Korean pride!
These past few weeks have gone by so fast, with 2 weeks in Japan (new pictures are up on the photos page; check 'em out if you have the time! :) ), a nice long weekend with Chang, Hubert, and Ruth, and my geriatrics rotation starting. This week, I'm am on hiatus from the geriatrics program and will be tutoring second year students from Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine.
In Asia, undergraduate and medical school education are combined into a 6-year program. So, these kids are around 19 years old (apparently, the drinking age in Korea is 18...I asked my kids what they liked to do in their free time, and they said drink!). They just finished a year of basic science and will be embarking on a curriculum similar to mine, the problem based learning (PBL) one, in which we learn by basing our studies off clinical cases. In these cases, we are presented with a mock patient, and we learn about differential diagnoses, how to read labs, how to treat them, etc. It's definitely more interesting and more clinically relevant than pure lectures, but there is a lot of self-studying and not as much structure. Anyway, I digress :)
So, these students come to my school for a week to learn the PBL process and to learn a bit about the local culture.
Five of my classmates and I were picked to be their tutors and help them through the process. About 33 Korean students and some of their faculty arrived today, and I had the first chance to meet my group. Their English was okay, except for one student who spoke really well (his mom is an English teacher). So, the language may be a problem, especially for me since I speak fast and apparently have some sort of "local" accent? :) There are mostly males in their class, which is a reversal from my class. Our advisor had told us that there have been problems in the past of students falling in love with their tutors! :) I mentioned that my fiance was Korean to try to blend in with them, and they sort of booed in disappointment! :) Or maybe I was imagining things...
Tomorrow starts the actual classes. Should be interesting! We'll also be going on a boat ride, to the beach, and a luau, so it should also be fun and tiring. I'll keep you all posted on what happens! For now, I need to remember their names!
Me, Jae Hyuck, Tae Ho, Sang Yeon, Seul Kee, Moon Oh, and Young A
In Asia, undergraduate and medical school education are combined into a 6-year program. So, these kids are around 19 years old (apparently, the drinking age in Korea is 18...I asked my kids what they liked to do in their free time, and they said drink!). They just finished a year of basic science and will be embarking on a curriculum similar to mine, the problem based learning (PBL) one, in which we learn by basing our studies off clinical cases. In these cases, we are presented with a mock patient, and we learn about differential diagnoses, how to read labs, how to treat them, etc. It's definitely more interesting and more clinically relevant than pure lectures, but there is a lot of self-studying and not as much structure. Anyway, I digress :)
So, these students come to my school for a week to learn the PBL process and to learn a bit about the local culture.
Five of my classmates and I were picked to be their tutors and help them through the process. About 33 Korean students and some of their faculty arrived today, and I had the first chance to meet my group. Their English was okay, except for one student who spoke really well (his mom is an English teacher). So, the language may be a problem, especially for me since I speak fast and apparently have some sort of "local" accent? :) There are mostly males in their class, which is a reversal from my class. Our advisor had told us that there have been problems in the past of students falling in love with their tutors! :) I mentioned that my fiance was Korean to try to blend in with them, and they sort of booed in disappointment! :) Or maybe I was imagining things...
Tomorrow starts the actual classes. Should be interesting! We'll also be going on a boat ride, to the beach, and a luau, so it should also be fun and tiring. I'll keep you all posted on what happens! For now, I need to remember their names!
posted by Gina Fujikami at Monday, July 11, 2005
12 Comments:
yay for koreans!
too bad stanford never organized a trip to u of h for the premeds
They booed? LOL. :) Suckas!
the proverbial ring of piss is working
I recommend it for all whose girlfriends are leaving for med school...vultures like Jeremy are waiting. ;)
Ring of piss...how romantic
proud to have been voted 2nd most likely to be a sketchy grad student junior year. i'm making good on it...after all, i have the youngest GF by far
its always nice when you reach your potential.
How would you know, Andrew?
ouch. are you just going to take that, ayeh?
take them to curry house! :)
Yeah, you should take them there! Too bad the Challenge has been discontinued, but the food's still good.
the challenge has been discontinued?
i thought i won the challenge.
what's going on? :)
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