I am struggling in my medical tech program ??

[The Irish Ram]

The pace is insane !!
We literally move far faster than I could imagine
.I am getting pounded daily with super intense lectures that are extremely detailed . It’s hard and painful on me !!

I am doing well on all tests ( As and Bs) but I am often confused and not remember everything

I am also double the age of everyone else .

F me ..

Then you get moving faster. Just keep acing the tests. You can go back and review at your pace to absorb the content.

 

[toobfreak]

Oh man! I got gypped. All I had were nuns

I grew up with a lot of catholic friends. None of them were ever happy.
When I didn't hear them getting beatings at home, all they told me was how the nuns at school would beat them on the knuckles with rulers or make them kneel on their hands.
One of my buddies showed me his dad's stereo one day in the livingroom, he wasn't allowed to even touch it.
He later turned me onto Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly and Alice Cooper, them his dad stopped letting him listen to it!
The receiver his dad wouldn't let him touch (A Heath-kit AM/FM receiver) when he threw it out, he gave it to me! I still have the thing!

 

[JGalt]

The pace is insane !!
We literally move far faster than I could imagine
.I am getting pounded daily with super intense lectures that are extremely detailed . It’s hard and painful on me !!

I am doing well on all tests ( As and Bs) but I am often confused and not remember everything

I am also double the age of everyone else .

F me ..

Don't worry about it. The only purpose of training is to learn the basics and get that piece of paper that says you're qualified to work in that field. Most people are still dumb as shit after they graduate, but that piece of paper just gets their foot in the door. It isn't until you get on the job that you start learning, and most of the time, you'll be doing the same thing over and over, until you reach the point of burnout.

I was commercial brick and block mason back in the late 70's and early 80's and decided to change careers. So I attended a technical university at night for four years and got an Associate's degree. I was dumb as shit at that point too, but the university I attended ended up hiring me as their only in-house electronics technician.

I was responsible for the component-level repair and maintenance of hundreds of pieces of high-end electronic test equipment. At some point, they incorporated computers, so I had to repair those, as well as the monitors. But once I learned what I was doing, it was pretty much doing the same thing over and over for the ten years I worked there.

 

[Quasar44]

Don't worry about it. The only purpose of training is to learn the basics and get that piece of paper that says you're qualified to work in that field. Most people are still dumb as shit after they graduate, but that piece of paper just gets their foot in the door. It isn't until you get on the job that you start learning, and most of the time, you'll be doing the same thing over and over, until you reach the point of burnout.

I was commercial brick and block mason back in the late 70's and early 80's and decided to change careers. So I attended a technical university at night for four years and got an Associate's degree. I was dumb as shit at that point too, but the university I attended ended up hiring me as their only in-house electronics technician.

I was responsible for the component-level repair and maintenance of hundreds of pieces of high-end electronic test equipment. At some point, they incorporated computers, so I had to repair those, as well as the monitors. But once I learned what I was doing, it was pretty much doing the same thing over and over for the ten years I worked there.

Wow !
Whar age were you at school

I was a tiny kid back then watching ET and Empire strikes back ha

 

[Quasar44]

Don't worry about it. The only purpose of training is to learn the basics and get that piece of paper that says you're qualified to work in that field. Most people are still dumb as shit after they graduate, but that piece of paper just gets their foot in the door. It isn't until you get on the job that you start learning, and most of the time, you'll be doing the same thing over and over, until you reach the point of burnout.

I was commercial brick and block mason back in the late 70's and early 80's and decided to change careers. So I attended a technical university at night for four years and got an Associate's degree. I was dumb as shit at that point too, but the university I attended ended up hiring me as their only in-house electronics technician.

I was responsible for the component-level repair and maintenance of hundreds of pieces of high-end electronic test equipment. At some point, they incorporated computers, so I had to repair those, as well as the monitors. But once I learned what I was doing, it was pretty much doing the same thing over and over for the ten years I worked there.

Thx , I feel old and I lack confidence that I am even capable of doing this !

I feel if this fails it will be my final Demise

 

[para bellum]

The pace is insane !!
We literally move far faster than I could imagine
.I am getting pounded daily with super intense lectures that are extremely detailed . It’s hard and painful on me !!

I am doing well on all tests ( As and Bs) but I am often confused and not remember everything

I am also double the age of everyone else .

F me ..

My first year of college I took a General Chemistry course that was designed to weed out the students who didn't have what it takes to get a science degree.

The first day of lecture, the prof said "If you don't already have the entire periodic table memorized, you do not belong in this class."

There were 300 students in the class, half had dropped out by the first mid-term.

Each day of lecture was one chapter of Linus Pauling's General Chemistry. That is a 1,000 page textbook, full of problems. All of it was very math intensive, and you had to take calculus parallel with the chem course if you expected to get through it, because the calculus was used in the chem and the courses were synchronized.

Lecture consisted of writing as fast as I could, everything he wrote on the board. And he was fast, and would not stop for questions. If you had any questions, you had to go to his office after class.

In the evenings, me and 3 others would spend 3-4 hours going over it again. You had to read every chapter in advance, or there was no way you could hope to keep up with the lecture.

Try to get a study group together and meet up in the evenings after class- it helps a lot when you have a fast-pace course like that. And if you have to miss a day, you have someone to help you catch up.

