Natural Science Tripos Part 1B students at the University of Cambridge

n=47 students

Students' General Comments

What do you remember the most?

• Seeing real patients helps remember conditions x2
• Accessing real data from patient's tests
• DrO's definition of army
• Videos x7
• Its more difficult to tell conditions apart than I previously thought
• The effect of these strokes on the patients
• Sadness at observing the frustration of patients
• Being able to experience the nature of the disorder
• The characters of the patients and their recitals of cinderella
• All the patients apear to know they have difficulty being understood and this makes it more memorable than just reading a transcript
• Actually seeing the people x2
• Videos were interesting
• Symptoms of different aphasias
• Broca's aphasia has a different level of affliction
• Characteristics of patient's problems in speaking
• Dr.O's affability X2
• Seeing patients actually exhibiting the symptoms done in lectures
• People are more memorable
• Actually seeing people trying to talk- seeing concentration & level of comprehension
• Emphatic nature of MSL's video
• The patients x2

The worst thing about the lab session with PATSy was

• Not enough time to get through all the patients x2
• The unavailability of information to help diagnosis
• Certain patients depressing eg. CB
• Too much to look at in the time. It was a rush x2
• Video/sound recording loading time x 4
• Not fully understanding the link between symptoms and causes x2
• Lack of guidance in the handouts i.e. which of the data is of interest as there is a lot of it
• Not understanding the significance of the tests

The best thing about the lab session with PATSy was

• Learning about real patients
• Videos x5
• I like the videos and looking at the tests used
• Made the lectures clearer
• Getting an idea of what patients sound like. Can't really get this from transcript.
• Seeing the patients and hearing their responses x3
• Real experience of how disorders manifest themselves
• Seeing the patients responses to questions etc made it clear the implications of their problems.
• Actually seeing real cases x3
• Ability to observe patients without being intrusive
• The use of video was interesting
• Being able to see how the patient's coped with their problems X2
• Watching the videos and revealing the patient's condition
• It allowed me to see what aphasia actually do to people and the effects they caused
• Very helpful to see tests and different interview methods
• making lectures real
• Easier to understand the problems and symptoms when associated wth real people x2
• Independence to look at what interested us
• Looking at patients with different deficits and seeing how these related to the model

Other Comments

• Use Internet Explorer instead of Netscape
• Enjoyable practical
• A bit more structure maybe?
• Would it be possible to extend this to other conditions we have studied?
• Good to see them but the tests were pointless
• Its quite upsetting to see people with these problems. It must be very frustrating for them
• Good-helped course
• Very good idea. Able to see practical applications of what we learn and remember that these conditions are found in real people. Interesting for anyone considering clinical work.
• Show of the diagrams what aspect of the model each task is testing