how many hours does a typical uag student spend in the class room and how often are exams?

There are two main methods for all medical schools. Either you have exams in a single weeks at the end of the semester, or you have them dispersed throughout.

UAG has on bit of scheduling really in gear. Their exams are staggered so that there is one a week. Normally, depending on your semester they are all on Monday or Tuesday. So there is one exam every week. I think it is much better than having every exam for every class during a single week.

You will spend from 8hrs a day on campus to 4hrs a day. Usually 6 hours a day in lecture for the first two years.

This time in lecture is viewed differently by all students. Some stand outside the lecture hall until the attendance person comes. Some sit and pay attention. Some fall asleep. The best watch lecture and scan through their text to keep up or take notes.

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sounds good! Is their a link that has the up to date class syllabus, txt, ect.....

Class syllabus? lol. When u find one can u let us know?

Class attendance is mandatory. An accumulation of absences will prohibit you from taking finals. Depending on the semester you're in, class hours vary. I remember going to class from 8-3 without a lunch break my first semester. Exams are dispersed. Studying is what you make of it. Some of us study thoroughly, others take short cuts. good luck

LB CaLi gUy, tell me what semester you are in and I can get you a syllabus tommorow.

Tx corpsman, all of the syllabi are photocopied and handed out usually done by the end of the first week of class. There are different formats depending on the semester. 3rd Sem has all of the lecture titles listed on the schedule in the form of a syllabus. 1st semester comes with a schedule of classes and the syllabi come in a packet after. The lecture topics are loosely followed all semester.

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That packet we receive at the beginning of the semester is a syllabus? I always thought a syllabus contained information about course objectives, class material, ASSIGNED textbooks, assigned readings, course outline, detailed exam information and HW assignments, contact information, office hours, ect. The closest I've seen to a syllabus was given for anatomy, physiology, and the first half of pathology. Refresh my memory if you can think of any other classes.

It sounds like you made up your mind about coming here TXCORPSMAN. It is what you make of it. Personally, I love it here. I can't say much for UAG itself. I haven't experienced teaching this bad since HS. But it has its advantages. Don't expect more than what you're going to learn on your own. Your classmates will be very helpful. It seems like you have a background in discipline, which may work to your advantage. The city is awesome, the food is great, and the woman are gorgeous.

Just make sure you're coming for the right reasons. Some people have regrets, others would do it again if they had a choice.

Thanks for the info! As far as books which books do you recommend to study from? Im bored and just siting back waiting for the August class to start!

make a search, we have discussed that before. "Estudia todo" is one of the things you hear from teachers here so get plenty of books so you can actually study everything

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I have to answer this in parts. First is what I am using as a definition of syllabus. For Aristotle said "in order to argue correctly you must first define terms. This is First order logic.

syllabus

1656, "table of contents of a series of lectures, etc.," from L.L. syllabus "list," a misreading of Gk. sittybos (pl. of sittyba "parchment label, table of contents," of unknown origin) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's "Ad Atticum" iv.5 and 8. The proper plural would be syllabi,
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

1. The Syllabi that I recieved has an exhaustive list of textbooks on the first pages. More than I could read. Usually I just pick the top one or the canonical one. (for those who don't know the definition of syllabus you will have to look up canonical on your own.)

2. I do not know how you define course objectives but my syllabus has a list of every topic that will be covered on each day which is pretty specific for objectives.

3 The syllabus I recieved has the date of every exam and make-up. Not the points given for each but this is usually in the first pages of the handout for the course. This brings me to point 4.

4. Class material is usally handled by picking up a 40 to 100 page handout from the copy center. This varies from copies of every overhead to a complete text review on the course.

You have to be pretty picky to not be happy with UAGs handling of Syllabi. Now the actual scope of the course material and exams can get broad, But I have had a syllabus every semester.

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Lets be really honest in here, the teachers in here do teach the students like a bunch of high school kids because they are directly transitioned from the latin program and those kids can get into the program as young as 16 years old. thus, saying that the teaching is worst than high school is completely in accurate because they do teach like high school but it is more in a traditional mexicanized way (remember every thing).