Alright, I copied and pasted responses from this thread, a facebook thread I posed the same question in, and an sdn thread from 2010. Here are the combined responses. Would be great to hear from somebody at MSUCOM and CCOM:
MSUCOM
No mandatory attendance to most lectures, but some are along with small groups. You get a coursepack with the lectures for most classes and most lectures are streamed live and recorded on mediasite.
Western
WesternU is a mixed bag with the required classes. Lectures are generally not required and are recorded and put online within a couple hours. For some courses that are lecture heavy you can conceivably not come to class other than the days you have OMM or ECM.
But then you get into systems later in first year and all through second year. Then there are a lot more small group/ large group format that will require attendance. There have been very few days so far into second year that we have not had a required class that forced you to come to campus for at least a few hours, if not the whole day.
If you end up coming to WesternU in Pomona try to live close enough to the school so the commute doesn't bother you. It's the people who have to drive from Riverside or LA that seem to have the most beef with our class schedule.
PCOM
Only labs are mandatory
Scribe-notes service is available for about $150/yr.
NSU
You can take NSU off your mandatory list for most courses. I bet the M1s have something similar, but the M2s just have mandatory labs plus PCM small group and Friday class. All others "strongly encouraged" by admin.
DMU
DMU - NO mandatory attendance / Recorded lectures & notepool
AZCOM
No attendance required at AZCOM, with a few exceptions... Anatomy lab and OMM lab of course require attendance. Our clinical skills class has required attendance, but so far they only really enforce that for the clinical skills workshops we have every couple of weeks.
Power points and/or notes are posted for every class, and for the most part (some professors' slides are better than others) are plenty adequate for covering that material covered in lecture.
Lectures aren't recorded. There is talk of this changing some time in the next year, we'll see if it happens. You are allowed to audio record (but not video) most lectures.
NYCOM
NYCOM does have a mandatory attendance policy, but it's not enforced. With a class of almost 300, it's kind of impossible for them to keep track of everyone. There are a bunch of people I know who don't attend lecture (I personally attend most lectures, but it all depends on you and how you learn best.)
Despite the attendance policy, NYCOM records all of the lectures and they can be played back at 2x speed, slowed down, etc. They usually threaten to stop streaming lectures if people don't show up to class, but they haven't actually done it.
Touro
Touro-NV does not have mandatory attendance, except for labs and a few special classes here and there.
Touro Nevada only has mandatory attendance for labs or when there is a guest speaker or special event.
LECOM
Mandatory
UNECOM
Here at UNECOM we have a total of 7 hours of required class per week... the other 25-33 hours are optional, and plenty of people skip them.
However, if you come here and sit in the back row of the MS2 room, you can see the ocean when you're bored!
UMDNJ SOM
At UMDNJ SOM, lectures are not mandatory, we always record the lecture and powerpoints are all up on Blackboard
LMU DCOM
Lectures are not mandatory, we always record the lecture and powerpoints are all up on Blackboard
KCOM
Lecture attendance isn't required at KCOM. Obviously you have to go to labs, but I imagine that's the case at any school. Those are all hands-on learning anyway.
Notes and slides go online either before or right after lecture.
VCOM
Mandatory
Marian
Not mandatory
RVUCOM
Optional with videos and materials available online at RVU. Some lectures are mandatory, and they encourage attendance, but not technically mandatory
That'd be a good idea.
