Which DO Schools Have Streaming Lectures?

[kalat]

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Seriously, wtf is it with DO schools? I have met MD students who don't even know what their grades are. As long as they are passing they are happy.

At my school we still have A/B/C and are encouraged to get the highest grades possible.

Our first break will be for Thanksgiving but we have an exam on the Monday we get back. Guess who will be studying for a few hours when he should be spending time with family.

Summer has been reduced to 1 month.

Next time someone asks if they should go to a low tier MD or high tier DO I will point them to this post.

I'm happy I got accepted but sometimes I wonder how different things would have been if I had retaken the MCAT and went the Allopathic route.

AFAIK, most MD schools still rank the class (in fact, I'm pretty sure they have to even if they act like they don't) behind the scenes so the P/F system is more or less an aesthetic thing. Change your thinking to anything over a C and ignore any class rankings you're given and suddenly you're in the same boat.

 

[ChrisMack390]

My significant other goes to a top tier MD school and straight up NEVER goes to class and bitches about the rare mandatory session that she does have to go to. She says that only ~25% actually go to class and even they basically go out of a sense of obligation and still end up re-watching everything at double speed later. It's pretty odd - makes me wonder why even bother to have class at all as opposed to just online modules.

AFAIK, most MD schools still rank the class (in fact, I'm pretty sure they have to even if they act like they don't) behind the scenes so the P/F system is more or less an aesthetic thing. Change your thinking to anything over a C and ignore any class rankings you're given and suddenly you're in the same boat.

This is absolutely true. "Pass/Fail" is a load of ****. Especially since MS3 and MS4, the ones that actually matter, are never Pass/Fail.

 

[Grace184]

I read that a lot of MDs changed it to P/F so there wouldn't be a line on students after every test arguing of 1 or 0.5 pts to bring their A- to an A. Really, it was for the professors, not the students. In reality they do actually track the grades. They just don't tell the students so they can actually have a chance to go home by midnight.

 

[chizledfrmstone]

My significant other goes to a top tier MD school and straight up NEVER goes to class and bitches about the rare mandatory session that she does have to go to. She says that only ~25% actually go to class and even they basically go out of a sense of obligation and still end up re-watching everything at double speed later. It's pretty odd - makes me wonder why even bother to have class at all as opposed to just online modules.

Maybe medical schools are afraid of becoming online schools.

I know some DO schools require students to attend because they're afraid the students don't know how to manage their time. As the stats have increased at these schools the students know how they study best.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Maybe medical schools are afraid of becoming online schools.

This is my point though - many of them basically are.