General Discussion

Have a current professor. We have a skills exam. They made a video exhibiting the skill. Spent one day discussing it.

Then scheduled the exam for it two months later. And it involves another skill were were taught one time six months ago. I am self-teaching via YouTube at this point.

What meds will be on the exam? Do we have to make med cards? What information should we presenting?

No one knows! Because the professor did the absolute bare minimum box checking. "I showed them the skill. After that, whatever." Go into the course site - no resource materials. No med lists. No indication really that an exam is even happening.

It's the test of mysteries! I am actually going to school in person tomorrow - on my day off - to unravel the nuances of having no usable information. This is rivaled only by professors who have been offloading testing to a third-party company, which means they don't know what's on the tests, so they have no idea how to prepare us.

Imagine my surprise on the latest final when an entire array of diseases and surgical questions appeared on this test no one had ever heard of. I passed with a high B because I have a mutant brain that remembers everything it reads. The class average was well below failing.

I went to a department meeting and tore into them, up to and including the Dean and Director. The admin and faculty think the system is fine.

Education top down needs reform. Students are the products of what they're taught, and I'm seeing more and more stinkers on the teaching end right along with the students.