ABOVE AVERAGE IS OVER:

The future doctors of America cut class. Not to gossip in the bathroom or flirt behind the bleachers. They skip to learn -- at twice the speed.

Some medical students follow along with class remotely, watching sped-up recordings of their professors at home, in their pajamas. Others rarely tune in. At one school, attendance is so bad that a Nobel laureate recently lectured to mostly empty seats.

Nationally, nearly one-quarter of second-year medical students reported last year that they "almost never" attended class during their first two, preclinical years, a 5 percent increase from 2015.

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