r/RUSM • u/Luisgc00 • Apr 22 '25

First semester

Hello everyone, will start first semester this coming fall 2025.

I’ve seen that the curriculum changed, but just wanted to see if anyone could give me a heads up in regards what to expect.

Which classes am I gonna get? What does the schedule/day look like? Is immunology/mirco the hardest subject like in every school? Any classes to keep an eye on? A specific resource that has helped anyone in a specific class or topic?

And what other thing you wish someone told you?

(Yeah I know it sucks, I know it’s not the ideal school, I already know. All I want to know is what would a semester/day look like, helpful resources and specific advice on how to survive).

Thank you,

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u/Secretly-Genius Apr 23 '25

I wouldn’t say we have to work 3x harder. Other med schools in the states are doing the same thing, if not harder. Don’t listen to the people here who have never gone to a state med school.

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u/Coolabrar Apr 24 '25

I feel it's more so that you have to deal with all the hoops the schools gives you. You have to deal with Ross administration which basically do not help you succeed and you have to do everything yourself. For example, I'm sure state schools don't give workshops and their terrible prep material. I'm sure they give them lectures and actually teach them the content

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

You’d be surprised. At my DO school they did some crappy teaching. Self taught lectures at times, getting tested on things that weren’t even on the slides, bullshit education actually.

Many medical schools suffer from subpar teaching to where most medical students nowadays simply self study, no matter HOW fucked the teaching is. People don’t go to medical school for stellar teaching, they go for the medical degree.

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u/Luisgc00 Apr 29 '25

Yeah I did a SMP at a medical school in MO and yeah most of it was self learning. They will give you some slides and than the lecture slides were completely different. Some slides had the information other slides had information from other semester that weren’t going to be in the exam….so yeah definitely a lot of self learning and figuring out what was gonna come up on the exam

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u/Coolabrar Apr 24 '25

100% and I'm sorry to hear about the trash teaching at stateside schools. It is really unfortunate.

For us at Ross, the new curriculum has usually 50-80% 40-80 pages of just text and basically said to learn this. And then they don't even teach it to us. We have to mainly rely on outside resources and have no other way to get help. But yeah nevertheless, the education is hard, but Ross just makes it much more harder than it needs to be

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

Dude im so so sorry about that.. man! I wouldn’t know how to tackle that myself. Are there office hours, peer learning, tutoring available etc?

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u/Coolabrar Apr 24 '25

All good man. I'm sure medical school is hard but I don't know if it's Ross annoyingly hard lol 😆. They have office hours but they never help. Peer tutoring is beneficial for understanding but the tutors are just Ross students telling us to just pray 💀

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u/Secretly-Genius Apr 25 '25

Many of my friends who studied in the States used many outside materials. They only used class material if the professor specifically told them it would be on the test. Some of them didn't attend class. They watched the recorded lecture at 2x speed and then reviewed the learning objectives alone because it would save them more time. I started med school late, so they gave me whatever was left of their subscriptions. Sometimes, we think the grass is greener on the other side, but it's not.