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Since my teachers get it wrong in the ppt slides, I just thought I'd point it out here. HIPAA not HIPPA. It's not about hippos. :lol2:

I can't decide if I should go all flaily on them about it or not. FPS, if our INSTRUCTORS get it wrong, what chance do their students have?

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Hm, not. Hopefully, someday when you slip up with a term your prof knows you know and that really doesn't matter in the context it is used - he will let it go.

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My gf had a nursing test today and one of the questions was....what is an EGG. So she wrote "I like mine scrambled". The teacher laughed so hard when she did that she didnt realize she accidentally put egg instead of EEG on the test. People make mistakes sometimes

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I have an instructor who mispronounces pretty much every medical term there is. I mean she really butchers them. It's a pet peeve of mine but I'm not really stressing about it. Using HIPPA instead of HIPAA is incorrect, but I can see how easy it would be to make that mistake (and I'm a former-editor and spelling/grammar freak). I don't really care as long as they are teaching the content right.

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Hm, not. Hopefully, someday when you slip up with a term your prof knows you know and that really doesn't matter in the context it is used - he will let it go.

When you're talking about an acronym, it's pretty important to have it right. Putting HIPPA changes what the letters stand for. Instructors should be using this acronym correctly.

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I have an instructor who mispronounces pretty much every medical term there is. I mean she really butchers them. It's a pet peeve of mine but I'm not really stressing about it. Using HIPPA instead of HIPAA is incorrect, but I can see how easy it would be to make that mistake (and I'm a former-editor and spelling/grammar freak). I don't really care as long as they are teaching the content right.

Yeah, that and the incorrect pronunciation of drugs as well. Drives me crazy. I have a disc that pronounces these things (Stedman's Medical Dictionary) and even my doctor pronounces lamotrigine wrong. My one instructor calls NSAIDs "nee-seds". Say what??

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When you're talking about an acronym, it's pretty important to have it right. Putting HIPPA changes what the letters stand for. Instructors should be using this acronym correctly.

Hm, I see your point but I feel like the abbreviation isn't as important as knowing what it stands for (hopefully if you asked them they would know) and more importantly, what it means. In the grand scheme of things, messing up two letters is small potatoes, IMO. There are greater things to stress over. But, then again, if it really bothers you, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to point it out--I don't see anything wrong with students who know their stuff speaking up. And then you can rest easy :)

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Since my teachers get it wrong in the ppt slides, I just thought I'd point it out here. HIPAA not HIPPA. It's not about hippos. :lol2:

I can't decide if I should go all flaily on them about it or not. FPS, if our INSTRUCTORS get it wrong, what chance do their students have?

Our instructors have so many typos we gave up even trying to tell them about it.

My favorite so far this year is when the powerpoint told us all about the "Glasgow Come Scale." A different instructor last year used the same powerpoint slide.

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Hm, I see your point but I feel like the abbreviation isn't as important as knowing what it stands for (hopefully if you asked them they would know) and more importantly, what it means. In the grand scheme of things, messing up two letters is small potatoes, IMO. There are greater things to stress over. But, then again, if it really bothers you, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to point it out--I don't see anything wrong with students who know their stuff speaking up. And then you can rest easy :)

That is the thing, knowing what it stands for would require knowing the correct letters. If I kept seeing this put wrong I would simply ask my instructor what the second P stood for. :p It would sort of be like someone always writing AIDES instead of AIDS. It doesn't matter that its pronounced the same, the individual letters stand for something.

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Our instructors have so many typos we gave up even trying to tell them about it.

My favorite so far this year is when the powerpoint told us all about the "Glasgow Come Scale." A different instructor last year used the same powerpoint slide.

We have had a few typos on our exams. Misspelling a word or a typo occasionally wouldn't bother me. But with this acronym, it seems pretty important to put the acronym correctly since each letter stands for a word.

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I assumed the prof has been using the acronym correctly all along and this was a typo on a powerpoint.

I agree if it is a systemic thing, it should be respectfully pointed out. I like the asking what the other P stands for :o).

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I assumed the prof has been using the acronym correctly all along and this was a typo on a powerpoint.

I agree if it is a systemic thing, it should be respectfully pointed out. I like the asking what the other P stands for :o).

That could have been what they meant, when they put this "Since my teachers get it wrong in the ppt slides" I read it as a reoccurring thing. If it is just a 1 time thing than I would agree, no big deal.

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