Thread: med prep program is a joke!!!

According to students currently enrolled in the Med Prep program, most claim it to be a WAIST OF MONEY!!! The school makes you take a course in Physics. Now if you talk to any of the upperclassmen, Physics is not a course that comes into play all that much in medicine. There are times when you need to understand the concept of pressure, maybe some voltage, etc. Overall, it's a waist of $10K in tuition and another $7-8K in living expenses. The current students that I know wish they would have rather waited and went straight into the first semester.

So my advice, if you have a science backround, DON'T get enrolled into the med prep program. If you are already enrolled, just wait and reapply for the next semester. You will save a lot of money. Rather in that time, take some type of physiology, gross anatomy, or microbiology course at a local community college or a university. That will prepare you a lot more than the med prep program will. In this program, you get to sit in each of the courses for a week, so that you can "get exposure" to the course. I would rather take the courses that I mentioned above and get the "full exposure" to that class, rather than a pathetic weeks worth for $10K.

If you are a student who has no backround in pre-medicine, then I would rather take the courses listed above and finish them and then apply for the first semester.

Remember, Ross is here to make money, Devry is traded on the NYC. That means each quarter they have to show the numbers, otherwise Wall Street hates them.

Almost every US medical school I have seen requires a year of physics. I believe this is a requirement for licensure in some states as well.

If the premed program gives you undergraduate credit, then it makes sense for Ross to teach physics along with other premed required courses.
my 2 cents...

I find it interesting that you make an entire post on the MedPrep semester and yet you aren't in it. I guess your "friends" weren't as excited about posting as you.

Anyways, you are free to your opinion, however I have recently spoken with a number of MedPrep students and several past students of the program and they have been quite happy. They are very thankful for the opportunity and believe they are really getting "prepped" for medical school.

So, I'm not trying to minimize your friends feelings, but people need to understand that their opinion isn't as common as you suggest.

By the way, students are offered the MedPrep to help them prepare for med school. The admissions committee has decided that they are not quite ready for medical school and offer them an alternative an assured way to get accepted to medical school if you pass the MedPrep semester. Because of this preparation, I hear that the MedPrep students do quite well in their future semesters.

By the way - When my class was going through Cardiac Physiology we hit a block because some students didn't remember their physics well enough to learn to read ECGs. We ended up having to slow WAY down to review physics before we continued.

MitchDC

Ok I am sick of studying for step 1 so I came here to see how life on the island is going. It is ammusing how these forums are almost IDENTICAL to the ones I read 2years ago when I was getting ready for Ross. Ahhhh the irony. Anyway I just wanted to ask MitchDC what in the world physics had to do with reading and ecg? Does he HONESTLY use electrical principles of physics when he is reading the rhythm strips on the mini? I don't think so. I know small and somewhat meaningless point but like I said I am tired of studying and this really got me when I read it. I lauged a good full minute. Ok bye now

I think my opinion of medprep is similar to my opinion on Ross holding our grades until we fill out a survey...it is blackmale! There are just saying you can come here and fulfill your dream of being a dr., but first you must complete this. I agree more with the other posts than mitchdc..you would be better of taking classes at home at a community college than spending all the money to move over here for medprep. I see these medprep students being thrown into various semesters classes to watch..if they don't have enough of a background to accept them in first semester how is throwing then in a upper semester class in the middle of the semester going to help them with anything. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a brilliant business decision by Ross..they realize that some people are willing to do anything to fullfill their dream.

I know what mitchdc is trying to say about ekg..and he really means fector analysis..I still don't think knowing where to trains will meet if one leaves from point a and the other from point b will help with this! The class did slow down but the class slowed down whenever Dr. ***** taught b/c he insists the entire class must uderstand everything before he can move on..mitch it would not hurt you to stop kissing ross's but all the time..dean wagner speaks more truth on here then you I think.

a few of you who like to complain could use a prep course in spelling and English.

e.g. Blackmail and not blackmale, nor waste and not waist.

One is what you do to get someone whom you have "something on" (pics, money, et al), the other is a man with melanin in his skin color.

The other is garbage, excessive amounts of things not needed, while waist, is...well look around your belt line.

You see, your argument loses intensity when you carry a 5th grade spelling education and you feign like you deserve to be a doctor.

Physics is a course in understanding how things work. You'll learn about volume expansion in that course and GChem. It will apply to lungs and such.

Hope this helps. Take physics anyway...its a fun course.

i have heard a lot of crazy things on the forum over the last few months
but criticizing someone about their spelling is just over the top ridiculous.
this forum is one step up from a chat room. it is not a debate course or a literature course. ease up a bit

Simple spelling errors are ok.
But changing the meaning of a word and altering the tone of the message is bad. Seeing "blackmale" irked me and I was going to point that out but someone beat me to it.

No, this is not a debate course or a literature course. If it was, we'd be held to an even higher standard. This is not a private one on one conversation like a chat room either. It's in between. It's a public forum.

That said, I make braintypos all the time. Think one word, but after the third letter my reflexes take over and a more frequent word that starts the same slips out.

Read what you wrote before you hit the SUBMIT button.
If you don't have time to proofread, how did you find the time to write it ?

Why is it that we haven't seen anything on this topic from those actually IN the program in question? They would be the ones who are most able to accurately verify whther the program were worth the time/money or not, wouldn't they? Or perhaps people who have used it and are now in actual medical school? Not "my friend" or e-mails or what-have-you, but actual participants.

That's why we all come to these forums to begin with, to get info on foreign medical schools directly from the horses' mouths.

Just my $.02

Honestly, people, if you want to be taken seriously, at least learn to write better! Half the time, I don't even remember these people's point...I just remember they whine a lot and they can't differentiate between their homonyms. A typo is one thing, but repeatedly typing "waist" in place of "waste" is a whole other story.