Type of Note Service at your Med School

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I wanted to take a quick poll to see if any schools out there have a note service that has the following features:
1) Not a transcription service (more of a summary with slides, pics, etc.)
2) Is corrected by the professor who taught the lecture

I know Georgetown does this style of note service, and I was trying to get it started at USF, but they wanted more examples of schools that do it.

Also, feel free to post the type of note service at your school too (even if its not the kind listed above!)

Thanks so much!

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USF
-c/o 2009 and before: Transcription Note Service (mostly dead)
-c/o 2010/2011: Summary Note service (no corrections)
 
UNC doesn't have a note-taking service. I think it's a matter of maintaining class attendance. However, we do have detailed syllabii for every lecture (probably like most other med schools). Many students post review notes before tests and such on our online forums, and professors usually take a look at those and correct them if there are any mistakes. Good luck with your platform!
 
My school has a decent transcription service.

The M2 instructors like to proof the transcription before it goes out, but for the M1s, it is totally student lead & organized with a minimum of 60-80% of the class participating.
 
we have one- it's called co-ops, I can send you a pdf example if you'd like
 
All of our lectures uploaded online within hours of the live lecture. Each video is linked to the powerpoint file that changes slide as if it were live. You can also download the ppt file and the notes as a .pdf or .doc if they were separate. It's fabulous. Many times I didn't attend lecture, but watched it later at 2.5x using 2xav.
 
Our school uses Blackboard for posting content for each of our courses online. So if you want to take part in the note service, we have a course called "class of 2011 note service" that shows up next to biochem and gross on your home page.

We use a computer in the back of the room that has a program called "audacity." This program allows us to save our lectures as MP3s. We upload the MP3 sound files to blackboard. There is a schedule listed that assigns each student a lecture to transcribe. The student transcribes the audio and has about 48 hours to submit their transciption where it is posted for all note service user to view/download.

Out of a class of 119, we have about 105 people in the note service. We provide audio of all review sessions, but no transcriptions. We also do not provide transcriptions for classes that are not going to be on the exam or for two histology professors that put out really good notes. This allowed us to cut down on the number of times that we all have to transcribe.

There are four member of the note service committe who keep everything going. They don't have to transcribe because they do other daily duties. To all other students, it is free as long as they transcribe a lecture. For the few graduate students who are in our various classes, we allow them to pay for each year they want to participate. They don't speak English well, so we allowed them to pay instead of transcribe.

We have specific rules about formating & due dates that include fines.

PM me, and I can send you an email with examples and our rules & regulations.

We are about to switch to a new recording system to better tie the audio with the powerpoints, but I don't know how it is going to work yet. I meet with the audio visual department next week to learn about it.
 
We have a noteservice at my school. The professors wear a mp3 recorder during the lecture, then an assigned student recorder transfers the lectures to cds which are given to an assigned student notetaker and reviewer who put together a noteset. The noteset is not just a verbatim transcript, we reorganize the information when necessary, look up terms that weren't well defined, add clarifications from the text etc. It gets reviewed for errors and then the reviewer makes a top points summary of the lecture. We also have a web forum for extra corrections that people find after printing. Some professors review the notesets but this is up to them if they want to. If you participate in the noteservice you get the notes for free but you can pay for them too.
 
psipsina said:
We have a noteservice at my school. The professors wear a mp3 recorder during the lecture, then an assigned student recorder transfers the lectures to cds which are given to an assigned student notetaker and reviewer who put together a noteset. The noteset is not just a verbatim transcript, we reorganize the information when necessary, look up terms that weren't well defined, add clarifications from the text etc. It gets reviewed for errors and then the reviewer makes a top points summary of the lecture. We also have a web forum for extra corrections that people find after printing. Some professors review the notesets but this is up to them if they want to. If you participate in the noteservice you get the notes for free but you can pay for them too.
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This is pretty much how ours is. How much is everyone paying yearly for this service at your schools?
 
medhacker said:
This is pretty much how ours is. How much is everyone paying yearly for this service at your schools?
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I think ours is 300/semester but I'm not sure since I participate in the service.
 
Tufts doesn't have a note-taking service 👎
 
Ours is free. You just have to take a turn transcribing your lecture. I didn't know the fees were hefty at other schools.
 
Sondra said:
Ours is free. You just have to take a turn transcribing your lecture. I didn't know the fees were hefty at other schools.
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I just wanted to clarify that at my school you only pay the fee if you want the notes but you don't want to participate in taking notes . .. anyone who takes part in the service gets them for free.
 
We don't have a notetaking service at all here.

But we have corenotes which are generally either reading or powerpoints or both provided by the professor and given to students BEFORE lecture.
 
We don't have a notetaking service. However, we get all the slides before lecture, and after lecture there is an audio-annotated version online and usually a podcast as well.
 
We've got a transcription service that's student run. It's pretty much verbatim made readable, with summaries of the more confusing explanations, references to the slide numbers and images where appropriate. They are not professor corrected. Our recordings are directly through the classroom audio system, so it's nice and easy (and MP3!).

First year is 220, second year is 100. We pay $40 per hour of lecture transcribed ($50 second year) and after the first exam block the scribers are all volunteer. I run the tech side of things if you want more details (Drop me a pm).

We tried to get Dragon medical transcription software, but it required the profs to train the software which many of them were not willing to do...they want people to go to class not just read the transcriptions...which is also why video and audio podcasting has been blocked at every step of the way...👎
 
our professors created comprehensive handouts of everything they wanted us to know, and put them in our mailboxes anywhere from 2 days to several weeks before the lecture.
 
NO transcription service, NO video streaming, no handouts (but some in 2nd year) mandatory attendance w/ lecture/book/pbl learning....Im gunna go cry now 🙁
 
Ours is an independent student-run transcription service. Our notes are essentially "verbatim", but a good transcript is one that condenses without leaving out. We also record lectures (through a mic feed connected to a laptop), and post them on a website along with any notes and powerpoints. We charge $90 a semester to pay for copies, and we have a fining system to maintain script quality. The main thing is if you buy in, you have to take a turn transcribing or proofreading the transcripts every now and then. lol... most of the time, though, students just pay someone else to do their job.
 
No note-taking service, but the admin prints out powerpoints and lecture notes (the level of detail varies by professor) for us in addition to posting them online, and lectures are recorded as mp3s.
 
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