-The class started several minutes late despite lots of information stating that if we are late we will not be admitted and will not get a refund. I was worried that I was the late one and I would not be allowed to enter so I called rachel.
-Two students were not muting mic's the instructors were I believe trying to be polite in asking them to mute, but when they didn't there was no follow up so it was very hard to hear. Eventually I texted Rachel and at 11:36am it was fixed.
-I think the slides were updated, the did not match what I printed, I was missing a few.
-For the chest x-ray portion it definitely was not what I was expecting, or looking for, but it wasn't the worst experience of my life. Quite a bit of slide reading, not really a high energy or fun presentation like previous workshops I've been to.
-No one really interacting or asking questions. With the first question which was well over 1hr in, John kept stating "did I fix your problem? Did that answer your problem?" now I came to learn so it isn't a "problem" it's a question and it's a good thing that someone is asking a question. Just made me feel that he was not really open to questions. Just seemed like they were making a big deal out of the question being a problem.
-After lunch john came on and said how glad he was Mary was teaching the abdomen part that he really didn't know it well. Mary said yea I know you're glad I'm taking over.. laugh laugh laugh.. so then Mary's audio was breaking up. Everyone was saying they couldn't hear on the chat but Mary and John were just going along saying well hopefully it resolve tech issues .... laugh laugh laugh... eventually people were saying no this is really bad. So Mary apologizes and eventually they decide that she needs to log out and back on. John is sighing very loudly and hanging his head I think he even said oh man. He said well I guest my only option is to teach you. He said more than 5 times he hates ab x-rays. It was very uncomfortable. He CLEARLY did not want to teach us.
-He started "teaching" again after a few minutes and it became apparent immediately thta he did not understand the content in the least. It was like he was reading the slides for the first time. For a minute or two he went on about female have female parts so be careful about that. He spent a lot of time on textbook s/s GI complaints and what diseases those are. He said that chest xrays are sometimes abbreviated cxr and ab xrays are sometimes abbreviated axr. Other than that slide reading.
-Same time 2 people did not mute themselves one person playing with their kids, another talking to husband/wife I do not know.
-I actually wrote in the chat that I wasn't getting much. John said oh no my internet isn't working now? I (in chat) no I just mean that i
-I contacted Rachel who was super sorry and very nice and explained that this was John's first time leading a class and that you never get those complaints. She said she tried to contact you but that you were at work. She asked me to call Mary which I did but went to VM.
-At this time I asked about next steps. This was at 1:50pm. I left the class and called rachel. She kept trying to get Mary to keep teaching but she couldn't. Eventually within the last 5 slides Mary started back teaching. I let Rachel hear what we were learning. He went to a slide about air in GI and he said "sometimes air is in the GI. This is air." Racheal heard this and was very apologetic; she said that this class was never like that. Racehl wasn't able to answer what my next steps were, just saying that I could retake the class.
-Per the intstructors, the breakout rooms didn't work during the entire class. I wanted some time of personal attention to see if I understood the content well, but with so many people and no breakout rooms, so many connectivity issues, it just wasn't possible. The only persona interact I got was when I mentioned that my name wasn't called during role call.
-I did not learn anything after the end of chest X-ray.
-About Mary's internet. When she logged in initially her picture was small and her picture said "low bandwidth" after which time her internet bars were "yellow" which I assume means that her internet was not good. Your materials clearly state that if the student is having tech issues then that they would not get a refund, it is up to us to have our internet working ect. I would hope that your teachers would take careful time and attention to ensure high speed internet functional prior to class. Racheal said that she was teaching from another location. I am sorry that she had internet issues, I'm aware that they were not intentional at all. read more
