Maths with health science, coming soon Engineering without maths

 Education is learning without "experience". If you learn only through experience you just need apprenticeship.

Sadly most of education in colleges is so useless we cannot learn without experience. One of the reasons for that (in health science) is we dont learn maths or logical thinking or economics. So we cant understand simple things like probability, difference between single event and generalization. When the pandemic hit most of us in the health services had little idea on what the data was telling us.

Everyday some drug was touted to be a "good" for the covid. as we have no understanding of evolutionary biology we were astonished when the virus mutated to one of the treatment. In a idea situation before generalizing the usage we should have done a trial or an experiment. alas as we "know" it might work. as we think it is better to do something than wait, we ended up with all idiotic ideas. moreover none of the people who told us to be at home (remember they all had a fat cheque) told us how will people eat, how will they go home etc. as we have little understanding of sociology and economics- two important eyes of health. the list goes on. So pray tell me what is your point- after ruining health education with useless syllabus without useful science subjects like maths, physics etc, Now it is striking the Engineering education, you dont have to do maths and physics and join Enginerring. I for one in all my 14 years of experience in the world convinced my mother to for go maths in 11 and 12. I do still suffer and had and still have tough time understanding certain maths which is needed to study neurology leave alone research methods. So what will happens to these students when they dont know laws of thermodyanamics or calculus and want to work in a proper engineering company. How will they work big data or AI? I shudder

Meet our new policy- hope this will be scraped soon

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/maths-physics-not-a-must-for-engineering-aicte/articleshow/81457412.cms

where are the women?

 as usual let us remember women on only on women's days. in other days we can forget they do everything- especially for lower wages or no wages.
The other day a photos of principals in TN

What is obvious is it has become a mens club. where are the MS. mary chidambarams of my generation? Well i dont know? suddenly all the students in the class are girls and the women in leadership roles have gone. I am open to why that is.

ask IAP

 I heard the TNIAP is going to have a discussion in Coimbatore. even though i think these are absolutely useless as there will be one thing on everyone's mind- why the fuck- not everyone is calling us as "doctor". and then start blaming "others".

But that aside i think it is better idea- even though i am highly skeptical

But if you are attending these meetings- the questions i hope someone will ask?

1. who are the people who pressurized, incentivized students to attend the IAP conference

2. okay the students attended it- did those people give a rats ass the students did not get any food?

3. I am assuming around 1 crore was looted in the name of conference (inviting law suit from criminals who ate the money from the president of IAP to MR. desikamani and Co) has any steps taken any action ?

4, if you will not protect "your" students what the hell are we going to do with a association?

5. what steps are taken to stop this loot in the next conference?

6. Then we can discuss whether we are the royal highness or PTs

7. I sincerely believe if we dont do anything -we will have 300- 500 people voting and no one caring about associations

8. i hope people also discuss beyond the same stale issues - like council and talk real issues

9. if you are young if someone tells you council will change PT is TN - run, run like hell - idiocy is contagious

Question paper setter should start reading other than WhatsApp forwards

 

I wanted to write a elaborate blog on how ridiculous these questions are. however i think most of them are self explanatory. just full of nonsense and tribble with fancy words.

The first rule of assessment is - it is done for a "problem", why else do you want to assess? so we will take questions like TUG, assessment of MS, TB spine or some obscure reflex. what does the question ask the students to write about? assessment of what is MS? by the way MS? TB spine- what are they to write in this one word question. The extremely intelligent "professor" cant even make a sentence of what is a question? 
Some of them are better- but still poorly written- as you know a sentence should have a object, subject and a verb- and what is assessment of mile stones? for what- to find out is the child is in risk of development of  neurological symptoms or .....? just pathetic  

The cherry of the question paper is the first question. What the hell is that got to do with neuro-rehabilitation? I understand you need to understand lymbic system, heck even today i went to a college and taught about that - but do we have a method to assess them in PT? Brainstem issues are complex and needs hype specialist to assess- well the question is not about that anyway in a paper on assessment. who the hell is the "professor" who thinks this should be in assessment paper.

Please if you asked to set a paper- take your time. it is a huge responsibility. dont just words like fine motor assessment- write clearly in what dimension in ICF you want the student to describe, what for? in what condition?. you may be a genius but for other we need those to answer a question. 

if it is TUG- ask us if you want to use that for balance risk assessment, its advantages and disadvantages or for gait prognosis? something specific. 
learning disorders- well i hope i dont see this genius - what the hell is that? some useless therapist some years back wrote about this now every one with a swiss ball is a expert in learning disorders- just, hmmm. learning disorders are complex problems which any OT or PT are poorly educated to handle. I know some people are going to be angry with it- but well i dont care- they have not educated for that. 

please teachers of PT show some self respect for the profession take your time and prepare a question paper.