My name was called today along with the other half of the class as the professor handed us a piece of paper. Wondering what the fuck it was I open it up to see the first line reading, 'You have been chosen at random for a drug screening.' I laugh a bit then continue to wonder why the fuck this school administers drug tests - since when is medical school a professional sport? I mentioned before how the professors purposefully make the first semester exams significantly harder to weed out as many possible students, I'm assuming that these drug screens are just another game this school likes to throw at the students to fail us out. I can understand that the school would not want their students to be using drugs while on the island, but honestly who the fuck cares? It's unlikely that anyone using the enormous list of study aid drugs, adderall (any others? nope), would be taking advantage of it to the point where they're cheating in their studies, let alone making it into medical school in the first place had they been abusing drugs. Any other drugs are most likely going to be used for recreational purposes. The fact that they also look for traces of marijuana is just mind boggling. I also find it amusing that the drug screening is administered EXACTLY one month since we've first arrived on this island. Let the toxins flush out of our systems from our wild youth and acceptance celebrations. It's possible that since we're on foreign soil, they would want students to avoid any mishaps with the locals and all two police officers, but if you've seen this island I'm pretty sure everyone here is on drugs. If that is the case however, then it is slightly more reasonable, but they could've used other means than to surprise us all with stupid shit like this. With the big Dr. Auction party just this past Saturday, nearly all those present at the party were called for the screening with the exception of a few students who weren't there. But more likely of the cases, I've heard that these 'random' screenings aren't so random. They are usually sent out only once, at this point of the semester, and are directed towards those who are currently failing (with 74% of our class failing, the school is going to have a lot of piss to look through), not because they think the drugs are affecting their studies, but rather because they do not want to kick out the ones who may be doing drugs but are also doing well - where the fuck are the ethics in that? Missing your appointment for the screening also means that you are 'assumed' to be positive and your action will be taken 'very seriously.' The school warns us for a dozen different inappropriate actions all leading to a 'very serious' consequence. Just fucking say we will be kicked out instead of beating around the bush with your overly sized ego covered stick.
That's another reason why I absolutely hate this school; they're so unbelievably strict on nearly every single matter when it comes to not only student's rights, but also on matters like attendance, internet usage, etc. You wonder why this school in particular has such an amazing USMLE step 1 performance, well it's because they do not let students pass unless they are guaranteed to pass it. You could waste two agonizing years and $75,000+, all to fail your 5th semester classes or the NBME (exam required to be allowed to take the USMLE step 1). But don't get me wrong, this school definitely prepares the students (who go on to make it) the best for the upcoming USMLEs and performance in the future medical field, But the struggle through this school's academic praise is in no way worth it compared to other schools. I just found out too that my school teaches us extra shit that other medical schools don't even touch. SGU, another Caribbean medical school part of 'the big four' had twenty students fail out the first semester out of 500; we've already had over fifteen students of ninety-seven drop out after only one fucking exam.
I've got nothing to worry about concerning this randomized drug screen test, and apparently since it's to be only once a semester, happy drugging to all.
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