OCPM class schedule

[spademaster1113]

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So I just received the class schedule for the fall semester and it's as follows:
Mon 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Tues 9-11 Med Ethics 1-4 Biochem
Wed 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Thurs 8-12 Intro to patient care 1-4 Biochem
Friday 8-12 Genetics/Embryology 1-3 Pod-Med seminar (once a month)

I wanted to know if the first and second year students had the exact same schedule and classes, and how this schedule worked for them. I took a look at the course description, and I couldn't find genetics/embryo I wonder if that's a new course. Thoughts from first and second year students??

 

[JEWmongous]

So I just received the class schedule for the fall semester and it's as follows:
Mon 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Tues 9-11 Med Ethics 1-4 Biochem
Wed 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Thurs 8-12 Intro to patient care 1-4 Biochem
Friday 8-12 Genetics/Embryology 1-3 Pod-Med seminar (once a month)

I wanted to know if the first and second year students had the exact same schedule and classes, and how this schedule worked for them. I took a look at the course description, and I couldn't find genetics/embryo I wonder if that's a new course. Thoughts from first and second year students??

Hey I'm a prepod as well but I know for this year they have changed things around. Look at the "Vision 2015" thread under the pre-pod forum. I have hardcopy versions of the 2008-2009 class schedules and this is a bit different: Med Ethics, Genetics/Embryology, and Intro to patient care are all new. I guess biochem is now medical biochem and histo changed the name to cell & tissue, not sure if the course content are any different though. For 1st semester, Intro to Med is gone and Pod Med is now once a month. I heard Intro to Med was a BS class though, pretty much a waste of time.

For 2nd semester, Physical diagnosis is now 1x a week instead of 2, and "Intro to patient care" is now listed. Physio used to exist during this semester, but I guess its changed a bit and now there is "Human Systems Bio." Furthermore, Micro is put down at 10 hours a week (not sure of lab schedule) while in the past OCPM people had 1.5 hours of lecture & and 1.5 hours of lab weekly. Just to remember, OCPM students take two micro courses, one in first year and one in second year (immuno is added in). I guess there are a few minor changes as well.

Can current OCPM people comment on this??? I read a few changes during 3rd year, for example, adding a course on womens health.

 

[hamlinbeach]

I figure I'll just repost what I said in the other thread. From what I gather, the faculty added quite a bit of info to the curriculum in the past ~3yrs as per vision2015. They kept the same course names and hours that had been in place for probably like 20yrs... After they worked the kinks out, they are now spreading out the material in a more logical fashion.

Ex. My histology class was cell/tissue/some embryo/some development
My neurobiology class was that plus some embryo/development
They now have histo as only cell/tissue and took all of the embryo components out of the curriculum and put into a single course. Same with genetics, used to be spread between biochemistry and microbiology, now it is incorporated within said embryo/genetics class.

So in short, the course CONTENT is not a brand new thing, its about 3yrs old, i.e. 2013 isnt going to be a guinea pig class in terms of that, but they scheduled it out differently/much better.

 

[hamlinbeach]

With vision2015, the school obviously needed to revamp its curriculum, which I guess was more the professors pushing for than the administration... I mean how could the school keep competing with other schools who's basic sciences were taken side by side with DO's? The Chair of our basic sciences dept quit his post at Case Western (still does consulting and stuff through them, but isn't really involved with teaching) and from what I gather, spearheaded the curriculum change, which is modeled after the MD basic science curriculum.

What the school did in the past couple of years was to fill in what was missing in our curriculum compared to Case Med's first year. Case med has 8blocks of basic sciences during the first-ish year:

Their Blocks ----------------- Ours equiv course names
Becoming a Doctor= Medical Ethics, intro to medicine (which is an intro to EMB)
The Human blueprint= genetics/embryology, endocrinology (1st part of human systems biology)
Food to fuel= biochemistry and the 2nd part of human systems biology (aka physio)
Homeostasis= cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal physiology (3rd part of human systems)
Host defense &host response= our 2 micros and immuno
Cognition, sense, movement= neurobiology, vision hearing and equilibrium in the 4th part of human systems
Structure= gross anatomy, cell/tissue
Clinical Mastery= physical exam and diagnosis, intro to patient care

Then of course add in lower extremity anatomy... and take out a lot of male/female urogenital physiology type stuff

 

[hamlinbeach]

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[Lonman06]

So I just received the class schedule for the fall semester and it's as follows:
Mon 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Tues 9-11 Med Ethics 1-4 Biochem
Wed 8-12 Anatomy, 1-5 Histology
Thurs 8-12 Intro to patient care 1-4 Biochem
Friday 8-12 Genetics/Embryology 1-3 Pod-Med seminar (once a month)

I wanted to know if the first and second year students had the exact same schedule and classes, and how this schedule worked for them. I took a look at the course description, and I couldn't find genetics/embryo I wonder if that's a new course. Thoughts from first and second year students??

My schedule last year was different. We had histo for 3 hours and then had lab once a week, anatomy was the same. Had pod med every week and intro to medicine. Didn't have embryology.

We also had an exam week where we had 3 tests and wouldn't have class, you guys no longer get that and just have 1 test each week instead.

 

[spademaster1113]

Thanks a ton for your input guys! I also noticed that we don't have "exam week" anymore instead the exams are spread out where we have one or two exams per week. I wonder what the first and second year pod students think about that?
Do you guys think it's beneficial to have an "exam week" where you guys have to cram, but you also have a weekend to recuperate? Or do you guys think it's a lot easier to prepare for each exam having them spread out the way they are? What I'm trying to get at is, in general, how many days do you really need to prepare for each exam/class? I know anatomy is the class you need to spend basically all your free time on, because you can never know "everything."
My main concern about having an exam basically every week basically means I wont have much free time to take a day or two "off" once every couple weeks to mentally get away from the books.

 

[mildoc2016]

Thanks a ton for your input guys! I also noticed that we don't have "exam week" anymore instead the exams are spread out where we have one or two exams per week. I wonder what the first and second year pod students think about that?
Do you guys think it's beneficial to have an "exam week" where you guys have to cram, but you also have a weekend to recuperate? Or do you guys think it's a lot easier to prepare for each exam having them spread out the way they are? What I'm trying to get at is, in general, how many days do you really need to prepare for each exam/class? I know anatomy is the class you need to spend basically all your free time on, because you can never know "everything."
My main concern about having an exam basically every week basically means I wont have much free time to take a day or two "off" once every couple weeks to mentally get away from the books.

as a fourth year, i can reflect that having the exams all in one week was very stressful and seemed to 'waste' time. Perhaps spreading the exams out would make it easier. I cant really say if one is better than the other, since the exam schedule was the same for all my fourth year.