advice to prospective students

To any prospective students:

I'm sure you get lots of advice from all around. Here is the advice of a first-year student at LECOM Seton Hill.

1. If you have a choice between LECOM and any other school, choose the other school.
2. If you have a choice of LECOM campuses, choose Bradenton first, Erie second, and Seton Hill last.
3. If you have an option to go to any MD school, choose that over any DO school.

I don't know about Caribbean schools. The education would definitely be better, but rotations might be harder to arrange. If I were rich, I would go to the best European or Caribbean private school I could find, then do my residency in the U.S., rather than go to LECOM.

OMM day

Another long but not-very-taxing day of OMM... I do like that it's easy, and I do like that we get a chance to develop our "professional touch". I will probably never use it once I am not being tested on it - not because it seems like a bad idea, but because we don't know what really works or not. There is little scientific basis to much of it, and we are supposed to take it all on faith, which is sort of hard for me. I definitely don't have enough faith in it to go using it on innocent patients once we get to the wards! But as a class it's fun, and we get to dress casually.