Do you call your teachers by their 1st names?

[noyesno]

We do.

A nurse at clinical thought this was very strange and would not refer to my teacher by her first name.

What do you call your teachers?

[harleyz]

I usually go with how they introduce themselves on the first day of class. Most professors, etc will say I am Dr. so and so but you can call me by "first name". Some do not, and I respect that as well.

[Verna127]

We called our teachers by mr or mrs, miss or dr.

[Grandy]

Depends on the school you go to I guess. I went to a small and friendly nursing school, there were only 70 students in my cohort and we had an excellent student to teacher ratio. All of our lecturers, tutors and clinical facilitators knew us by our first names and we knew them on a first name basis too. Our lecturers including our course co-ordinator even used to attend social functions and dinners that we organised and they would go to the pub with us and have a few beers at the end of semester or end of clinical practicum. It was great, we were a close knit bunch and I miss my university days.

[kat von b]

We called ours "Professor"....even now after I've graduated and they tell us to call them by their 1st names it's hard to. Guess I'm just old school and see it as a sign of respect.

[Boognish]

It depends entirely upon the preference of the instructor. If they don't explicitly tell us during the first day of class, I'll usually ask. Most of my teachers prefer first names, but some want us to call them Dr. . Some ask we use Dr. . But again, if you're unsure, there's nothing wrong with asking the teacher what he or she wants to be called.

[Cuezee2]

Our professors invited us to call them by their first names on the first day of orientation into the nursing program. Their thinking is that one day we will be their colleagues, and if we look at them as our superiors now, it will be a difficult habit to break later. This is based on feedback they have received from former students.

With that said, I grew up in a family that strongly emphasized, "respect your elders", and I have a very difficult time calling them by their first names. Thankfully, most of my professors have their PhD's, so I just call them Dr. so-and-so, which I've noticed a lot of other students do as well.

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

I do during class. But when I introduce them to my patients in clinicals I am more formal.

[benr98]

Thia has probably been said at least once all ready if not more. I call all my instructors by either Dr. So&so or Professor So&so, unless they tell us otherwise. This shows respect for that instructor. I had one female insurctor that insisted we call her by her first name.

[Who?Me?]

Even 20 years ago, when I was still in nursing school, we called our instructors by their first names, but only if invited to do so. Otherwise it was instructor preference: Prof, Dr., Mrs., Mr. Brother, Sister, (Catholic university), etc.).

[crossingfingers10]

We addressed our instructors in different ways, it just depended on the instructor. We had some teachers who we only called by their first name, others who we only called by their last name, and then we had one MD as an instructor who we called Dr. last name. We would have never thought of calling them any different way. The ones who we referred to as Mr or Ms/Mrs probably would have corrected us if we would have used their first names. Age or education of the instructor didn't seem to effect how they wanted to be address, except for Dr. of course. We had a few 40-something year old teachers who we called by their first name but others by their last.

[misslisa]

Professor last name...all 6 of them!

[Savvy20RN, BSN, RN]

I call my professors by their last name. Dr./Professor whatever. I've done that my entire life out of respect for them. :) If a professor tells me to call them by their first name I'll do that, but that rarely happens.