Is it worth taking? We have been so busy with classes (I'm LDP) that I don't feel that I've had the time I've needed for board study. If I take the class, my first rotation will be delayed and I'll miss my break at christmas, but as we all know, having a good score is essential. Anyone else ever take the class?
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When are you scheduled to take the COMLEX? Honestly you should have been studying for it by now. Once you got into derm and psych, you should've been focusing more on boards and less on studying. Now as far as taking the first month of rotations to take boards, I can't give personal experiences since I didn't need an extra month. But I know people who did and they were happy with having the time to study. Getting a good score on COMLEX is much more important than anything else. You will get back on schedule by losing your vacation if I remember correctly. You will still graduate on time assuming you pass all rotations/boards/requirements.
Do they still require you to do X amount of hours at LECOM studying? I think they required 40-60 hours a week as well as taking a COMSAE.
What break for christmas are you referring to? Unless you have vacation that block, we only get a few days for christmas off.
Do they still require you to do X amount of hours at LECOM studying? I think they required 40-60 hours a week as well as taking a COMSAE.
What break for christmas are you referring to? Unless you have vacation that block, we only get a few days for christmas off.
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This is all correct, you switch vacation with your June rotation. Worth it if you get a good board score, I am going to be doing it.
I have been studying like mad. I was second highest in practice boards of my row mates (3 rows) I just feel that I've not had as much time to devote to it as I would have liked. While I think I would pass, I want an outstanding score. We were told that you get a month off at christmas if you start rotations in June. I will be delaying a month so will have to do a rotation over christmas. As I will be doing rotations near my home, being on rotations at christmas isn't that big of a deal. I'm probably going to do it, I just wanted some input about the value of the course from those who have taken it.
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With the course LECOM offers, you can use an elective rotation (grade based on your COMLEX score) or your vacation (no grade reported.) Clinical education requires you to study for sixty-hours/week. You have to turn logs in every week detailing when specifically you studied, and the studying has to be completed at LECOM or Coffee Culture (or at least last year we were allowed to use Coffee Culture, which was nice cause no dress clothes. Attire is still professional 7A-5P during the summer...) Four mornings every week there are Q-groups where you go through sample board questions. These weren't very helpful IMO. We took to extra shelf exams, I think pathology and pharmacology--these were an absolute waste of time, and we had to pay for them. Depending on when your COMLEX is scheduled, you take a COMSAE the last week or second to last week of the timeslot. If you score less than a 450, you're pulled off your second rotation and forced to study sixty-hours/week for the next entire rotation, at the end of which you repeat the COMSAE (you also go off schedule, not ideal--this continues until they determine you're capable of passing the COMLEX.)
In all honesty, if you feel you need those four-weeks to study and have vacation or an elective first (where you can schedule an easy rotation.) I recommend you do that and study on your own. Use DIT and/or UWorld questions and you'll do fine. If you still want to take it (or have to take it), use an elective for a grade. Even if you just barely pass the COMLEX, you'll get a C, but nobody cares about clinical grades really. You're going to want your vacation! Trust me on that. You'll get burnt out on rotations otherwise.
Oh, and for Christmas you get December 24-26 off (if one or more of those days falls on a weekend, your loss. If it's a tuesday to thursday like this upcoming year, you're still expected at your rotation monday and friday. It blows.) Thanksgiving you get thursday and friday off only. Those are the only holidays you get off during years three and four. (Unless your attending takes time off and lets you as well, some will push you onto other physicians though.)
In all honesty, if you feel you need those four-weeks to study and have vacation or an elective first (where you can schedule an easy rotation.) I recommend you do that and study on your own. Use DIT and/or UWorld questions and you'll do fine. If you still want to take it (or have to take it), use an elective for a grade. Even if you just barely pass the COMLEX, you'll get a C, but nobody cares about clinical grades really. You're going to want your vacation! Trust me on that. You'll get burnt out on rotations otherwise.
Oh, and for Christmas you get December 24-26 off (if one or more of those days falls on a weekend, your loss. If it's a tuesday to thursday like this upcoming year, you're still expected at your rotation monday and friday. It blows.) Thanksgiving you get thursday and friday off only. Those are the only holidays you get off during years three and four. (Unless your attending takes time off and lets you as well, some will push you onto other physicians though.)
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You've got at least 4 more weeks before rotations start. May is a lighter month and you can have more time to study. If you already had a high mock board score or are killing the qbank, you may not need more than the 4 weeks. If you were barely passing I'd say take the first month off to study. My mock boards predicted my score within 2 points.
