"We are offering too much teaching to our students. You know, it is actually difficult to fix up a time to have bedside teaching with them - their timetable is just too packed." TL said.
Almost everyone around the table nodded.
"Exactly. Many of our overseas elective students also commented that our local students have so intensive a teaching that they have never heard of in other medical schools," another of us added.
"Is that the case? I don't think so." KS, our professor of neurology, seemed incredulous, "I think we are only teaching our students once."
"What !?" I was startled.
"But true. The group of students that attend my tutorial keeps changing. For each medical student I would only see once - sometimes none what so ever, until the final examination. It is actually difficult to know our students nowadays." He sighed.
We were forced to agree. VW said, "In the old days, each student attached to a particular teacher for a few weeks. That seems a more satisfactory arrangement."
"That depends on your point of view," I smiled, "If a student is assigned to a good teacher like you or TL or KM, they would obviously learn a lot. However, if he has to follow some autistic malicious nephrologist, it would be a waste of the student's time. When we were in the old system, some students complained that the system was no fair, so every student has a chance to be taught by each teacher - usually once in the final year."
"Yes, we call that communism of education." The professor of neurology concluded.
No comments:
Post a Comment