tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post1025687234233526215..comments2023-05-28T23:06:10.372+10:00Comments on The Girl with the Blue Stethoscope: The PBL of futures past . . . ?The Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02368935358031860432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-16338763883419158322007-03-13T21:42:00.000+10:002007-03-13T21:42:00.000+10:00Ah, tutors. Over my PBL years, I have had:- A tuto...Ah, tutors. Over my PBL years, I have had:<br>- A tutor who stationed himself in a corner of the room and went to sleep, every session.<br>- A tutor who encouraged us not to study or put a lot of effort into Medicine.<br>- A tutor who knew Harrison's from cover to cover, and expected us to glean all our knowledge from it. Anything from anywhere else was wrong.<br><br>I've also had several decent, and one exceptionally good, tutors. But all in all, I'm very jealous of the group you describe. It'll be a great advantage to you to learn to work PBL with a great tutor; regardless of the quality of the tutors to follow, you'll always know what you're supposed to get out of PBL.Milk and Two Sugarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960085813041665939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-51601692663421516562007-03-13T22:05:00.000+10:002007-03-13T22:05:00.000+10:00That sounds, terrible, m&2s!I know how lucky w...That sounds, terrible, m&2s!<br><br>I know how lucky we are now, which makes me sad that things won't stay like this, but happy that we have had the chance to have our tutor and that other people will get to learn from her as well. :)<br><br>Is there any opportunity for you to register complaints about PBL tutors at your university if they are bad enough? The university is paying them to teach, they would hopefully not take kindly to the fact that their employee was sleeping while on the job!The Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02368935358031860432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-29568524178686671572007-03-14T20:29:00.000+10:002007-03-14T20:29:00.000+10:00There was a feedback form we lodged twice each sem...There was a feedback form we lodged twice each semester, and any very serious problems could be promptly taken up with the administrative staff (an example would be tutor bullying, or someone having a romantic relationship with a tutor). But by and large, our tutors were not very involved in our groups - we really were expected to teach ourselves. There aren't enough good candidates for tutor positions, so unfortunately average or below average tutors tend to stick around. The Harrison's guy actually turned out to be okay, once we learned to assert ourselves (not a skill most 18 year olds have mastered!).Milk and Two Sugarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960085813041665939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-44033923044935563642007-03-15T13:22:00.000+10:002007-03-15T13:22:00.000+10:00I was really lucky with my PBL group and tutors in...I was really lucky with my PBL group and tutors in first year medicine. I'm now in second year and there are some definite flaws in my PBL group this year. The good thing is that you'll learn to facilitate your own group so even if your tutor is a fruit loop (as regularly happens) the group can bunch together and run the PBL in a highly effective way that suits them.LLnoreply@blogger.com