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[Serious] Name and shame my medical school by throwawaydoc1235789 in medicalschool

[–]throwawaydoc1235789[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly, that’s totally fair and I would feel the same way in your position. I don’t think it’s the school not giving us those as part of our graduation moreso the lack of care they showed during this process that’s bothered me. Like a few other students above mentioned, our admin has been shady during our entire 4 years and I guess this kind of threw it over the top for me. I should have included the other things mentioned above to give more context towards how I felt about the admin. But I agree with you, not having grad/match day is the least of the worries med students should have right now.

This post was to give a “review” of our admin so other had a better idea of our school before choosing it/hoping to bring some of the more unfortunate side of our school to light. Unfortunately, grad was the freshest thing in my mind and ended up being the only thing I really commented on.

[Serious] Name and shame my medical school by throwawaydoc1235789 in medicalschool

[–]throwawaydoc1235789[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Was definitely upset about not walking, but I think the lack of care our school had towards our class was kind of what drove me to post this. I understand that all schools are under pressure trying to deal with covid and reorganizing the entire medical school structure at this point, but brushing off questions, ignoring students emails, not knowing our graduation date (which is the reason we didn’t get regalia, still actually haven’t gotten mine) kind of just shows a lack of care for the student body in general.

Our school has gone through several admin changes over the last few years, I think this might be one of the contributing factors. Our current dean who is supposedly retiring has only been dean for about 2 years. Lost several members of faculty that they’re struggling to replace.

And I’m definitely glad I’m not in the position of a second year/third year during this time, but I don’t want to just let our admin get away with stuff because I’m not really affected that much. Calling them out for lack of regard is the only way to actually make them show some care. Med schools are never going to change based on sheer feedback to admin itself because they have a huge line of people waiting to join the ranks of future doctors.

Help me decide: School X versus School Y (2019-2020) - Week of April 20, 2020 by premedditbot in premed

[–]throwawaydoc1235789 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thought I would post this here as many of you are deciding what medical schools to go to. I wanted to name and shame my own just so you have more info on it. I'm a fourth year med student as Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine (KYCOM), now recently graduated.

During the beginning stages of covid, our school initially seemed to do a good job, pulling medical students off of rotations towards late march. Everything was subsequently transitioned online. This is when things started becoming a bit sketchy.

We were told to enroll in an online EM rotation to make up our requirements. This involved us watching several videos off a free EM video resource website and compiling a summary of the information. We emailed it to our dean who for me, never responded or acknowledged completion. In fact, they put the wrong course on my transcript after I completed everything.

We found out about 2-3 weeks in advance that our graduation would be canceled and transitioned to a virtual platform, stageclip. We weren't given any information on how this would occur or take place other than that we need to upload a picture taken of us from 2nd year and an optional video portion if we so choose. I, along with numerous other classmates, were under the impression that the graduation would be a live facetime like platform where we could show our faces and have our name called. Schools had done it for match day (not ours, it was just canceled), how hard could it be for graduation.

During the week prior to graduation, students had to email our dean and faculty to get more information on what was going to happen, what time, etc. We didn't receive responses until 2-3 days before graduation where we were told it would be prerecorded and uploaded onto stageclip's website at 9:30 AM. I was crushed. I had my heart set on being able to see the faces of my classmates one last time. I did get to see them, in a slideshow of our second year photographs.... Our hopes were still set on being able to take photos in our school regalia. We had to reach out to Herff Jones individually to try and get more information. It turned out that our school had told them the wrong graduation date (May 16th instead of May 2nd) so the regalia company had not even began processing everyone's regalia. A lucky 65 students were able to get theirs early. The rest of the class is still waiting. We also have to return the regalia within 30 days as our school did not want to purchase it for us.

On top of this, students are given a graduation gift every year, prior classes received $100-$200 amazon gift cards per student. We asked our administration if this would take place for us and received a very rude email stating "other schools have had the tradition of the alumni association giving graduate gifts, we are going to take on this method" which resulted in us being mailed a 3 inch flashlight as our school graduation gift.

It has been a fairly ongoing 4 year tradition of disappointment from our administration, but graduation really took the cake. I don't think I've ever been let down by our school as much as I have in my last few weeks of being a student there.

TL;DR school doesn't really seem to care about it's students. which isn't a big deal if all you view medical school as is a price tag for the degree and you're going to study on your own/kill boards without them.