Guest lecturers

[Jay Sherman]

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Do you guys have this problem in medical schooll?


Basically at my undergrad, the upper level science prof would occassionally invite a guest lecturer every other week or so to discuss a current field of research and give a PowerPoint presentation. Some of the guest speakers were pretty good, but others were pretty bad/disorganized at explaining their research or were simply terribly boring.

The problem is that we get tested on these lectures. A good portion (10-20%) of our midterms and finals consisted of questions based on these guest lecturers. This wouldn't be a problem if we know what we were going to be tested on or had a reference text to read, but the only reference that we are given are a dozen research articles that the presenter cites at the end. It could take hours or days to go through all the articles and we never really know what details we were going to get tested on.

So I was wondering if this is the case in medical school. Do all the test questions revolve around basic science or USMLE type questions or do the professors invite outside guest lecturers to give present and make up test questions?

 

[dude1344]

I'm only a first year, but we've had very few so far. Mainly clinical correlates to what we've been learning, and composing around 2-3 questions. Basically if you were in lecture and you were awake you'd be fine.

 

[FloatOn]

I'm not in med school yet, but I'm taking a class that is completely made up of guest lecturers. Thankfully we're only tested on what they present in class. So far, they've been interesting.

 

[silverhorse84]

We have a lot of guest lecturers and it depends on the course as to whether or not they're tested. In gross anatomy, our main professor went over what material would be on the exam. In neuro, the guest lecturers are for clinical correlation classes that aren't tested, but often help you understand the main material. In biochemistry, they were tested on, and we were not told what - however, the professor sat in the back and listened to the lecture, so we knew questions would come straight from the lecture.