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Originally Posted by slevit1
You make a lot of good points and I'll admit that I didn't know that some other US schools had rotations problems - I thought they were all pretty much guaranteed.
Well the schools I applied to all had patient contact. And MD students (my first choice school) are in the hospital from the first semester. My friend who is there loves the experience she's getting. And, whether they like their experience or not, I bet they'd prefer what they're doing to sitting in ICM for 2 hrs. doing introductions on a spouse or upper semester for 15 minutes, then spending the rest of the time listening to other people fumble through introductions. Anything with a real patient would be nice. Again, I can only base this on what I've seen, but what I've seen is a lot better.
If they're going electronic, that's great. But, AUC is not going electronic, and is still very small.
I've lived my whole life with 4 seasons and an often very cold winter. I like the cold, love skiing, and I miss the seasons.
Well honestly, I didn't know any US students had those problems. But, even if they do, they only have a couple of major issues...we pretty much have them all. And at least when they graduate, they're US graduates.
I guess we'll see once I leave here. But, for the time being, I hate it with a passion and I'd love to get that shirt! I can think of much better places to be in school though. Maybe every US school isn't significantly better, but some are. The only thing that I like about being in school here is that I hate being here and I don't think there's much of anything to do. Because of that, I have few distractions and study a lot more than I think I'd be able to if I were in school at home.
Out of curiosity, why did you dislike the french more than the dutch locals? I find the dutch locals to be just as bad - if not worse. And, you have to deal with the a lot more often.
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yea you make some good arguments too and i agree with some like the library being too small. but suffice it to say auc is what it is not as good over all as most US med schools but certainly better than many and at the end of the day regardless of what scenery is outside your door chances are you will get where you wanna be from either one
as far as clinical exposure from day 1...i don't see the use of it to a first semester student other than to say you put on a tiny white coat and have "patients" to see..basically bragging to your friends and family about your "patients". you have no idea what is going on inside the body, medications, etc until probably 3rd semester or so...not to mention the fact that a great deal of your real live patients present nothing like what the book says nor how usmle questions are presented and i think its a double waste of your time to "see" patients from day 1.
just like everything else some will like it some will not..i've also met students who contrasted every point i made but my point was to show you guys that not every US student is happy and go lucky with their education and many are just as misserable and whine about the same things as yo9u guys.