LMU-DCOM in early stages of opening new school in Knoxville

[ThrowawayDO2288]

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Thought you guys might appreciate this. I'm a current first year here and today in the deans hour we were informed that DCOM has formally submitted an application to COCA to open a new branch of our medical school in Knoxville. COCA is making a formal visit to inspect the school in February and if everything goes well we should be approved for the school.

So for all you pre-DO city slickers out there, this is amazing news.

 

[arc5005]

Ohhh for next cycle?!?!

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

So for all you pre-DO city slickers out there, this is amazing news.

No, it’s terrible news.

 

[Goro]

No, it’s terrible news.

I agree. Does LMU have all the rotation sites set up? Are they wards-based, or preceptor based??

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

I agree. Does LMU have all the rotation sites set up? Are they wards-based, or preceptor based??

LMU has completely garbage rotations for their main program, I don’t see how they can support a branch campus. IMO if COCA allows them to do this then COCA deserves to be shut down honestly.

 

[Wjldenver]

The only way this would make sense is if LMU closed their campus in Harrogate and just opened one in Knoxville. As it stands right now, TN cannot support LMU's current rotations. They ship students to a number of states including Ohio, Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, etc.

 

[MTRN406]

Thought you guys might appreciate this. I'm a current first year here and today in the deans hour we were informed that DCOM has formally submitted an application to COCA to open a new branch of our medical school in Knoxville. COCA is making a formal visit to inspect the school in February and if everything goes well we should be approved for the school.

So for all you pre-DO city slickers out there, this is amazing news.

And because COCA has absolutely no standards, it will sail through the accreditation process.

 

[surgeryDO]

The only way this would make sense is if LMU closed their campus in Harrogate and just opened one in Knoxville. As it stands right now, TN cannot support LMU's current rotations. They ship students to a number of states including Ohio, Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, etc.

I'm not sure they "ship" students off but rather students are choosing to do their rotations back closer to where they are from because a big number of the students at LMU are not from TN.

 

[samac]

I'm not sure they "ship" students off but rather students are choosing to do their rotations back closer to where they are from because a big number of the students at LMU are not from TN.

You're incorrect. They assign their rotations in a lottery system. You could end up anywhere.

This is ridiculous to open a campus a hour away.

 

[Goro]

You're incorrect. They assign their rotations in a lottery system. You could end up anywhere.

This is ridiculous to open a campus a hour away.

Well, Middletown isn't that far away form Harlem (for TouroNY).

 

[surgeryDO]

You're incorrect. They assign their rotations in a lottery system. You could end up anywhere.

This is ridiculous to open a campus a hour away.

And OUHCOM's main campus is in Athens with a branch campus in Dublin/Columbus about an hour and a half away..

 

[umgoblue2008]

Well, Middletown isn't that far away form Harlem (for TouroNY).

To be fair, the density of the New York area makes it feasible to have multiple medical schools close in proximity. There's pretty much nothing from Harrogate to Knoxville besides cows and rolling pastures (almost not an exaggeration).

And OUHCOM's main campus is in Athens with a branch campus in Dublin/Columbus about an hour and a half away..

This is a more apt comparison. Though, I would think Ohio has a larger population and therefore larger demand/capacity for medicine and medical training. The Appalachian region of Tennessee/Kentucky? Not as much.

 

[LuckBALady]

Thought you guys might appreciate this. I'm a current first year here and today in the deans hour we were informed that DCOM has formally submitted an application to COCA to open a new branch of our medical school in Knoxville. COCA is making a formal visit to inspect the school in February and if everything goes well we should be approved for the school.

So for all you pre-DO city slickers out there, this is amazing news.

I was super excited when I heard the news! The LMU Knoxville campus will be so close to my home, and now I don’t have to move away from my family, if accepted to medical school. The Anatomy lab is very nice too!!

 

[Balo]

I was super excited when I heard the news! The LMU Knoxville campus will be so close to my home, and now I don’t have to move away from my family, if accepted to medical school. The Anatomy lab is very nice too!!

Good for you, at least!

However, I do see how it would negatively impact future rotating students in making it even more difficult to rotate at a decent location due to the increased student pool, assuming they won't be adding more rotation sites.

 

[ThrowawayDO2288]

You're incorrect. They assign their rotations in a lottery system. You could end up anywhere.

This is ridiculous to open a campus a hour away.

Its a lottery system, where the faculty claim everyone usually gets their top 5, they use a modified version of the stable marriage algorithm. However there is rumors from 3rd and 4th years that it isn't a "true lottery" but that your academic standing and class rank plays a role in what site you get. Meaning the people high up on the class rank get whatever site they want and those further down the list get leftovers. Rumors of course, but having spent a year here as a medical student it sounds believable.

And yes it is ridiculous to open a campus an hour away, rumor has it the only reason we could even afford to open DCOM 2.0 was because we Rented out the building to Ross who according to faculty will be there until the end of their spring semester this year. I actually think the time with Ross rubbed off on my school and they took a page from the Ross book on failing students, the class ahead of mine had a record # of people drop/fail out/repeat the year and my class lost around 20 people. This is not the school that was getting praise a few years ago. The faculty do not have any respect for us as students or as adults nor do I get the impression that the school cares about it's students other than the Tuition checks. Anyone applying, i strongly suggest you weigh your options carefully before committing.

 

[DameJulie]

does anyone have any updated information on how DCOM will prepare for their inaugural class? Pre-clinically and clinically?

 

[Scribe4Life]

does anyone have any updated information on how DCOM will prepare for their inaugural class? Pre-clinically and clinically?

During the interview they essentially gave us the impression that their core faculty would be periodically split between the two campuses. They sort of downplayed that by stating something along the lines of "even if professor *** is doing a set of lectures at the other campus (Harrogate or Knoxville) in a given week, all of the lectures are uploaded online for students at BOTH campuses, so you never miss out!"

This was one of the bigger reasons why I ended up choosing WVSOM instead, it just seems questionable to not only add extra strain to their pre-existing rotation issues but ALSO to end up causing a rift in the preclinical faculty teaching time by having them lecture at separate campuses.