Gestalt and rote learning theorys are something I learnt years ago when I thought being a driving instructor was a good idea ( something to do with 18 year old girls .....mmmmmmmmmmmm )
I seem to remember that rote is / eg 1 X2 is 2 2X2 is 4 etc etc , parrot fashion
Science is cool especially modern science - complexity theory - non-linear dynamic systems, fractals, emergence, order at the edge of chaos - the beauty of nature and the universe
That's OK, Mercury. We understand complete cobblers better than we understand the models of pedagogy here.
I got up to a bit of mischief yesterday. While I was sitting around the day ward in a skimpy gown, several pairs of third-year medical students came round and asked to examine my hernia. At that time of day, there was nothing to see, but every single one of the blighters started bullsh1tting about "a mass in the left iliac fossa". After asking them to SHOW me the mass they were referring to ("no, that's a suprapubic fat pad, it's normal, you've got one too") I gave them a little talking to about how it's OK to say you can't see something that isn't there, and hadn't their GP tutors covered that subject with them? When I quoted the Secret Name of the community-based part of the course, their eyes nearly fell out of their heads.
Every single one of them stank of garlic, though. I wouldn't have DARED when I was a lass.
If you can't see our own suprapubic fat pad, Mercury, it's time you did something about the size of your gut. And if your suprapubic fat pad obscures what's below it, you definitely don't need to bother measuring your body fat percentage.
Woo-hoo! Time to go home and look after Tinkerbell, who has been sent home from school with slapped cheek disease but is not remotely unwell, just a bit scarlet around the chops.
Yes, Mercury, it is. Now I am wondering where you thought I was letting the students look...
This is like a more sophisticated version of the session we do with the first-year students when we ask them to go round the waiting-room giving everyone a line-drawing of a human body and asking them to draw in the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach and intestines.
Slapped cheek disease is a common viral illness in childhood. It's usually very mild, but the distinguishing sign is bright red cheeks. The virus that causes it belongs to the same group as the one that causes distemper in dogs.
Vrap, I'm sure it was a very educational encounter for those students.
I enjoyed being a guineapig for medical students when I spent 10 days in hospital 2 years ago. Better entertainment than daytime tv :-) But you have to ignore most things they say or you could get worried (I knew I had difficulty breathing because I had 10 liters of water in my abdomen, but if that student wanted to check me for pneumonia he could go ahead
Having a tum full of water does not sound like fun, 'roos. Were you in Dundee then? That's where I did my medical training, many years ago.
It does take the poor little blighters a few years to learn how to put their vast knowledge through a diagnostic sieve and avoid scaring people. I love doing the 3rd and 4th year teaching because I can see the students changing from kids who know a lot of facts into people who have the same thought-processes as doctors and only lack experience and confidence.
erm went for a lovely walk at 7am did 50min and strangely it seemed very easy!and then came back and did half an hour yoga ( stretching Vrap!) and then did some cleaning and started the decluttering that im supposed to be doing but since about 12-30 ive been falling asleep and freezing - might have to go and have a power nap !
how do you peeps who get up at 5 every day get thru the day!!
just been to Actionphoto -Pingus pics - i look like a startled rabbit and a site worse than P!!!
had some lunch feel a bit better now but still cold - didnt go to bed till at least 12-30 and woke at somewhere around 4 ish so only 3-4 hours sleep may account for tired feeling!
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I seem to remember that rote is / eg 1 X2 is 2 2X2 is 4 etc etc , parrot fashion
Damned if I remember Gestalt
Science is cool especially modern science - complexity theory - non-linear dynamic systems, fractals, emergence, order at the edge of chaos - the beauty of nature and the universe
fantastic!
I got up to a bit of mischief yesterday. While I was sitting around the day ward in a skimpy gown, several pairs of third-year medical students came round and asked to examine my hernia. At that time of day, there was nothing to see, but every single one of the blighters started bullsh1tting about "a mass in the left iliac fossa". After asking them to SHOW me the mass they were referring to ("no, that's a suprapubic fat pad, it's normal, you've got one too") I gave them a little talking to about how it's OK to say you can't see something that isn't there, and hadn't their GP tutors covered that subject with them? When I quoted the Secret Name of the community-based part of the course, their eyes nearly fell out of their heads.
Every single one of them stank of garlic, though. I wouldn't have DARED when I was a lass.
This is like a more sophisticated version of the session we do with the first-year students when we ask them to go round the waiting-room giving everyone a line-drawing of a human body and asking them to draw in the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach and intestines.
How stupid am I , suppose now I should look up hernia ( better than looking up haemaroid I suppose ) crap joke I know )
I enjoyed being a guineapig for medical students when I spent 10 days in hospital 2 years ago. Better entertainment than daytime tv :-)
But you have to ignore most things they say or you could get worried (I knew I had difficulty breathing because I had 10 liters of water in my abdomen, but if that student wanted to check me for pneumonia he could go ahead
It does take the poor little blighters a few years to learn how to put their vast knowledge through a diagnostic sieve and avoid scaring people. I love doing the 3rd and 4th year teaching because I can see the students changing from kids who know a lot of facts into people who have the same thought-processes as doctors and only lack experience and confidence.
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B: Have a brain big enough to soak all that knowledge up
erm went for a lovely walk at 7am did 50min and strangely it seemed very easy!and then came back and did half an hour yoga ( stretching Vrap!) and then did some cleaning and started the decluttering that im supposed to be doing but since about 12-30 ive been falling asleep and freezing - might have to go and have a power nap !
how do you peeps who get up at 5 every day get thru the day!!
Vrap: no, that was back in Amsterdam. Did you train in Ninewells?
had some lunch feel a bit better now but still cold - didnt go to bed till at least 12-30 and woke at somewhere around 4 ish so only 3-4 hours sleep may account for tired feeling!