EtherBunnie

Does anyone know the details on Old Dominion University losing accreditation?

I just became a senior at ODU and am very happy to begin traveling for my clinicals. The program has changed for the worse. The pharmacology instructor is a local CNRA who has little to no experience in instructing students. Expect to learn pharmacology from your fellow classmates and online. The program had difficulty getting a second full time instructor so they settled by hiring this person. How will you learn pharmacology? The instructor will assign each student a drug to present via powerpoint for each class. The concept would be great as an adjunct to teaching but as it is, it's the complete instruction! This eliminates the need for the instructor to prepare for a lesson which is great for her but bad for the students. She is aware of her poor teaching methods and will occasionally ask the class if anyone is recording the class "lecture". The students present the information they've learned and the best you can hope for is that most of their information is accurate. Granted, if the instructor would stick to a textbook, pharmacology might be easier to learn (in spite of learning from your fellow students) but instead, the instructor chooses to stick with websites or wikipedia. The recent graduates are aware they were fortunate to have a qualified pharmacology instructor and grateful they learned from someone other than the current instructor. Hopefully, ODU will one day gain a qualified person to instruct pharmacology but until then--consider ODU as a last resort if you have other options.