LOL, I didn’t go to LECOM but I go to a place that touted similar values. These nice flashy words don’t mean you are going to be treated like a resident, they mean you are going to be treated like a grade schooler.
I know for a fact that their ****ty attempts to teach us “discipline” and “professionalism” were unnecessary because we have other MD schools in state that don’t impose as many unnecessary rules, burdens, and what probably amounts to 100s of hours of wasted “mandatory events”, and their students turn out fine and obviously match better than us (this is a DO school).
That being said, I think
@Ho0v-man really hit the nail on the head. Do not expect to be treated as more than a walking check/pawn as a medical student by administration especially. It’s not all bad though. There are definitely faculty that cared and we loved them for it.
HOWEVER, all of this being said, my advice is mostly in the context of you having other options. No accredited medical school is so terrible that you should turn it down to become an empty handed applicant for another year.
Me personally, even though I didn’t particularly like a lot about my school save for a handful of faculty and my awesome classmates, I still would do it over again 100 times out 100 rather than turn it down and burn another year in my life.
The same does not go for tuition, I would absolutely have paid extra to go to a school with less BS on the same timeline.