Everyone is now done with exam 1 (yay! great job!!). I want to let you know that there were some questions that were new this year, and they had errors in them. I’ll list each question, along with an explanation of what went wrong, and how I’m going to address the errors.

Question 25

Fix for this question: accept both the original answer AND the answer about asbestos exposure.

Question 30

Explanation: This question has a big typo that basically made all the answers incorrect 😦 What I meant to say in the stem was that a child had edema, LOW (NOT HIGH) serum albumin, and high serum lipids with a normal-appearing renal biopsy. That would have been a great definition of minimal change disease – except in that disorder, serum protein (including albumin) is LOW, not high.

Here are two relevant questions from the renal path lecture (slides 11 and 12):

Fix for this question: delete question from exam, since there is no correct answer.

Question 31

Explanation: I was thinking just of IgA nephropathy, but the way the question stem is worded, both IgA nephropathy and post-infectious (post-streptococcal) glomerulonephritis are correct.

Fix for this question: Both IgA nephropathy and post-infectious (post-streptococcal) glomerulonephritis will be accepted as correct.

Bottom line

Okay – that’s it for questions – whew! I’m not allowed to rescore the exam until I return from vacation – so unfortunately you won’t see your Canvas score change for a few weeks. But you can determine, from the above information, what your new score will be on your own 🙂

Email me if you have any questions or comments!

Hi everyone –

I promised to give you the number of questions on the test, and the breakdown per lecture. Here it is. There are 35 total questions, roughly distributed according to the amount of information in each lecture:

• Blood vessels: 5
• Heart 1 (heart failure, congestive heart disease, and ischemic heart disease): 7
• Heart 2 (valvular disease, congenital heart disease, and tumors): 3
• Respiratory pathology: 10
• Renal Pathology: 10

All questions are multiiple choice, one correct answer, no photos.

When you’re studying, please make sure you know the answers to the lecture objectives for each lecture. And it would be a good idea to go through the four kahoots listed under Exam 1 on our Kahoots page. I just ran through each of the existing kahoots to make sure there weren’t any mistakes or questions covering material we didn’t cover this year. So they’re accurate 🙂 Also, take a look at my latest post which is a quick review of shunts and Eisenmenger syndrome just to be sure you understand these concepts.

Remember: the exam is now in-person, in our classroom, during our normally-scheduled class time (Wednesday, 9/30, from 9:05 to 11:00. Be sure to bring your privacy screen. If you want to double check the classroom settings for Honorlock we’ll be using, you can take the mock exam on Canvas entitled “Mock Exam with in-class settings (no camera/audio monitoring).”

And also: feel free to email me anytime with questions or concerns.

As you know by now from my email yesterday, I got word from administration yesterday that I needed to change our exam to an in-person exam, in our classroom, during our normally scheduled class time (9:05-11:00). I just wanted to put that information here, too, so it would be in writing on our website. I’ve updated our schedule page to reflect this change.

Please remember to bring your privacy screen with you on Monday.

I have uploaded the Exam 1 Review Kahoot on our Schedule and Kahoots pages.

I changed the settings on our mock exam so that they’re same Honorlock settings as we’ll be using for our exam on Monday, just so you can test it out and make sure it works with your computer. Please notice that although there are two versions of Honorlock (one is a Chrome extension and the other is a desktop app), you’ll need to download the Honorlock extension for this exam.

I will also post a list of the number of questions on this exam, and the breakdown by lecture here as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hi everyone –

Just wanted to let you know a few things:

1. The Respiratory and Renal lectures for this week did not have learning objectives. So I wrote learning objectives for both lectures, and uploaded the new ppts/slides to our schedule page just now.
2. I’m aware that the Respiratory and Renal lectures are both two-hour lectures. However, we do have an hour of lecture time on Monday (currently, it just says that there will be an optional exam 1 review Kahoot for you to go through if you want). So instead of splitting up the lectures according to the actual time slots (e.g., Respiratory part 1 on Monday, Respiratory 2 and Renal 1 on Wednesday, and Renal 3 on the following Monday), I decided to just list the lectures the way I did because I think it looks more intuitive/less messy this way. I wanted to draw your attention to this because I don’t want you to think that I’m expecting you to do a two hour lecture in a one hour block. You can watch them any day you want, of course – but just know that we are within our allotted class hours.
3. Looks like most of you have taken quiz 1 – but there are still a few people that haven’t. Just a gentle reminder that the deadline is 11:59 pm tonight (Tuesday night, CST).
4. If you have any questions or concerns, please email me! I love to get your emails – and I want to make sure you know I’m still checking in and fixing things if there’s an issue.

