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[pianoman511]

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Ha ha! Yeah, that's not my glass half-empty. 🙂 I'm not bashing LECOM's clinical ed - I'm just saying that we don't know anything yet. From the unofficial word down the grapevine, I think that the distribution of rotation sites will be equitable and mostly student-run. Personally, I think it will work out fine.

I can say that, after 3/4 of a year at LECOM Seton Hill, I have absolutely zero trust or confidence in anything that LECOM says or in COCA's ability or willingness to create or enforce any sort of standards, so it's probably not a good idea to count on what someone tells you at your interview. I am glad that more seats are opening up, and I appreciate LECOM's willingness to recruit outside of the trad box - the class of 2013 at Seton Hill has great people in it, and LECOM did a really good job of bringing those people in. Whether that makes up for what we've gotten is something that every student here has a different opinion on, I'm sure. I hope that my opinion of the school changes in the future, but for now the opening of 100 extra seats does not sway me toward the glass half full.

I wouldn't doubt that rotation site distribution will be the same as LECOM-Erie (being a satellite campus), which has it's pluses and minuses. The unfortunate part is that even now there are not enough rotation sites at the more prestigious LECOM affiliates to handle the students that want to rotate in a certain area (since most only take 1 student per rotation). Also, the mandatory rotation sites (i.e. sites that need to be filled every month) force people who may be doing all of their rotations in a different area to return to Erie for one month. The question is - will opening 100 extra seats correlate with 100 more rotation spots opening up... I doubt it. Alternatively, they may add more rotation slots, but by adding more students to community/tertiary care hospitals who already have low acuity and low patient census - effectively taking away from the clinical experience.

 

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