 

[JGalt]

Wow !
Whar age were you at school

I was a tiny kid back then watching ET and Empire strikes back ha

I was in my late 30's when I got the Associate's degree.

 

[Quasar44]

My first year of college I took a General Chemistry course that was designed to weed out the students who didn't have what it takes to get a science degree.

The first day of lecture, the prof said "If you don't already have the entire periodic table memorized, you do not belong in this class."

There were 300 students in the class, half had dropped out by the first mid-term.

Each day of lecture was one chapter of Linus Pauling's General Chemistry. That is a 1,000 page textbook, full of problems. All of it was very math intensive, and you had to take calculus parallel with the chem course if you expected to get through it, because the calculus was used in the chem and the courses were synchronized.

Lecture consisted of writing as fast as I could, everything he wrote on the board. And he was fast, and would not stop for questions. If you had any questions, you had to go to his office after class.

In the evenings, me and 3 others would spend 3-4 hours going over it again. You had to read every chapter in advance, or there was no way you could hope to keep up with the lecture.

Try to get a study group together and meet up in the evenings after class- it helps a lot when you have a fast-pace course like that. And if you have to miss a day, you have someone to help you catch up.

Did you major in hard sciences ??

 

[para bellum]

Did you major in hard sciences ??

Yes, Chemistry.

 

[para bellum]

Did you major in hard sciences ??

Also just as an observation, since I don't know where you are in your studies. It's not unusual for a school to put the kind of course you are describing early in the curriculum.

There is a reason for that. I don't mean to sound snooty, but most people do not have the intellectual horsepower to make it in fields like medicine or hard sciences.

It is better for both the student and the school to identify those people early, so they can be steered into a field more suitable to their individual capacity.

Once you make it through the class that is designed to separate out the "unsuitables", the school will usually bend over backwards to help you succeed.

They want you to succeed, but if you are going to fail they want you to fail early.

 

[Unkotare]

Also just as an observation, since I don't know where you are in your studies. It's not unusual for a school to put the kind of course you are describing early in the curriculum.

There is a reason for that. I don't mean to sound snooty, but most people do not have the intellectual horsepower to make it in fields like medicine or hard sciences.

It is better for both the student and the school to identify those people early, so they can be steered into a field more suitable to their individual capacity.

Once you make it through the class that is designed to separate out the "unsuitables", the school will usually bend over backwards to help you succeed.

They want you to succeed, but if you are going to fail they want you to fail early.

He's trying to say you're stupid Quasar.

 

[para bellum]

He's trying to say you're stupid Quasar.

That's not true and you should know it.

He's doing fine, he's just a little overwhelmed by the pace.

 

[Unkotare]

That's not true and you know it.

He's doing fine, he's just a little overwhelmed by the pace.

No, he's stupid.

 

[braalian]

Oh shit! Please tell me your fucked up ass isn't going into the medical field!

We need to warn your instructor immediately.

By “medical tech”, I can only assume he means medical technician or medical technologist. Which, I believe, is the folks behind the scenes in labs processing samples.

So thankfully, he wouldn’t be involved in any kind of direct patient contact.

But given his vagueness and shaky English skills, he might mean he’s in a medical ASSISTANT program, which would mean he’d be the guy at the doctors office checking your blood pressure and drawing blood and stuff. Scary thought.

 

[Moonglow]

The pace is insane !!
We literally move far faster than I could imagine
.I am getting pounded daily with super intense lectures that are extremely detailed . It’s hard and painful on me !!

I am doing well on all tests ( As and Bs) but I am often confused and not remember everything

I am also double the age of everyone else .

F me ..

Record them and listen to them later when you can handle the pounding.

 

[Moonglow]

By “medical tech”, I can only assume he means medical technician or medical technologist. Which, I believe, is the folks behind the scenes in labs processing samples.

So thankfully, he wouldn’t be involved in any kind of direct patient contact.

But given his vagueness and shaky English skills, he might mean he’s in a medical ASSISTANT program, which would mean he’d be the guy at the doctors office checking your blood pressure and drawing blood and stuff. Scary thought.

The person who cleans the bedpan and changes the sheets.

 

[Moonglow]

Electrical and electronic engineering.
It is all physics and math with a big helping of both theory and application.
I studied anatomy, physiology and medicine as a kid, from about 5-6 on to about 13.
Plus I used to buy and build models of the brain, heart, ear, etc.
I dropped medicine in my early teens to take up astronomy.
If you want something, Q, better make your mind up that you are going to SUCCEED and do great at it and just OWN IT.

The military shoved it down yer throat in six weeks, which usually takes two years at a tech school, I loved the pace.

 

[braalian]

The person who cleans the bedpan and changes the sheets.

That would be (usually) the nursing assistant or (sometimes) the nurse.

 

[Moonglow]

That would be (usually) the nursing assistant or (sometimes) the nurse.

I doubt they are learning him to fix the machine that beeps.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

The pace is insane !!
We literally move far faster than I could imagine
.I am getting pounded daily with super intense lectures that are extremely detailed . It’s hard and painful on me !!

I am doing well on all tests ( As and Bs) but I am often confused and not remember everything

I am also double the age of everyone else .

F me ..

You’re smarter than rightwinger