Testimonials

Feedback summary from previous one day UltraMedicine revision courses

These comments were taken from feedback forms from the course days in 2006

Feed back statistics summary for 2006 courses

Students were asked to rate aspects of the study day

2006 feedback satisfaction statistics		(0 - 100%; nil to complete satisfaction)
OSCE Course		Written Course
Venue	84%	Venue	91%
OSCE cases	84%	MCQ	82%
Slide material	92%	EMQs	92%
Overall	82%	Slide material	91%
		Overall	90%

Feedback comments from written weekend course 2006

(Plus comments from the course organisers)

Written Days

Aspects most liked

• Good coverage of the syllabus
• Well organised, good variety of topics
• EMQs great
• Exceptional teaching
• Slide shows – heavy going, scary but good practice
• Big volume of topics covered
• Everything – especially the slides
• Good handouts
• Slide shows and explanations
• The questions were relevant and helped to highlight areas that I hadn’t thought of covering in as much detail
• Going through MCQs/EMQs – learning what I need to know and what I need to focus on
• EMQs (from previous years and explanations of these)
• Really good tips and mnemonics
• Relaxed learning environment
• Good EMQs – pitched to the level of exam and syllabus
• Good handouts
• Good explanations – succinct
• Good, clear, useful, lots of facts and mnemonics
• Detailed explanations of answers
• Past exam questions VV good
• The slide interpretations
• Everything, especially side show
• Pre-course material
• Well organised
• EMQs and MCQs explanations and mnemonics for learning
• Excellent teaching
• Lots of difficult cases
• Slide show really useful – hard topics
• Very comprehensive
• Practice tests very good and good explanations
• Power point teaching very good
• Visual explanations provided in test answers and in folder
• Past questions very useful
• Fast paced (no time to get bored)
• Highly relevant
• Slide show fantastic
• Timing us when we did the questions
• Great explanations
• Good pace
• Good practice questions
• Specific to Leeds
• Lots of info
• The slide show
• The slide show – normally little chance to practice
• Good tips on clues to look for in questions
• Slide show practice very valuable for revision
• EMQs with good explanations and extra information
• Good presentation
• Slide show was extremely useful
• Actual past questions used
• The mixture of slides, EMQs, MCQs gave a well balanced weekend of revision for the exam
• Opportunity to run through associations between conditions and all those obscure things I never remember
• Good level of breaks to work time
• Nice lunch
• Fast paper questions

Aspects least liked

• Difficult topics
• Speed of deliver - necessary though
• Would prefer to go though some key areas with greater explanation
• Speed of going through some sections
• No vegetarian meals (yes there were!)
• Some slides were very complex
• Inclusion of so many rare syndromes/ diseases (We get this comment every year. I am afraid it is a sad fact that medical examinations at all levels have a massive over representation of rare eponymous syndromes and stuff you will never see in practice, unless you end up working in a tertiary referral centre, which even then are rare.)
• Some of the clinical case presentations very long (This is a common tactic in examinations where the answer is in fact easy – bury it in waffle.)
• Too many CXRs (you can never have too many CXRs!)
• Seem a bit annoyed if questioned (We welcome questions so long as they are not continuously from the same person and that the answer has not already been covered in the discussion, which you missed because you were educating your fellow students. Also once we have given a clear explanation we can move on without the long face. We accept that you may have been on a professorial unit and have been informed that a fact which, generally accepted as true by the wider medical communit,y is in fact false. The choice is yours which answer you want to record in the exam, the correct one or the one that gets a mark. You know who you are!)
• The girl who wouldn’t shut up (I agree)
• Nothing
• No timetable to know what’s happening throughout the day (Sorry about this, there is a rough plan in the front of the folders however the number of topics covered makes this a very difficult task. Also we often end up changing the running order according to requests during the day.)

Feedback comments from OSCE weekend course 2006

Things I liked most...

• Slide shows – verygood
• Excellent teaching style by both presenters
• Covered a lot of ground in a short time
• Focused in on most likely topics to come up
• Going through the marking schedules
• Slide shows under exam conditions the going through the answers
• Explanations about how to examine and actually what things indicate if you find an abnormality
• Slides were varied and excellent
• Slides and talking through the answers – very very good.
• Being talked through the exam
• Going through orthodox examination technique
• Going through last years examination
• Good teaching
• Folders very good
• Lots of cases, detailed, tips and helpful hints
• Working through cases – demonstration of examination technique
• Lots of tips on how to score highly not just pass
• Slide shows were excellent as were the OSCE tips and differential diagnosis lists
• Informative, concise
• Clarification of the OSCE other doctors had confused me with!
• Dr. Monfredi show bring out a book of mnemonics – they are superb!
• Tips on what’s likely to come up – what’s come up in the past
• Showing the examination videos
• Good run through the theories of examinations
• Filling out drug charts, fluid charts, obs charts
• Explaining CNS examination
• Respiratory and cardiac examination
• Slide shows were great
• Slide shows under examination conditions
• Clinical slide cases were very useful
• Lots of good tips on what to expect
• Mentioning key scales/ grades to remember
• House officer skills
• Testicle and breast examination
• Live patients
• Slide show quiz
• Slide show
• Slide show
• Useful notes (handouts)
• Useful tables and tips
• OCSE station run throughs
• Good mnemonics
• Slide show pictures
• Slide shows – really good, but really hard
• Slide shows
• House office skills
• Slides, very useful but scary
• Prescription charts and fluid balance
• Knowing what has come up in past years
• Chocolate biscuits
• Food – especially cakes at 3.30 pm
• All good

Aspects liked least

• Early starts!
• A bit fast
• Too fast !
• Sometimes information overload
• Very hard going
• Did go very fast, as in a lot packed in, but needed I guess
• Some contradiction at times between presenters
• Maybe too much cardiovascular
• Tea and coffee provision in morning
• Neuro demo
• Going over examinations –too long, but don’t know how this could be shortened
• Hard work
• Smaller groups
• I think the slide shows are a little above our level – or I’m in big trouble!
• More time to ask questions
• The food