Have a little courtesy and QUIT ASKING ******ED QUESTIONS IN LECTURE

[Shroom]

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I ask questions during lecture because it enhances my understanding of the material. I'm paying a ridiculous amount of money to be there, so I am going to get the most I can out of it. **** everyone that doesn't like it.

 

[RxnMan]

I ask questions during lecture because it enhances my understanding of the material. I'm paying a ridiculous amount of money to be there, so I am going to get the most I can out of it. **** everyone that doesn't like it.

And so is every one of your classmates. Lecture time is at a premium. Office hours exist so that students to ask questions one-on-one. Use each time appropriately.

 

[Taus]

I ask questions during lecture because it enhances my understanding of the material. I'm paying a ridiculous amount of money to be there, so I am going to get the most I can out of it. **** everyone that doesn't like it.

We are all in the same boat.....and we all shouldn't have to suffer when its so easy to save a question for after class

 

[Shroom]

We are all in the same boat.....and we all shouldn't have to suffer when its so easy to save a question for after class

I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a TS classification. Asking questions during class allows me to understand the material better since we are covering the topic at the time when I have a question.

 

[braluk]

lets not jump down anyones throat, if its a quesiton thats relevant to the lecture and gives us a better understanding of someone then great, if its a question that you could have answered by reading then by all means save it for later. Most questions that people ask in my class can usually be answeed by looking in a book for the required reading, whether or not they read it, or not, or didn't understand it is another issue.

 

[78222]

I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a TS classification. Asking questions during class allows me to understand the material better since we are covering the topic at the time when I have a question.

I'm not saying you should never ask a question. I am saying you shouldn't ask questions that could either easily be looked up, or are completely irrelevent to discussion. Also, you should limit yourself to a question or two a lecture. This isn't a one on one session.

 

[eralza]

I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a TS classification. Asking questions during class allows me to understand the material better since we are covering the topic at the time when I have a question.

More likely than not, if you are asking more than a question per week, you are either failing to read the material beforehand or simply trying to show everyone how you are thinking beyond the scope of the lecture. Let's be honest, the material they present in lecture isn't complicated and it usually doesn't need clarification. If so, jot a note to yourself; then read the text or do a google search. If all else fails, talk to a classmate or send the professor an email.

 

[Reimat]

More likely than not, if you are asking more than a question per week, you are either failing to read the material beforehand or simply trying to show everyone how you are thinking beyond the scope of the lecture. Let's be honest, the material they present in lecture isn't complicated and it usually doesn't need clarification. If so, jot a note to yourself; then read the text or do a google search. If all else fails, talk to a classmate or send the professor an email.

Exactly.

And, as someone said earlier, there is no need to stop class to correct the professor for an obvious mistake. Everyone knows exactly what he/she meant to say, the only exception being the people who were zoned out and not following the lecture in the first place.

This thread is a great place to relieve a little stress 😀

 

[Orthonut]

More likely than not, if you are asking more than a question per week, you are either failing to read the material beforehand or simply trying to show everyone how you are thinking beyond the scope of the lecture. Let's be honest, the material they present in lecture isn't complicated and it usually doesn't need clarification. If so, jot a note to yourself; then read the text or do a google search. If all else fails, talk to a classmate or send the professor an email.

Seriously, I'm giving a one-woman standing ovation (mostly cause everyone else is either a) hungover or b)still drunk from the party last night and I'm like the only one in the library)

I know it's a lot of stuff-but a quick scan before lecture, actually PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LECTURE (why bother attending if you're not going to pay attention?) and then using your handy-dandy pencil and notepad to jot questions/higlight confusing passages-you can do either a)google them b) ask a classmate about them c) look them up in the text/reference text d) ask the prof about them during office hours etc etc etc

I really only ask questions if I am confused about something and I look around the room and everyone else has that WTF? look on their face and I can't find it in a quick google or medline search (we get wireless in some lecture halls) I raise my hand, wait until called upon and ask a short and to the point question I think maybe once a term though. Not very often.

Edit: and if I'm asking something-it's during that topic. Nothing ruins the flow of a good lecture more than a question on a topic that you've already moved on from.

Sure, it's "just a question" but what would happen if each of us asked two questions in each class every day? We'd all still be in lecture, that's what.

 

[DMB41]

This is a public service announcement.

Also, ask honest to god questions. Do not repeat what the prof just said. The entire class does not need to be present for your daily ego stroking requirements.

 

[8744]

The importance of that question you are burning to ask will fade as quickly as an Italian chicks beauty once you marry her. You know...she's pretty at first but one day you roll over and see the hair coming out of the mole.

In the great scheme of medical education, you are going to forget everything you knew about the Kreb's cycle (even how to spell it) except that it involves citric acid or something like that so your annoying questions are not only annoying but useless.

