I never said that Dr. U dont know his stuff... he mite know physiology INSIDE OUT... mite know EVERY SINGLE THING there is to know about physio.... BUT if you cant explain it to your students then maybe you shouldnt be a prof.

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Why did you not come on Value MD before the exam or go to Dr N
before the exam to complain about the guys standard of english?
That just reminds me when students in our class were complaining
about the standard of english in DR N's exam and he straight up told them
that he copied the questions word for word from the shelf exams.

So true. Had a hard time teaching myself physio when at Ross. Some professors were good, some were bad. Managed to pull through with the BRS physio (and the Physiology book by the same author), and pretest questions. Good luck guys and hopefully everyone will pull through this one.

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This test format that we had today isn't like the shelf or the USMLE from what I've noted. I mean, I haven't done every question there is to do under the sun but the ones I have done aren't like that. Nope....... Not at all.

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It seems as though you are no master of the english language yourself with all your spelling errors,

Does anybody know the rule regarding withdrawing from a course 3 times? This is my 3rd time taking physio. I had a 75 going into today's exam but after today..I will definetely drop. So assuming I am failing the course going into the shelf and need to drop physio, what is the procedure? I know that if you fail 24 credits, you can get kicked out. What about withdrawing 3 times coz if I have to withdraw this would be my 3rd time.

YO! ONESOLO... didnt i tell you a week before the exam that they are going to say, "why didnt you complain BEFORE taking the exam, youre jusr complaining coz you failed it"...

PEOPLE... what can you say?

some students did talk to Dr. N... but do you really think they are gonna do anything about it? I, myself went in to speak with both of the other profs a week before exam, told em that if i failed the course, it would be his fault because i seriously have no clue to what he wants from us.

I did BRS Qz ( got 1 wrong out of 40 Qz )
did Kaplan Qz ( didnt get a single Q wrong )
Did pre-test Qz ( got 7 Qz wrong )
Took the new profs exam.... dont even remember the questions ( except
for the 7 match problems).

He put in all the values jumbled in ONE question with about 7 follow up questions...
i remember Dr. N saying this in class that USMLE is trying not to put in follow up questions because if a student gets that first question wrong, they would end up getting the second one wrong as well... Yet! here we had 7 follow up questions... nice...

Hmm... i wish the prof couldnt spell instead of not being able to speak english properly... i have a recording of his lecture that you mite be interested in listening to... it gave me a headache trying to understand what he's trying to explain...

maybe you could be our translater/spell checker... interested in the new job opening?

anyway...maybe english is not Dr. U's problem... i mean look at Dr. N, he's not all that great either but he knows how to explain stuff...

Everything being written about the present-day smu physiology course sounds identical to the one that was conducted several semesters ago. And the net result was a poor physio course that I do not believe prepared the average passing student in that class well for step 1. But SMU did have well-taught courses like psych, path, pharm, micro and perhaps some others. Something like psych would have been easier to self-teach. Self-teaching an extensive and involved course like physio without the normal 50 percent base of knowledge instilled by most courses at smu is a real challenge, so however the still dysfunctional smu physio course proceeds, at least try to learn the brs physio.

Let me say that several people did come to me about going to Dr. N and Dr. P about this specific subject in Physio. so asking "Why didn't you do it before hand" is null and void. As a matter of fact, 11 people to be exact came to me about this. It was vocalized and noted however, it's really hard for professors to do anything prior to the exam being given and then after it has been given it's normally too late. On a personal note though I feel that you should always take complaints directly to the professor first which is what I did. In all fairness to the physio department I argue that it has two of the best professors this school has to offer and I know that with given time Dr. U will be just as good. I feel that I was taught and learned physio very well this semester. This is just a bump in the road which with time can only get better. At this point I'll just sit back and see what happens and hope that I didn't do as bad as I feel like I did.

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