What if you fail a semester of medical school?

[SnDividedbyn]

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Any recourse?

What field/specialty requires the least amount of time?

Do you get pay while you are an intern?

I'm a pharmacy student and most college of pharmacy only let you have two chances.

 

[Gabby]

Depends on the school. At some schools, if you fail the first semester, you're dismissed. The end.

The fields that require the less number of years to train are primary care -- family med, peds, internal med. They all require three years. However, those residencies are brutal, I'm told. The more laid back non-competitive specialties, like psych and pm&r take four years. Specialties like derm also take four years, but that's uber competitive.

Yes, you're paid as an intern, but not much. Around $40,000 a year, I believe.

 

[Perrotfish]

Any recourse?

What field/specialty requires the least amount of time?

Do you get pay while you are an intern?

I'm a pharmacy student and most college of pharmacy only let you have two chances.

How many times you get to fail a class before they fail you out is school dependent. Some will give you half a dozen chances to repeat a year, others will kick you out the first time you fail. Generally private schools give more second chances than public schools.

For practical purposes the fastest specialties are FM, some psych programs, IM, and peds at 3 years.

You get paid as a resident/intern. The amount varies with the program but the average is 40K.

Why are you asking these questions if you're studying to be a pharmacist.

 

[st2205]

All psych programs are 4 years.