Mandatory class attendance?

[pharmal]

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Are most lectures mandatory to attend?

I have a much easier time with independent study using the textbooks and notes. Is this at least partially feasible in pharm school?

 

[kbv]

Tell me, where do you get the lecture notes w/o attending classes? Lecture notes here aren't the same as class handouts.

 

[pharmal]

I get the notes from friends. That's how I did it in College and had great results.

 

[confettiflyer]

Depends on the program. I have one class and one lab that has mandatory attendance. Clinic time is obviously mandatory. All the others have no requirement, and the lecture notes/powerpoint/recording are automatically uploaded online each day.

 

[kbv]

I get the notes from friends. That's how I did it in College and had great results.

Good luck of making that kind of friends in pharmacy school. To be honest, I've never wanted to befriend with people like you.

 

[kbv]

All the others have no requirement, and the lecture notes/powerpoint/recording are automatically uploaded online each day.

Depending on the school.

 

[pharmal]

Good luck of making that kind of friends in pharmacy school. To be honest, I've never wanted to befriend with people like you.

"People like me"??...Judgmental much, bro?

Newsflash, Albert: Not everyone learns the same way. There are those of us who learn much more effectively by reading a book in a quiet room than by sitting in a lecture hall and having powerpoints read to us. That doesn't make us any less motivated or academically inclined than "people like you".

 

[kbv]

To the OP, when I said what I said, I meant "lecture notes" are those unless you attend the class, there is no way you can take them (a recorder, maybe?). Usually your lecturer only provides the basic or most important info in the handouts/notes/packages/PPs whatever. Then he/she will elaborate or explain more during the lecture. Now my point is some of those elaborations/explanations will appear on your class exam. You would take advantage of your friends' hard work by borrowing their notes, right?, by not attending the class thus not having your own handwrittten notes?

 

[AsianGuy26]

The lectures at my school are not mandatory for the most part. Teamwork like what someone says is very important, as you learn to support one another in class. For example, I get pathophysiology and biochem very easy... I teach other classmates this... and they in turn help me with classes like pharmaceutics... which for the life of me is more difficult for me than say the other classes.

It is especially useful to form study groups I have found of like students. The study group that I am a part of consist of mostly pharm.d students. Usually we review quickly the classes and then go to specific questions that some people may have. You will be surprise just how much you can pick up during these sessions. Of course this won't work if someone is slacking and not doing their work... then this is hardly helpful. I have been fortunate.

😀

PS. I use a recorder to record the lectures and listen to them after. You have to do this especially if you want to do good I have found.

 

[confettiflyer]

Depending on the school.

Yeah...every school has different policies. SO glad my school makes it easy by making the lectures available online within an hour of class.

 

[confettiflyer]

=In ANY pharmacy setting it requires teamwork, something that you will not learn by locking yourself in a library room to study.

Well no ****, this is what we have IPPE's and APPE's for.

 

[Prepharm1214]

Certain classes, based partially on the teacher(s), I am way more productive if I spend the hour normally in class studying, than if I were to attend. All of my teachers post their powerpoint slides prior to class.

 

[k0ni]

A couple of my classes have mandatory attendance.. I used to be one of those students that hardly went to class for undergraduate and did just fine.. But so far, it's looking like attendance is necessary for most of my pharmacy classes. If you want to pass with a decent grade anyway. 😛