Medical School

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Originally Posted by Titchou

You know, it tough when you have to parse your own writing to others because they don't read exactly what you said. I said the professors were told to not take roll. It was assumed since they all got the transcripts that they were "present." As for flunking out, that means not being able to come back. Every example all of you gave were of people who were allowed to come back or repeat. That is not "flunking out" to me.

As for a jealous PhD, most of the hard science related PhDs take just as long to get - or sometimes longer, than completing medical school. They also have to do a post doc which is similar to residency. It ain't all that easy.

Um...I specifically said that 10% of my class failed out in the 1st year. We started with 100 but only graduated with 88, and that includes the 5 people that did not start in my class. That's a LOT of people that flunked out. They didn't get to come back. I also know people who don't get to practice AFTER graduating medical school because they never passed USMLE Steps II or III. It happens ALL. THE. TIME. BTW, repeating a year of medical school is a pretty big deal, too. At my cheapo state school, I had to take out $20,000 in loans each year I was in school. If I flunked out a year and had to repeat, I don't consider a $20,000 mistake "no big deal", and neither did the people I knew in school that were in that situation.