I heard there was a Morman cheating scandle back in the days at OCPM? Anyone know about what happened? Is this just a rumor?
It may or may not have happened. This situation supposedly took place awhile ago though. I believe a group of mormon students either had a copies of the exams or had a large amount of old test material that no one else had...therefore they had a clear advantage over their classmates. Something to that nature I believe. I remember reading it randomly a long long time ago.
Are you transferring there now?
I don't actually but I'm not going to let someone insinuate I'm singling out a specific group of people either.
Sound advice and I will watch it from here on out. But honestly, SDN is not the end all be all of podiatry news. Etalk podiatry is worse (at times) in my opinion...over there you sometimes see practicing pods bickering with each other.
Thats like the pot calling the kettle black. You've been on these forums for quite some time and you have def had your fair share of outrageous negative comments towards a plethora of pre-pod and pod students.
I've never heard of that story, but one time a professor did mention the "boards scandal". From what I heard there was some sort of study guide that students had (from various schools). The students took boards and passed. Then, the people who wrote the boards got mad and accused a lot of people of cheating. There were some lawsuits and the board administration lost. That's all I know...Others have elluded to it but either people are getting things confused or else these are two completely separate incidents. When I started school, I came in on the tale end of the whole NBPME Part I fiasco. You used to have a week to take the test. Certain schools (and I honestly don't even remember which ones at this point) would send their stronger students in to take the test. They had some system where they would each remember some questions, come out, and write the questions down. The weaker students would take the test at the end of the week and by that point, would have a fair amount of the questions. The questions were then saved for incoming classes. Needless to say, it all blew up and lawsuits started flying left and right and the test and the way in which it was administered was completely changed, etc. But this did not happen AT OCPM.
Or there may be some completely different incident that happened at OCPM.
That's the story I heard.Others have elluded to it but either people are getting things confused or else these are two completely separate incidents. When I started school, I came in on the tale end of the whole NBPME Part I fiasco. You used to have a week to take the test. Certain schools (and I honestly don't even remember which ones at this point) would send their stronger students in to take the test. They had some system where they would each remember some questions, come out, and write the questions down. The weaker students would take the test at the end of the week and by that point, would have a fair amount of the questions. The questions were then saved for incoming classes. Needless to say, it all blew up and lawsuits started flying left and right and the test and the way in which it was administered was completely changed, etc. But this did not happen AT OCPM.
Or there may be some completely different incident that happened at OCPM.
so with all this being said... I don't see why the OP even cares?
Just curious because I heard some admin got in trouble for it? I was thinking that was maybe why OCPM gets such a bad rap?
I've never heard that, but I did hear that the school sued the boards organization and won... which may have caused bad blood between the two organizations.Just curious because I heard some admin got in trouble for it? I was thinking that was maybe why OCPM gets such a bad rap?
I've never heard that, but I did hear that the school sued the boards organization and won... which may have caused bad blood between the two organizations.
Once again, why does this matter at all??
it's never bad to know the history of a potential school you want to go to, or possibly the school you graduated from.
Since this involved the scores being thrown out for every pod school in the country, it's probably important to know exactly what happened, and how it was resolved for all the students who followed the honor code and were unjustly punished.
If it happened once, it can happen again. This probably doesn't matter to practicing pods, but for a student getting into one of these schools, it might make a world of a difference. Getting information is never bad. Take it easy guys...
We are all assumingly bright, talented individuals. Is this really how you decide where you go to school?
Yeah that was why someone said that the admin was accused of doing something that the board didn't approve of (cheating in their mind) is that what happened? Or were the admin suing for the students?
Also, the reason I heard this was a couple of friends were getting together over christmas break and one friend who is in dental school was talking about a wide scale dental school cheating scandal and another friend (medical student) that goes to the Caribbean was talking about a Caribbean med school cheating scandal so that was what made me look around about cheating in professional schools.