DMU First year

[Catayst]

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Does anybody know the name of the Biochemistry book they'll be using this year? I've got some extra time, might as well read somethin useful

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

The Biochemist don't use a book they have their own notes/book.

 

[el tobillo]

yea i remember during the tour on interview day they told us a lot of the notes are on power point and you download them.

 

[doclm]

The Biochemist don't use a book they have their own notes/book.

Is it Mueller who teaches your Biochem? Do DPM students usually take the PBL option?

 

[oncogene]

The biochem course is actually a tag team of professors. The first exam it is pretty much all Dr. Wilson(pretty much an entire undergrad in about a week and a half),the second part Dr. Schmidt and Dr. Mueller(carb and lipid metabolism, Third part Dr. Briethaupt(nitrogem metabolism, very complex), and the fourth and fifth part by schmidt and Briethaupt(molecular Biology). Some do take the PBL course but most don't.

Oncogene

 

[funfeet]

Just out of curiousity, what is the PBL course?

 

[densmore22]

PBL is Problem Based Learning. It's where you have a patient case, either real or made up, and each week, you are given more of the picture as of the disease or patient care (labs, imaging studies, treatments, etc), then you try to figure out what is wrong with the patient. The disease is usually associated with what you're studying at the time (i.e. Glycogen storage diseases would have a PBL during Glycogen metabolism on a patient with a Glycogen storage disease). I think you have 3 weeks per case in Biochem and most classes don't have a PBL option, I think Biochem was the only one for first years. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years are more involved w/ case studies and PBL. Maybe Feelgood or Jonwill can illucidate some of the details as to 3rd and 4th year. I know that 3rd year, Fall semester, you do clinics and then you do case presentations/work ups in smaller groups based on cases you see in clinic. Hope that helped.

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

PBL is Problem Based Learning. It's where you have a patient case, either real or made up, and each week, you are given more of the picture as of the disease or patient care (labs, imaging studies, treatments, etc), then you try to figure out what is wrong with the patient. The disease is usually associated with what you're studying at the time (i.e. Glycogen storage diseases would have a PBL during Glycogen metabolism on a patient with a Glycogen storage disease). I think you have 3 weeks per case in Biochem and most classes don't have a PBL option, I think Biochem was the only one for first years. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years are more involved w/ case studies and PBL. Maybe Feelgood or Jonwill can illucidate some of the details as to 3rd and 4th year. I know that 3rd year, Fall semester, you do clinics and then you do case presentations/work ups in smaller groups based on cases you see in clinic. Hope that helped.

It is as described. As a group, you establish "learning objectives." These are areas that the individuals and the group do not know or understand at an high enough level. So people in the group are assigned a topic and they report back to the group and teach them the issue.

As for how many people take the course, between the DOs and DPMs I would guess 30 to 50.