PBL time!
I was the first to present my PBL today. Mine was about sputum samples and hemoptysis. I mentioned how to describe the spit and what it all meant. He didn't interupt me, saving his tough questions at the end, unlike some of my other PBL mates, where he actually interrupted them halfway, such that they didn't get to finish their presentation. Buck up, he implied. Instead of a list, categorize systematically. Organize. Ask why and how is it clinically relevant? Which is the most common and therefore most likely to see? In what proportions? Not in a list. Sheesh. He put it to me politely. Diplomatically. But I still felt put off. But the way he did it at least didn't make me appear stupid infront of the others. Such is his skill in people management. At least I wasn't the only one. He put up a memo about some of us who were eating in the lecture theatres. His title was the Acting-Head. Not deputy head that I had thought. Mr Quiet got his presentation cut short. Didn't get to finish. Not that it was wrong, or he was going off topic, or he has missed the point. Or missed the tutors point, that the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is useless cos it would muck up the results for the mantoux test, which indicates prior or previous exposure to TB. I never thought of that... Another dude, let's call him Mr Studious also came under flak for his presentation for chest xrays. He showed us a picture of a normal CXR, then went on to describe the various pathological CXRs. His advice was to concentrate more on the normals, range of normals, the patterns of recognition, and even to label out the structures seen in a normal CXR, which he didn't do. Fair enough. Hmmm...