globy321 Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 I was wondering how do they evaluate you in med school on the material. Is there tests, presentations, midterms, finals etc? What happens if you fail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globy321 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 LOL..no, seriously how do they evaluate you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wut? Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Depends on the block at the U of A. And everything is pass/fail. Not even honors/pass/fail. In other words, nobody is watching over your shoulder anymore. You really need to be learning for the sake of learning to remember, not learning to regurgitate. At the end of the day, you aren't studying for yourself, but for the people that you'll be working with for the rest of your professional life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenitron25 Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 They make you line up and recite everything from Lecture 1 to Lecture 600. If you get anything wrong, you become another cadaver in the anatomy lab. DUN DUN DUN! HAHAHA Oh gosh! thats the best reply ever! Actually I can see myself in some of your comments, full of sarcasm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicks2 Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Depends on the block at the U of A. And everything is pass/fail. Not even honors/pass/fail. In other words, nobody is watching over your shoulder anymore. You really need to be learning for the sake of learning to remember, not learning to regurgitate. At the end of the day, you aren't studying for yourself, but for the people that you'll be working with for the rest of your professional life. I don't understand what you mean by "block at the U of A". Can you please explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactic Folly Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 The curriculum is organized by units, or mini-courses - for example, musculoskeletal, neuro, oncology.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citan Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Actually, Doc aranndil is only telling part of the story. This is what happens if you get Bs in med school. Bs....Bees....get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 How does everyone feel about the P/F system? Do you find that you do less work because of it? I know for sure that I'm less stressed out because I know that there is only one mark I can ever get, (well, ok 2 marks, but one is completely unacceptable and nearly impossible to get) but I'm not sure if I'm learning (read: memorizing) less because of it. In the end, I know I would just forget the stuff that I crammed in to get 90s in undergrad, but now that I'm not going crazy about tests etc... does that mean I'm going to learn less? What do others think of this system? what has been your personal experiences with such a system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactic Folly Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Well, pass/fail is what showed up on our transcripts, but we still got our test %, class average, and standard deviation, so we knew where we stood in relation to the rest of the class. And failing would not be an impossibility if you let things slide enough. So I did find enough motivation to study. In any case, clinical rotations have been where most of my learning has occurred - using the preclinical material as a necessary background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 They make you line up and recite everything from Lecture 1 to Lecture 600. If you get anything wrong, you become another cadaver in the anatomy lab. DUN DUN DUN! Hey, I lost a lot of good friends that way. /pours out a 40 of formalin in memory //respect ya 'til I dissect ya, bro ///too much time on my hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Rock Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Block 2 = Community Health Wow, so at Manitoba it only takes 2 blocks until they bore you out of your mind, eh?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noncestvrai Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 hahahaha On day 1, we started with rubbish of that nature...yak yak yak... Ah medical school... noncestvrai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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