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True, we dodged a bullet with that whole medical spanish crap. I'm sure it could be useful, but I was told you spent time singing songs and reading poems for a lot of the time. I also heard it cost you your Friday mornings since it was the only thing scheduled on many of those days. Bummer. Looks like they listened to your class on that one and histology was really good this year. Hopefully they listen and change clinical skills, comm doc, OPP, and the bad parts of your systems so that we have it better next year. I guess that is part of being at a new school, but it could also be an excuse since many of these people taught at schools where things actually seem to work well and really prepare students (according to posted board stats in other forums). I guess we just need to focus on where we are at individually and do our best.
So the first class was more primary care oriented? Well, I don't think they selected our class on that criteria. We all said that in our personal statements and did our best to say so in our interviews, but very few of us actually intended to do primary care. That's not abnormal though. All schools in the PNW (MD and DO) say they prefer students who have a background in rural primary care medicine. That is the sole reason I shadowed only rural primary care doctors before getting into school. I highly doubt they expect us to be so different from other students since all the PNW schools say they look for this quality and a large amount of the grads choose other career paths. A lot of the students accepted at PNWU applied to all 4 NW campuses and we just went where we got in. I don't see why that would be something to get upset about. If they really wanted primary care doctors they would have an incentive like LECOM and offer a 3yr program for students who commit on day one to enter only primary care. This would lower their debt burden and make primary care a lot more attractive and feasible. It only makes sense. Primary care does not take as much PG training and pays way less. So why not shorten the time it takes and the money it costs to get there?
So the first class was more primary care oriented? Well, I don't think they selected our class on that criteria. We all said that in our personal statements and did our best to say so in our interviews, but very few of us actually intended to do primary care. That's not abnormal though. All schools in the PNW (MD and DO) say they prefer students who have a background in rural primary care medicine. That is the sole reason I shadowed only rural primary care doctors before getting into school. I highly doubt they expect us to be so different from other students since all the PNW schools say they look for this quality and a large amount of the grads choose other career paths. A lot of the students accepted at PNWU applied to all 4 NW campuses and we just went where we got in. I don't see why that would be something to get upset about. If they really wanted primary care doctors they would have an incentive like LECOM and offer a 3yr program for students who commit on day one to enter only primary care. This would lower their debt burden and make primary care a lot more attractive and feasible. It only makes sense. Primary care does not take as much PG training and pays way less. So why not shorten the time it takes and the money it costs to get there?
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