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*Megan is on the far left Megan Church (a.k.a. Meredith Grey) I am a junior majoring in Biology. I plan to attend the Dental School at IUPUI and become a general dentist. I ride for a Little 500 team called the Cycledelics. This year will be my second race. I also ride for the IU Cycling Club and am a member of Riders' Council. I am from Elwood, IN. My Favorites: Favorite Little 500 Women's Team:Cycledelics(my team) Favorite Little 500 Mens' Teams:Dodds House and Wright Quad Movies: Runaway Bride, Finding Neverland, Elizebethtown Books:Million Little Pieces, Nicolas Sparks' books, Rachael Ray's 365: No Repeats Favorite Food Network Cook:Rachael Ray (30 minute meals) Spare time fun: Cyling, cooking, reading, and watching movies Favorite Talk Shows: Oprah and Ellen Quote: "Somepeople come into our lives and quitely go, others stay awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."~Anonymous
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Susan Jackson (a.k.a. Miranda Bailey) I am currently in the process of applying to graduate school. I aspire to be a doctor. I am from Oxnard, California, which is the strawberry capital of the world and I ran on Indiana University’s varsity track team freshman year. I have one older sister. I am a biology major with minors in chemistry and psychology. My Favorites: Color: purple Food: Ice Cream (any kind but mint chocolate chip) Book: Harry Potter (all of them) Pass time:Cooking(deserts and pastas)
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Susan Roepke ( a.k.a. Cristina Yang) I am a senior majoring in psychology with a minor in biology. I am graduating in May and then will be heading to San Diego for graduate school! I am going to be in the Joint Doctoral Program in Clincal Psychology at SDSU and UCSD studying behavioral medicine. I also grew up in a northwest suburb of Chicago and my favorite hobby is ballet. My Favorites: Movie: Fight Club, Chicago, The Green Mile, any Harry Potter Book: Harry Potter T.V. Show: The Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Dr. Phil
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Andy Zeha (a.k.a. Derek Shepherd) I was born on 4/6/1983 in Valparaiso, IN, and I am the youngest of three boys. I am an exercise science major/chemistry minor, and would like to attend graduate school for exercise physiology. My long term goal is to attend medical school. My hobbies include participating in any and all sports. I love playing and listening to music. I have taken cello, guitar, and drum lessons and still enjoy playing on occasion. My favorites and unfavorites: Movies: Dumb and Dumber, Silence of the Lambs, The Sandlot Books: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman Food: Pasta I hate: cold weather, bad drivers, talking on the phone. I like: physiology, warm weather, baseball. TV: history channel, mythbusters, dirty jobs
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Rachel Mollenkopf (a.k.a. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens) I'm from Richmond, IN. I attended Earlham College my freshman year and transferred to Ball State where I graduated with a double major in exercise science and French. I studied a semester abroad at the University de la Reunion, on a French island in the Indian Ocean. I spent the previous year in France teaching English. I hope to do more traveling once I graduate with my clinical exercise physiology masters. My plan is to have a career in cardiac rehabilitation and diagnostic testing. I work at the YMCA teaching classes, personal training, and working cardiac rehab. I also teach chair exercises at Bell Trace Retirement Center. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking with my boyfriend and two dogs. I have a Great Dane and a Wiemaraner. I love playing soccer, wakeboarding, and enjoy most other sports. My Favorites Movies: Billy Madison, Saving Silverman, Eternal Sunshine Books: La Peste, Albert Camus, Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck, Charles Bowkowski, Alice and Wonderland, Lewis Carol Music artist: Pink Floyd, Greatful Dead, Tom Waits, Spear Head, Phish, Anni Difranco, Bjork Favorite Food: Thai, fruit, soy
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TEAM 12 Back row: Andy Zeha, Megan Church, Susan Jackson Front row: Susan Roepke, Rachel Mollenkopf
Back row: Andy Zeha, Megan Church, Susan Jackson
Front row: Susan Roepke and Rachel Mollenkopf
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Exam 1! The first exam was a bit of a wake up call for a couple of us. None of us felt very confident after turning in the individual exam. Some of us felt under prepared and pressed for time. We came together with worried looks upon our faces and began our discussion of what questions we struggled with and the few which we felt confident about. Although we had the opportunity to use our books and notes we answered the group questions exclusively based on discussion. Goals for Exam 2 We plan to better prepare for the next test by attending all office hours or setting up personal time to meet with instructors if theses hours will not work in our schedules. We hope to also have well organized class notes and highlighted important information throughout the reading ready to use for the team section of the next exam. Knowing now how the test is designed based on a case study format we plan to study all case studies and grand rounds cases together beyond our class discussions. The first exam was not a total disaster but we all realize that we have a lot of room for improvement
