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August is very quiet around UVA- it seems to make more sense to end later in June than to start earlier in August.
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1
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2.94% |
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Because I don't know the exact start and stop dates proposed, it is difficult to answer the questions in section 3. In general, I would prefer that classes don't overlap when kids are on school break. In our case, these dates would be late August for the beginning of school, and the 2nd week in June for the end of elementary school. Currently, none of my classes occur during this time period, however. Hope this helps. Scott
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1
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2.94% |
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Clinical faculty are here all the time. Doesn't make a difference to us.
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1
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2.94% |
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Flexible. No particular scheduling concern.
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1
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2.94% |
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I am much more likely to be on vacation in August because of other schedule issues, than in late may or early june.
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1
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2.94% |
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I am not involved in the 1st year. Thus the changes do not cause any problems for me. For POM-2 I can adjust summer vacation schedules as long as I have notice.
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1
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2.94% |
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I don't even notice the annual schedule. I just give my lectures / small groups when assigned.
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1
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2.94% |
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I have a single NS lecture and some teaching-the-neuro-exam meetings: whether school starts earlier or later doesn't really apply. I am certain the students who count on a true free summer b/t their first and second years have a strong opinion. I was a student here and started my research career during the empty summer. Free time matters.
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1
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2.94% |
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I teach at the beginning of year 1 and through to the end of year 1. I profoundly object to all of these types of changes, especially since by far the major responsibility of an academic investigator at UVA is research.
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1
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2.94% |
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I teach in Immunology. I don't know how to answer your questions about the start/stop dates of either year until it is clear what difference any schedule will make in the placement of the Immunology section of Microbiology/Immunology. My major clinical scientific meetings of the year fall in mid to late June as a rule, so extending Year 1 well into June and switching Immunology into Year 1 would be very difficult for me. Also, it is extremely difficult already to plan for vacation time, because new graduate students and residents start on July 1. June is really the only flexible month of the year for many of us.
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1
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2.94% |
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I think giving the fall semester more time would be a big improvement. The major comments that we get from students about the Anatomy course is that there is not enough time for the last couple of topics. They feel very rushed, and that they are not getting time to really learn the material.
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1
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2.94% |
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Is it possible to allocate the SAME SPRING BREAK to all medical students?
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1
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2.94% |
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My choices above are in the context of the current curriculum, and would be different IF Immunology is moved into the first year. In this case, ending year 1 later would pose serious problems for me
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1
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2.94% |
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Not too much impact.
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1
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2.94% |
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Pathology needs more time in the schedule!
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1
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2.94% |
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Please don't forget that many of us who are MD/PhD do not only 1st and 2nd year teaching but also do bedside teaching to students in clerkships
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1
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2.94% |
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Some of the school holidays in the city and county do not match with the medical school holidays
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1
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2.94% |
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Thanks for asking! Generally, I feel that changes that are more closely aligned with the schedules of local schools (elementary - high) are easier to deal with. They disrupt family vacation plans less.
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2.94% |
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Thanks for asking.
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1
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2.94% |
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The question of whether starting or ending the year earlier/later is applicable only to my current teaching situation. In other words, I currently don't teach in the last half of year 1 so it really doesn't matter to me if the year ends late. If I had to teach in late spring then it would matter very much. KEEP FACULTY TIME FREE BETWEEN JUNE 1 AND SEPTEMBER 1. My advice for a curriculum change is to START after September 1 while keeping all other dates the same. CHANGE THE CURRICULUM TO FIT IN BETWEEN THESE WINDOWS. USE AFTERNOON HOURS - THIS IS SILLY!!!!! Thanks for the chance to offer my opinion.
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1
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2.94% |
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The question on the second year I cannot answer well since I do not know where the other weeks would come from in terms of possible other changes in the curriculum. Specifically what is the thought on the Second Year Preceptorship--???? Would it go away in any of these scenarios??
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2.94% |
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The schedule of first and second year medical students would have little to no impact on me. My educational experiences in these years are quite limited.
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2.94% |
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The summer gets shorter and shorter, which can become a definite issue in deciding whether or not to accept a teaching assignment. If you wipe out August, and one has to be here through early July for resident orientation etc., you reduce the vacatable summer to a month. In addition to inconvenience and hassle, this is a bad precedent for the idea that doctors also have lives and that family is important, etc. - ideas that get a lot of lip service but increasingly only that. Is every hour of the semester so vital that faculty should be limited to a month of summer? If you don't consider this now youo will have a harder and harder time getting people to accept these assignments. Even people who like teaching and want to take part.
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2.94% |
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There are advantages to getting our med school schedule in synchrony with the calendars of other med schools.
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2.94% |
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There is plenty of time that could be utilized within the current school year: the afternoons. I do not see the need to lengthen a year that is already too long. In addition, I would favor eliminating the 8:00 AM start and returning to a 9:00 AM start for each day. I think the idea that the students spend the afternoons studying is wishful thinking at best.
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2.94% |
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These changes would not impact me, a clinical teacher.
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2.94% |
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This is really a waste of time. We do not know how these canges can alter things for MOST of the faculty since by definition most of the factuty don't teach in the first of last weeks. If you want feedback on this you have to tell us what the possible curricula will look like throughout the year and we can make a rational comment.
In anycase, I am a bit put off by undertaking major curricular changes with so little faculty input and with so little publicity of what our goals are. History teaches us that the cost of change is high, we know that in general changes in the curriculum per se don't do much to the product so long as the the mass off material that we want them to know is clearly defined and the students know that they are loved.
It would help in future surveys if youtell us what are we trying to do and what are the tools available to us.
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1
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2.94% |
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This schedule doesn't really impact us since we are always in november or december.
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2.94% |
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Why are you doing this curriculum change ????
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2.94% |
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Would these changes impact the modified first year MD PHD student schedule?
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2.94% |
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are they really making good use of the extra time we carved out for them in the first year (afternoons). If that were retreated a bit, perhaps you wouldn't have to start earlier or end later.
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2.94% |
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main impact for me has to do with students doing summer research after first year. none of these changes is a big deal to me though.
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2.94% |
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starting year 1 3 weeks early would be inconvenient as having young children I have to take vacation then as all the summer camps finish the second week in august and sometimes earlier.
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2.94% |
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those of us who teach multiple years and residents will be impacted regardless of the shift. Earlier is less likely to throw off other schedules.
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2.94% |
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