Mouthpiece

After reading a post on someone’s blog, I realized that I have never really written about my academic life on this blog. I genuinely don’t intend to bore you with stories of when and how I scored how much.

My college is a classic case of how good and bad something can simultaneously be. I don’t know how – maybe our dean is too good – MGM Med College has managed to attract the best teachers in the region. The anatomy department in I MBBS is full of even-minded and disciplined professors. But the except for a couple of teachers in Physio department, rest all are either just too smart or just too dumb.

II Year turned out to be equally paradoxical. We have an energetic and disciplined Micro department. Although the lab functioning is a little unprofessional, teaching staff in Micro is fine, almost interesting even! The weekly oral tests were the best thing in the world to prepare for micro.

But patho people more than cover up for whatever good Micro does or is. Even they have two weekly tutorials. I clearly fail to understand how they distribute the topics. One day we have the whole of renal, and the next day whole of GIT/Liver. One is expected to speak word-to-word, line-to-line language of Harshmohan, otherwise it is declared wrong. I read a lot of Robbins in 4th sem, and the patho people make feel as if I have committed a crime. Yesterday a patho lecturer asked class about GFR rate and when someone replied 125ml/min, she deemed it wrong because it was 180L/day according to her and nothing else. Heights!!

The pharmac department is staying afloat thanks to its competent captains of ship. But sometimes they’re too lazy: they haven’t checked our 4th sem papers even after a month and half of exam.

The problem with the curriculum is that every bloody piece of knowledge is either a ‘Long Question’ or a ‘Short Note’. Hepatitis, MI, AIDS – they’re reduced to 4/8 marks answers and cease to be subjective topics which call for comprehensive and practical approach. I’m not saying that I’m perfect at ratta-fy these copy-book answers and so have got bored of them. My incapability of adapting to the system does not deny me the right to complain, certainly.