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[Mz.Doctor]

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i was looking at some posts from a while back, why do ppl say touro is not a good d.o. school? it seems fine to me...

 

[jschro21]

i was looking at some posts from a while back, why do ppl say touro is not a good d.o. school? it seems fine to me...

I've heard people say bad things about the location of the Mare Island campus, but most things I've heard have been positive. I had a good experience when I interviewed there back in November. They have an incredible anatomy lab, a pretty solid library and decent overall facilities. They have created a pretty innovated systems-based approach to the curriculum where every class correlates with each other at a given time, and the faculty seems very friendly. They also appear to have pretty solid board scores. You will have to travel around quite a bit for your rotations, though. That is the only negative I saw, being a family man now and all. Good luck with your searching!

 

[couchsurfer]

i was looking at some posts from a while back, why do ppl say touro is not a good d.o. school? it seems fine to me...

Just like any other school, there will be both bad and good posts about it. 🙂 Based on my experiences interviewing there and talking/e-mailing several tucom students I believe it to be a fine school with great access to the Bay area. Also, tucom has a reputation of attracting the more eclectic crowd if that interests you. However....the school is young(1997) and so it's still undergoing significant construction. Also contributing to the eye sores is that the school is on mare island, which use to be a naval shipyard.
But if you can look past the physical, it has great content.[typical cinematic theme ] My guess is that it's one of those "you hate it or love it" schools. If you can't tell, I love it and will be attending there this fall.

Just my 2 cents 😀

 

[mj1878]

Just like any other school, there will be both bad and good posts about it. 🙂 Based on my experiences interviewing there and talking/e-mailing several tucom students I believe it to be a fine school with great access to the Bay area. Also, tucom has a reputation of attracting the more eclectic crowd if that interests you. However....the school is young(1997) and so it's still undergoing significant construction. Also contributing to the eye sores is that the school is on mare island, which use to be a naval shipyard.
But if you can look past the physical, it has great content.[typical cinematic theme ] My guess is that it's one of those "you hate it or love it" schools. If you can't tell, I love it and will be attending there this fall.

Just my 2 cents 😀

I concur. However, if you're in the class of 2010, you have to hustle on over to the Osteopathic Class forum, read "Touro-MI Class of 2010", then post a little bit about yourself! 😀

Also, someone set up a map that you can contribute to. It shows where everyone is moving from. Nice to meet you!

Marc

 

[mj1878]

i was looking at some posts from a while back, why do ppl say touro is not a good d.o. school? it seems fine to me...

I think that many who criticize the school are either

a)STILL premeds(i.e., been rejected that cycle)
b)Really concerned with aesthetics and don't realize that there's really no such thing as a "bad" medical school, and
c)Probably have never actually been on campus, and are basing all of their "knowledge" on others' posts here.

Yes, the web site is terribly sub-par, but the pictures of campus on the web site hardly capture the essence of it. You really have to stand there to get a sense of the place. Ultimately, you have to base your decision on the following:

a)First, you have to actually get IN somewhere.
b)Second, if you have multiple acceptances, think about where you'll want to be a resident, and find out if they've sent previous students there. If so, then it's likely that they have good connections. I want to do a residency in Colorado(read "back home"), and they have had residents out there in the past.
c)Think about what REALLY matters to you in your medical education. Great instructors or pretty buildings? Acing the boards or pretty buildings? Loving your classmates or pretty buildings?

Good luck to you. Have you started interviewing, or are you inquiring for next year?

 

[JonnyG]

my issue is more with touro as a whole. I do not like the fact that they are continually opening schools. It makes the osteopathic profession look like a diploma mill. Only two of the 5 long time schools have opened branch campuses and touro is considering a third. They may do a fine job with these schools but they are creating a bad image by not allowing their core schools to mature.

 

[couchsurfer]

I concur. However, if you're in the class of 2010, you have to hustle on over to the Osteopathic Class forum, read "Touro-MI Class of 2010", then post a little bit about yourself! 😀

Also, someone set up a map that you can contribute to. It shows where everyone is moving from. Nice to meet you!

Marc

Hey Marc,

Good to meet you. I already signed up there a couple days ago. It looks like we have about 10% of the class there. 👍 Now to get the rest of 'em there... 😀

Cheers,
Christopher

 

[CJDocS]

my issue is more with touro as a whole. I do not like the fact that they are continually opening schools. It makes the osteopathic profession look like a diploma mill. Only two of the 5 long time schools have opened branch campuses and touro is considering a third. They may do a fine job with these schools but they are creating a bad image by not allowing their core schools to mature.

I don't think that the osteopathic profession will turn into a diploma mill, but I do see where you're coming from. If you think about it, the most important thing is whether or not these schools adhere to high or higher standards. What matters most is the quality of physicians that graduate from the schools, because this will determine what type of image osteopathic physicians have in the future. As students, we should become more involved with the AOA and other osteopathic affiliated groups in order to have more of a voice (posting on SDN will only go so far). Since osteopathic medicine is a growing profession, we as students and future physicians need to pave the road for those to come. It is more likely that our patients will judge us by our compassion, knowledge, and skill rather than the number of schools we have opened in the past 5 years. Plus, if it's numbers we are concerned about, the allopathic profession has become so wide spread that most serious pre-meds can tell you about foreign medical degree options. Despite this, I haven't heard many concerns about creating a bad image for allopathic physicians. So remember, we are the image of osteopathic medicine and are therefore responsible for where the profession goes in the future.