Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Gotta run off for lessons very soon (YES. UNEARTHLY HOURS).
Right, got an unexpected half-day off! And now to talk about yesterday. This entire posting is extremely traumatising (pun unintended). We had a whole series of pep talks on our first day, all harping on the Big Day. And to top it all off, I was extremely irritated by this hand person. Totally can't stand him, he's such a PITA. Full of cockiness. You know how 2 people can say the same thing, yet the words come out totally different? Well, he wasn't MEAN per se - it's just the way he spoke, and the irritatingly smug look on his face. Someone should just take a screwdriver and screw a hole right through his stupid face.
Gosh, I'm all tired out and it's only the second day!! People are being extremely hardworking, and making me feel extremely frightened. OK, I won't lie and say that everyone's in tip-top condition; hardly, but they really are pulling out stacks and stacks of books, notes, whatever. Just trying to find solace by convincing myself that knowledge is better in, than out on notes. =p
Met YET another irritating prat of a tutor today. Apparently, he was quite a notorious one, but has toned down somewhat. I don't know why people just can't be nice to others - it's exactly what I wrote in my elective report, BTW. Very scathing, I know, but truer than truth. Tutors never treat students this way in Scotland - neither do docs and nurses attack each other and vice versa. What's the point of being mean?
We have a HUGE problem here, we really do. Perhaps, because our current generation of tutors never had the opportunity to see how good medical education is really done overseas? Their students sit for their final exams without being able to list down 10 differentials of neck pain - if their brand of education yields such fresh graduates (who, in the local context, will most certainly be deemed incompetent and condemned for life), why do we religiously quote snippets of the British Medical Journal then? Once again, they badly need to learn the simple truth - a bachelor degree is just that, and to expect anything more is plainly foolish and futile. In fact, it might be a culture innoculation. Just look at what those poor sec 3 Biology students are poring through right now - molecular biology, advanced genetics and such, when they totally draw a blank when you ask them if ants are arthropods, gastropods or nematodes. Wait. They don't even know if corals are plants or animals.
Wenky
7:06 AM
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