NYCOM Remediation.. help!

[Osteo22]

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Hi everyone! So, it looks like I will be remediating the intro course at NYCOM this summer 🙁... I was wondering if anyone else has gone through this before, and if so what is it like? Is it the entire 6 weeks repeated again? Do I have to re-dissect a cadaver again? Any help/tips would be fantastic! Thank you!

 

[costales]

Are you one of the 174 students who failed the first block in this thread
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=1036931?

 

[calvinhobbes]

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[littlegreen88]

174 people failed the Intro block, so you're not alone. And yes, you will have to pay up 500 dollars and retake the entire block, anatomy and all. Keep in mind there is no financial aid for this remediation "course," because legally, its not really a course that will ever appear on your transcript. No one knows you will have taken it, but the school wants its money so it will fail as many as possible to take $$$ every summer. But watch out!!! -- If you fail one more system this year, you're dismissed from the school. And of course, have to repay all those loans from this year. My advice? Get the hell out while you still can, and reapply elsewhere.

BTW, around 40 people failed the boards this past June. NYCOM is a dump, man.

I can't wait to graduate from this school, and for the record, I don't advise anyone to attend this ludicrous "institution."

That is completely FALSE. 174 people did NOT fail the intro block . Our class avg was in the high 70s. About 10% of
The class did if that if u take a look at a normal statistical distribution taking into consideration the mean and the standard deviation. When the rumor of 174 came about that was before the block grades were out. NYCOM is a good school- it's not easy but no medial school is.

 

[calvinhobbes]

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[NYEMMED]

I see. Well, regardless of whether 174 students failed the second exam (which they did, because that number is 100% accurate) and thus they were forced to make the third exam significantly easier so that they could have a certain percentage of the class pass and fail, and thus about 50-60 students failed the Intro block based on std. deviation, the school STILL has many failures year after year-- and the fact that they start with 320 students but graduate with about 280 is alarming.

NYCOM is a good school? How about NYCOM get with the times and start testing correctly, like other MD and DO schools that test using old board questions that are relevant, instead of having bullcrap professors writing asinine test questions that anyone can barely answer, and not prepare students for the most important exam, the boards. And lets not get started on the administration that treats the students like they are in kindergarden.

Not going to lie. You just sound like a disgruntled student that just couldn't hack it. Thats coming from a graduate.

 

[Starry]

How about NYCOM get with the times and start testing correctly, like other MD and DO schools that test using old board questions that are relevant, instead of having bullcrap professors writing asinine test questions that anyone can barely answer, and not prepare students for the most important exam, the boards.

I'm not a med student. But from what I've read on these boards is that having professors write random test questions that have little to do with Step 1 or Level 1 occurs in every school. Welcome to medical school.

 

[ODFUR]

Remediation at NYCOM is a 4 week course, you do not retake the classes you have meetings with the teachers and ask them questions. You do not have to re-dissect, you will be retested on anatomy; they will be written test taken from Netters pictures. You will have to take 2 lecture test along with the anatomy test, and you will also have one OMM exam. I know a few kids who failed intro and honored MSK and Neuro so failing one course does not mean the end just do not fail another course or else you will have to repeat the year. Tips: forget about it and move on to the next unit start thinking about it when it is time to start remediation.

 

[calvinhobbes]

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[Osteo22]

Remediation at NYCOM is a 4 week course, you do not retake the classes you have meetings with the teachers and ask them questions. You do not have to re-dissect, you will be retested on anatomy; they will be written test taken from Netters pictures. You will have to take 2 lecture test along with the anatomy test, and you will also have one OMM exam. I know a few kids who failed intro and honored MSK and Neuro so failing one course does not mean the end just do not fail another course or else you will have to repeat the year. Tips: forget about it and move on to the next unit start thinking about it when it is time to start remediation.

Thank you! I'm so relieved to hear this, I was imagining having to re-do every single dissection and class over again. I'm doing much better in MSK now that I've found my weaknesses.

Also, I just wanted to respond to anyone talking about how awful NYCOM is. I barely failed, and I know it was my own fault. I couldn't find a way to get organized fast enough and I quickly got overwhelmed. That was not NYCOM's fault. As soon as I started doing badly, the learning specialist at the school insisted I come talk to her, and she helped me find a study system that works for me. They won't let you drown, unless you completely give up. And also, 46 people failed, which is still high but at least mathematically possible... And again, none of those failures are NYCOM's fault. It's a great school and I'm so happy I go here.

 

[Bones DO]

Thank you! I'm so relieved to hear this, I was imagining having to re-do every single dissection and class over again. I'm doing much better in MSK now that I've found my weaknesses.

Also, I just wanted to respond to anyone talking about how awful NYCOM is. I barely failed, and I know it was my own fault. I couldn't find a way to get organized fast enough and I quickly got overwhelmed. That was not NYCOM's fault. As soon as I started doing badly, the learning specialist at the school insisted I come talk to her, and she helped me find a study system that works for me. They won't let you drown, unless you completely give up. And also, 46 people failed, which is still high but at least mathematically possible... And again, none of those failures are NYCOM's fault. It's a great school and I'm so happy I go here.

👍👍 glad you figured it out 🙂 This is the only way to change your course at any medical school when you are floundering. Accept that it was your own fault and figure out what you're doing wrong, fix it and move on.

 

[calvinhobbes]

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[thethethe]

I think the problem might be that since more medical schools have been opening in the past few years, the quality of students they now accept are not as good. Hence the higher fail rate. I'm graduating from NYCOM this year and my class always averaged in the 80s on our exams. I'm pretty sure the faculty are still the same except for a few people.

And I thought that if the avg- 1 std dev was less than 65, 65 became the passing grade.

 

[DrDrangus]

heard there is a new dean, this is probably why there is a change. not the quality of medical students. avg mcat is going up at nycom. also, where are there all these med schools opening in the past 3 years? only a few, hardly enough to make a difference on the caliber of students accepted.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

CRAZYYYYY. My friend was telling me this last week over the phone!!!!!

Now I KNOWWW he wasn't exaggerating, having to read the SAME information from an anonymous forum.

I have made a decision to withdraw my interest in attending this school. If I wanted to risk my career, I would do it with SGU who are angels by comparison.

I wonder if someone wants to do a side by side comparison of SGU with NYCOM lol.

 

[DrDrangus]

I wonder if someone wants to do a side by side comparison of SGU with NYCOM lol.

 

[Rekt]

Is this true?
I always heard if you fail two classes in preclinical years at NYCOM, you're most likely getting kicked out (unless you have reasonable extenuating circumstances in which you may be allowed to repeat a year).

This thread is 3 years old now. Could be much different, but generally, a lot of DO schools have a fail two classes and you're done clause.

 

[Goro]

One has to read student handbooks to determine each school's policy. But even then, deans have enormous discretionary powers.

This thread is 3 years old now. Could be much different, but generally, a lot of DO schools have a fail two classes and you're done clause.