Best way to improve in language/philosophy class

[Lonney]

Hey guys,

 

I got 2 class coming this Fall, one is scientific communications (Orals, writting scientific texts, etc) and the other is Ethics and professionalism ( Philosophy).

 

I suck balls with those type of class, how can I improve myself in both?

 

Thanks

[apache]

debate club, rhetoric... legal reading, reasoning, writing in canada is excellent for learning to write convincingly... honestly, practice makes perfect, toastmasters would prob also help, write articles for your local school paper, especially opinion articles... honestly, it bothered me how ethics class in med was the clinical ethicist, who to me seemed like a phd needing a job without the requisite skill to get a tenure uni job... just pumping the cma's ethical guidelines... i remember it was always just a 2 way discussion, and even getting told off by classmate or two to shut up... before responding, if you wanna study cardio, leave, this is non mandatory, and believe it or not, important... ethics is in no way black or white, and there are different answers to the same situation, depending on even minute changes... with the goal being trying to be fairest to everyone... like psych maintains an overly rigid boundary with patients... when sorry, self disclosure works... especially with patients most bio based shrinks find intolerable (personality stuff, ptsd, deviance, borderline) since there's no formula... **** eh, but honestly, how's someone gonna trust you to discuss childhood sexual assault if you maintain a distant sterile scientized image... for once the notion of expert has to give way to humanity, because it works... it's no secret that recovery in mental health treatment correlates most with personality, background, approach of the clinician than with education, whether someone is a psychologist, priest, counsellor, psychiatrist... and honestly, the behavioral characterization of disorder in the dsm... god, how arbitrary and capricious... especially with the growing and volumous biologic classification which has much higher reliability in predicting treatment specificity with high efficacy... does the fact that the dsm trippled in size after the rosenbaum experiments... that spitzer (the psych in charge of dsm 3) changed 2 personality disorders because his wife thought they were stupid... so much for clinical rigor eh... lol, write about something controversial and put it in the school paper, that could be fun!

 

anyways yeah, ethics is important to learn to be able to critically think about, otherwise you become another drone to the most profitable treatment algorithim

 

Hey guys,

 

I got 2 class coming this Fall, one is scientific communications (Orals, writting scientific texts, etc) and the other is Ethics and professionalism ( Philosophy).

 

I suck balls with those type of class, how can I improve myself in both?

 

Thanks