WTF students?

[cornerofmadness]

I asked for rough drafts of the papers back at mid term. They're due on Thursday. I had TWO people email them to me demanding me to look at their rough drafts so they can fix them. Sure I'll get right on that.

My top student comes to inform me that no one studied for my muscle practical (I already knew this) He wasn't wrong. 3 of them thought the prostate was the gallbladder and at least three boys left the testicle question blank (as in i put a tag on a testicle and said 'what is this structure?') and three others called it semen (Um no, semen is sperm which is made here PLUS three glandular secretions. rescue me, please)


Graded my physiology exam. SIX out of 12 nurses (as in they're 2 year nurses who ARE working in their field and are back to pick up a 4 year batchelor's) could NOT tell me which way the chest/diaphragm moves in inspiration/expiration in spite of the fact that I told them if they FORGOT to slap their hands on their chest and freaking breathe and feel the chest wall (the diaphragm moves the opposite direction). THEY SEE PATIENTS. They don't know which way your chest moves.

They also do not know what captopril does. For the non-medical people it's one of the #1 high blood pressure pills, it's an ACE inhibitor. I even said this interfers with the formation of angiotensin II (which is what ACE does) and they STILL could not tell me it was an ACE inhibitor. They are handing you this pill and don't know what it is. Now, you can't know every medicine out there but you SHOULD know the top sellers. (especially since i gave it to them in class and said KNOW IT)

that was my day. How was yours?

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm...

Hi.

Have a beer.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

takes beer

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And follow that up with an Irish Coffee or something.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

margaritas. The irish coffee was for this morning

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That works, too. Nicely.

This is why

[littlechemist01.livejournal.com]

I question how these nurses went and got through school. I worked in the field, and I may not be a doctor but half the time i answered thier questions! I am pitying myself already...I am going to teach sooner than later and this is what I have to look forward to...ugh it's pretty scary. I never got below an 85 on ALL my practicals, even in Resp school. I just knew the crap...

But I think now that's why I left the medical field, you get burt out and sorry ut some poeple ( as in nurses ect) are really ingorant...I mean that as in Not KNOWING what they should. and yeah, my day sucked ass. It's cold and I was late for work...

Re: This is why

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ugh hate being late

or they THINK they know everything in their field when they know shit

Re: This is why

[littlechemist01.livejournal.com]

True that....

[mjules.livejournal.com]

My vet bill has reached a cumulative total of $1000 today. That's my big achievement.

Also - wtf? Boys don't know what their balls are? I'm surprised some of them didn't label them "brain".

[enemytosleep]

I'm surprised some of them didn't label them "brain"

XD Yes, this.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that sucks

i'm totally surprised they didn't either

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

'Boys don't know what their balls are? I'm surprised some of them didn't label them "brain".'

What a loophole! COM wouldn't have been able to mark that one wrong.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know!

[enemytosleep]

Penis goes where? It's a wonder some people can dress themselves and get out the door.

*hands liquor*

My day was pretty great minus the cold, damp weather.

[tehlobster.livejournal.com]

Penis goes where?

My first thought: "Well, if they don't know, for God's sake don't tell them. We don't need them reproducing on us!"

:P

[enemytosleep]

haha, very true.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh no kidding. sadly several of them already have

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

takes liquor...

i swear to god some of them are totally idiots

[artemis2050.livejournal.com]

I had a med student who interrupted me EVERY sentence out of my mouth when I was trying to explain the CAGE and CRAFFT questions (for substance abuse). I was about to ask if she'd skipped her Ritalin that morning.

My anatomy teachers used to say their exams were the only ones you were allowed to cheat on...you could bring your body into the exam room.

Be strong. This too shall pass (though perhaps some of those students shouldn't...).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i see many dumb people

I have an older resp. therapy student who does that but at least the questions are usually on point

some of these will not pass

[makd.livejournal.com]

I adore your teaching adventures. They help me to realize that I am normal, and that my students, while sometimes frustrating, are normal, too.

[sigh.]

This semester? My students seem stranger than usual. For example, I am teaching a TV fandoms course. A student proposed a paper on hockey and moral panics. My response: ONLY if it's TV hockey fans' moral panics. His response: Both his Final Draft and his rewritten Final Draft discuss Hockey as Moral Panic (WTF?), with only one sentence --- one sentence!! -- on TV hockey fans. I don't have a clue what he thinks he's doing, but I know what he's doing: he's failing.... oy!!

[makd.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it takes me a while to process: confusing a testicle with semen? SEMEN? Oh, good lord!!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it staggers you, doesn't it.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And, on his paper, you get to write, "Did you read and understand the title of this course at all?"

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

completely clueless apparently

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Wow. I learned which way the diaphragm moves in basic EMT class.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yay to that icon.

I mean seriously how hard is this? I make my NON-majors do this same essay

icon love!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

There does seem to be a wave of ... something ... sweeping over the world right now. Everyone's either ill, or annoyed, or doing the annoying, as if the Earth's layer of common sense was being burned away -- possibly by too much bureaucracy spraying its poison into the atmosphere.

Re: icon love!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

a lot of it comes, i think from the idea of no child left behind which got corrupted to we'll pass you no matter what so why should they work at all

Re: icon love!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Yes, very true. No child left behind was an idea that makes sense only in the rose colored Candy Mountain world of ShouldBe. In the real world, some kids just aren't as good at, for example, math, or shop class, or P.E., or in my case any of those. We should give all kids equal opportunity, but to say they can all perform equally in all areas of education flies in the face of reality. Throwing stuff at people with letting them earn it does them a disservice, no matter what the circumstances.

Re: icon love!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

exactly

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I have come to the conclusion that while people are capable of thought, they far prefer to have other people do it for them if at all possible. (This is certainly true in my line of work, and it appears to be amidst your students, as well.)

Americans these days aren't just stupid, we VENERATE our stupidity. *headdesk*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

tell me about it

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Good grief - That's really scary about the nurses :/

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yep

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

*Head desk*

*Hands you a beer* You need this more than I do.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I think i needed a few while grading

A terrible realization

[anything-really.livejournal.com]

I am currently studying to be a future teacher of America. I pray to god this is not what I have to put up with or I fear I will never make it in the profession.

Re: A terrible realization

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

good luck to you. I didn't intend on becoming a college prof but after my injury it was a natural move.

There are days i could just bash my head on the wall

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Soooo....I guess I shouldn't worry about not having health insurance. On the off chance that something DOES happen to me and I need to go to the hospital, this future generation just might kill me anyway.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

pretty much and it'll only get worse

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Sadly yes.