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Show Having conquered Biochemistry and Anatomy, we faced a new challenge at the beginning of our sophomore year Pathology. Here at last was a course that did indeed correlate the subject matter with the clinical problem. Though the patient was referred to us only after everyone else had failed, we were encouraged to get right into the case ourselves - and in a most fundamental sense. We were initially impressed with the department's teaching methods despite the threat that "Big Anderson is the text." However, with the first weekly "review" session some of us began to doubt that it was all for our own good. The department never mised a chance to display our ignorance, and with the first slide quiz (the one in which we all diagnosed amyloid of the thyroid as normal testicle), even the naive were convinced: this department was playing for keeps. Thereafter our paranoia increased directly with time and culminated with the orals. The pathology orals were the first oral examinations of our career and for some of us, unfortunately, our last. The course was well organized, and the teaching was usually adequate, although there were notable exceptions in both directions. The weakest areas were probably the labs (they could take a lesson from the OB pathology course in this regard) and some of the formal lectures - most notably those in which the lecturer took twenty of the fifty-five minutes to tell us it's too big a field to cover. "Anything not covered in lecture will covered in the oral examinations." "Right! Today we will talk about tumors of bone.'' be Special congratulations should go to the department for its demonstration that all nationalities can coexist in peace and to the following staff members for their particular contributions to our education: to Dr. Coulson for performing as a teacher should; to Dr. Perie-Golia for meaning well, but accomplishing little; to Dr. Gottlieb for his skill in failing to mention anything about pathology and maintaining an unending discussion of hunting, fishing, and skiing; to Dr. Chiga for his remarkable pronunciations of common words and his constant and friendly helpfulness; to Dr. Cathey for not reading to us too often;to Dr. Jones for his almost complete absence; and most of all - to Dr. Carnes for his complete absence. "Tomorrow's lecture will cover the pathology of the GI tract, and if there is more time· we will also cover .... " "That's right, I stopped smoking, cold turkey.'· |