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Exam 2 Team 12 had mixed feeling about exam 2, dealing with the cardiovascular system. Some of our scores improved from the first test and some went down. Even though we followed most of our goals that we set for exam 2, some were still were a little disapointed. Here is what we each thought: Susan J: This exam was difficult for me. The material was broad and hard to lace together. I feel that I depend too heavily on my group. I feel like our group focoses on finding answers and not comprehending material and this cost me and I believe some other members of our group points when it comes to picking apart case studies on the exam. Megan: Exam two contained a lot of material and was much harder to tie the information together. The exam was very difficult, more difficult than exam 1, yet improved my score. Andy: I feel I was very well prepared for exam two, but my score did not come out nearly as well as I had thought it would. It was very frustrating because I feel I missed the most obvious questions on the exam. In the future I will try not to put too much pressure on myself during exams and take my time and thoroughly analyze each question. Susan R: I didn't do as well as I thought I did on exam 2. I felt that I was really prepared and I was disapointed to see my score. I think that maybe being gone for so many days for interviews could have had in impact. I think we just need to continue asking good questions in office hours.
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Exam 3: "A day which will live in infamy..." Exam 3 was not as easy as Adam said it would be! Overall, most members in our team weren't satisfied with our scores. Most of us went to office hours and felt very prepared. However, we were shocked to see our final test scores: Andy: Exam three was even more frustrating than the second. I think we all knew the material really well, but the scores did not reflect that at all. When Adam said the questions were going to be "straight forward" I had no idea about the extent of their straight forward-ness. My exam two experience resulted in me rethinking and questioning every answer, even the most obvious ones. After reviewing the exam I think there were only 3 or 4 questions that we should have missed. Only I would say that somebody with an elevated pH is acidic and that somebody who is not secreting renin has hypertension caused by elevated angiotensin II. Seriously, what the hell? Susan R: By far, the worst I've ever done on an exam in my entire life... I don't really know what to say about it because I felt very prepared. I think if you were to ask me each question on that test in terms of the facts we learned in class, I would have done much better. I think that having case studies makes things much less straightforward. Megan: Exam three material was easier to tie together and understand once it was fully learned. I felt like I could explain the information better than I could with the information from the other exams. However, I mis-read some key points that were clearly typed on the exam and missed some easy questions based off of those errors. But, this exam was the most devastating to receive back once our group found out how horrible we had done. We need to discuss the questions until we come to an agreement on an answer, and when we are unsure about something during the group portion of the exam, use Adam, Dr. Schlegal, and Joe to clearify information.
Rachel: Exam three was a big wake up call. I was realy disapointed with the results. Even though I was let down by the scores it makes me intent on improving dramatically on the next test. I was a bit discouraged at first, but the more I think about it, the more I feel driven to put forth even more effort into my study preparation. At least it shouldn't be a huge challenge to improve upon our next test score considering that we've hit rock bottom, no where to go but up from here!
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EXAM 4 Susan R: I thought this exam was much easier than the other exams. however, I didn't do as well as I thought. I think that we think too deep into simple questions sometimes. Also, the case study format makes it hard. I think that the final will be much more straight forward. Susan J: I agree this exam was much easier. Concepts seemed much clearly and there was a lot less material. Rachel M: I didn't do as well as I would have liked on the lat exam. I was never able to go to office hours due to my work. I would have liked for office hours to be manditory if they were going to be so important for test preperation. Overall I am just glad that it was the last group exam, working in a group takes up too much personal time. I hope to do better on the final. Megan C: I think that we worked a lot better as a group this time in comparison to the other exams. I also felt really well prepared for this exam, but I thought I would do a little better. Andy Z: I thought this exam was by far the easiest of the four and I did well despite not preparing as much as I had for the other exams.
