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wolfvgang22 · #20 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ejfr4c

New question:
I've looked at all the posts about Pass and Falcon and other prep programs. It seems that there are a lot of people who are upset about investing in Falcon. But i think a lot of those postings are not within the last year or two. Has the program significantly changed in the past few years? How many of the professors are really experts in their fields? I see Goljan being advertised, but what about the rest?
I know 7 weeks of structure would be better for me than 4 (at Pass Program), but I don't want to risk showing up and being utterly disappointed like so many seem to have been (ie 80% of a class asking for a refund).

I don't know anybody that asked for a refund. I only know of one person that actually left the program a few days into the review, he decided it wasn't for him (but neither was attending class when we were doing basic sciences, as he skipped a lot, so I think its typical for him. I hope he did well, I've lost track of him.) I was at Falcon in Jan and Feb of 2007.

I was pleased with the instruction with the exception of one poor GI instructor, as she was new to teaching. Falcon remedied the problem by having another supplemental lecture on the topic by a more experienced teacher. That was the only bump in the road at that time. One or two lecturers were senior residents/chief residents at Parkland hospital in Dallas, another lecturer was a long tenured microbiology professor from University of Oklahoma, the neurology prof was from UC Davis, some others were from the east coast but I forgot where they were from.
Bottom line, they knew their stuff way better than we did and were for the most part able teachers.
Hope somebody else chimes in here...this is starting to look like the wolfvgang falcon show...