We’re going to have a trial run of an exam (just a few questions, no points) on Wednesday just so I know that things are working for you. You’ll need to have:

• A device with a working camera and microphone
• Your photo ID.
• If you’re using a Mac, you’ll need to have OS 12.1 or later installed
• You can only use Chrome as a browser, so make sure you have that installed
• Finally: when you open the exam, you’ll be prompted to download the Honorlock Chrome extension. Please make sure you do that (don’t download the desktop version from the app store, or things will not work right, even though the school now says we have that option available – it’s still not recommended, and it messed up some of the first years when we did our mock exam).

I don’t have the mock exam in Canvas yet, but I will do that tomorrow.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

I am so excited to be back in the classroom with you guys I can hardly contain myself!

Here’s a quick summary of how this course will work. Our website remains the same (DentalStudentPathology.com) only now you’ll use the Systemic Pathology dropdown menu instead of the General Pathology one.

Content. In General Pathology, we talked about the ways things can go wrong in the body (injury, infection, immune dysfunction, neoplasia) and also the general mechanisms the body uses to fix these problems (tissue repair, inflammation, immune responses). This created a nice little brick foundation for your pathology house!

In Systemic Pathology, we’re going to add floors and rooms to the house. The course is organized into organ systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, etc.), and in each system, we’ll cover the abnormalities and diseases that are most relevant for your future practice (and for boards).

Format. This course has the same components as General Path:

• Lectures: Lots of lectures. All of our lectures will be recorded, and I’ll post the recordings on our schedule page as soon as I get them (usually the same day as the lecture).
• Quizzes: We’ll do these in class, using Kahoot (when I’m there – see more about this on our schedule page). You’ll be able to talk with each other and use your notes, like you did in General Path.
• Exam reviews: Same thing: in-class Kahoots. Only with exam reviews, there are prizes for first, second, and third place. The prizes this year are pretty cool…I just stopped at Dick Blick and have a bunch of interesting and odd things (yay!).
• Exams: Exams have changed since our last class together. We’re now required to have them in the classroom, during exam time (except for people with accommodations – and just a heads up – please reach out to me if you have accommodations so I can be sure I have everyone on my list). We’ll use Canvas and Honorlock, and I’ll proctor the exam in person. You’ll need to remember to bring your privacy screen for whatever device you’ll be using. The exception to this rule is for online exams – and since I will be out of the country for our first exam, that exam will be delivered using Canvas and Honorlock, only we’ll enable remote proctoring settings in Honorlock. You still need to take the exam during class time; you can use our classroom if you like (it will be free during that time), or another quiet room without distractions that will set off alarm bells in the proctoring software. We’ll talk about this a lot and also do a quick mock exam before I leave so we can be comfortable that things will work on exam day.

Grades. We’ll have three quizzes and four exams. At the end of the course, I’ll add all your quiz and exam points together (no weighting of exams or anything) to give you a final score for the course. Grades will be determined as follows:

• A = final scores greater than or equal to 90% of total course points
• B = scores between 80% and 90% of total course points
• C = scores between 70% and 80% of total course points

Also, I just want to remind you that I’m still your “mom.” Dental school is fun and interesting…but it is also really hard and overwhelming. You need to take care of yourself.  So I’ll be checking in with you from time to time to see how you’re doing, and to remind you that I am here for you. If you need to vent, or want advice, or just need to know that you’re not alone, email me. We can stick with email, or we can do Zoom, or we can meet in person. Whatever feels best to you. I mean it. You are not alone.