What I [Hopefully] Learned at School This Week

Posted: August 22nd, 2008 | Author: Ryan | Filed under: Medical School | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »
Lecture Objectives

Sorry I’ve not had much time to write this week. I’ve been a little, um, preoccupied. You should know that I’m having fun – mostly because everything we’re learning is relevant. I expect this trend to continue. I thought I’d give you a little taste of what we’ve been learning this week. These lecture objectives will give you some idea. In addition to these, we’ve typically had about two hours of ethics lectures per day – it’s a good chance to use the other side of my brain from time to time. One of these days I’ll try to do a little post on how I study and what methods I use to cram all of this stuff in.

Gotta go. Thanks for all the words of encouragement.


What’s Coming My Way

Posted: August 8th, 2008 | Author: Ryan | Filed under: Medical School | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »
27 lbs of knowledge.

27 lbs of knowledge

One of the things I’m most impressed with about VCOM is the way that students have embraced technology as a means of sharing information with one another. The SGA has created a website where students can post news, notes, study guides, and podcasts of the lectures – and it is used frequently.

Earlier today, I was looking around the site and came across a post by an MS2 who apparently stacked all of his/her course notes together, placed a ruler beside them and snapped a photo (left). The caption reads, “Here is the stack of documents for all of first year. It’s 27 pounds of knowledge.”

Yee-haw! This should be fun.