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December 6, 2009 at 4:10 pm |
Is there an estimate of when the exam grades will be on ALEX?
November 19, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
what are we responsible for from the hearing loss lecture? that whole thing is a mess.
November 21, 2009 at 1:10 am |
Yea that hearing loss lecture is pretty ridiculous. Just a bunch of anatomy slides and names with a surgical procedure or two thrown in. I’m sick of these terrible lectures that don’t teach us shit.
What are we being tested on?
November 23, 2009 at 6:30 pm |
How much spoon feeding do you need? Can you really not tell by now what material from that lecture is important?
November 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
Are we responsible for the Llinas publication paper that he put in our course packets instead of the powerpoint??? Or just his lecture???
November 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm |
The announcement on ALEX said that lecture was more of a conclusion to the course, and as long as you attend/listen to lecture you should be able to answer the questions on the exam. The questions for that lecture should be fairly straightforward… so while I am not 100% sure, I would say that comprehending/knowing the whole paper is overkill.
November 19, 2009 at 5:30 pm |
will there be images on the exam?
November 19, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
me: “will there be images on the exam?”
dr. walton: “yes, since there was 1 path lecture”
November 19, 2009 at 6:16 pm |
dr walton updated the exam info on ALEX…. it now says that there will be 2 path images
November 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm |
so is the headache material just 4 points (headache workshop is not separate)?
November 17, 2009 at 8:14 pm |
Hey Everyone– we’re looking into the PPS/Pain lectures and how they a) fit into the NS course and b) will be tested. Hopefully should have some info on this later tonight. Thanks for all the emails/comments on it though, it’s definitely an important concern.
November 18, 2009 at 1:20 am |
Quick update- we should be getting some sort of info tomorrow. Dr. Walton is working this out with the pain faculty, and she expects some sort of resolution tomorrow. I’ll send out an email/post here as soon as I get any new info.
November 17, 2009 at 6:55 pm |
Why are Dr. Gharibo’s lecture slides ( pain assessment and management) password protected? I find it strange that professors would forbid students access from materials posted on alex.
November 17, 2009 at 5:08 pm |
this morning’s lecture on pain — that says it’s only part of pps, but is being continued on wednesday as non-opioid pain management as part of pps & neuroscience — are we responsible for it for the purposes of the exam next wednesday, or no?
thanks!
November 12, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
Why are there only 15 minutes of today’s migraine lecture on Itunes? Are they going to add more?
November 12, 2009 at 9:52 pm |
can this issue please be fixed before the weekend?
November 12, 2009 at 10:39 pm |
We’re looking into it
November 13, 2009 at 11:10 am |
the migraine lecture is up now. thanks for taking care of this Dan.
November 12, 2009 at 6:21 pm |
wtf why were the slides from today’s migraine lecture totally different than the one presented not only in our books but also the ones online?! Please put the updated slides online so we can at watch this lecture and have it make sense??!?!
November 12, 2009 at 8:45 pm |
To be honest, I’m not sure where you’re coming from on this. The slides in the booklet are almost 100% correct… she added in a slide at the very beginning and she added in a comment on the “Venterolateral Periaquaductal Gray” slide, but other than that I’m at a loss for what else is different. She also skipped a few slides, but I don’t think that’s a problem…? Please let me know if I’m completely missing the point here, but I don’t see adding in one slide as a problem?
November 12, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
Ah, I just downloaded the file and it looks like a file from the beginning of the lecture isn’t up yet… Perhaps that’s the source of confusion? “Part 2″ of the file right now is starting at a slide ~2/3 through the lecture, but it goes in order from there.
November 12, 2009 at 6:13 pm |
i noticed a lot of the lectures are being put up on ALEX as .pptx files. can we have this changed back to regular powerpoint (.ppt) files? thanks.
November 11, 2009 at 10:58 pm |
Needless to say but I’ll say it anyway: Gardner’s lectures are terrible. Her slides have numerous confusing images that are sometimes completely nonsensical. She has no learning objectives. She said a million things that would be impossible to obtain without repeating the audio about 5 times per slide. And, although this point is less important than the others, the flat affect in her voice doesn’t help us at all.
She was not a good lecturer last year and she has not changed this year. Please de-emphasize this lecture for the exam! Thank you.