People need to keep their cake-holes shut. This applies to lectures, small groups, and rounding. The correct action at the end of a lecture, small group, or team rounds is to keep your lips firmly clamped and nod like a demented chimpanzee at everything which is said to you. Especially on rounds.

This way, there is no risk that even a half-uttered syllable will set your attending off on ten minutes of frenzied exposition of his particular area of research. I have an attending who I swear is on meth. I was post-call the other day and one of my buddies who knew I wanted to go home kept asking him questions just to see how long he would talk and how much he could annoy me.

He was still talking when my pager went off thirty minutes later and I finally was able to break contact.

Folks, it's not worth it. We are not the "Metaphor Speaking People" from Star Trek the Next Generation. We have books. I have questions too, on occasion but I have the basic human decency to look up the answers myself.

 

[8744]

Or, as my Drill Instructor used to say, "The only stupid question is the one you just asked."

 

[45408]

Also, ask honest to god questions. Do not repeat what the prof just said. The entire class does not need to be present for your daily ego stroking requirements.

Haha, there's a girl in our class who asks questions that are extremely straightforward, but are the sort of thing that I just try to figure out on my own - because I'm afraid nobody else is as lost as I am. 😛 It's usually helpful when she asks.

 

[Taus]

I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a TS classification. Asking questions during class allows me to understand the material better since we are covering the topic at the time when I have a question.

whats a TS classification?

btw....We all know what an honest, well-timed, non-rude, relevent, key-point-clarifying question sounds like....and those are okay when they are necessary (which btw is not very often)....and we all know what those "other" kinds of questions are ( the kind that makes me wish everyone in the class could push a button and if the majority of the class pushes it at the same time...the question asker gets the $hit shocked out of him/her )....

 

[DoctorPardi]

It's great when you have a legitimate question, but get stuck behind the guy who goes through every page of the lecture notes and asks, "Is this important?"

I am not in medical school yet, but I see this in undergrad too often. I was sitting in a professor's office during office hours once. I was actually getting some assistance with a difficult concept in genetics. Then he gets a phone call from a student who asks him, "hey is [very specific example] going to be on the test? If it is can you explain it to me real quick?"

So he told him like 20-30 pages in the book to read about it, and then hung up the phone and said, "well I am taking [specific example] off the test" and laughed.

 

[PrettyDoctor]

There was a girl in my medical school class who used to ask 3-4 questions every single day and our entire class hated her guts. Then last year she was killed in a car accident. I don't know what the moral of this story is, but it was very tragic 🙁

 

[raidermedic]

People need to keep their cake-holes shut. This applies to lectures, small groups, and rounding. The correct action at the end of a lecture, small group, or team rounds is to keep your lips firmly clamped and nod like a demented chimpanzee at everything which is said to you. Especially on rounds.

Thank you again Panda for offering up real world tell it like it is advice.

 

[Shroom]

whats a TS classification?

TS = Tough****

 

[Shroom]

Thank you again Panda for offering up real world tell it like it is advice.

I wouldn't totally agree with that. I have rounded with some docs that expect people to ask questions. They assume you are lazy or asleep if you don't ask at least one question during rounds.

 

[FenderHM]

3/4 questions is a little much but dont get down on the peeps just trying to learn

 

[8744]

I wouldn't totally agree with that. I have rounded with some docs that expect people to ask questions. They assume you are lazy or asleep if you don't ask at least one question during rounds.

True. But then I don't really care what they think. I liked some rotations in Medical school, worked hard at them, and got good letters. For the rest of them I just did my job, gritted my teeth, and kept my pie-hole shut.

Now that I'm in residency, I care even less if my off-service attendings think I am dull. I have a great deal of respect for almost all of them but I'm not going to force a question just to reassure them of my interest.

I actually do ask questions of my attendings now because it matters to patient care. But I try to be succint and only ask questions that have a definite answer like, "Do you think this guy needs a chest tube?"

 

[gujuDoc]

There was a girl in my medical school class who used to ask 3-4 questions every single day and our entire class hated her guts. Then last year she was killed in a car accident. I don't know what the moral of this story is, but it was very tragic 🙁

Wow can you say classless and inane??? Why exactly did you post this?? No wonder you were banned.

Ohh and people asking stupid questions in an annoying fashion happens in undergrad too. I used to know a girl, now a 2nd year med student at one of the Fl. schools, who used to do what you all are describing.

