Professors that you cannot understand?

[Sartre79]

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Makes lecture frustrating.

 

[lilnoelle]

Yes, it does. I don't bother trying to listen during those lectures and then don't attend next time the individual teaches.

 

[med_heidelberg]

The worst is having to listen to a Swiss or Bavarian accent.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

The worst is having to listen to a Swiss or Bavarian accent.

Worse I ever had was someone with a super thick Welsh accent. No idea what he was saying half the time.

 

[njbmd]

I had a great Pathology professor who was of Korean ancestry. She knew that many students had difficulty with her thick accent so she gave the best handouts I have ever seen. I still use her handouts as a practicing physician.

Moral of the story: Get your information any way that you can. The neatest thing about medical school is that you are not tied to the lecture. If the lecture is not working for you, stay home or do something else during that lecture period and learn the material on your own from syllabus/handout.

 

[Ashers]

Worse I ever had was someone with a super thick Welsh accent. No idea what he was saying half the time.

That's one of the funniest accents I've ever heard -- especially Northern Wales. I went to a church in some really, really small town in Northern Wales once, and "Elijah" turned into "El-lee-IIIIIIII-'JAH." It sounded like a really weird Swedish accent (when people are speaking Swedish).

One of the best path lecturers we had, had a really thick Chinese accent (luckily, he was my small group preceptor, so I had been able to adjust to it, the people not in my group had a more difficult time). His notes were amazing though, like njb described for the Korean lecturer.

 

[Flaxmoore]

Moral of the story: Get your information any way that you can. The neatest thing about medical school is that you are not tied to the lecture. If the lecture is not working for you, stay home or do something else during that lecture period and learn the material on your own from syllabus/handout.

AMEN. I've had profs who were awful lecturers, but gave excellent notes. Oftentimes, I'd just work along with their notes while they lectured, and then fill in the not-insignificant gaps later on.

I had one prof, though, that nothing could help. Her handouts were the MS Word printout of her Powerpoint notes, so all her animations were absent, and most of the explanatory figures were blanked out. She couldn't work the overhead, and after about an hour of not being able to see the slides (which isn't quite accurate- she used the MS Word document as her slides), most people left.

 

[humuhumu]

Today we got a lecture from a young female professor with a subtle Russian accent. I'm not sure which accent I enjoyed more - hers, or the extremely proper British accent of a pharm professor that we here from now and then. Both very cool.