November 13, 2009 at 11:38 pm |
I agree. I also have to re-listen to her lectures AND start and stop often just to furiously write down what she is saying, and then I have to re-read it all afterwords to make sense of things. Because she talks so much and has almost nothing written on her slides, it is impossible to tell what sorts of facts are more important and which facts are lecture trivia.
Her lectures last year had the same problem, so I purposely avoid coming to class when she lectures because I know I’m going to have to re-listen online and start and stop continuously.
November 6, 2009 at 4:25 pm |
There is absolutely no audio or video recording of today’s Cognitive Disorders lecture. Can this please be put up ASAP?
November 6, 2009 at 11:17 am |
If a lecturer is going to completely change his lecture slides around, could we please be notified of this BEFORE going to lecture (maybe just by email when a new resource gets added for the week)? It’s incredibly frustrating to sit through a lecture when the slides are out of order/missing/there are twice as many slides in our book as in the presentation.
November 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm |
Can the actual slides from the Child Psychiatry lectures be posted please? Only about half slides in the files currently posted were actually used during class and there were tons of extras (and tons of slides out of order). Do I really need to watch the video and manually do it myself??
November 5, 2009 at 11:51 pm |
There were new files posted to ALEX about 10 PM tonight. I haven’t looked through the files yet to see if they are comprehensive… if not, let me know (or I’ll hopefully have time to check it out later tonight) and I’ll ask Dr. Walton or Dr. Gluck to get the newest slides up there.
November 6, 2009 at 1:24 am |
Yep, so the new slides were posted tonight at 10:09 PM. The file name is “CHILDPATHOLOGY2009_MEDSTUDENTS.ppt ” and it is under Child Psych 1 in the Week 5 folder.
November 4, 2009 at 11:18 pm |
How the hell am I supposed to listen to the Parkinson’s Disease workshop? Can this be taken care of now instead of right before the test?
November 5, 2009 at 12:21 pm |
Would it be possible to get the correct slides & cases posted for the Parkinson’s Workshop?
November 5, 2009 at 11:54 pm |
To my knowledge, the correct slides are posted on ALEX. Go to the Parkinson’s Workshop folder, and the first powerpoint file (uploaded 11/3 at 2:26 PM) is the version that was used in class. The other two are the outdated file.
November 4, 2009 at 3:29 pm |
are the cpc meetings required? we just found out today when the meetings are and i already have another commitment
November 5, 2009 at 7:48 pm |
that’s cool. don’t answer
November 5, 2009 at 11:49 pm |
I’ll quote from the classwide email that Dr. Walton sent out yesterday:
“The meetings this year were made according to faculty availability, so we understand that not everyone will be able to attend. You are, nevertheless, enouraged to meet with your group and participate in preparing and/or giving the presentation for your group.”
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
November 3, 2009 at 8:48 pm |
whats up with the DiRocca lectures? Can anything be done to make them one file???
November 3, 2009 at 11:10 pm |
seriously… 24 different segments of one lecture? this is painful….
November 4, 2009 at 3:31 pm |
can we get a response to this issue course liaisons?
November 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm |
and the segments are out of order too!
November 3, 2009 at 8:20 pm |
What is up with this CPC thing. It should be relayed to Dr. Walton that some people are busy outside of class and scheduling meetings during the lunch break of a day with classes on either side of it or at the same time as EBPM with just a few days notice is disrespectful of our time. Some people may have already scheduled things. Why not choose a time in advance and all the groups have that as their prescheduled meeting time instead of just scheduling when it is most convenient.
November 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
perhaps better communication between lecturers could decrease redundancy. the double schizophrenia and double movement disorder lectures (first 2) seem like a waste of time.
November 2, 2009 at 10:26 am |
What exactly are we supposed to know from the ophthamology lecture? Towards the end he just put pictures up and said what the disease was (without explaining anything). Will we have to interpret pictures on the test? Or will it just be on the stuff towards the end of the lecture (the stuff after the cases)???
November 5, 2009 at 7:00 pm |
still confused following Emily’s email…we don’t need to know any of the bulk of the lecture? (i.e. the numbered cases nor the unknowns?) Some clarification would be much appreciated!
October 31, 2009 at 11:53 am |
Do you know where the ophthalmology lecture is?
