i can appreciated your use of solid logic, however, your presuppositions are not the case...therefore, as a word of advice please use caution in painting a negative picture of what you admittedly do not know.
to be clear, the preceptorship program that i was referencing is for the 1st and 2nd years and not the third and fourth. regarding our rotations, we have one of the previous VP of the university of Nevada Reno Medical School (UNR) who is well networked in the state as our Dean of students, Dr. Harter. as a side note UNR is the only medial school in the state and they have a very small annual graduating class. therefore, with us being the only medical school in las vegas, which is becoming a booming community, our need and opportunities for rotations and residencies are as good as nearly anywhere. in direct relation to rotations and residencies our Dean of Clinical is Dr. Milne who is a life long Las Vegan and has worked here for, i believe, approx. 15 years. he is well networked in the area and is in charge of establishing our rotations...he is a great asset to our school.
it is correct that there are to be bumps and glitches along the way of establishing our new school, but using the systems and learning from our sister institution, Mare Island, we are well on our way to great success.
to address another misnomer...we are only partially systems based the first year and will begin PBL next semester. we do however, function entirely systems based the second year with integrated PBL. being new there is room however to move either toward or away from systems or PBL...so things may not remain as they are planned as of now.
i hope this helps...
Nathan Neufeld
Class of 2008 (first class)
President
Student Government Association
Touro-NV
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