1. I was looking at our schedule and for some of the classes in the afternoon like the patient care classes... do those really take 4 hours?
2. Which classes have you found helpful to attend?
3. Does everyone attend anatomy or does half the group dissect and then they other half come back later?
4. How much do you study given we are supposed to be in class so much?
5. And... how detailed are the notes we are given?
6. Oh last one... are lectures podcasted?
7. What should I be doing right now?
For convenience of everyone involved, I reformatted your incredibly hard-to-read, fully-automatic-weapon-style of questioning. For more timely responses in the future, please submit rapid-fire questions in the format above, or some reasonable facsimile. I also added the last question for you, which you forgot to write in.
1. Not really sure what "intro to patient care" is, but it's probably the PBL and medical interviewing and/or Medical Information Management sessions. If you notice it's divided into a 1-3 group and a 3-5 group. So you'll only be in about 2 hours (and often less) of that big ol' block. Provided it IS actually the PBL/interviewing and MIM sessions. Don't worry about it.
2. Attend all classes until you know for sure which ones you have a better study method for. Don't worry about it.
3. Every attends anatomy lab at the same time. 5 people to one body, and it works out well. However, you can work something out with your group if you prefer other arrangments, but the scheduled times are the only times faculty (in abundance) will be present to help. I recommend dissecting or at least showing up at these times. Don't worry about it.
4. Given you are in class so much, you will study as much as you personally determine you need to to understand the material. Don't worry about it.
5. The notes provided are often quite detailed but vary from lecture to lecture. Some (Kolesari) are just a fairly blank outline while others (Bolender's Devo) have almost everything and more. Don't worry about it.
6. No. They are put onto the school's information system (ANGEL, which you can access from home or school) as mp3s. Don't worry about it.
7. Relaxing for what precious little summer you have left. You'll figure many of these things out as you go, and it doesn't pay to start the habit of fretting about every detail now, because it will making you absof-inglutely crazy for the next 4 years. Many are very personal choices in terms of how you approach a class and learn to study. Just because someone else sits in the library for 5 hours after class or sequesters themselves in a nerd room 40 hours a week doesn't mean that will work for you. In time you will learn what suits you best. Sometimes you'll nail it right away, sometimes you'll need to adjust how you study. The important thing is to keep up. Don't worry about it. Just show up ready to work hard but without losing your soul.
i guess i have to decide if i'm a chicago kind of girl or a millwaukee kind of girl, lol!!
but northwestern just didn't seem to have as many super nice people as mcw, so i get to see all you guys soon!!!!!
