One Huge Façade

If you've ever want to hear someone bitch about the "Clown College COPs" cropping up around the US (and this state, now), just ask me -- you'll get an earful. Part of it is the state legislature throwing money at these Clown Colleges like they're our own COP leadership buying liquor in Vegas (yes, I went there), and the other part is me being pissed because I paid for a top-notch education and that's exactly what I expect, dammit. I put my face in the mud (ladies...) and grinded out the pristine undergrad GPA and PCAT to get here, and rightfully I expect something for it -- we all do.

Sometimes (read as: all the time) I question the teaching methods employed. More or less: forcing students to read powerpoint slides and 4-inch-textbooks barely qualifies as an education program. This is the same way in which concentration camps barely qualified as camps (hint: there were no tents involved). However, I usually take solace in -- even though we're all learning the hardest way on earth -- at least getting what is supposed to be a modern and complete education.

This is not so.


Exhibit A: Lea's motherfucking shield -- the cervical cap so nice we learned it twice. The fact that we studied it in TWO DIFFERENT CLASSES is NOT an indicator that it's important, believe it or not. Regardless of how much time we spent learning about Lea's Shield in both Endocrine and Therapuetics:

LEA'S SHIELD WAS REMOVED FROM THE GODDAMN MARKET BEFORE YOU EVEN ENTERED PHARMACY SCHOOL

This is unexcusable, period. I don't care if my professor has not practiced pharmacy in decades or in their life: you should at the very goddamn least teach me about products that fucking exist. Go ask somebody why we don't spend lectures covering pixie dust and unicorn farts: the answer should be that they don't fucking exist. Yet lo-and-behold our supposed world-class education had two classes (and two different professors) teaching us about the advantages and disadvantages of what may-as-well-have-been unicorn farts.

Surprise, surprise: for the umpteenth time the job of actually teaching something has been outsourced to each and every one of you and this blog. If you want my personal slice-in-time opinion: this COP has made a nasty habit of TESTING and not TEACHING. You and I are seem to be the only ones teaching all too often, and the product of our COP being really goddamn good is only a function of setting the bar for self-teaching so goddamn high.

Make no mistake: I will be submitting a formal and professional complaint to the COP with my goddamn name at the bottom in the biggest font I can create.

To brutalize us with teachers that don't teach is offensive. To test us over material not taught to us is even moreso offensive...But to waste time teaching us material that has been irrelevant for over two years is an insult to any integrity we believed this program may contain.

Fun fact: part of the reason Lea's Shield was removed from the market was that many patients complained of the size and weight of the device (an oddity for those seeking contraception in the first place, wink wink).

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