UQ UQ Medicine: Provisional Entry Questions and Discussion

[Mas1991]

You can add the second year grades fiasco to their ever-growing list of disasters too. The UQMS is taking that one all the way to the UQ Senate.

Is this a new incident? I haven't heard of any 2nd year SoM issues. Care to elaborate?

 

[Mas1991]

Something else entirely. According to our ECP, and the words of virtually every SOM lecturer all year, our OSCEs were to be worth 25% of our grade for the year. Too many people passed OSCEs and got the full 25%, and consequently too many people did well for their liking, so they decided to make OSCEs pass/fail and thus worth 0%, and re-calculate our GPAs based on the remaining 75% of assessment. Upwards of 60 people failed the year because of this, and almost everyone slipped a grade. I went from a 7 to a 6. Essentially, the School of Medicine tried to normalise, or "bell-curve" a criterion-based course.

Sorry didn't read ahead. Yeah our SoM is really starting to scare me. Hope the senate knocks some sense into them. The sad thing is they know they're being trolls and prepare ahead. Throughout the entire Ipswich information evening they constantly kept saying that they contacted their lawyers and that their lawyers informed them they had no contractual obligations blah blah blah.

 

[godoftoast]

The majority of people who failed (about 50/70) have been offered supps and are sitting them on Wednesday. About 20 people have not been offered supps and have to either repeat the year, or find a new choice of career.

Is that a bigger fail rate than usual. That seems awefully unfair.

 

[dra]

Is that a bigger fail rate than usual. That seems awefully unfair.

I've always been told that 2nd year has the highest fail rate. Around 20 students (or 5%) of first years failed this year. I'm not sure if they are getting supps/repeat/career change.

 

[kashmuq]

I've always been told that 2nd year has the highest fail rate. Around 20 students (or 5%) of first years failed this year. I'm not sure if they are getting supps/repeat/career change.

[offtopic] O M F G
dra is back I can't believe it
you're my hero! [/offtopic]

 

[Mas1991]

I've always been told that 2nd year has the highest fail rate. Around 20 students (or 5%) of first years failed this year. I'm not sure if they are getting supps/repeat/career change.

Were those that failed told during or after their electives?

 

[godoftoast]

I've always been told that 2nd year has the highest fail rate. Around 20 students (or 5%) of first years failed this year. I'm not sure if they are getting supps/repeat/career change.

Do you know anyone who failed? Would you say people failed mainly because of a lack of effort/motivation or is it because the SoM bell curves stuff to make sure the lowest x% fail?

 

[dra]

Mas1991: Results came out after the elective.
Godoftoast: I know of people who failed certain sections of exams (one of my friends failed the neurology portion of the clinical exam). I've been told repeatedly that SoM does not have a required fail number/%. If you study hard enough, you should pass 1st year.

 

[kashmuq]

He failed the neurology portion but was still passed overall?

 

[godoftoast]

I cant tell if the neurology thing is a troll or real serious post.

 

[dra]

Failing certain parts of an exam isn't a big deal in first year.

 

[Mas1991]

Failing certain parts of an exam isn't a big deal in first year.

yeah but now that the course has been broken up I'm guessing there will be an entire overhaul of the examination process. Or maybe not, its the SoM after all.

 

[godoftoast]

I hope they dont make us repeat a whole year if we fail a single course.

 

[Mas1991]

I hope they dont make us repeat a whole year if we fail a single course.

Well they might give supps, but if you fail after that you probably will have to repeat. It's not like they offer any of these as a summer course and i doubt they'd let you do only that subject for a year. Also they have specific courses for sem 1 and then again for sem 2 so you couldn't only repeat just that semester.

 

[godoftoast]

Well they might give supps, but if you fail after that you probably will have to repeat. It's not like they offer any of these as a summer course and i doubt they'd let you do only that subject for a year. Also they have specific courses for sem 1 and then again for sem 2 so you couldn't only repeat just that semester.

Thats true for MEDI1011 or 21. However I'd be pissed if they make us repeat a whole year for failing those BS sounding Indigenous course or the ethics course.

 

[kashmuq]

At least you can't fail the elective anymore, that was a huge relief imo

 

[Mas1991]

Thats true for MEDI1011 or 21. However I'd be pissed if they make us repeat a whole year for failing those BS sounding Indigenous course or the ethics course.

true but from what i've heard from the guys in the year above, the ethics parts aren't that difficult, just annoying

 

[Mas1991]

At least you can't fail the elective anymore, that was a huge relief imo

yeah true, but didn't they pass everyone? provided you're not a complete retard.

 

[godoftoast]

true but from what i've heard from the guys in the year above, the ethics parts aren't that difficult, just annoying

What about the indigenous part? That seems like an entierly new unit or something. I wonder what it is? Eg is it like learning demographics etc on indig health or is it about meeting indig people and learning how to talk to them without offending along cultural lines or a combo of both?

 

[kashmuq]

yeah true, but didn't they pass everyone? provided you're not a complete retard.

Was being sarcastic mate lighten up