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pv223 replied to the topic Discussion Topic: Practical vs. Informational courses in the forum Introduction to Medical Device Development 6 years, 7 months ago
While having a more even split between practical and informational courses sounds amazing, with the amount of information we as BME students have to learn, it would not work without some reform to the curriculum. For example, we take half of hour undergraduate careers doing introductory courses and decide which track we want to follow. If the curriculum was changed so that we chose our track at the end of our freshman year and had to take the corresponding science courses based on that, then it would be more feasible. For example, if we chose biomaterials for out track, we would then take the chemistry courses and physics courses that we need rather than taking all the chemistry courses and both physics one and two only to never use a majority of what we learned from those courses. This would not only narrow down the amount of courses we need to take as undergraduates, but it would give us another full year to prepare ourselves both informationally as well as practically in order to succeed in the real world.