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無意中在母校的論壇里看到了這篇文章,說的很真實,所以拿來跟大家共享,全英文的,不過不是很難,如果有人愿意,也可以翻譯成中文.
So what’s the difference between Chinese veterinary students and British ones?
When I was asked to write an article on this topic, my first thought was, how can you generalise about students? They are all so different! However, there are some generalisations that one can make about the differences in the education systems in China and Britain and the way people respond to those systems. I can only speak from my experience here, my conversations with students and staff and what I have seen.
On of the first things I noticed when I started teaching in this university was that very few of the students take notes during a lecture. At first this worried me – I thought: “How can the students learn anything if they don’t write anything down?” I very soon realised that in China, the textbook is King! The thinking seems to be that if you can memorise what is in the textbook for the course, you will pass the exam and therefore have learnt the subject. The teacher is mainly there to help you understand the textbook.
In the West, the attitude is different. Usually there is no textbook for the course. The lecturer (teacher) at a university is someone who has experience in the subject they are teaching and can teach the most up-to-date information about the subject even if it has not been published in any book yet. Therefore, writing down what the lecturer says and shows on the PowerPoint during the lecture is the most important thing. Books are of course also used to learn, but students will read several books, in their own time and sometimes also papers on that subject, not just one book. One advantage of this is that students become aware of differences of opinion on certain subjects and start to train themselves how to make clinical judgments. It also means there is a bigger difference between the students who study hard and those who don’t.
I think students in Britain also have more time to study and more time for other things. In Britain you would never have classes or exams in the evening or at weekends. Also you only have classes for your major and not for politics, army training or languages. Therefore people often get involved in sports, drama, orchestras etc. British veterinary students also don’t have lectures in other languages. I would have loved to have this opportunity as I enjoy languages, but for many students it would be a great hurdle to overcome as British people are generally not as good at foreign languages as people from the rest of Europe, or China. I can therefore sympathise with the students in my classes who find English hard!
Chinese veterinary universities seem to teach either large animal or small animal medicine. In Britain at present all the veterinary universities teach small, large and exotic animal medicine. This may change in the future, as the volume of information to learn about all these animals is huge. The veterinary degree course is longer in Britain – 5 or 6 years, compared to 4 years in China. However, the last year in Britain is normally 100% practical. This means that the students work with university vets in the different departments and are assessed doing practical things such as taking blood samples, reading X-rays and operating. As the veterinary world is busier in Britain it is much easier to get practical experience.
I think there are several things that make studying veterinary medicine more difficult for Chinese veterinary students. One is that some students are not able to choose their major, which means that some veterinary students do not want to be vets. If you don’t like something, it’s hard to study it and hard to be good at it. In Britain, being a vet has far greater social status and a higher salary than in China and in addition, there is a different attitude to animals, so competition for a university place to study veterinary medicine is fierce. This is one of the reasons for the increased social status of vets – to get a university place to study veterinary medicine requires higher school marks and other achievements than any other subject, so vets are viewed as very intelligent people. In Britain it is generally easy to find a job as a vet, in China it is much more difficult. In fact, I have been told that very few students from a class will go on to be vets. Fortunately for China, this situation should change in the future as the economy develops and in fact is already changing in big cities. The area of small animal medicine is developing particularly fast and this is already an area with great opportunity for those that choose to get involved and will be a much bigger source of employment in the future. |
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