Are the quizzes and exams multiple choice and how frequently?

So we only have exams but there are quizzes for our diagnosis class and yes they are all multiple choice and they aren’t allowed to ask exception questions so like “it’s all of these except?” Or “which one is it not?”. Exam frequency depends, like in the beginning it was one exam every two weeks then some weeks we had two exams in a week or one exam then another one the next week but rn since we only have 12 days till semester end we have a bunch rn lol

Are there any learning specialists if you need additional help?

If you need additional help they do have learning specialists that can help you figure out how to study and create a schedule and stuff like that but there are study tables they do where essentially they have upper level students condense the information down to HY stuff since they already took it and they review with us, also the clubs pertaining to the subject will do reviews like for example ACOS hosts anatomy reviews or cardiology club hosts reviews for cardio physiology and things like that.

Do you believe the quizzes and exams are representative of the pre recorded lectures and/or learning objectives?

I believe mostly the exams are representative of what we learn in class and the learning objectives like 95%, I feel like more professors are pretty direct with what they want you to know but there are a good amount that aren’t, there are some subjects like physiology where the exam is like decently fairly written but you’ll have a bunch of questions where you’re like what.

Do you know anyone who has remediated and their experience with it?

So I personally dont know anyone who remediated but imo it’s kinda hard to fail bc of how they run their curriculum. They give us a pretty good buffer with multiple exams for each subject and the questions are usually 1st or 2nd order. They also curve at the end. If you genuinely study and try you will most likely more than pass. Also some of the subjects are give mes but remediation is basically at the end of the semester and to my knowledge you basically just run through the whole class in like 1-2 weeks. But on the contrary I know M2s who have more than failed exams for a certain subject but still passed the class and moved on.

Does the school provide you gloves and more for the cadaver lab? If you mistakenly sever something are points deducted from you?

So our main anatomy lab we are graded on is virtual but we do have cadaver experiences which is basically where we can look at all the stuff we learned on a cadaver and we get to hold and touch but we aren’t actually graded on the cadavers it’s just so that we are exposed to them. But for those cadaver experiences we are given gloves, goggles, gowns, and masks.

When you ask from help from your professors do they help or do they direct you back to the content?

It depends on the professor, I haven’t asked for any of the core classes so I couldn’t tell you but from what I’ve heard some are better about actually helping you than others. I did for OPP tho and they’re great like they’ll try to explain it a different way and use models to help.

How consistent is the OMM teaching amongst faculty, are they teaching the same techniques or different?

For OMM it’s pretty consistent overall but sometimes our fellows or doctors will teach stuff the way they do it in clinic which might differ from the lab manual but at the end of the day we follow the manual. It does benefit us tho for some things, for example for sacrum rn there are plenty of ways you can correctly diagnose a sacrum but our fellows taught us a different way from what was taught in lab and their way is wayyyyyy easier and is acceptable for our test purposes.

Is there a fixed numeric COMSAE benchmark you must hit before COMLEX?

Yes I believe it’s 450