D's Not-Therapeutic Lecture

I'm not sure if you were hanging on Dr. D's every word back on day one as I was, as you may have still been enchanted by the grandeur of the new building and all of its lebensraum (+1 internets to you if you got that one without using google). So let me recap the subtext of the entire thing. Now, 47 slides in 50 minutes would pretty much seem like too much for anyone to cover or any student to retain. In fact you have to wonder if at some point a sane person should question if 47 wall-of-text slides is really the best way to teach.

And it's not even as if quantity is the only complaint to be made. What question did Dr. D throw your way after every slide -- "Is this clinically significant?" -- only to then himself answer "probably not." Oh I get it, so I'm supposed to wade through the thick layer of "Science'n'BS" you just put down and memorize every word even though by your own admission it has no impact on treatment, dosing, or even Jeopardy. In those grandiose pep-talk lectures we all got at the beginning of our COP schoolin' I distinctly recall hearing that they were training clinicians for the future, when right now I feel like I'm training to be the science trivia master of tomorrow.


At least science trivia masters get tons of tail, right?

As if the self-admitted absolute irrelevancy of every word he spoke isn't bad enough, he leaves off 3/4ths of the way through his slides and tells us we can probably just read through the rest ourselves. Great, why don't you just come out and say that you are essentially a talking accessory to a powerpoint you wrote 3 years ago? I in no way feel like I'm exaggerating here, but the way the current curriculum is structured it is the equivalent of Dentistry school starting at the foot and working it's way towards the mouth.

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