Physiology Vent

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Specializes in CNA (Stroke, Neuro, LTC), Volunteer.

A little background information: My school separates Anatomy and Physiology (for some stupid reason). I had a horrible Anatomy professor the first time I took it and ended up dropping the class, I retook it during the summer and made a B. The professor was extremely hard (use to medical school level anatomy) so I was extremely proud of my grade in Anatomy. Last minute the Physiology professor decided to retire, so we were left with no professor. The professor who teaches the lab decided he could teach physiology, and that brings us to where we are today. HE IS THE WORST PROFESSOR EVER!!! He has his degree in engineering, not physiology. He's taken one physiology class. He doesn't know the material, he sits in his car before class and reads the information. His power points come from the book's website, he doesn't change anything. Then during lecture he keeps saying we don't need to know this information but he spends over half his lecture lecturing about things we don't need to know. He never remembers where we left off from the previous class so we end up backtracking. We are 3 chapters behind because of it. He's given us wrong information multiple times and we end up correcting him, and his response is "Oh, I was just testing you," yeah right!!! The book is wrong on several things too, its a terrible textbook. His tests are ridiculous, there's always something on the test that he said we didn't need to know and the tests are so nit-picky that there is no way to prepare for them. He publicly humiliated me in front of the entire class 3 times! He asks us to answer questions and when we do if the answer happens to be wrong then he makes us feel horrible instead of giving us some credit for trying. What I'm learning in the class I'm learning from study group, and things I learned in Anatomy. There's been several people that have gone and complained to the dean and president of the school and their response was that they had never had problems with him in the past so it must be us; they now refuse to take any complaints about the professor. The last test we had the class average was a 60%! The reason it was that high was because there were a few students who did really good on it (of course we always have a few geniuses) but my friends in class averaged 30s and 40s. Its dumb and ridiculous. Now I'm super stressed, I have another test in there tomorrow. I have no idea how to prepare for it, and I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm suppose to apply to nursing school at the end of the semester and as long as I keep my grades up I will be a walk-in, but I'm seriously scared this class will ruin it for me. I managed to get a 96% on the first test, I got a 38% on the second test. I'm making As, 1 B, and now I have a high C (he would probably round it to a B if the semester were ending) in Physiology this semester, I need to make at least a B in my Physiology class if I do as bad as I did on the last test I will be flunking the class probably. Sorry, I have no idea if anything I said makes sense but I'm hoping you can figure it out! (And I can't drop the class because I have to have it this semester to be able to apply to the program).

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

Wow, how is your school allowing an engineer to teach a very complicated and different subject to pre-nursing students?

I don't know what to tell you. I guess just try and study EVERYTHING no matter what he says. Oh and you might want to check to see if the NS you are applying to will let you retake so many classes (if you don't make the grade this time around and have to retake it, it will be your 2nd retake of pre-reqs, as far as I know)

Good Luck

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Specializes in CNA (Stroke, Neuro, LTC), Volunteer.

My goal is to not retake it, but for pre-reqs we can retake as many times as needed. Supposedly he went part way through a physical therapy program so that makes him eligible to teach it. They were desperate, but its seriously retarded and frustrating.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

Well, thats good that they let you retake as many times... So I guess its just up to you to get the best grade you can under the circumstances.

In this economy everyone is desperate lol

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My goal is to not retake it, but for pre-reqs we can retake as many times as needed. Supposedly he went part way through a physical therapy program so that makes him eligible to teach it. They were desperate, but its seriously retarded and frustrating.

"Retarded"?:confused:

Would it be possible to approach the "geniuses" to find out what they are doing to get those A's?

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Whats your instructor name? :uhoh3:

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