That's the first honest thing to say. And it's the right place to start.
Hi. I'm Dr. Sharilyn Rennie. Welcome to STAT Success Cohort.
If you're here, something is not working. You're failing or at serious risk of failing Anatomy and Physiology, and you've decided that the path you're on isn't going to get you where you need to be. That decision alone matters.
You are training to work in healthcare. You already understand the difference between these two modes of care. We are using that same framework for academic work because the parallel is real, and because recognizing which mode you are in determines what happens next.
Preventative care is what happens when a patient is stable. Regular checkups, lifestyle counseling, screening, small adjustments. The interventions are gentle because they don't need to be strong. A patient who exercises, eats well, and sees their doctor annually may never need anything more. Prevention works by addition, slowly, over time.
Critical care is different. Critical care is what you do when a patient is unstable, when they are in the ICU, when the window for intervention is narrow and closing. The approach is different. The pace is different. The stakes are different. You cannot treat a coding patient with lifestyle counseling. You cannot stabilize a septic shock patient with a yearly checkup. Critical care requires direct intervention, immediate action, and a team that moves together.
Academic work has the same two modes.
A student who is doing well in a course is in preventative mode. Small adjustments, consistent habits, steady progress. This program is not for them. They don't need it and it would be overkill.
A student who is failing, or at serious risk of failing, is in critical mode. The window is narrowing. Small adjustments will not move the needle fast enough. What they need is the academic equivalent of critical care: direct intervention, immediate action, and a team that moves together.
That is what STAT Success Cohort is. Eight weeks of focused, team-based, structured intervention for students in the second mode.
You will recognize this pattern
The same principles that govern critical care in a hospital govern what we do here: fast assessment, team-based reasoning, specific action, honest tracking, repeat. You are training to run these protocols on patients. We are asking you to run them on yourself first.
STAT stands for Strategic Tools for Academic Transformation. It is not tutoring. It will not re-explain the material you're already drowning in. It's not a grade guarantee. No one can promise you an A&P grade, including me, and anyone who does is selling you something.
What STAT is: a structural intervention. Eight weeks of weekly live team sessions, a rhythm called the CODE cycle, a small team of other students in recovery with you, and a trained facilitator who knows how to hold the space. The work is yours. The structure is ours.
The underlying principle
Most students failing A&P are failing because accountability structures collapsed, not because they lack information. STAT Success Cohort is designed around that reality.
The next lesson walks you through exactly how the program runs. The lesson after that is your commitment contract, which you'll sign before Week 1 opens. Take both seriously.
If, after reading the commitment, you realize this isn't the right fit right now, that's honest information and we can talk about other paths.
For everyone else: I'll see you in Week 1. Let's get to work.