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Aug. 23rd, 2016 08:33 pmIf I had been wearing a slightly fancier shirt today, I would have taken myself out to a fairly expensive steak house on Beacon Hill for dinner. Fortunately I wasn't wearing an upscale steak house sort of shirt, so I took myself to Harvard Square for a large cheeseburger (the BBQ Gronk: BBQ sauce, bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, hold the onions) and ice cream. I shouldn't have done that either, but today was not my favorite day ever, because Craniofacial and Neck Anatomy has reared its ugly head again.
In the old curriculum, CNA ran concurrent with the medical school's first-year gross anatomy course, so the medical school used the cadavers from the neck down and the dental school used them from the neck up. In the new curriculum, it doesn't work like that. So the medical school provides the heads, but they've decided it's the dental school's problem to provide anything else (like aprons and goggles and lab coats and dissection tools, and lockers. They finally coughed up 18 lockers for 35 students.). Which, of course, they didn't tell us until today. Which, of course, meant I had to beg them to send me the list of vendors so I could order the stuff myself, because I hadn't heard of any of this before today and the dissections were supposed to start yesterday.
The discipline director for anatomy is one of those faculty members who wants to stroll in on the appointed days, do her thing, and stroll out again. She is rather displeased with the fact that we don't have all the equipment for the dissection lab sessions. Guess who she's mostly displeased with? (Hint: not the medical school.) Oh, and by the way, she wants me to recruit a postdoc student to help with the histology lab session, and what about the histology microscope slides?
Her final exam is 21 working days from tomorrow, and then she leaves me mostly alone again until next August. I can't wait.
In the old curriculum, CNA ran concurrent with the medical school's first-year gross anatomy course, so the medical school used the cadavers from the neck down and the dental school used them from the neck up. In the new curriculum, it doesn't work like that. So the medical school provides the heads, but they've decided it's the dental school's problem to provide anything else (like aprons and goggles and lab coats and dissection tools, and lockers. They finally coughed up 18 lockers for 35 students.). Which, of course, they didn't tell us until today. Which, of course, meant I had to beg them to send me the list of vendors so I could order the stuff myself, because I hadn't heard of any of this before today and the dissections were supposed to start yesterday.
The discipline director for anatomy is one of those faculty members who wants to stroll in on the appointed days, do her thing, and stroll out again. She is rather displeased with the fact that we don't have all the equipment for the dissection lab sessions. Guess who she's mostly displeased with? (Hint: not the medical school.) Oh, and by the way, she wants me to recruit a postdoc student to help with the histology lab session, and what about the histology microscope slides?
Her final exam is 21 working days from tomorrow, and then she leaves me mostly alone again until next August. I can't wait.