It used to drive me up the wall because she would do this during our research lab group meetings too. I work in an ochem lab that is meant for doing natural products research looking for anticancer compounds. At any rate, she never even started a project and would come to the lab meetings even though she did nothing in the lab at all. Then she would interrupt the grad students and professor and start suggesting all sorts of biochemistry lab techniques that were irrelevant to our lab and would act like a know it all. It started to get insanely annoying. She'd do the same sort of thing in lectures too. no wonder the same professors that would willingly write letters for other people told her to write her own and they'd just sign it rather then writing it for her.

She was in an MCAT course and several undergad classes with me too. i wonder if she's still like this as a med student but it used to drive me up the wall. There's a place and time for asking questions and wasting the whole class time or lab meeting asking them was not it.

 

[Wee Free Woman]

I think asking questions that are relevant are important. Because we all have questions that crop up in our mind, and the question is on everyone's mind or the question can lead us to be better doctors, then those questions should be asked.

Alternatively, some medical schools might want to think of inputting some optional question/answer time period (a formalized session immediately after the lecture) for those who are interested. Whoever doesn't care, doesn't have to stick around. (?)

I understand there are only so many hours in the day and so much of your learning is memorization, but if no one asks questions then I don't think you get that much out of it.

I think its a bit selfish and childish to want to get out of class 2-3 minutes early and therefore not be tolerant of some questions during class. Those few minutes are not going to ruin anyone. It just feels like they will though, because we are all so stressed out.

 

[beefballs]

I think asking questions that are relevant are important. Because we all have questions that crop up in our mind, and the question is on everyone's mind or the question can lead us to be better doctors, then those questions should be asked.

Alternatively, some medical schools might want to think of inputting some optional question/answer time period (a formalized session immediately after the lecture) for those who are interested. Whoever doesn't care, doesn't have to stick around. (?)

I understand there are only so many hours in the day and so much of your learning is memorization, but if no one asks questions then I don't think you get that much out of it.

I think its a bit selfish and childish to want to get out of class 2-3 minutes early and therefore not be tolerant of some questions during class. Those few minutes are not going to ruin anyone. It just feels like they will though, because we are all so stressed out.

the problem with this is two-fold
a-alot of people will stay for fear that they are gonna miss something for the test
b-you still have to wait through all the dumba55 questions to get to something pertinent

 

[gujuDoc]

the problem with this is two-fold
a-alot of people will stay for fear that they are gonna miss something for the test
b-you still have to wait through all the dumba55 questions to get to something pertinent

see this is my thing.....I don't have problems with questions being asked if someone is asking something relative to what we are learning. But when its the same person who asks like 10 gazillion bajillion questions like within the span of 50 minutes on things sometimes irrelevant to the course just because they read something in a news or journal article that's when things get annoying. That's what the girl I was describing used to do when she was at my university and when she did a brief stint in our research lab. She would ask questions that were more pertinent to a biochemistry lab in our organic chemistry natural products isolation lab which didn't apply to us and started acting like it was a better idea based on her limited one biochemistry course in the summer.

That is when things get to be annoying as living hell. Then she was in the lab one day washing the column chromatography apparatus in the most inefficient way because a former grad student couldn't tell her out is usually done and told her to do it in a way that takes 3 hours or more as opposed to less then 10 minutes and she didn't want to listen when others were trying to tell her the more efficient manner of doing things because she was such a know it all and only her grad student mentor was god.

Half the time she did nothing in the lab and came only to be annoying at the meetings. At first I didn't mind her because I had respect for her but later on she started acting stuck up. I remember helping her one time and then asked her to help me later on in return and she acted like I was cheating which I was not, even though I did wayyyyy more to help her when she needed it.

That's what I find annoying. People should only ask questions if they are relevant to the information or things being presented rather than for the sake of hearing their own voice.

 

[RxnMan]

see this is my thing.....I don't have problems with questions being asked if someone is asking something relative to what we are learning. But when its the same person who asks like 10 gazillion bajillion questions like within the span of 50 minutes on things sometimes irrelevant to the course just because they read something in a news or journal article that's when things get annoying. That's what the girl I was describing used to do when she was at my university and when she did a brief stint in our research lab. She would ask questions that were more pertinent to a biochemistry lab in our organic chemistry natural products isolation lab which didn't apply to us and started acting like it was a better idea based on her limited one biochemistry course in the summer.

This hits on two of my peeves.

One is people asking too basic of questions: If a group of us are trying to review a subject, and you didn't bother to at least read the chapter and understand the basics before the study session, then have the curtesy (sp?) of leaving now - it's a review for everyone, not "Let's bring the dead weight up to our level." It's selfish and a waste of the group's time.

The second is parroting syndrome. Say someone asks a question of me. I explain it to them. They immediately turn to their neighbor and (unasked) explain the same concept in an authoritative tone and pimp them on it, as if they hadn't just heard it for the first time, 5 seconds ago.

