Bonds form quickly among students at new medical school
LAS CRUCES – Spirits were high Thursday morning on the campus of the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, the state’s newest medical school. On Wednesday, students in the inaugural class had taken their first exam — 100 questions in 150 minutes. It covered what they had learned in the first seven days of school.
By all accounts, it was intense. Many students were studying 10 hours or more each day leading up to the exam.
“In many ways, this will be their hardest test,” said Robert Ketchum, associate dean for academic affairs and preclinical education. “They’re still adjusting to this amount of material, a new style of testing and a new approach to learning. But they’re doing pretty well.”
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Classes began Aug. 15 at BCOM, but even in the second week, a spirit of camaraderie is beginning to develop among the 162 students in the school’s first class.
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