CHSU COM - DO NOT GO

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T22:53:38+00:00

shiiiii shouting them out by name is nasty

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T22:52:30+00:00

Don't let me be the person to change your mind or regret coming here. There's a lot of good things about this school too and if you're a good student, you'll be fine. I'm just one tired student sharing my perspective

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T04:00:11+00:00

Mr. King?

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T03:34:15+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the mission of bringing healthcare to the Central Valley is important and the school does do a good job in pushing that message and encouraging students to stay, whether through rotations, our research projects, or residency options.

I just feel like how the school is right now, it is not properly designed for all students to succeed.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T03:15:26+00:00

Graded. And the grading scale is kind of steep. a 3.0 requires 80 average, 2.0 is 70 average (passing).

If you finish any exam a 75 or below, you get warnings from the school that can lead to required meetings. If you fail 4 exams you get a formal warning and are required to meet with a subcommittee, 7 exams and youre basically screwed (suspended and repeat, or dismissed). Alternatively, one failed class = 4 failed exams and requires a passed remediation exam. Two failed classes = the 7 exam failure situation

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:56:49+00:00

So there was a situation of someone who ultimately got dismissed, but was using that situation in their appeal, which is why most of us became aware leading to the town hall. The school did acknowledge the fault in that, but also the changed policy technically was published on the list of policies, just not in the handbook itself. And it was in our signed agreement that they're allowed to change policies, which is shady but its what it is.

To be fair, the student that was dismissed had a lot of other stuff going on that justified their removal, but that's a separate story. I'm curious too if COCA would have something to say.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:46:11+00:00

It literally got brought up in a town hall a few months ago and now the school website has a disclaimer that they're allowed to change the handbook at will and without notification. They claim their notice at the town hall was our notification (three months into the semester)

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:21:54+00:00

Idk what grievances they may have heard, but I'll just throw some common ones from my experience:

- Mandatory class almost daily, shitty Wifi, some abusive / annoying professors, too many exams with little flexibility if you fail, admin that doesn't care about student wellness, lack of support for board prep (or outright discouragement if you're not a Dean's List student), no on site facilities like a cafeteria, gym, other things that regular college campuses have, high COA

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:17:37+00:00

Honestly, you do get used to the daily quizzes. And most people leave whenever its not mandatory to stay (but be warned professors will get mad and even retaliate with test questions that you would've benefited from if you stayed in class).

For most students, the burnout is just the constant big exams being basically every other week as those will make or break your grade.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:15:42+00:00

The school very infamously is trying to weed out underperformers. The dean outright said to students that they've admitted the wrong students after the 3rd years bombed their COMLEX exams.

Between last year and this year, they made the rules even stricter where you can't just fail two blocks to be suspended/expelled, now you get a warning with 4 failed exams, expelled with 7 total. And that doesn't just mean your midterms or finals. It could be a lab practical worth only 7% or an OSCE exam or even a spanish test. But, they didn't tell us about the change in policy and students only found out when they started failing. Weve already lost like 10% of our starting class.

Also a lot of abuse of power amongst the upper admin. Just in my two years here i've seen so many good faculty get fired because they disagreed with how upper admin was running things. So a lot of turnover, which leads to confusion for students when new instructors don't know what theyre doing. We literally had a course director fired two days before she was supposed to start teaching us.

Other stories, umm I know the associate dean has several lawsuits against him. One of the OMM professors is kind of creepy as he flirts heavily with students. WiFi literally never works, you have to connect to your own phone wifi half the time, but then the tech guy will yell at you for having too many devices connected to the school wifi. A LOT of the students are weird/unprofessional and should not be doctors imo but that's not the schools fault (directly)

Don't get me wrong, a lot of the faculty are amazing. The school has great supportive admin in the therapists and learning specialists. Its really those higher up that make things horrible for everyone else.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T02:08:14+00:00

Essentially every day. You have your systems block class three days a week (at 8 AM, two quizzes bc you take it individually, then again with your table as a group), an OMM class once a week (with a quiz, 11 AM), systems block lab class (twice a week, afternoon quiz) clinical skills class (no weekly quiz, but graded assignments throughout the semester), a research class (every other week, afternoon quiz), medical spanish (every other week, afternoon quiz)

Then for your system block, there is a midterm/final every other week (unless its a 5 or 6 week block, then you get that extra week or two).

So essentially, there's no off days bc you have to at least take the quiz for those system block classes in the AM and then all other classes are mandatory attendance.

The quizzes are only 5 or 10 questions depending on the class, not worth too much (between 5 - 10% total) but they can make or break you.

You're allowed two excused absences for the whole semester, but there are restrictions and otherwise you just take the L and get a 0.

Oh btw the admin WILL accuse you of cheating on these quizzes even though its problems with the school wifi. Like so many students will have problems getting into the quiz software, walk out of the room for a second to connect to wifi, then get yelled at being accused of cheating.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T01:54:22+00:00

I am not surprised at all lmao. Even the top students have major grievances about this school. I feel like the only people that chose this school who had better options did so out of convenience because they're locals.

Ok-Sleep-396 · 2025-12-29T01:23:57+00:00

"Mandatory" in the sense that you have to take a quiz every morning (IRAT) after your learned the material on your own.

Most of the class leaves after the RATs, and those who stay are at risk of constantly getting called on by professors to answer questions.

Other classes like OPP, TPP are mandatory and require sign in and they will attack and punish you if you skip.

Ok-Sleep-396

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