Okay, first things first, we have our lectures in a Theater called O'Flannagen, which is the biggest theatre we have in RCSI, it can accommodate up to 350 people if I'm not mistaken (well, a lot of people la...)
Our Lecturers vary, from really young ones, to really old ones, to old ones living the life of young ones. Yes, the third part of the sentence may seem weird, but trust me. I'm right.
We have a Lecturer called Dr. Harold Browne, hes 86 as of Today. (yes, its his birthday, so i shall dedicate most of this post to him.) Hes very old, but trust me, his lectures are Never Boring. Never. Even in Anatomy Practicals, he comes up with the nice funny phrases which has now been made Quotes by the students. He is a very sporting man, he thinks hes still in his teens, and treats us all like adults. And strongly beliefs that dirty jokes help the students remember very well. yes, you got me right again, dirty jokes. :)
My first encounter with him and his jokes were in my very first anatomy practical class. He was my prosector (demonstrator). I quote him, "At the Femoral Triangle, Albert lies on the outside(lateral) and next to Victoria, preventing from being hit by a baseball bat-the bad Femur. At the Hunter's Canal, Albert gets On Top of Victoria. After the Adductor Hiatus (an opening on the muscle), Albert lies on the inside (medial) to Victoria."
Albert is the Artery, and Victoria is the Vein. Medical students will know exactly what I'm talking about here... ;) I hope you guys do too. :)
On the same day, he told us on what sartorious meant. (sartorious is a muscle on your thigh (front/anterior). for an 85 year old man, he actually sat down with knees bent, on the stairs, explained the Tailor concept (sartorious means tailor), with hand actions on how the tailor works, and then he got back up. He must be very fit id say.
The next highlight among his funny statements is this:
Like Moses led the Jews to the promise land,
The gubernaculum led the testis to the promise land;
the scrotum
lecture: Nutrition and Energy 21 (NE21).-
I couldn't have asked for a better way to remember what gubernaculum meant... and the descend of the testis from embryonic stage.
I shall leave that statement there, because i think it says it all.
He has his own facebook group to him!! full of his quotes:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2218506818
He even has a Lecture Theatre named after him i believe.
Besides him, other lectures are also funny and mostly not a bore, some have a nice accent id say, some with a certain charm in teaching, and some pretty female lecturers too :) Almost all of them know how to conduct a lecture with taking into account the students way of thinking, just that some of the lecturers are boring, but well, i shall look on the brighter side, the bulk of them are all cool and awesome! :)
This is how lectures should be conducted. Fun.
A few boring details on our lectures would be:
1. classes are supposed to be 50 minutes each, but we have them mostly for an hour.
2. We have back to back classes
3. We have Anatomy Lab Practicals twice a week, and Cardsigining exams Once in every fortnight.
4. We learn a modular system, i.e, we don't learn just physiology or pharmacology as individual subjects, but as combined ones. Our subjects for this semester are such as Neruomuscular-NM, Nutrition and Energy-NE, Haemopoeitic and Immune system-HIS, Health and Behavorial Science-HBS.
5. Anatomy is part of NM, and NE.
6. We have online tutorials as well on Histology and Radiography. Which we will be tested on with an exam along with other subjects.
7. We have classes that start at 8 and also that start at 12, but mostly 9.
8. Classes finish at 4 or 5pm
9. No food and drinks allowed into the theatre (but nobody cares)
10. Lecture slides we print out from our online web portal.
11. our time table for each week is different.
12. Lecturers rotate for each chapter of each subject. We don't have fixed lecturers.
13. we can email our lecturers to ask questions, and we would get fast replies.
14. We use online videos in classes to learn things easily.
15. We study, study and study once we get home.
End.
Other quotes of Dr. Browne:
"Pampiniform plexus.... it would make a lovely name for a horse." (name of a vein) "I always like to say that Politicians are very jejunal, full of emptiness" (jejunal, part of the small bowel)
One Life, One Love, Enjoy Every Bit of it.
The gubernaculum led the testis to the promise land;
the scrotum
lecture: Nutrition and Energy 21 (NE21).-
I couldn't have asked for a better way to remember what gubernaculum meant... and the descend of the testis from embryonic stage.
I shall leave that statement there, because i think it says it all.
He has his own facebook group to him!! full of his quotes:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2218506818
He even has a Lecture Theatre named after him i believe.
Besides him, other lectures are also funny and mostly not a bore, some have a nice accent id say, some with a certain charm in teaching, and some pretty female lecturers too :) Almost all of them know how to conduct a lecture with taking into account the students way of thinking, just that some of the lecturers are boring, but well, i shall look on the brighter side, the bulk of them are all cool and awesome! :)
This is how lectures should be conducted. Fun.
A few boring details on our lectures would be:
1. classes are supposed to be 50 minutes each, but we have them mostly for an hour.
2. We have back to back classes
3. We have Anatomy Lab Practicals twice a week, and Cardsigining exams Once in every fortnight.
4. We learn a modular system, i.e, we don't learn just physiology or pharmacology as individual subjects, but as combined ones. Our subjects for this semester are such as Neruomuscular-NM, Nutrition and Energy-NE, Haemopoeitic and Immune system-HIS, Health and Behavorial Science-HBS.
5. Anatomy is part of NM, and NE.
6. We have online tutorials as well on Histology and Radiography. Which we will be tested on with an exam along with other subjects.
7. We have classes that start at 8 and also that start at 12, but mostly 9.
8. Classes finish at 4 or 5pm
9. No food and drinks allowed into the theatre (but nobody cares)
10. Lecture slides we print out from our online web portal.
11. our time table for each week is different.
12. Lecturers rotate for each chapter of each subject. We don't have fixed lecturers.
13. we can email our lecturers to ask questions, and we would get fast replies.
14. We use online videos in classes to learn things easily.
15. We study, study and study once we get home.
End.
Other quotes of Dr. Browne:
"Pampiniform plexus.... it would make a lovely name for a horse." (name of a vein) "I always like to say that Politicians are very jejunal, full of emptiness" (jejunal, part of the small bowel)
One Life, One Love, Enjoy Every Bit of it.
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