Despite of my suggestion yesterday, let me be nostalgic for a while.
For historical reason, I had six years in the medical school - the first of which was called the "pre-medical year", when we were under the Faculty of Science by administrative regulation, and we studied traditional science subjects (physics, chemistry and biology).
Isn't that a waste of time ?
We all thought so at that stage.
But no in retrospect. I took a course on human biology in the first semester and was well-fed on the evolution of skeleton; I took microbiology in the second half of the year. There were also courses on organic chemistry (with some relevance to pharmacology), food chemistry, psychology, Chinese, and physical education.
Yes, what really matters is whether we (alas, students) make a good use of the time. Planning and administration merely plays a small role.
PS. If you still see no value of them, there was at least plenty of spare time for us to pause and think and enjoy university life.
As Zhuangzi (莊子) said: The use of useless (無用之用).
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1 comment:
With the expension of medical knowledge (ie. overflooding of information), there is a tendency to over supply information to students. It's like packing for a trip, one always tend to pack everything in.
If one is humble enough, one should admit some of the information of one's own field can always be taught at a later stage.
Transferral of wisdom and experience is more important then overflooding with informations (the latter easily be achieved with a click on the computer, even the patients know how).
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