Today at the Anatomy teaching session I do weekly for first-year medical students, I handed out feedback forms to get an idea for areas that I can improve in. Some common suggestions were to get a bigger room because there are lots of people that cram in, and to go slower because sometimes I go through things too quickly. Fair enough.
Now for the more colourful comments! Reading the feedback was quite funny – some people just wrote funny things and some other comments made me smile.
Here is a sample (feedback questions in green, comments in black, my responses in blue):
- Amazing voice! We love you <3 – Canadian accent helps
- Good signposting – LOL, trust a medical student to say that! Thanks
- What were the best things about the session? You!
- What were the worst things about the session? When we have to go
– haha nice - Do you have any suggestions for improvement? Trade in polo-shirt for skin-tight, see-through one piece – LOL okay?
- You could become our anatomy lecturer in LT1 – promotion?
- "Humerus" – LOL good pun there (I was covering the humerus bone of the upper arm and made a few jokes along the way)
- Do you have any suggestions for improvement? Become invisible so we could see the board! – I'm working on it!
Overall the feedback was very positive but also contained some useful suggestions. I'll try to slow down the sessions a bit more and maybe that will give students enough time to copy down what's on the board as well. As for the rooms? Well, can't exactly rebuild the med school!
Thanks guys, and keep the suggestions coming in!