October 28, 2009 at 6:41 pm |
This is not strictly a neuro question, but what’s with the alarm bell that’s constantly going off in the middle of the lectures? Its disturbing to the lecturers and to us. Any idea what’s going on?
October 28, 2009 at 2:10 pm |
i thought that overall the test yesterday was pretty fair, however the psych questions were completely out of left field. dr. gluck should attend lectures if she is going to write the questions, or at least make the questions based off what the lecturers said. it’s not fair to ask us about things that we were specifically told in lecture are not important, like the different types of schizophrenia. or different types of depression, which were not pointed out.
the drug questions, dr. zagzag’s questions, and the other random lectures all had very fair questions. the psych questions stood out as being particularly unfair.
October 29, 2009 at 5:48 pm |
I very much agree.
October 29, 2009 at 7:39 pm |
I have no idea if I got the questions right or wrong, but I thought that the one question that asked for a diagnosis with the image muscle cells should have stated what kind of stain was used.
The psych question on schizophrenia type was completely unfair, as during lecture the professor stated that the only real distinction is paranoid schizophrenia, which lacks negative symptoms.
October 23, 2009 at 6:19 pm |
i noticed that there is a handout on alex to go along with the CNS Bacteria and Fungal Disease lecture. are we responsible for this for exam purposes?
October 23, 2009 at 6:37 pm |
this was Dr. Zagzag’s response to whether or not the supplemental notes for all his lectures are testable:
“the neuropathological issues emphasized and discussed in the lectures are the important processes that the medical students need to understand. Best, Dr. Zagzag”
take that how ever you choose
October 23, 2009 at 1:18 pm |
Dearest course liaisons. Would it be possible to ban Dr. Mikolaenko from ever giving a lecture again? Maybe someone could tell her she doesn’t have to summarize every single example of hereditary metabolic diseases that’s ever been described?
Thanks!
Great job guys!
October 23, 2009 at 1:50 pm |
Yeah! Please. Never let her near us again. Dr. Zagzag seems friendly and he runs the path portion. Please let him know how much we can’t stand her and her 270+ slides. Its just torture to listen to. It really is. And all of these diseases and their chromosomes will not be remembered in a few months…i can promise you that! Its just busy memorizing.
October 23, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I agree. I’m trying to go through her lecture on metaoblic disorders now, and in the process of attempting to create a readable outline, I noticed that her slide organization is confusing as well. For example, under GM2 gangliosidosis, she jumps back and forth between titling the slides “GM2 gangliosidosis” and Tay Sachs disease, and some of her slides titled “GM2 gangliosidosis” only refer to characteristics of Sandhoff disease. I basically have to guess whether she is referring to gangliosidosis in general or if she’s referring to one particular disease.
She also jumps back and forth with clinical presentations on one slide, or clinical presentations mixed with microscopic findings, or microscopic findings mixed with epidemiology, and there is often repetitious information on these slides.
I could maybe deal with her “read all the slides really really fast” lectures if her slides were organized intuitively.
October 23, 2009 at 11:18 pm |
Her lectures are absolutely terrible. It’s almost inhumane to force us to learn from these disorganized slides/lectures. Why would the course directors provide us with such terrible lectures???
October 25, 2009 at 6:49 pm |
Yea, she is awful! Her lectures were a lot and yet did not teach me a thing!
October 23, 2009 at 8:55 am |
For the medications at the back of the course book from week 1 are we just responsible for he antipsychotic medications and antidepressant medications?
October 24, 2009 at 3:34 pm |
I am fairly certain this is the case. There are additional lectures on pharmaceuticals in MoD NS2, and the drugs listed seem to fall into the classes that will be lectured about at that time.
October 24, 2009 at 11:06 pm |
Yes, and just got confirmation on this from Dr. Walton… only the antipsychotics/antidepressants will be tested from the big chart at the back of the week 1 handout. The mood stabilizers, sedative-hypnotics, etc, will all be tested in the 2nd part of this course (November).
October 20, 2009 at 6:47 pm |
Dr. Zagzag’s lecture notes contains alot of info not covered in lecture. Is this stuff for our own edification or to be covered on the exam?
