NSU vs KCU KC campus (I haven't visited)
See what I wrote in the above post. The goal of second year is not necessarily to have you know every nook and cranny about subtypes of hodgkins lymphoma, the goal is to prime you for the amount of work you will need to put in doing your 2 months of dedicated as well as on clinic. You're learning to learn and to read, assimilate, and apply a HUGE amount of knowledge. Now the downside of this that you do burn a TON of time reading and memorizing minutiae which could have been time to hone in your test taking skills and do more review of everything vs just path. With this feedback, there is a proposal to adjust the required reading for path. If the second year was "bad" then I would assume that all that time burned would effect scores for Step negatively (which is not the case)
KCU has been fortunate to have some of the highest board amongst DO schools: Step 1, Level 1, Step 2 CK. Despite this, a red flag was noted in that many of the students are book smart but lack a lot of the clinical skills going into rotations, this was reaffirmed by some results regarding the percentage of students failing the Level 2 PE (physical exam, clinical assessment). OMM rotation isn't required for some clinical sites. But it is now required that everyone pass the OMM/OPP COMAT which is a shelf exam for OMM. So you can't just punt OMM during third year since you need to pass this shelf exam eventually.
In terms of the efficacy of the KCU curriculum, the
numbers speak for themelseves. Though there's a lot of crapping on the curriculum going on, I've personally seen a chunk of my class score
above the national Step 1 mean amongst MD schools. So idk what the issue is really. Also, it's not surprising that you'd see the KCU curriculum while attending a top 20 MD school like BUSM to be inferior in terms of strength, number, and overall expertise of faculty, compared to a much smaller DO school like KCU. I'm going to assume that faculty at BUSM or Harvard do also make mistakes in what they say or teach sometimes, students email and ask for correction and everyone moves on. If the faculty did in fact continue to teach something wrong and rejected corrections from students, I would be upset as well but highly doubt that is the case.
Take everyones opinion of the KCU curriculum on here with a grain of salt. There's a love-hate relationship with it so you're going to go a crazy range of evaluations of it. Just be prepared to work hard if you come here.
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To keep this post on topic: I've seen so many KCU vs DMU threads it makes my head spin.
@SynapticDoctah may have better insight but from what I've read they are pretty similar with KCU having the advantage if you want to go out and enjoy a night life I guess. Also, supposedly DMU students in third year may have to relocate halfway through but that's just a rumor on my end don't know if that's true. KCU students don't have to do that, BUT you may end up in middle of nowhere MO or have to move all the way to florida for rotations which is really, really, inconvenient and expensive. They really need to find a way to keep all their students in the city or state(s) of MO and KS.
