I'll see you in the ICU!

I get a kick...

when my med-surg professor doesn't know jack.

The other day, she asked us, "where does the pituitary gland sit?" and I replied "in the hypophyseal fossa" and she looked at me and said "what?"

"the hypophyseal fossa...
of the sphenoid bone...
the sella turcica..."
and that's what she wanted to hear--that's all she knows, probably--"Yes, the Sella Turcica"

[eye roll]

Then, yesterday, it was clear she didn't know where the tentorium cerebeli was, and she was pointing to the falx cerebri and her speech started to trail off as she realized that she didn't know how to explain supra and infra tentorium when pointing to the mid-sagital suture.

I said "isn't it [and placed my hand horizontally, behind my head] "the membrane that lies between the cerebrum and cerebellum?"

and she woke up quickly and said "YES! that's it!"

what would she do without me sitting in the front row, guiding her along?
Still, I can't seem to score better than low 80s on her tricky-ass tests. ALL of the answers are right, you just have to interpret which one she thinks is the correct one with regard to "which is the most important thing you can teach a patient regarding..."

All of them are correct, you just have to know whether she thinks teaching the patient this or that is MORE important. If you bitch about this, they say--well, this is the way they ask you questions on the NCLEX, get used to it.

Screw you.
get used to THAT.
(did I mention that I hate it here?)

What you should know about your brain (before you start teaching)

posted by sketchmonkey @ 6:15 AM