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Be as specific as you can be. General comments about “people” not turning up I cant do anything about, but specific examples give me the opportunity to get out there and fix things.
DC
Just to say that I loved the respiratory block- DundeeChest was a great aid. Ward teaching was, for our group at least, brilliant- special mention to Dr J Shaw, Dr Matt Lambert and Dr Stretton.
MDT simulation was a particular highlight too, and access to the respiratory department timetable was a great help when planning ahead.
One thing I would like to point out, after yesterday’s session is that there are actually quite a few lectures that cover the same material.
For instance: we have had a lot of various mircobilogy/respiratory infection lectures (through-out the latter weeks of the block) covering Bronchiolitis, whooping cough, croup, acute epiglottitis, TB and various pneumonias. Unfortunately the material differs somewhat in the depth of each topic, but also in some of the important points such as signs and symptoms, age at presentation, hallmark features, and treatment.
I know the second year exam questions are clinically based, and so I feel that some collaboration between lecturers would reduce a lot of confusion. I would rather this information from the lectures than from internet sites as I personally trust university staff’s knowledge far more – and they are setting the exam questions!
I can go through the lectures and pick out all the repetition if this would help.
Sorry to complain, I actually thought this years block had improved greatly:
I really appreciated the ABG tutor session (a lot better that the lecture).
The radiology in week one was brilliant.
The MDT ITA worked really well – though maybe rotate the groups so that everyone has a shot at being each speciality?
Kirsty. =)
Overall, I thought the respiratory block was great.
Good points:
Ward teaching absolutely fantastic for C2, all the tutors were very enthusiastic, turned up on time, and were good teachers.
MDT session was good. It gave us an experience of what MDT session really are, and what practising doctors really do.
The radiology session was good, because thats something you need a lot of practice in before you begin to recognise things on an X-ray.
ITA with the peak flow meters and spirometry was good, it cleared up some things about what exactly PEF1 and PEV and peak flow actually were.
Lectures on the whole were pretty good. ABG lecture really good. (Again, a bit pointless in having it followed by Dr Murphy’s Acid Base Disorders lecture as it was exactly the same)
A lot of the lectures did go over the same material, which is good as it becomes like revision, but too hard to combine all the information on the one topic from many different lectures. For example, interstitial lung disease was covered by Prof. Lipworth in Restrictive Lung Disease, in Interstitial and Occupational Lung Disease by Dr Smith, in Interstitial Lung Disease by Prof Carey, and was covered a bit in Prof Marshall’s Immunology of Hypersensitivity Reactions lecture. One would have done the job.
The pathology tutorial was brilliant, as the pathology tutorials from other blocks were. You learn so much in the 1 hour and get better explanations than in the lectures.
New ACTC – not sure what has changed – but was good. Better structure and clear learning outcomes for the session.
Bad points:
ITA sessions based on the online tutorials are very boring, you don’t learn anything and its so easy to get distracted.
In communication skills, why can’t more people get a chance to take a history? We spent 1.5 hrs in ACTC, and only 1 person took a history. Even if we took histories off each other, or the tutor, or had another patient. It seems silly to do a 20 min history then spend the rest of the time speaking about how we could improve or how we will improve with practice – just give us the practice!
A study guide ready before the start of the block would have been helpful – is there one for week 3?
Depsite PBL/core clinical problem sessions – where you get a scenario each week then answer questions – not being best received by many people, I missed them in this block. If you do them properly, you learn a lot. It helps tie everything together: the pathology, symptoms, signs, investigations, treatment, impact on the patient’s life. And the tutors are often helpful in explaining things for you.