This course director has me so angry over grading. What should I do?

[Doctor4Life1769]

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Also, to the OP......

It's one question, who gives a crap?

You f*cked up by not answering a question. Should've put something down. You know, if you did that on the USMLE, you'd be doing yourself a disservice. It's always best to make an educated guess than to not give yourself a shot at *guessing correctly*...... 👍

 

[Rollo]

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When they start lowering tuition, I'll consider starting late.

In the meantime, the best BANG FOR YOUR BUCK is to go straight into med school, minimize your debt load, get into a residency of your choice (I dont care if you go primary care vs. specialty), get out of your residency, and become an attending and start making the $$ to pay off said debt load.

Why should I wait until I'm 24 to start med school, when I can start when I'm 22 and be done by 26, finish residency by 30, start making money by 30 or 31... 👍

Because those 2 years of working in real life will teach you to appreciate that the pursuit of medicine is something more than a money-making endeavor.

Not to mention, it will teach valuable inter-personal skills such as those clearly NOT demonstrated by the OP in this case here.

 

[Democritus]

So not only is the professor being clearly disrespectful, he is wrong. And yet it is immature to be upset by this on principle?

OP did not deserve to be insulted by that email. Yes, the question is not going to affect his grade overall but it is the principle. I would have emailed the professor back and stated that I found the email to be unprofessional but that I accept the loss of the point.

 

[ProtossCarrier]

So not only is the professor being clearly disrespectful, he is wrong. And yet it is immature to be upset by this on principle?

OP did not deserve to be insulted by that email. Yes, the question is not going to affect his grade overall but it is the principle. I would have emailed the professor back and stated that I found the email to be unprofessional but that I accept the loss of the point.

how is that professor's email unprofessional? Professionalism does not mean you have to sugar coat everything.

 

[Democritus]

how is that professor's email unprofessional? Professionalism does not mean you have to sugar coat everything.

The professor is obviously being rude and showing no respect to his student. That's unprofessional and unbecoming of a person in his position. If I was a professor and my chair or colleagues saw this I would be embarassed.

 

[MilkmanAl]

The professor is obviously being rude and showing no respect to his student. That's unprofessional and unbecoming of a person in his position. If I was a professor and my chair or colleagues saw this I would be embarassed.

This, folks, is why trying to teach professionalism is a huge waste of time. Nobody will ever agree on what it is, so trying to make people practice it is beyond stupid. As it is, it's mostly a tool for the administration to get you to do what they want.

Just to be devil's advocate, here, I'd say that making a huge stink over missing a question you didn't even answer is also rather unbecoming. We're all at least in our 20's, kids. It's time to grow up. One question won't ruin your life or tank your career as a physician.

 

[ArcGurren]

The professor is obviously being rude and showing no respect to his student. That's unprofessional and unbecoming of a person in his position. If I was a professor and my chair or colleagues saw this I would be embarassed.

I'm pretty sure the chair or colleagues who saw that would look at the email and be like "yup, another petty annoying prick of a student who wants to nitpick over one question which probably makes no difference in the long run. Gee, got a lot of sympathy for him. 🙄"

Seriously OP? (i know you're not reading this anymore but I'll put it out there)

Medical school is not college. You are not going to win points by nitpicking over not following the directions. As others have said why the hell would you not fill in all the bubbles on the sheet? Even if it were an answer I had no idea of I would literally just pick C and move on in the 1/5 chance I might get it right. You did not follow the directions. You got shafted as a result.

As for the email... that's life. Professors can be selfish dicks and there's nothing that can be done about it. Just wait till 3rd year when they can mark you down on your eval for pure spite. Learn to work with the consequences and LEARN from your experiences

 

[hot sauce]

I can empathize that the main point of the OP is that the prof was rude. Yea it sucks when you are treated like crap for no good reason. While most of the posts in this thread aren't very sympathetic, the fact is they are right and you are probably better off not escalating the matter.

The fact that it started over one point will overshadow the issue with many people thinking this is an annoying medical student crying over a single point. (I'd agree that the rationale that can't get credit for a question they threw out because you didn't answer is crap but again not worth fighting.)

The prof isn't going to get fired or anything and you'll just come across as a complainer and step on toes and for what? Sometimes you just have to say some people are *******s and that's life.

 

[CatFactorial]

Because those 2 years of working in real life will teach you to appreciate that the pursuit of medicine is something more than a money-making endeavor.

Not to mention, it will teach valuable inter-personal skills such as those clearly NOT demonstrated by the OP in this case here.

Fair point, but even those who walk the earth before the MD can be pretty clueless (as seen on this thread).