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For the love of whatever deity you worship. Please to a search and read. You'll notice most of the threads discussing RVU get shut down, there is a good reason for this. I'm not even going to say anything else.For the love of whatever deity you worship. Please to a search and read. You'll notice most of the threads discussing RVU get shut down, there is a good reason for this. I'm not even going to say anything else.
I realize all of this. I'm not trying to stir anything up, I just wanted some fresh opinions, as the last thing I could find was a bit dated (2007 I think). I have searched past threads and whathaveyou, but anything helps curiosity!! Thanks.
I realize all of this. I'm not trying to stir anything up, I just wanted some fresh opinions, as the last thing I could find was a bit dated (2007 I think). I have searched past threads and whathaveyou, but anything helps curiosity!! Thanks.
There are multiple threads in the Osteo forum that are less than a month old.
I have found said posts. Thanks. As having been on sdn for only a week or so, I'm still trying to figure out the ins/outs.
It is mainly internal politics. You probably have read about the board of trustees getting canned and some questionable moves by the proprietor of RVU. I dont think the curriculum and students are any worse for the wear, but it is very touchy subject around here. A current RVU student came on SDN and posted some inflammatory stuff that angered the rest of the class. I would take what you read here with a grain of salt....things get magnified.
I also think the school is still very fresh and a lot remains to be seen with it's future prognosis. Buyer beware.
Awesome comments here. Gotta love people that are so wrapped up in themselves that they don't see the benefits of new schools at this point in time, irregardless of their profit vs. not for profit status. I'd love to hear more about what the first class thinks so far, as this is one of my schools of choice when I come home from the desert. 👍A little birdie fully in the know told me it wasn't REALLY a current student. Maybe SDN should start some sort of ID verify with credit cards. Oh wait, that'd be so wrong and simply evil because SDN has a different tax status that guarantees the money trail for goods and services sold! 😉 From what I've gathered being here in Denver, RVU is primed but maybe a little on the defensive and sometimes I don't hold it against them. Hope it all works out. 👍
I'll give it to SDN, it's entertaining and full of good information and opinions. More of us are joining here so maybe we'll have to donate. It's cheaper than going to the movies these days for drama. 😳
I know this is a really bad question but, what do they mean for-profit, so it's like a business medical school and they just make money? Don't all med schools do that so they can pay faculty, keep up with latest medical equipment, etc?
I know this is a really bad question but, what do they mean for-profit, so it's like a business medical school and they just make money? Don't all med schools do that so they can pay faculty, keep up with latest medical equipment, etc?
Isn't the whole medical system in US is for profit. Hospitals take your financial information before you see a doctor (even in emergency room, unless you are dying), there are no government hospitals here in US like I have seen in some third world countries, I don't see many doctors going to FP and serve the community, instead they go to high paying specialities. I bet you anything, all these people who are critizing RVU's for profit status would chose money first when it comes to their careers.
The big controversy with RVU is the fact that it is for profit and the owner is the son of the founder of a Caribbean medical school called AUC which is in St. Maarten. A lot of people in the Osteopathic community are not happy with a for profit school opening up and says its damages the reputation of Osteopathic medicine. Long ago, DOs did not have the same rights as MDs, today they are essentially equals in terms of practice rights. Part of this is the fact that DO schools like their MD brethren are fully committed to scholarly work and education.
Someone like Mr. Tien, the owner of RVU, comes along, and its makes people nervous.

RVU is a JOKE. Sorry for all the people who are going there you will soon see why.![]()
Anyone going there will get a great education. I guess that's kinda funny?
Great education huh?
Also, if you work at a hospital try talking to a PD about RVU. Those are the people who will eventually be making the decision about where you'll match, so their opinion is worth something unlike most SDN comments.
BTW, I do work in a hospital...the teaching one here in Denver/Aurora. I have talked to some PD's here. NONE have advised me to go elsewhere. ALL support my decision. That's the facts, at least from my point of view.
That is why, like him, I trust myself to break new ground even when it seems like you are having to fight everyone for what you believe in.
So you believe in the value of an education of a for-profit institution? Your school is a slap in the face to the revolutionary findings of the Flexner Report which helped to bring medical education to its current position of high quality.
Yup and I don't buy into a report that was mounted 99 years ago, as far as the for profit **** (which is the only part that folks like you refer to over and over ad nauseum). I'm pretty sure that tax laws were different 100 years ago.
The parts about teaching from a evidence based, medicalized and scientific knowledge base still applies. He refered to schools that taught over 2 years and didn't include lab or dissection. RVU, like everyother accredidted school today is 4 years with lab and dissection (dissection lead by the very well respected Dr Walter Buck, PhD, chair of the Division of Structural Medicine).
From what I can tell, Flexner hated the osteopathic profession as a whole. He thought is was not scientific based.
