they treat you as though your being there is imposing on them.
The teaching is horrible, they have cut lectures and added a large amount of "self study", too bad they raised the tuition instead of lowered it. I have had numerous classes where the instructors basically gave us the test questions. And we wonder why the allopathic docs look down on us.
As for rotations, they are mostly very poor.
Family practice: good
pediatrics at tcom: HORRIBLE NO TEACHING AT ALL!!!!
surgery at OMCT: learn very little, do less
ob/gyn: too few patients. No business, if your lucky you stay at school. If not they send you to Cleburne so you can watch an ob/gyn doc for a month and do nothing, why pay tuition?????
Psychiatry at JPS: good, fun
Manipulative medicine
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Internal Medicine at OMCT: OMCT for one smells like mold... Second the interns and residents make it like high school. Politics once again. The nurses and staff are very rude and unfriendly. If you want to get a good medicine rotation go to Brook Army Medical Center(BAMC) for an elective.
Specialty Medicine: I asked for cardiology, they sent me to Tyler for Pulmonology.
Proof of Tcom's problems: There Alumni fund is almost obsolete. Nobody donates after they graduate. Some docs have told me that if they get a letter with the school emblem the trash it right away. I hope you get in somewhere else.