October 20, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
As in most classes, any resources that the faculty have given to us are fair game, per our discussions with the course directors. It’s the old “we don’t have enough time to teach you absolutely everything you need to know about medicine in lectures” rule. But, Dr. Zagzag writes the neuropath questions… so hopefully (though it is complete speculation on my part) he chose the topics to emphasize in lecture based on what he thinks is most important/relevant.
October 15, 2009 at 5:38 pm |
dear course liasons,
are you checking this? would it be better if we emailed you directly?
October 15, 2009 at 6:59 pm |
We’re working on a variety of issues right now. A lot of things don’t get fixed overnight and very few issues in this class have been easy to resolve. We’ll let you know more about our approach to solving issues soon. We appreciate all feedback, but we can’t always immediately forward questions/concerns onto the course directors.
October 15, 2009 at 11:15 am |
Can someone post the videos from the sex lectures on ALEX? I want to study them a little more closely… by myself…
October 14, 2009 at 5:27 pm |
I’m wondering how much we are responsible to know from Dr. Rubinson’s Lecture. He pretty much reviewed everything we learned in our entire course of Neuroanatomy — and I was wondering if we’ll actually be tested again this year on knowing all the specific lesions and their consequences. Should we focus on relearning all this material for upcoming exam??
October 15, 2009 at 9:45 am |
I want to know this too!
October 13, 2009 at 4:01 pm |
Would it be possible to get the powerpoints for todays sexuality lectures? I noticed that they weren’t posted online. Without video or powerpoints it become pretty hard to study
October 13, 2009 at 4:40 pm |
there were no powerpoints to go along with today’s two lectures. She just lectured from the podium.
October 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
Would it be possible for a previous year’s transcripts of Dr. Sadock’s lectures to be shared with us? I have grown so accustomed to powerpoint that I feel lost without it…
October 13, 2009 at 9:06 pm |
me too!
October 13, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
Dr Ying said that exam questions from his lectures would be made by Dr. Gluck and that he was not sure whether or not we would be responsible for the names of the specific drugs mentioned in his lectures. Could someone please confirm with Dr. Gluck what we are responsible for from these lectures?
October 14, 2009 at 1:57 am |
On the same note, are we going to be responsible for all of the adrenergic antagonists listed in those two tables in Dr. Nelson’s lecture?
October 13, 2009 at 11:01 am |
I emailed Dr. Hotson about the “Neuroradiology Cases” under the resources folder for her lecture. Here is her response:
Dr Walton will post answers when she sees fit (at least a few days before the mid-term). We were unable to schedule a review session at a time when both the class and I could attend.
For most people (we do have different learning styles), I think the “unknown ” period would be best addressed by self selected small groups of students – (4 or 5 would be a good number). Please share this info with your classmates.
WH
October 13, 2009 at 1:19 pm |
Follow-up: Walton says they will be posted next monday.
October 12, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
Can someone please clarify what we are responsible for from the Neuroradiology Lecture?
Thanks!
October 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm |
Can this be clarified for all lectures? It seems like most lecturers enjoy “teaching” but weren’t given a clear guide for what we need to know.
October 12, 2009 at 6:48 pm |
I second the neuroradiology learning objectives request
October 12, 2009 at 4:36 pm |
Sometimes the audio picks up a LOT of background noise. I’m sure this is an issue that is easily preventable. Can we give a heads up to the folks in the AV dept?
October 12, 2009 at 1:45 pm |
Dr. Malaspina’s lecture (Schizophrenia II) was incredibly hard to follow. I know other people have already commented on this, but how difficult is it to post the lecture in the correct order BEFORE giving the lecture???
October 11, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
Regarding Lecture Slides in .PPT format:
Word is that some lecturers will only post .pdf’s “due to copyright.” Not sure on what that means, but we’re still looking into it. Hopefully I can get a more satisfying answer soon. In the meantime, we’ll have to work off of the pdf’s. Sorry guys.
October 12, 2009 at 11:43 am |
That really isn’t acceptable. I can easily (and do) copy and paste all the images from the pdf files anyway, so I can take notes on them in powerpoint. So there goes that theory.
If there are copyright issues, then those offending slides could easily be removed and the powerpoints posted without them. This is really getting ridiculous.
AND if they insist on posting pdf files, can they at least post one slide per page instead of 4? The images get really fuzzy.
