What dislike more than studying for Step 1 so far in med school...

[kdburton]

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I wasn't an english major in undergrad or anything, and I don't correct peoples grammar, but for some reason the top three things I can think of all have to do with it...

When professors use the following words:

"commonest" - I don't care if its a real word that is in the dictionary...

"facies" to describe what a face looks like (i.e. the person has "moon facies" or "abnormal facies")...

"sontimeters" [how they pronounce centimeters]




I don't know why, but it always just made me want to stab myself in the eye over the last two years when I was sitting in lecture and one of those words would come up.


The best part is that I messed up the title of the thread lol

 

[Zweisamkeit]

"facies"

For the longest time, I thought it was a typo in my syllabi so I would scratch out the "i." But then I encountered it in books and actually heard someone say it. WTF? Totally stunned. I would love for an etymologist to explain to me how facies came to be.

 

[NCF145]

Agreed. Commonest, to me, is like nails down a chalkboard.

 

[Deferoxamine]

My personal favorite is when they read from the powerpoint slides that they personally wrote themselves something about a "causal relationship" or "causality" - but they pronounce it is as "CASUAL". All of them. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. EVERY. SINGLE. COURSE.

 

[FutureInternist]

When something is "not uncommon" ?????? Just say it's common & be done with it 😉

 

[BoneNibbler]

When med students do nothing but complain.😉

 

[sebsvenmdc]

"Irregardless"...like salt on raw skin dipped in ethanol.

 

[jhu1]

I wasn't an english major in undergrad or anything, and I don't correct peoples grammar, but for some reason the top three things I can think of all have to do with it...

When professors use the following words:

"commonest" - I don't care if its a real word that is in the dictionary...

"facies" to describe what a face looks like (i.e. the person has "moon facies" or "abnormal facies")...

"sontimeters" [how they pronounce centimeters]




I don't know why, but it always just made me want to stab myself in the eye over the last two years when I was sitting in lecture and one of those words would come up.


The best part is that I messed up the title of the thread lol

In french its pronounced Sonti and not Centi ... lots of these instructors are not from the States ... so

 

[Aesculapius]

And how many of them are from France?

 

[kdburton]

In french its pronounced Sonti and not Centi ... lots of these instructors are not from the States ... so

Yeah I know that its pronounced differently in different languages. These are all white american professors I'm talking about though. And even more specifically it seems to almost always be OB/GYNs (i.e. when talking about "sontimeters" of dilation)