My Critics on Antibiotic Pharmacology Course

Those two words (antibiotic and pharmacology) might be such a nightmare for pharmacy students and for health science students in general. It is so abundant and complicated like it is almost impossible that you would become a master on it only in 1 month of learning. As an idealist in term of learning, it is too hard for me to fully grasp all those knowledge in my head. Until I could conceptualize the main idea of a subject that I am learning, I would hardly find myself having enough self-confidence to answer any coming question related to the subject.

The main problem that I found is because the content of this subject is so abundant I hardly know what exactly or minimally I have to understand on this subject. I know, it was my fault that I didn’t read the syllabus before taking the course, but still, the things that I found in the course itself were so vague to guide my understanding. Like we were taught how these antibiotics have a different mechanism of action but we didn't exactly know which drugs that we were comparing. Clearly, it was useless both for the lecturer and the students. It seemed to me that the lecturer somehow already presumed that the students had known the content of the course but we were hardly any. We were very very busy as pharmacy students with all reports, practicums, and our personal life. but if you had appeared to be complaining like that, they might have accused you of something like

“aren't you the one who chooses to study here? why is it my responsibility to provide you everything for this course? you should have provided it yourself, don't you know that already?”

or something like that, I hope you got what I mean.

solutions? nothing, yet xD. this is just writing therapy. not to offend anybody. :)