 

[Orthonut]

I think asking questions that are relevant are important. Because we all have questions that crop up in our mind, and the question is on everyone's mind or the question can lead us to be better doctors, then those questions should be asked.

Alternatively, some medical schools might want to think of inputting some optional question/answer time period (a formalized session immediately after the lecture) for those who are interested. Whoever doesn't care, doesn't have to stick around. (?)

Sounds good in theory. But you know what would happen here? Here, they would make this "optional" (read:you better come because we're going to input some obscure stuff in here) someone would ask an obscure question and get a response that isn't in the notes, wasn't covered in lecture and isn't in the 'suggested text'-and there would be like 879 out of 900 questions of the final on that topic.

 

[sacallaco]

There's an individual in class that echoes every single word or phrase the professor says at the end of his sentence. It's insane and I want to strangle her.

EDIT: oh yeah, and she asks questions too

 

[deleted109597]

Sounds good in theory. But you know what would happen here? Here, they would make this "optional" (read:you better come because we're going to input some obscure stuff in here) someone would ask an obscure question and get a response that isn't in the notes, wasn't covered in lecture and isn't in the 'suggested text'-and there would be like 879 out of 900 questions of the final on that topic.

We had this problem. There was an optional review before an anatomy test, and during that, one of the profs was like "he is going to pin this muscle, and you won't know what it is because you can't separate the pelvic girdle muscles, but the answer he wants is iliococcygeus." Well, everyone there got it right, and less than half of those not there didn't.

I love it when they do that crap.

 

[Hayden2102]

There was a student in my class who in the first lecture, put her hand up (while the lecturer was explaining something) and asked:

"Is this course hard?"

No kidding.


She later interrupted another lecturer, MID SENTENCE, during a practical class with about a hundred students in it, to ask what percentage of the year's mark this practical's worksheet was worth. The lecturer calmly told her that if she adjust the direction of her eyes 90 degrees downwards, she would see on the paper directly in front of her that it was worth 2%.

The final time she embarassed herself was when she walked in to a lecture late and walked down to the lecturing professor to get the lecture's notes off him. The professor stopped lecturing and stared at her. She asked for the notes, and he said he doesn't provide notes for people who walk in ten minutes late. It was SO funny because after this year she seriously needed to be told off LOL.

 

[rpkall]

Nothing wrong with storming the podium when the prof is done teaching. This strategy is fine by me--especially when the rest of the class wants to get OUT of the lecture hall at the end of the class.

 

[Orthonut]

There was a student in my class who in the first lecture, put her hand up (while the lecturer was explaining something) and asked:

"Is this course hard?"

No kidding.


She later interrupted another lecturer, MID SENTENCE, during a practical class with about a hundred students in it, to ask what percentage of the year's mark this practical's worksheet was worth. The lecturer calmly told her that if she adjust the direction of her eyes 90 degrees downwards, she would see on the paper directly in front of her that it was worth 2%.

The final time she embarassed herself was when she walked in to a lecture late and walked down to the lecturing professor to get the lecture's notes off him. The professor stopped lecturing and stared at her. She asked for the notes, and he said he doesn't provide notes for people who walk in ten minutes late. It was SO funny because after this year she seriously needed to be told off LOL.

Heh. I think I know that prof. We have one here that will stop lecture if you come in late, wait until you sit down, then look up, see that you left the door open, wait until you get all settled in your seat with your notes out and say "YOU FORGOT TO CLOSE THE DOOR" and just stare at you.

 

[jonster555]

my favorite "stupid" question of year from someone in my class:

" do the the cells of the bronchus secrete renin?"

- we had JUST finished the cardio system

 

[78222]

I quit posting in this thread because I completely quit attending lectures. Good riddance.

 

[sponge]

One of our lecturers told us about a game he and his classmates used to play while in class. he called it "idiot bingo" but that's because he couldn't say the word that they used in lecture.

Anyways, how to play:

1) sit in the back of the auditorium
2) prepare bingo cards, 3x3, with the names of people who frequently ask stupid questions. On the top of each card, write a word that has nothing to do medicine (the lecturer gave us the example 'potato'). Distribute among your friends in class.
3) as they ask stupid questions, mark your card. if you get 3 in a row, you almost win.
4) to claim victory, you have to ask a question using that word written on the top of your card.

our class doesn't ask many questions in lecture, so we can't play. I figured I'd share. enjoy 😀

 

[toolmuchfun]

As a person who's been to through a PhD program and Medical school I'll say this...

Medical school is about PAYING FOR THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE BOARDS. Most students dont understand this and thus think its about the socratic method. Well, I wish it was but its not. The ppl lecturing dont want to be there and there are books available that teach what you need to know for the boards. You have a right to ask questions but the conflict btwn those that do and those that are annoyed is all about persepctive.