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John very well said, and i agree with you, the only thing is that people are patting SMU on the back for sending out that e-mail but we are forgetting that it is their job. They are supposed to e-mail us and let us know what is going on. I think it is really sad that when we do get an email about what is going on it is a big deal. This should be the norm.

drjohn, you love this site, don't deny, you're over 1,000 posts speaks for itself

Addiction doesn't always equal love... OK??? ... LOL

hahaha....thats true

We should learn of these things from the school officials, not a website.

Very well said John! I couldn't agree with you more. There is absolutely NO reason we should be finding out news from VMD, when the school should be keeping us updated via emails and other means of communication.

Great post

Originally Posted by drjohnwebb

Addiction doesn't always equal love... OK??? ... LOL

There's therapy for that.

I agree that the SMU forum has taken a turn for the worst. Unfortunately there is no other medium for students to independently post information about the school to other students (or potential students) without the school's intervention. The way the administation has communicated with students in the past has always struck a nerve with me. I felt the past administration held to the notion that keeping us in the dark until there was no other recourse was the best way to run things. Heck the school did not even publish the clinical rotation sites or which states we had licensing issuew with till it was posted on VMD.

Hopefully the new administration can learn from the mistakes from the previous administration. Keeping students in the dark in respect to issues that directly affect them broods mistrust, anger, and animosity towards the administration. We are in this together and I believe as adults we should be made aware of the current status on issues that concern students (status on Cali, loans, clinicals, etc).

After attending a conference and interacting with the director of clinical services, I see that there is hope. VH was honest, and I saw him and PA working their tails off in trying to get new clinical sites. I even had the opportunity to see the school sign on a new clinical affiliation (this is at a slow pace and the clinical site was testing to see how SMU students perform, with me being one of those students).

I recall JP posting on this forum: his honesty and committment to help inform students really put the school in a positive light. The school should reconsider its current policy of boycotting VMD, and assign a school official that could answer questions posted on this site and silence the rumors before they spread havoc across campus and beyond.

Originally Posted by Junito

I agree that the SMU forum has taken a turn for the worst. Unfortunately there is no other medium for students to independently post information about the school to other students (or potential students) without the school's intervention. The way the administation has communicated with students in the past has always struck a nerve with me. I felt the past administration held to the notion that keeping us in the dark until there was no other recourse was the best way to run things. Heck the school did not even publish the clinical rotation sites or which states we had licensing issuew with till it was posted on VMD.

Hopefully the new administration can learn from the mistakes from the previous administration. Keeping students in the dark in respect to issues that directly affect them broods mistrust, anger, and animosity towards the administration. We are in this together and I believe as adults we should be made aware of the current status on issues that concern students (status on Cali, loans, clinicals, etc).

After attending a conference and interacting with the director of clinical services, I see that there is hope. VH was honest, and I saw him and PA working their tails off in trying to get new clinical sites. I even had the opportunity to see the school sign on a new clinical affiliation (this is at a slow pace and the clinical site was testing to see how SMU students perform, with me being one of those students).

I recall JP posting on this forum: his honesty and committment to help inform students really put the school in a positive light. The school should reconsider its current policy of boycotting VMD, and assign a school official that could answer questions posted on this site and silence the rumors before they spread havoc across campus and beyond.

Agreed. If this is not the place, and some of these issues are not appropriate to be on public forums, redirect the students to a secure/private forum--one that is password protected and only visible to those who have the privilege. SMU could dispel rumors, encourage meaningful discussion, and this could all be done in private. Perhaps potential students could be granted access to read only, and current students would be allowed to post within reason. There has to be a better way.

There has to be a better way.

At $9,000+ per semester, a simple email would suffice!

Not asking for too much, but simply a monthly email on updates, developments, and current affairs. If they are concerned that students may post contents of those emails on VMD, then there should be a confidentiality statement of some sort on the official school emails stating that "posting of this private/privileged information on public forums is prohibited per University policies" blah blah blah to protect the integrity of that information.

Sounds like a good project for the current SGA to work on....if they still exist!

Just my $1.00 - $0.98!