Moving backward

Published on March 21, 2006 By BlueDev In Misc

Remember, back in High School how they took attendance? You could only miss so many days and then you got in trouble. Had to have any and all absences "excused". Boy, that was great. Wasn't it?

Well, after getting a Bachelor's, and now only weeks away from having my MD, apparently I am in High School again.

My current four week rotation is the famed Capstone course. It is a new, one of a kind course in which they cram everything they fear the may have missed into these four weeks. To be fair, they do cover some good topics. We get our BLS recertification and our ACLS certification. There are some good financial planning topics as well as on call topics.

But there is a lot of filler as well.

Do we really need to spend 2 hours going over how to code, when we are going to get that at our own institutions? Do we really need to spend hours talking about our feelings? Yes, we do. Because if we are absent, we fail the course.

Welcome to High School all over again. Perhaps, if they made sure all the topics were good, they wouldn't have to worry about mandatory attendance. Sure, there are some who wouldn't go at all. Their loss. But treating us all like we are irresponsible teenagers just breeds animosity.

Comments

Dr Guy

on Mar 22, 2006

At least it is just 4 weeks, and not 4 years.

For the record, going to HS in the 70s meant attendance was very lax, and we did not need notes for every absense (that was before the knee jerk that yanked everything back to a rigid system). Those were the days!

crimson

on Mar 22, 2006

I was talking to my supervisor this morning about my total absences for the year. 5 so far, and one leave early. All of them but one has been child illness related. The reason why I asked was because Kole's sick again and I was going to ask for Voluntary Time Off since it's so slow.

But it's the yahoos who have already run out of the yearly absences for hangover reasons, or who just want to take off early because of a big party or game on television, that force the whole company to have a strict attendance policy.

Tova7

on Mar 22, 2006

This would bite. They take your money isn't that enough? What do they care if you show up or not?

BlueDev

on Mar 22, 2006

Those were the days!

Wow. They were militant about attendance, tardiness, etc. when I was in High School.

But it's the yahoos who have already run out of the yearly absences for hangover reasons, or who just want to take off early because of a big party or game on television, that force the whole company to have a strict attendance policy.

It is the same thing with us. The one difference is, we are paying for this, not the other way around. I think they should let us decide that.

This would bite. They take your money isn't that enough? What do they care if you show up or not?

You know, I am going to tell them in the evaluation that, if they made sure the classes were good, perhaps they wouldn't need to worry about attendance.

dynamaso

on Mar 22, 2006

At least it is just 4 weeks, and not 4 years

I was going to say the same thing.

Back in my days of high school, we were not allowed to miss a single class and if we did, there was hell to pay. Even so, playing hokey is part of the rights of passage, even if it meant catching trouble later.

SanChonino

on Mar 23, 2006

Hookey's half the fun of it!

When I got to college, I thought that maybe the stringent policies on attendance would disappear. Not always the case . . . some classes (teachers) are really good about it - they realize that you're the one paying to be there, and if you don't want to be, oh well. But others would give pop quizzes to encourage daily attendance . . . and they were always the sucky classes, too. Thank goodness that the majority of my current teachers don't care.

BlueDev

on Mar 23, 2006

Hookey's half the fun of it!

Heh, if it didn't mean you would fail the course and not graduate, it might be.

Dr Guy

on Mar 23, 2006

Heh, if it didn't mean you would fail the course and not graduate, it might be.

Damn I was lucky! The 70s were the drop in , tune out, and turn off decade! I did not, but we could!

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