I had my first experience today with college of the new millenium; as we used what I'd call a TV remote control to answer quiz questions today in class, kinda like a gameshow. I purchased a $42.95 remote control type device at the Iowa Book Store, then registered the device online with it's serial number and my student id. Next, at class, we all had to program our clicker to use the same channel to participate in the quiz. Then, the leader presented quiz questions, and we pressed numbers 1-9 to respond to the quiz question, and our responses were registered at the front laptop. The screen displayed when we had all responded to each individual question before we moved onto the next. Just like a gameshow! Kinda neat. My Medicare & Medicaid prof (he calls him self Dr. X) gets points this week for being the most ontop of the technology curve, Go Dr. X! :-)
Another Mom on Campus
In my program, I'm taking courses in public health, or the business of health care. Many of the students are either MHA or MPH graduate students, or Master's of Health Administration, or Master's of Public Health.
Today, I was thrilled to meet another Mom-student in my Medicare & Medicaid course, I'll call her P. P is the Mom of 4 children, I lost track as she went through them so quickly, but it sounded like 5 year old up to a teenager.
She's in the PhD program in the College of Public Health. Her background is the same as mine, started her career at a tech company, raised her kids, and now changing careers. She had similar stories on how she had worked for a large technology company, traveled around a lot and built systems for various clients, somehow the business climate shifted, and she moved onto motherhood and other challenges. She is further along in the program than I am, so now I have someone to go to with questions on how to succeed in academia this semester! We seemed to be like two peas-n-a-pod and had a nice lunch hour.
We are both on the same team, along with 2 other interesting students. Our other teammates are unique too, as one is a Pharmacology Economics grad student from China, and the other is a social work undergrad student.
Today's topic in Medicaid and Medicare was 'how Medicare all began' back in 1965. We talked about the driving forces at Medicare's inception, where the key stakeholders were Unions, the Aged (who were obviously in favor of government backed health insurance for 65+ Americans); the physician lobbyists of the American Medical Association , and other interest groups, who opposed what they called 'nationalized health insurance' at the time.
More on the clicker: It can make for a better teacher. The instructor can get instant feedback and immediately re-teach items that were not understood or skim over items that were readily understood.
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