October 12, 2009 at 3:09 pm |
Does “due to copyright” mean there is some intellectual property issue with the professors going on? If that’s the case, the course director can make it policy for ppts to be up, and then the professors will pretty much have no choice but to post their slides. Just like how professors can’t really refuse lecture recordings if it is school-wide policy for them to be recorded. Just wondering…
October 9, 2009 at 11:54 am |
We need to have updated slides PRIOR TO LECTURE AND IN POWERPOINT FORMAT!!!!! I do not understand why this is so difficult to do. Even if they are put up 1/2 an hour before lecture, they should be put up BEFORE LECTURE. Also, having slides in PDF format are not helpful because you cannot type underneath them nor can one easily copy and paste them into a word document. SLIDES NEED TO BE IN POWERPOINT FORMAT! Med school is hard enough, I do not understand why the staff needs to make it harder by not having proper resources that are easily accessible and available in a timely manner. These things were done for host defense so I do not see why they can’t be done for this course.
October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am |
Can the powerpoints for the Antipsychotics lecture and ANS lecture be uploaded?
October 11, 2009 at 3:50 pm |
I will grit my teeth and bear copy/pasting images from PDF into powerpoint if the images are full page (since asking for powerpoints to be posted again and again seems to do nothing) but if pdfs are the only forms of the slides available, can there at least be one slide per page instead of 4 per page (ANS lecture), making it impossible to use any sort of converter and making copy/pasting turn into a blurry mess??
If this school really wants to go “paperless,” the administration is really going to need to do a better job with this.
October 8, 2009 at 9:03 pm |
Only 1/2 of the ANS lecture has been posted on itunes in audio and in video format. The 1st half of the lecture is has not been posted in any format. This is a huge problem. Did something go wrong with the recording process or is there just a large time delay?
October 8, 2009 at 3:56 pm |
At the start of Dr. Malaspina’s lecture (Schizophrenia II), she stated that she hadn’t changed the lecture slides from last year. During her lecture, I counted 10 missing slides (with plenty of necessary information on them). Also, many of the slide were grossly out of order. I feel like every time there is this problem in a class, I write it up on the evaluation, yet things never change!
I understand that a few extra slides is not a big deal, nor does it make it more difficult for the students to follow the lecture. However, 10 missing slides, with the rest of the slides all out of order causes the ENTIRE class to start flipping through their coursebooks / searching through the posted slides when they should be listening to the lecturer, just so they can take notes on what she is saying in the proper place. I feel like I’ve typed this a hundred times, but I guess I’ll do it again.
If there are going to be major changes to the slides, you need to post the update online before class and you need to have updated handouts for the students.
October 8, 2009 at 6:58 pm |
I agree. There’s really no reason not to do this – it shouldn’t be that hard. Please don’t let them give you some lame excuse.
October 8, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
i attended Dr. Malaspina’s lecture, however, i will need to re-listen to the lecture because many of the slides were missing. Dr. Gluck’s explanation that video would not be provided due to HIPAA restrictions doesn’t seem like it should apply to lectures without patient information.
October 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm |
I don’t understand how not posting the lectures is a HIPAA violation. The patients that were filmed gave their consent for the videos to be used for educational purposes. The videos would be on a password-protected website for medical students only. How is this a problem? Remember the videos we saw in neuroscience last year demonstrating movement disorders? It wasn’t a problem then. The only issue with the videos seems to be Kerry Walton.
October 10, 2009 at 12:04 pm |
Also, she referenced a transcript, do you think we could get that?
October 8, 2009 at 11:53 am |
There’s a rumor going around that there will be no ppt movies of any of the lectures in the module going up on itunes…the WHOLE MODULE. Kerry Walton in lecture made it seem like just the actual patient interview parts wouldn’t be going up (as per HIPAA laws) but can we please ensure that the rest of the lecture is video recorded…especially if the slides are going to be disorganized.
October 8, 2009 at 5:29 pm |
Many students have brought this to our attention and we’re looking into it ASAP. We’ll get an email out to the class as soon as we have an answer. Thanks for bringing it up! -Dan
October 9, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
not only are the lecture videos not posted, for the lectures where only audio is available the portion of the patient examples is cut out.
why not just post the lecture videos and cut out the patient examples if it even is a hipaa violation?