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its a lot fo time.. but it also depends on how wel you wanna do. At my school to get A's you have to put in alot of time.. a whole lot. To get B's.. your still busy.. but its not all consuming. to get Cs and below.. you don't gotta do jack..
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I work part time and don't study on weekends. I'll probably end up with about 3.0 GPA. I know some people who aren't making the mandatory 2.0 GPA and they study their butts off and don't work. It just depends on your ability to absorb lots of information. If you watch all the lectures and try to review the material you won't have time for much of anything else.
There are about 20 hours of lecture per week, research projects with presentations about every two weeks and off campus practicums about once a month. You should be able to work about 10 hours a week, if you don't care if you make A's.
I talked to one girl tonight who is on her second attempt at pathopysiology. She doesn't think that she made a C, so she's out of the program. Tonight's final was killer. 128 questions in 2 hours. Some people didn't have time to finish. Plus there were drug clearance calculation problems and we weren't allowed calculators. Those were time consuming. They could have made it easier by keeping all the units the same.
There are about 20 hours of lecture per week, research projects with presentations about every two weeks and off campus practicums about once a month. You should be able to work about 10 hours a week, if you don't care if you make A's.
I talked to one girl tonight who is on her second attempt at pathopysiology. She doesn't think that she made a C, so she's out of the program. Tonight's final was killer. 128 questions in 2 hours. Some people didn't have time to finish. Plus there were drug clearance calculation problems and we weren't allowed calculators. Those were time consuming. They could have made it easier by keeping all the units the same.
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You have presentations every two weeks? What do you present? Doing presentations is not my favorite assignment, and I'll do 'em if I have to, but every two weeks? Jeez...On the flip side, by doing so many you probably get pretty used to the pressure, right?
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In pathophysiology, we have to present for each organ system or area we cover, which was 5 this semester. They assign us a disease of that system and we have to research and present as a team, using power point. We cover etiology, pathogenesis, signs & symptoms, complications and treatments.
For practicum, we are assigned 2 case studies per semester. This is more in depth coverage and the presentations are divided amongst the 20 people in your class section. You're assigned a different aspect of each case. For instance, in the hyperlipidemia case, I had to present on the biochemistry bile acids & micelles.
I had to do one presentation in biochemistry. That adds up to 8 presentations and school is 16 weeks long.
For pharmacy systems and resources, we didn't do presentations. We had to research our case studies, then get grilled by the professor. For another situation, we had to write a skit and perform in front of the class.
I think everyone has gotten over any fear of presenting in front of others. I didn't care for presentations because the research is time consuming. However, they are great GPA boosters.
For practicum, we are assigned 2 case studies per semester. This is more in depth coverage and the presentations are divided amongst the 20 people in your class section. You're assigned a different aspect of each case. For instance, in the hyperlipidemia case, I had to present on the biochemistry bile acids & micelles.
I had to do one presentation in biochemistry. That adds up to 8 presentations and school is 16 weeks long.
For pharmacy systems and resources, we didn't do presentations. We had to research our case studies, then get grilled by the professor. For another situation, we had to write a skit and perform in front of the class.
I think everyone has gotten over any fear of presenting in front of others. I didn't care for presentations because the research is time consuming. However, they are great GPA boosters.
Wow!!! If I took that approach i'd get pounded. What am I talkin about?!?! I still might get pounded, and I'm not doing that.
I can't really describe our skej at SC bc is changes every day. You lose ten hours a week first year to internships. Have case studies in a couple classes which eat away time in groups and coordinating things, but it's still manageable.
