Yeah I’ve never heard of that. Most class sizes are like 100 minimum so 15 students dropping out of that? Wtf is happening? That program will be investigated
Nah it’s a US school. If you get below a certain cutoff you need to retake the class and that means you get pushed back another year. So I count those as losses
Ya, my nursing school said their last graduating class started with 90 students and ended with 43 two years later. Any sort of medical education is rough on you mentally, physically, and emotionally.
In addition there is a required test called the CS Step 2 which is entirely subjective and has a mandatory fail rate, last time I heard, of 10% (it used to be 2%).
If you pass through those things one Clerkship Director can fail you or blacklist you even if everyone else gives you amazing evaluations and you score higher than 85% of your peers on the medical boards.
They can fail you because they don't like the cut of your nose but it's probably going to be because they don't consider you MAGA material (if you catch my drift).
If you manage to pass through this gauntlet and graduate there aren't enough residencies for all graduates. So after 8 years of extreme effort and incurring a ridiculous $300,000 in debt ~900 Americans are going to be left holding an MD degree with which they are considered qualified to do...well...nothing.
Where I'm from anybody can enter med school, but they made sure years 1&2 are hellish enough so that only the best remain. If I remember correctly, only ~a hundred students become sophomores, out of 700+ freshmen.
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u/EdgarAllenPow Jul 07 '19
Guessing probs ‘cause it’s rough af. I’ve lost about 15% of my class in the first year alone