Teaching by Committee

We should be used to it by now. Someone pummels us with powerpoint slides and conjectures about something we don't care about now and most pharmacists have never used in their life, but just when we adapt to their particular flavor of pummeling they're tagged out and a generic asian male/generic german male/someone who looks homeless enters the ring to bring a different kind of pain. Now granted with some classes this makes sense: 'peutics I'm looking at you. 'Peutics using a different person for each topic makes perfect sense: you want the person who knows about each topic lecturing that topic. If we wanna learn about pain, ask the pain guy. If you want to learn about urinary incontinence, ask whoever knows about that.


Like this little guy
Medical literature gets no such get out of jail free card. You can't convince me that you had to bring in one guy to tell us about four math operations over the course of 4 hours (in the most homeless way possible) and then someone else to do basics of study design, someone else to do the other basics of study design and then someone else to tell me how to use google.

While I am a fan of working by committee (I'm looking at you, kinetics homework that I haven't even started), I'm not a fan of being taught by one -- especially when it doesn't merit it. 940 is basically an epidemiology course with study design tacked onto it, and the College of Public Health taught an entire epidemiology course with just one dude at the helm. But it takes an entire band of misfits to even halfway teach a similar course across the street?

Child please.

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