Nonprogressive

If there's one thing that's undeniable about our COP, it's that there is a gaping void of common sense such that no one even bothers to figure out if something was already covered in another class. If grade schools and high schools exercised the same laziness, we'd all be learning how to write cursive through grade eleven and doing long division through grade ten. The entire nature of education is that it's progressive. Sometimes we need to re-cover a little ground, sure. Sometimes things just fall through the cracks.


Sometimes entire people fall through these cracks
But no, it's the world-class COP that can't grasp the simple concept that our modern education system is built upon -- you advance learning every year so that the end product recognizes why the Vancomycin patient looks like the Cleveland Indians mascot, why "Epinephrine" isn't a valid drug allergy, and which crayons are the tastiest (hint: it's yellow, son).

But the problems are obvious. Somehow I doubt that the COP needs this blog or your evaluations to realize how inefficient our curriculum is. Hence we had sixteen weeks of Immunology only to have someone else swoop in and do the "what you really need" in a couple lectures. Hence we need two semesters of physiology when everyone knows the tests were "fail and forget" -- I can't even remember what we covered. Hence there were three years of OTC with everyone moaning about how shitty "active learning" was, and after they won a bunch of awards for their "unique" method (while we learned very little) they switched it back to the craptastic didactic we've come to love. I'm not sure who designs our curriculum, but the end product is Salvador Dali-esque in it's nature.


Really Salvador? And just where the fuck are
we going to get the giant butterflies?
But if there's one upside to these inherent redundancies, it's that I can at least snooze through 950 because thus far it's the exact same as 940. Let me rephrase that: it's a damn good thing. Mostly because right now I'm watching a PhD stumble through basic epidemiology that I watched a PharmD teach like a pro while simultaneously looking like three of the five members of White Snake. Multi-tasking, bitches.

But think about that for a second. Compare your PhD profs to your PharmD profs. How many of your least favorite ones are PhDs and how many of your fave five are PharmDs? Lex Luthor, Papa Joe, Uncle Pete, SheMaJo, and a certain tiny toxicology professor all are among the best we have and the best there are. The list on the opposite side of the coin is obviously populated by Dr. Jipper and the other members of the anti-justice league.

Now that's not to say there aren't exceptions to the PhD rule -- there are. ManBearProfessor comes to mind immediately. But the point that I'm trying to make is that its very likely that the recent change in the head of our COP points to a massive shift toward more PhD professors despite a clear correlation with me playing Playstation while they speak "English as a seventh language."


Yes, "Fission Mailed."
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