Crappy notes

[Frank Nutter]

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These notes some of our professors make are awful. Some of them just go on a stream of conscious with random formatting here and there. Doesn't even seem like they are trying.

I feel like my undergrad professors were much better educators. Notes were logically organized and concise.

And I'm not sure it is the amount or complexity of the material that is the problem. I took grad level physiology classes and they were fine (as far as quality of presentation of the material).

Maybe I just go to a sh*tty school...

 

[DrCJU]

I think the notes are rough outlines of what we should be learning and it's up to us to fill in the gaps. I find that the older profs provide notes that are lacking in important info(or put up lecture notes the day AFTER the lecture) lest they accidentally spoon feed us

It's not so bad though cause it makes you study for the knowledge needed to pass boards and not just study for knowledge to pass the course

 

[MossPoh]

I find IF the prof provides notes and they happen to be crappy, I actually learn the stuff better. It forces me to reformat and organize them which is much more helpful for me than simply reading them.

 

[Knicks]

lmao @ username

 

[engineeredout]

I find it hilarious how many physicians are still unable to use the correct form of "Their/they're/there".

 

[islandCrazy]

I hate the notes my profs give so I simply just read textbooks. I get through chapters in Guyton much faster then figuring out what on earth my prof is talking about.

 

[Rollo]

Most profs are either PhD's who would rather be in the lab rather than lecturing or clinicians who have had very little training in how to be efficient educators.

There should be a "How to Teach" mandatory workshop that every lecturer should take before they are to lecture in med school.

 

[Knicks]

So why exactly do med schools charge students an arm and a leg if the professors are crap for the most part?

Why?


Why so expensive for something that we're practically doing ourselves? Do we really need to pay that much money to have a crap "professor" standing up there "teaching" us?

What a scam!

 

[MossPoh]

On the other side of things, why do you people still complain about their teachers? Is there honestly stuff that you can't wrap your mind around? I'm not a genius by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm yet to encounter anything that I haven't been able to understand after a little time or leg work in medical school.

I've always been a little baffled over the constant complaints of how people can't teach. I've always been programmed to believe that teachers stop after high school. In college and onward, you have lecturers and it is your job to to learn/teach it. Their job is simply to present the information in a different format. Some places do charge obscene amounts of money, but don't overestimate how expensive it is to run and maintain a medical school. Surprisingly little of your money actually goes to paying those professors. They probably could charge less in most cases if they ran things efficiently.

 

[Rollo]

On the other side of things, why do you people still complain about their teachers? Is there honestly stuff that you can't wrap your mind around? I'm not a genius by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm yet to encounter anything that I haven't been able to understand after a little time or leg work in medical school.

I've always been a little baffled over the constant complaints of how people can't teach. I've always been programmed to believe that teachers stop after high school. In college and onward, you have lecturers and it is your job to to learn/teach it. Their job is simply to present the information in a different format. Some places do charge obscene amounts of money, but don't overestimate how expensive it is to run and maintain a medical school. Surprisingly little of your money actually goes to paying those professors. They probably could charge less in most cases if they ran things efficiently.

There is still no excuse to presenting easy-to-understand information in a very complicated way.

Come to think of it, most of my professors in college were pretty good teachers. I can only think of one or maybe two from whom I did not learn much and had to resort to looking stuff up in textbooks. I used to rely on my notes, which I took in class, pretty much all of the time.

That completely changed in medical school mostly because of the slow pace of lecturers and poor teaching methodologies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I'm merely pointing out that medical students would greatly benefit if basic science professors got their act together and became better at teaching (or at least better at organizing their powerpoints...that would be a good start).

Though I do wonder the point of having a "professor" in medical school except for administering poorly-written exams.