LECOM Professor Turnover

Another random fact about LECOM is the turnover of professors is extremely high for a medical school.  LECOM is notorious for making professors wear "multiple hats" inside the school and thus performing a lot of different roles. The rumor is also, not surprisingly, that LECOM salaries are extremely poor except for the top people in the school which make bank.  Plus, add the pressure of the administration bearing down on many of the professors - you have a recipe for high turnover.

The physiology department is one that is notorious for poor performance in LECOM students and the many physiology professors that have been there over the years have just been plain bad.  I will not mention names but we had a physiology professor that would honestly get nervous talking to all the students and have to be corrected by multiple students in her lecture which in turn she would get defensive of course and proceed to write ridiculous test questions compared to the type of lecture she gave (usually very basic and easy).

The high turnover has caused LECOM to employ people that aren't even specialists in the subject to teach that subject just using old powerpoints from previous years.  Obviously, this doesn't create a problem from a basic presentation point of view but when it comes to if a student has a question - well, you may be out of luck or just referred to your book.  So much for being required to come to lecture everyday in LDP and learning if you are literally just going to be read off a slide and not have a lot of your questions answered.

Dropped Rotations Galore

So, you suffer through the first 2 years of medical school at LECOM and you get to rotations.  Congratulations.  I will not even begin to explain the rotation selection process as it is one big "clusterf*ck" and becomes extremely stressful for many people.  But, after the selection process then you deal with many people having their rotation site dropped and scrambling to find another area to rotate in which could be forever away.  Oh yeh, and administration will hound you about it like it is your fault the rotation got dropped.  When the real reason the rotation got dropped is because LECOM is too cheap and do not pay their rotation sites like 99% of other medical schools.  So, the rotation sites aren't guaranteed and they can drop that rotation at any time if they want - leaving you without a rotation for the period of time unless you find another site.

Like I said not everyone gets a rotation dropped - it is just one of the additional stress factors LECOM students have to deal with because of the incompetence of LECOM administration and "their ways".

Infamous LECOM Dress Code

The dress code at LECOM is quite unique when it comes to medical schools.  There are other medical schools in the United States that require a dress code but it is not many.  In the grand scheme of things it is not that big of a deal but it is one of those things that can deter a lot of people.  The nuisance of dressing up everyday to go sit in lecture and then actually change out of those clothes into normal clothes for OPP (OMM) days during the week and then sometimes changing back into dress code is a pain.  First year when you have anatomy and OPP sometimes you change clothes 2-3 times a day.  It can become a pain and you wonder is it really worth the trouble.

I feel LECOM thinks they are somehow above every other medical school and that making its students dress up somehow makes them more professional in the long run or something.  Or, they think it helps their studying and learning capabilities.  So, I guess the past decade of students in other medical schools that wore jeans, shorts, t-shirts, etc to their medical schools and that are physicians today - they aren't professional or were somehow hindered in their medical education because they did not wear dress clothes to lecture?

Oh yes, anatomy lab - don't think you are going to get to wear normal clothes in anatomy lab.  You will be in full blow dress clothes with a tie on at LECOM.  Absolutely absurd.  Maybe they did this in the 1800's which I feel the administrators sometimes are living in the past with their outdated modes of thinking.

To simplify - shirt and tie for men every day during the week until 5:30pm and dress clothes for women same thing (even though women practically get away with whatever they want sometimes).  After 5:30 during the week you can wear casual.  But don't think about putting your hood up in the cafeteria when it is freezing - that is a no no - yes I am serious.  Security will come in and ask you to take it down.  It is humiliating just revealing some of these inconsequential nuances this school employs sometimes.