Depends on how compelling your application is.
Depends on the instructions for applying.
As others have said, it depends. But first things first--why do you want to be a PA/nurse rather than remediate your failed course?
Having taught PA students a long time ago, I have to ask why you think you can pass PA anatomy when you failed med school anatomy???
I need the OP to answer my question. Have you taught PA students?
Fair enough on your point about grading on a curve (at my med school, we took the same anatomy classes as the PA students, but it never occurred to me that we might be graded on a different curve). However, in my mind, it's kind of beside the point because it is still the same material. Even if there is some "curve" similar to your friend, and even if the OP had a 69... they would have just scraped by with a 75. If the original score was much lower, then a curve really doesn't matter. Even if they are not the EXACT same thing, the material is similar enough that I don't think it's a slam dunk that a failed med student can be a successful PA student regardless of whether there is a curve.
I would think the same would apply to just taking anatomy a second time in med school. If some nominal curve is the determining factor between passing or not that probably means the class is going to be a problem regardless of context
Whenever I see a post like this I assume the key information missing is OP's personality. On instinct, I sub in a mental image of someone who looks and acts a lot like me when reading posts, but that's rarely the reality. If we all had 5 minutes to talk to OP, I bet we'd say, "oh, this makes a lot more sense." The dropouts from my program were normal people, but generally didn't have that above-and-beyond drive of a typical med student. They just sort of got sick of the culture, which is fair enough. I think we had 2 dropouts, and I don't think they surprised anyone.
I don't think anyone was being rude to you... it is pretty atypical to react to a failure by quitting altogether without attempting to remediate/repeat a year, so understanding the reasoning for wanting to go down that route is important for us to be able to answer how possible this switch would be. If your friend(s) is/are unable or unwilling to provide additional information, then they are unlikely to get a useful response beyond "it depends."
I will say, at the school I went to, first year med students and the first year PA students took the exact same anatomy lecture course / tests with the same professors. I am not sure if the PA students had curves or whatnot though.
That is what I said as well to her. Why quit if you made it this far? Her school does not allow remediation, period. A relatively large number of students will be repeating a year. As I said, some schools have very strict rules in place. I can’t provide additional info as I don’t know these students. All she said, they are hard working, studied their tails off and unfortunately something didn’t click for them to get a passing score. I was genuinely only curious to learn of options that could possibly be open to students that choose to discontinue their med school journey. We don’t know what terms are given, how many repeat fails are “allowed” before students are dismissed completely. So can completely understand if some are looking for other options outside of med school.
Smells like VCOM... or perhaps IMG?
Thank you for explaining everything in post #15.
Thank you for your response. Believe it or not but I did become concerned and yet curious about such situation, as realistically speaking it happens across the nation at all med schools. As mentioned previously, I don’t know these people or their actual reasons. I go by what I was told. Of course things are in their hands and how they are going to address it, their issue. It is simply curiosity that took over, what happens if?! As a friend, I am very loyal and there for her as she is for me at anytime, we know each other since we were children. Our families are friends too, so absolutely nothing wrong with being a concerned human that is there for a special person in our life. I just don’t understand the agression that lives within people where a simple question starts a fire.
Thank you! Realistically, people should not be using their wild imagination and jump to conclusions just because a poster says “a friend”! If it was me God forbid, I would be living in the administration office to get answers lol although let’s admit not all act in their students interest. Also, not every med student is on SDN or even if they are,they don’t post but silently monitor. I understand and respect their decision to do so. We live in a harsh world where people are judged without understanding what this person might be experiencing and not everyone wants to put themselves out there for this or any other reason.
People come to SDN for realistic advice, not hugs and kisses. It doesn't help when the OP is very sparse in information. Kinda wastes our time.
One has to get through a nursing program first
Wild how much variation there is in PA education too. So at our school, that is definitely not the case. I remediated anatomy, and the remediation was taken with the PA students. It was 100x easier. To put it simply, I was making like 40s in my med school class and I was getting high 90s on the remediated class before a curve. Obviously it was easier for me since I had already seen the material once (but at the same time, there were people in my M1 class who did SMPs who basically had anatomy before). But I am 99% positive that if I took the PA version the first time, I would pass and maybe even high pass. I even started blowing off studying for the remediation because it was so much easier as a class. The questions were hardly ever second order.
You'll be fine with a pa application. Lots of pa schools out there. Nursing requires nurse education
