Music, Suturing and IQs
Banning music appreciation classes, have you ever had a professor who lectured with music playing in the background? I hadn't, until yesterday.
It was Dr. Gustafson again, lecturing in principles of surgery class with an assortment of music styles playing relatively loudly in the "background." He was recently listening to music in his wife's (?) car, and thought we might appreciate it as well! We were rather amused.
The lecture information was sort of conducive to music. It was not particularly deep conceptually, and involved suturing demonstrations performed by Dr. Gustafson on one of the suture-practice legs. (The demos were projected large on the wall using a projector document camera.)
Gustafson previously informed us that music can be nice to have in surgery, particularly during endoscopy and closing of the incision - while driving the endoscope or stitching and throwing ties you can rock to the music.
I wonder what type of music I'll play when I do surgery. It might be like ice skating where choral music would not produce the desired effect, and I don't think rock is appropriate for Christians to listen to. Maybe some sort of fiddling or classical guitar would work - though that idea is more or less a shot in the dark.
To change the subject slightly, "principles of surgery" makes use of a different aspect of intelligence* than most of the veterinary curriculum up to this point. To a large extent, the previous classes have required an adequate verbal intelligence but have made considerably less use of performance (non-verbal) intelligence. Surgery requires good psychomotor skills for making knots properly, understanding how suture and knot styles behave, handling instruments, etc. Those skills are more related to performance intelligence, and may therefore turn the tables with regard to who's top of the class.
Speaking of intelligence, if you need your pride set down a notch or 10 you can try these IQ tests.
* According to my limited understanding of intelligence types.
It was Dr. Gustafson again, lecturing in principles of surgery class with an assortment of music styles playing relatively loudly in the "background." He was recently listening to music in his wife's (?) car, and thought we might appreciate it as well! We were rather amused.
The lecture information was sort of conducive to music. It was not particularly deep conceptually, and involved suturing demonstrations performed by Dr. Gustafson on one of the suture-practice legs. (The demos were projected large on the wall using a projector document camera.)
Gustafson previously informed us that music can be nice to have in surgery, particularly during endoscopy and closing of the incision - while driving the endoscope or stitching and throwing ties you can rock to the music.
I wonder what type of music I'll play when I do surgery. It might be like ice skating where choral music would not produce the desired effect, and I don't think rock is appropriate for Christians to listen to. Maybe some sort of fiddling or classical guitar would work - though that idea is more or less a shot in the dark.
To change the subject slightly, "principles of surgery" makes use of a different aspect of intelligence* than most of the veterinary curriculum up to this point. To a large extent, the previous classes have required an adequate verbal intelligence but have made considerably less use of performance (non-verbal) intelligence. Surgery requires good psychomotor skills for making knots properly, understanding how suture and knot styles behave, handling instruments, etc. Those skills are more related to performance intelligence, and may therefore turn the tables with regard to who's top of the class.
Speaking of intelligence, if you need your pride set down a notch or 10 you can try these IQ tests.
* According to my limited understanding of intelligence types.
posted by Claire at 18:33
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