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Originally posted by Slingblade the Surgeon:
•Hey Kirksvillians,
I forgot to ask whilst I was there interviewing last week...How long do classes go every day? I'm trying to decide between KCOM and NOVA and its tough. NOVA has brand new everything and HARVEY and the beach and good jobs for my wife and summers off and enough hospitals to do all your rotations locally. But, KCOM has a kick-ass curriculum and a safer friendlier community and rockin board pass rates and wired lecture halls and those freakin cool electronic white boards and a connected hospital and that surgical techniques class. Argh! Nova has classes till 5 every day with mandatory attendance. Does KCOM have mandatory attendance? NOVA has resources of a school with 30k students and a dean that hosts parties for the med grunts on his yacht. Kirksville has that supercenter walmart ....Help me!•••
Slingblade,
KCOM has a demanding lecture schedule, but NO -- there is no attendance policy. You have complete freedom your first-year, and most of your second, to see whose lectures are worth attending -- and using the times you skip to accomplish other things. Virtually every class will mention the possibility for in-class pop quizzes...I have never heard of single one being given, no matter how ****ty the attendance was/is.
Now, can K'ville compare in things to see & do with a FL coast...HELL NO! But, there are things that you can get in K'ville that are rarely found anywhere else: there are still folks who leave their cars running to run into the store -- it is that safe! Also, you'll never have to worry about verb tense, none of the natives know what it is! <just kidding, sorta>
Your education...I can't speak for NOVA, but I do know that many of the DO schools have a tendancy to throw you to the wolves for your 3rd & 4th year. KCOM does not -- it is one of the most well organized of the schools, in my opinion.
My friend, you have tough decision...just be glad you have to make such a choice in lieu of getting only rejections. I wish you the best!
Originally posted by Slingblade the Surgeon:
•Thanks old man...how old are you anyway?•••
A VERY young 35!
Originally posted by Hskermdic:
•OMD,
Is someone else using your login here at SDN? I can not believe somethings about KCOM in the last week on SDN than you said in 2 years in K'ville (Maybe I am exaggerating a little bit) KCOM is great but it is starting to sound like it is a bed of roses on this thread, especially when you type. of the things you are writing. You have said more positive.
enjoy your thanksgiving break.•••
Carrie,
As the poster above me points out -- hindsight is 20/400. It is very easy to loose your objectivity when you're embroiled in 8 lecture days for 2 years. It makes having to deal with some of the stupid minor **** seem like a huge mountain. When I look back, some of the stuff that used to really get my knickers in a twist, while legitimate gripes, would have never gotten me so fired up under less stressful circumstances.
And, as we all wondered...how much smoke were they blowing up our collective derrieres when they harped on & on about how well prepared we're gonna be vs the other schools' students -- well, I have found it to be largely true. And, it is not just me...I have a number of preceptors comment on it, as have the other students here in Saginaw -- those would be MD students, as I am 1 of only 2 DO students that are here.
So, I guess I am having to eat a smidgen of crow...serves me right for letting the stress get the better of me.
Now, my positions all still stnad when it comes to our FAVORITE department!! But, to be perfectly honest, I have done a wee bit of OMM at my rural FP clerkship that I just completed. Both of the MDs that I worked with are very interested in it...one of them has even taken a feww OMM courses with the medical students @ MSU. We talked some OMM-shop, tried to define its limits of usefulness & applicability and I even taught him some thoracic & lumbar techniques.
NO, I am not becoming a church-going, flag-waving OMMer...but I do feel there is significant merit to the art and wish to define what roll it will play in my professional career.
Carrie --- HAVE A WONDERFUL THANSGIVING!!!
...you would be surprised at much clearer your vision is once you leave the K'ville experience! You realize just how damned good an education you have gotten...despite having to cope with a few bozos!