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thought y'all might be interested in this
Is this Carribean school?"There's a school that needs no introduction. Far too often we hear complaints on forums about the uniform. The "atmosphere". The rules about food etc... When a first year reads these things he thinks to himself, that doesnt sound TOO bad. I think people should know what they are getting themselves into:
I can go on indefinitely. But I think people should know what we are dealing with here."
- Psych professor who plagiarizes exam questions from board materials and is retained by faculty
- A class of 200 1st years, 160+ got an F on a clinical exam written because the professor being asked to write questions isn't the same one that gave the lecture.
- Lack of transparency with exams. You can never view your exam afterwords. Your class curve is arbitrarily decided. Last semester the school decided to abruptly reduce the curve to drop average scores. They did so to manipulate the class average and force students into a position where they couldn't take boards without being forced into a "study program".
- The dean has called several students "idiots" for calling him out on his lies regarding our rotations
- There is no transparency when it comes to rotations. The school refuses to pay for rotation spots and this leads to an ever decreasing pool of spots available.
- Students were lied to about how to vote for spots and it led to many students being forced to leave the state for rotations unnecessarily.
- It is now March of 2nd year, and the 2nd year students have STILL not had information regarding rotations despite having to be forced into 3 mandatory lectures on residency in 3 years...
- Not only does the school not really offer financial aid, but they constantly ask students to participate in "raffles" or "competitions" which slush student loan money to the "winner" and they then call this "financial aid"
- Sadly, a loved professor takes his own life and LECOM higher ups threaten faculty to not speak about it to students, causing one of or admins to address it pre exam with the intro "I'll probably get fired for this but you deserve to know"..
- Exams are covered in typos, poorly worded questions and irrelevant material. Since we can't look back at the tests there is little we can do. Faculty instead asks us to leave comments in a comment box on our exams DURING a timed exam so that they can then look over the exam during summer and make some changes. They claim they have been doing this since the beginning and it used to be a lot worse. I don't see how that can be possible. -This school can afford to build another million dollar campus, place their name on a stadium, football jersey, commercials on airliners, yet they can't afford rotations. They can't afford parking, forcing schedules to constantly change in an attempt to fit medical/pharmacy/faculty/interviewees all into one building to save costs -That brings me to the scheduling issues. This school will change schedules w/o notifying students. They argue that they changed a calendar pdf on the portal and that we should be redownloading the calendar daily. -This occured last year and the school forced students to sit through a lecture on "professionalism" and how we need to start behaving like professionals -The school forces you to sit through multiple mandatory meetings that serve no value and usually are scheduled pre exams to reduce study time. They often make students close their laptops to make sure we aren't productive.
- The school takes random attendance during these mandatory meetings
- The school has programmed dates whereby they send an email telling you that the class is slacking, underperforming etc. as a way to psychologically manipulate students to overwork themselves. How do I know this? There are students who have repeated and have copies of these emails all with the same content and dates one year apart.
- We are given busy work constantly to waste our time. For example we have 3 fill in the blank exams a month before board exams on 2k+ concepts that we have to memorize and many of them are entirely irrelevant to boards. -Many of us, due to the scheduling, only have a day or two betweeen boards and beginning of rotations. Meaning we have 1-2 days to take boards, move out of state, and start rotations. This is insane.
I get it. It was more of a sarcastic question.No it's a DO school
The post also sounds like a 2nd year student during spring semester. I would take it with a grain of salt.
Anyone know why it was deleted? I imagine school threatened the student
I could see that being the reason, or the student being afraid of possible repercussions as the school does make threats and tolls through fb, reddit, etc.
Was this post in reference to a particular campus? Or was it speaking about LECOM collectively (Erie, Seton Hill, and Bradenton)?
Ehh based on what I recall from the ppt presentation they scored #1 like twice, but constantly scored in the top 3 the past 6 or so years for comlex. This is only for lecom-b tho.