This post is very comical!! I am a 4th year student at Nova and will give you my perspective. Every year each class has a select few that love to complain about every aspect of our curriculum, administration, and the institution in general. My class had them, the thrid year class had them, and it is quite obvious that they are in full force in the second year class. The administration is not out to get you, they are not trying to put you into residency unprepared. Trust me, the almighty Quinn, and everyone else including the first years who you discredit, you will be fine. A physician is not made during two years of medical school. You guys have a long way to go as do I. Don't discredit any class ahead of you because we had twice the hours of lecture that you currently have. They cut the lecture hours almost in half after my year for the current third years. And I am sure they cut them even more for your class. We had attendance taken everyday etc.etc. You are not the experimental rats of a new attendance policy. So that being said, as a fourth year I can assure anyone applying, and all the first and second years, including the complainers, that NSU will prepare you for you clinical rotations during third year and elective rotations during fourth year. According to Quinn, you will be prepared for residency. I just finished some rotations at some very prestigous MD programs and trust me, compared to thier students we shine. As far as boards, you are going to be given about 8 weeks ( unless you screw around on spring break) to study for boards. You have more time to study for boards that any other Osteopathic school. You can thank the administration for this. Eight weeks is PLENTY of time to do extremely well if you work hard. Quinn is absolutely correct in stating that grades do not predict how well you will do. By the time April comes around you will not remeber much about Heme/Onc, Respiratory etc. You will be scratching your head trying to figure out what a MCV is. You will be relearning 90% of the material. It is up to you to do well on the boards not the administration. They will have presented everything during your first and second year that will be on boards. Come April, it will be up to you to study. If you study hard you will do very well, if your lazy, well that is your own fault. COMLEX scores equate to how hard you worked during the two months before boards, period. Heed, quit qorrying about boards right now. Concentrate on your grades.
Trust the faculty and administration they know what they are doing. They have much more experience than you. Don't be the monday morning quarterback. When I was accepted to NSU I received a letter stating their attendance policy and dress code. I signed the document, as did you I am sure, stating that I understood the rules of attendance. What part of attendance is MANDATORY did you not understand?? To me it means attendance is mandatory. Every year a select few act as if they have never heard of this policy before. So to wrap this up, NSU is doing an excellent job training future physicians. I am completely happy that NSU gave me the opportunity to become a physician and would definately recommend this school to anyone interested. You guys will realize that by the time you get to third year all this energy you put into the anti-establishment movement was a waste of time. Not for the fact that you think they don't understand your needs, but rather, in the end the administration knows what they are doing. You'll see.....