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Strengths/Weaknesses Our greatest strength as a team is everybody's willingness to work and actively participate when doing assignments and discussing material. Also, our very diverse educational backgrounds allow certain team members to compensate for others when discussing a topic that may not be understood by each member. Our main weakness is that we have trouble, sometimes, getting the most out of our group meetings and can spend an abundance of time on one assignment or topic.
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Reflections: Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams Each of our team members has a different way of learning. We have different expertise, different educational backgrounds and different reasons for wanting to learn physiology. As upper classmen or graduates we have all developed individual methods for understanding and retaining information and have used these methods successfully throughout our academic careers. I believe that our biggest obstacle is learning how to learn as a team. This means that we succeed as a team and we fail as a team. Group discussions are not times to pull ignorance, but to build on knowledge. It means that we bring our individual intelligence together so that one person’s limitation in understanding has an additive effect on the group’s collective knowledge. It means that we stop trying to learn from one another and we begin to teach each other where our strengths and weaknesses lie. If we can teach one another then we know that we possess such an understanding that the transition between conceptualization and application of physiology is a smooth conversion and not a disjointed concept of knowledge. I believe that this is our group’s greatest fault. We understand the concepts presented in class and the text book, but we struggle to take this knowledge and apply it to nouvelle cases. We can analyze cases in class because we have time to thoroughly analyze the case, but in time constrained circumstances our knowledge is not represented to its fullest extent. I think that our new approaches to learning, team work and individual effort will help to make our differences strengths. I believe that as we grow as a team of individuals our many hours spent working on class assignments will be reflected in all measures of our obtained knowledge in this course.
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Resources That We Have Found Useful *We try to attend Office hours as often as we can. *We all do a good job of keeping up with class reading *We work together for all of our assignments, even late nights and weekends :-( *Outside sources that we have found helpful are: -Dale Dubin's Rapid Interpretation of EKG's -Jerry Green's Fundamental Cardiovascluar and Pulmonary Physiology -Lionel Opie's Drugs for the Heart -Springhouse's ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy
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New Study Approach: After taking an exam and writing reports as a team, getting results back as a team, and feeling the highs and lows as a team, we have all decided to take a slightly different study approach as a team. Before the 1st exam, we all studied by doing the group projects together, and also studied the material on our own. This worked to a certain extent, but everyone on our team has their own way of learning, and this must also be incorporated into the new approach. So, our "team 12 domination plan" is to work almost twice as much on our own than we did before, to ensure that we are each learning the material to the fullest, and then bring that gained knowledge to the group meetings. This way, we can teach each other hard concepts or learn the material from someone else in the group that might be able to explain it better. Another way of studying will be to work the case studies before and after we discuss them either within our group or at office hours. Office hours has already improved our teams knowledge of the material, so our team will continue to attend each week. Basically, our group knows that we have much to improve and also knows that we can improve. We are all over achievers, and all of us want to improve our exam grades and our exam ranking in the class.
Check-up on how this plan is working out: Good news! We have done a pretty good job of following our goals that we set for our team. The new approach that we took (being more prepared for meetings and planning out an agenda for each meeting before-hand) worked out reallt well! We are getting much higher grades on our papers and are spending much less time working on them. Our group is so much more organized now and I feel that it really helps out our grades. Exam scores, however, are whole other story...
