Has anyone taken the online Medical Physiology class offered by UNE? I'm taking it this summer (about 10 weeks time frame). Online classes can be hit or miss, so if anyone is taking or has already taken this course, please share your experience.
Online Medical Physiology via UNE
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It was decent. You need to be a self-motivated individual as there's a lot of material to cover and while there are narrated power points, you're really teaching yourself most of the material. Also, the tests are closed book and must be taken using an online proctor site.
Physiology is the type of class I wish I could have taken in an actual classroom, but I had to do it online to meet an application deadline. If online is your only option, it's worthwhile.
Physiology is the type of class I wish I could have taken in an actual classroom, but I had to do it online to meet an application deadline. If online is your only option, it's worthwhile.
The lectures are dry as they are just power point slides and the instructor seems to be reading from a script. I am in the class now but have not taken the first exam. I am using the objectives as the study guide. There's not a lot of soft infrastructure. For example, when I signed up for the first test in my anatomy course via CSU the instructor emailed me how to prepare, know the objectives cold, and the format of the test, fill in the blank. The anatomy class also had a nice introductory video to the layout of the course and gets you acquainted with the instructor and how labs are done.
The UNE medical physiology course had no introduction and also no real connection with the instructors.
Do the practice exams help at all in determining how well you will do on the exam?
From another forum: http://allnurses.com/pre-nursing-student/une-882560.html
"The class I took through UNE was pretty time consuming. There are 4 exams (the 4th exam is not comprehensive) with 61 multiple choice questions and 3 T/F questions on each exam. In my class, each exam covered 3-6 chapters each, and some chapters were pretty long. There are online powerpoint lectures for each chapter. The exams are proctored, meaning you log in to a website (ProctorU) and a proctor will watch you on a camera while you take your exam. The exams are timed, I don't remember how long, but it was plenty of time for me. You definitely need to know the material for the exams. I would think Micro. would be a little bit easier than Physiology, but who knows. If you're not working and not taking other classes then you should be able to do it. It took me about 6 months to finish, but I was working full-time and was taking Micro. at a community college as well. I ended up with a B+ for the Medical Physiology Online course.
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The only down side to this course is that some schools won't accept an online lab. However, some schools will. I checked with the nursing programs I was applying to to see if they would accept this course before I even signed up. One would, and one wouldn't - because of the online lab. They might accept the lecture grade though if you have already taken the course with an in-person lab before, and are just repeating the course for a better grade. For example, when I first took Physiology at UH-CL, I got a B in Physiology Lab, but a C in Physiology Lecture, so one of the schools I applied to agreed to take the new lecture grade (from UNE), but not the new lab grade. It really just depends on the schools you are applying to."
The UNE medical physiology course had no introduction and also no real connection with the instructors.
Do the practice exams help at all in determining how well you will do on the exam?
From another forum: http://allnurses.com/pre-nursing-student/une-882560.html
"The class I took through UNE was pretty time consuming. There are 4 exams (the 4th exam is not comprehensive) with 61 multiple choice questions and 3 T/F questions on each exam. In my class, each exam covered 3-6 chapters each, and some chapters were pretty long. There are online powerpoint lectures for each chapter. The exams are proctored, meaning you log in to a website (ProctorU) and a proctor will watch you on a camera while you take your exam. The exams are timed, I don't remember how long, but it was plenty of time for me. You definitely need to know the material for the exams. I would think Micro. would be a little bit easier than Physiology, but who knows. If you're not working and not taking other classes then you should be able to do it. It took me about 6 months to finish, but I was working full-time and was taking Micro. at a community college as well. I ended up with a B+ for the Medical Physiology Online course.
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The only down side to this course is that some schools won't accept an online lab. However, some schools will. I checked with the nursing programs I was applying to to see if they would accept this course before I even signed up. One would, and one wouldn't - because of the online lab. They might accept the lecture grade though if you have already taken the course with an in-person lab before, and are just repeating the course for a better grade. For example, when I first took Physiology at UH-CL, I got a B in Physiology Lab, but a C in Physiology Lecture, so one of the schools I applied to agreed to take the new lecture grade (from UNE), but not the new lab grade. It really just depends on the schools you are applying to."
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I am done with the course, watch the power point lectures as dry as they are and take lots of notes, and study really hard for the third exam, also I utilized khan academy videos when I needed a visual. did anyone else get stung by the third exam?
