Your class time will involve lectures, clinical medicine labs, osteopathic principles & practices labs as well as directed case-based scenarios involving working as teams in small-groups followed by interactive discussions in the classroom with the faculty. Assessment of your learning is through a number of quizzes and exams.
A Week in the Life of an Osteopathic Medicine Student
First Two Years (75+ hrs/wk)
- Class Time (45 hrs/wk)
- Studying (28 hrs/wk)
- Community Service (2 hrs/wk)
- Class Time (45 hrs/wk)
- Studying (28 hrs/wk)
- Community Service (2 hrs/wk)
Last Two Years (60+ hrs/wk)
- Clinical Rotations (40 hrs/wk)
- Studying (20 hrs/wk)
- Clinical Rotations (40 hrs/wk)
- Studying (20 hrs/wk)
Class Time
Studying
Studying often consists of reviewing recorded lectures, lecture handouts, class notes, assigned textbook readings and case studies. Students often study in groups; reminding each other of key concepts, testing each other and working together to create study guides.
Community Service
Service-learning projects are an integral part of your first year of medical education at WesternU. In your second year, you will have numerous opportunities to continue community service activities with other WesternU students.
Clinical Rotations
In your third and fourth years, you will complete 88 weeks of hospital and outpatient rotations through all of the major medical disciplines. There are also many elective rotations, including rotations at international sites, so you can develop skills to excel in your postdoctoral training.
Studying
In between bedside visits and after hours, you will read up on procedures and treatments you are performing and practice techniques such as suturing and surgical knots. You will also spend a good deal of time, studying for your board exams.
For long weekends or during spring and winter breaks, you can go home to see your family, ski, or maybe take a trip to Las Vegas. There are many cultural and recreational things to do when you live in Southern California, so our students try to take advantage of them when they can.
- First Two Years
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Class Time
Your class time will involve lectures, clinical medicine labs, osteopathic principles & practices labs as well as directed case-based scenarios involving working as teams in small-groups followed by interactive discussions in the classroom with the faculty. Assessment of your learning is through a number of quizzes and exams.
StudyingStudying often consists of reviewing recorded lectures, lecture handouts, class notes, assigned textbook readings and case studies. Students often study in groups; reminding each other of key concepts, testing each other and working together to create study guides.
Community ServiceService-learning projects are an integral part of your first year of medical education at WesternU. In your second year, you will have numerous opportunities to continue community service activities with other WesternU students.
- Last Two Years
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Clinical Rotations
In your third and fourth years, you will complete 88 weeks of hospital and outpatient rotations through all of the major medical disciplines. There are also many elective rotations, including rotations at international sites, so you can develop skills to excel in your postdoctoral training.
StudyingIn between bedside visits and after hours, you will read up on procedures and treatments you are performing and practice techniques such as suturing and surgical knots. You will also spend a good deal of time, studying for your board exams.
- Non-Academic Time
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For long weekends or during spring and winter breaks, you can go home to see your family, ski, or maybe take a trip to Las Vegas. There are many cultural and recreational things to do when you live in Southern California, so our students try to take advantage of them when they can.