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Team 12 Meetings As the semester when on, our meetings became much more effective and shorter. For the first few assigments, we met and wrote th entire papers together. This took a lot of time. After the first 2 papers, (lab report and case study narrative) we decided that we should each divide up the questions given to us for each paper. We would all prepare written answers to our own questions and be familiar with the rest. Then, when we met, we would discuss our answers and integrate them into the paper. This not only took much less time...we scored much better (even getting the bonus points a few times!)! This was how meetings for paper writing was done. We also always made sure that 1 or 2 people made office hours every week. We quickly learned how beneficial they are to survival in this course. This helped us study for exams and write our reports. The beginning of the semester was very rocky for Team 12 becuase of many conflicts with time. Susan R and Susan J had to miss class often for graduate school interviews and this made things really hard. For example, we had to take exam 1 early due to these time conflicts. But we definitely we able to compensate for these scheduling problems by keeping organized and working ahead. Team meetings: First Unit:We met A LOT!!! Things were taking us longer than expected and we weren't very organized. We then strategized new ways of approaching papers Second Unit: We went to office hours consistantly. Then, we ususally met afterwards for an hour to discuss things and/or correct assignments. The week before a test, we got together on Sunday mornings to write our lab report and case study narrative. Then we would take each of them to office hours and fix them up. Mondays were researved for last minute additions to assignments (if needed....which they usually were!). This was our weekly routine. They week of the exam, we each made minor revisions to our papers and sent them around until we agreed it was complete. Third Unit: We pretty much stayed with the Sunday and Monday meetings. We found this very effective for papers. Tests, however are another story... Fourth Unit: We bumped up our meeting schedule to 3 (and sometimes 4 times) a week. We planned our whole month ahead because we all had busy schedules (Little 500, Easter, Honors thesis winding down, work, etc.). This was a great idea!!! We got everything done really fast and were able to cancel previously scheduled meetings due to completing things ahead! We also found it effective to not have everyone come to every meeting (maybe only 3 people a meeting). Originally, we were ofrced to do this because of conflicting schedules. However, this turned out to be very effective. There were more Team 12 meetings per week, but each individual was able to meet less. Great time management guys!!! For our Case Presentation: We met two weeks ahead to plan. We made our outline together and then divided up concepts for everyone to research. We emailed each other interesting info as we found it. Then, we had a collaborative meeting to organized the info and decide how we would present it. We were then able to write the OPRAH script and film it in one (VERY LOOONG) day (Sunday, April 23). We spent 4/24 and 4/25 making our handout, accompanying powerpoint presentation, and video edits (which was not an easy task!). Overall, we had so much fun with this project and we think we planned meetings for it very well. We were able to cancel one Monday meeting (4/17) because we were ahead of schedule! Final Exam: We made sure we had team members at both review sessions. Then, we had a quick meeting after the Sunday review session to go over final issues. Hopefully this will come in handy for the exam!
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Organization Busy, busy, busyis what our group is. But, finally we found a method to not only reduce our time at group meetings, but to also improve our overall narratives and lab report grades. Our keys to success are: *Divide the narrative/lab report questions amongst the group. This way, not only can the group meeting be more efficient, but each person has done the research for that particular question, and may be better at explaining the newly learned information to the rest of the group. *Proofread, proofread, proofread. After we have all worked on the papers together, we send them to everyone to look at once they get home to fix errors. That way, the paper/brain is once again fresh to the reader and the mistakes may jump out at the reader easier. *Office hours. Every Tuesday/Thursday we try to have as many team members attend office hours as a type of check to see if our paper is on the right track. We always have a rough draft with us before so that we can fix anything on the spot and also have questions ready to ask Adam and Joe. *One final proofread is done after the corrections are made after office hours, and then the paper is sent in, hopefully with an A awarded to us in the end.
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Strategies for success After finishing dead last in both individual and group scores on exam #3 we realize we need some new methods of preparation for the next exam. It would be to our benefit to have a few group sessions before the next test to quiz each other and discuss topics which are more puzzling. We have done well, so far, to come together as a team and work together on our labs and case studies but it's obviously going to take more than that to succeed. It may take group sessions to come together and just read the chapters so we can discuss any ideas which take more processing. The more we come together and discuss the more we will realize what areas are a struggle for us to comprehend and what topics we are able to help other team members understand. We are all intent on finishing strong with a top score for our last group exam; it's just going to take even more focus and preparation.
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FINAL THOUGHTS We really had a lot of fun getting to know each other this semester. We learned a lot about working together in a group. This class was definitely a different experience. We all agreed that the best part was making our OPRAH video. We learned how to work with different personalities and study together. We think that it will be beneficial in our future endeavors considering that all occupations require team work and cooperations. We definitely learned a lot.
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FINAL EXAM STRATEGY We decided that this exam was a good chance to improve our grade. We all made it to office hours and spent a little time going over concepts that were unclear. We are pretty confident that this exam will go much better than our previous ones. Basically, this exam is all review so it's just a matter of relearning old information. We made sure to take out our old assigments to review concepts as well. We think that this helped a lot. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!
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