So you want objective data on a program...yet you come to a thread titled "Kingman Osteopathic Internship Warnings." Sorry to disappoint you, but you will find no objective data here."
you're absolutely right. Lets start a thread about kinman emergency medicine and close this one since it is about an internship program which evidently hasn't existed for years
"You acknowledge that you have never been a resident at Kingman, nor have you even rotated there as a student, that your only connection to there is that you were treated there as a patient (emphasize AS A PATIENT). However on the same token, you wish to dismiss and castigate those who have actually worked there as residents..."
"You say you know alumni from Kingman and hold them in high regard which is fine. I would never say they were any less of a doctor because they went there. However along the same token you despise and marginalize what you call "third hand hearsay."
And yes, I was a resident there (intern/resident...semantics)."
it is not semantics and it is important. once again you have deliberately misrepresented the facts. while it is common in many programs to refer to anyone that is a first year as an intern and a resident afterwards, that is not the case here. it is clear you were a "traditional rotating intern" not a resident, and not affiliated with any residency. do you also consider yourself to have pretty much been a derm resident? fp? surgery? am i pretty much a vet or optomotrist because my school offers those programs and i associate with those people? i went to space camp as a kid, does that mean i'm pretty much an astronaut?
"I don't have to "think" that I was and I certainly have the certificate to prove it"
perfect. block out your name and post the cert so we can see if it says rotating intern or emergency medicine residency
"unless you were actually there when it happened, how would you know definitively that I left of my own regard versus them not taking me? Awfully presumptuous of you"
it is not presumptuous, it is clear from the thread. and it does matter. ask any employer if it matters to them whether or not an applicant quit their previous job or was fired
"So again, having not worked there, nor rotated there, yet were only there...as a patient, and know others who have been there as a resident (clear definition of the hearsay that you want to avoid), and in the pursuit of seeking objective data...here on a forum thread, I now ask you, what basis do you make your argument that Kingman is any better a program?"
i'm not saying it is better. what i am saying is that you have trashed a program in a public forum and your motivation for doing so should be made clear so we can make a informed decision about the merit of your accusations