It is also funny that the same argument doesn't apply to PNWU or other schools not attached to a university (or ones like LMU that attached to a liberal college for convience sake). No one seems to haze them the way we get hazed.
RVU follows the same standard as your, or any other medical school out there. Do your research. RVU has had ZERO deficiencies during is provisional accrediation process to date.
Times change. Time will tell. Until that time, you are allowed your opinion and I am allowed mine. I know I am getting a top notch education, and some day you may realize it when we are working next to each other and you ask me where I went to school. Until that time, peace.
So you believe in the value of an education of a for-profit institution? Your school is a slap in the face to the revolutionary findings of the Flexner Report which helped to bring medical education to its current position of high quality.
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I don't know much about RVU (or osteopathic medical schools in general), but your post reminded me of an article I read a few days ago. You may find it interesting.
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/108/8/366
Such exploitation of medical education is strangely inconsistent with the social aspects of medical practice...the medical profession is an organ differentiated by society for its highest purposes, not a business to be exploited.
I'm in the hospital systems here as well. I would suggest people find out what's being recommended by PDs and other physicians since it's fact that Health One as well as Centura have pulled out of RVU clinical training agreements (rotations).
Laugh Out Loud, yes, you and your school's creator are just like Dr. Still. What's next a comparison to Jesus? You are being crucified in a public forum. 🙂 Your "new ground" is making a profit from students...not incredible noble.I love Dr Still too. That is why, like him, I trust myself to break new ground even when it seems like you are having to fight everyone for what you believe in.
From what I can tell, Flexner hated the osteopathic profession as a whole. He thought is was not scientific based.
I don't buy into a report that was mounted 99 years ago
I'm in the hospital systems here as well. I would suggest people find out what's being recommended by PDs and other physicians since it's fact that Health One as well as Centura have pulled out of RVU clinical training agreements (rotations). It's not merely rumor anymore. That's significant in my opinion and all I know really. I hate to see this happening but denial isn't going to change things soon enough...
he was critical of all medicine, and for good reason. Over half of all MD schools were closed so he didn't seem to be too enthusiastic with anyone for that matter
And several DO schools like CCOM and PCOM passed the Flexner scrutiny. So, you can't dismiss the report as an attack on all osteopathic schools
Most of modern medicine is eternally grateful for the Flexner report and how it helped to fix the decline of medicine. If it wasn't for his report, we'd still be known as bone setters, probably no different than chiropractors. And the foundations of medical education today stem from that report
Next time you quote me, don't take me out of context.
I'm done arguing this again, I have better things to do with my time. You guys take care. See you around.
Next time you quote me, don't take me out of context.
I'm done arguing this again, I have better things to do with my time. You guys take care. See you around.
My main objection to RVU is that they have an obligation to satisfy a group of investors before the students' or faculty's interest. If RVU were run by the University of Colorado System or some non-profit education board, and if I were a much younger collegian pre-med, then I would've considered applying there some day.
sorry to hear about you guys losing your main clincial core sites. I hope at least your class manage to find something.
to other premeds, don't go to a school without solid clincial sites.
He didn't take your remark out of context. He was refuting points you clearly made.
Is everybody they let into your school so dense? Way to go, for-profit.
I think people who read my previous post took it as me saying I'm against it because its a for-profit institution. I just meant that its a joke because of allegations of favoritism, administrative and financial aid problems, students caught cheating last semester were not reprimanded, and various other problems everyone will soon find out about. All I'm saying is be informed and ask a lot of questions. You're paying a lot to go here and it would suck to get screwed over.
" as just that. I think that anyone who attends a university and then calls it a joke in an annonymous public forum is a joke, especially with a lenghty 3 post history to their handle. Personally I feel sorry for you for attending a school (as your handle claims) you don't believe in. But don't feel sorry for me, I'm good (or maybe just dense as gute said).
. That's all that can be done now.InStateWait has a point with his/her comments.
I'd say the problems are ongoing based on recent accounts. I wouldn't discredit those of us that are also working in the Denver hospital systems either because of emotion or denial. I'm not trying to make matters worse by any means. This is the word among professionals in the hospitals here in the area - without a doubt Health One and Centura are off the table and that information is easily confirmed with minimal effort. Will they come back "onboard"? Who knows but likely not in the near future.
"Committed" and "able" are two drastically different things. The RVU interim administration may be committed but they have no way of forcing hospital systems to re-instate the clinical training agreements that were recently rejected after it would appear that the intent of the school isn't as noble as advertised initially (read into that what you will but that info is out there as well). I'd suggest finding out all the details independently.
Otherwise, just. That's all that can be done now.
I'll leave you all to the discussion but I thought it important to chime in being a CO native. It's an unfortunate situation all the way around, really. 🙁 I wish you all the best in light.