英国人看中国的兽医专业(英文版)

依玲

无意中在母校的论坛里看到了这篇文章,说的很真实,所以拿来跟大家共享,全英文的,不过不是很难,如果有人愿意,也可以翻译成中文.
So what’s the difference between Chinese veterinary students and British ones?

   When I was asked to write an article on this topic, my first thought was, how can you generalise about students? They are all so different! However, there are some generalisations that one can make about the differences in the education systems in China and Britain and the way people respond to those systems. I can only speak from my experience here, my conversations with students and staff and what I have seen.

  On of the first things I noticed when I started teaching in this university was that very few of the students take notes during a lecture. At first this worried me – I thought: “How can the students learn anything if they don’t write anything down?” I very soon realised that in China, the textbook is King! The thinking seems to be that if you can memorise what is in the textbook for the course, you will pass the exam and therefore have learnt the subject. The teacher is mainly there to help you understand the textbook.

  In the West, the attitude is different. Usually there is no textbook for the course. The lecturer (teacher) at a university is someone who has experience in the subject they are teaching and can teach the most up-to-date information about the subject even if it has not been published in any book yet. Therefore, writing down what the lecturer says and shows on the PowerPoint during the lecture is the most important thing. Books are of course also used to learn, but students will read several books, in their own time and sometimes also papers on that subject, not just one book. One advantage of this is that students become aware of differences of opinion on certain subjects and start to train themselves how to make clinical judgments. It also means there is a bigger difference between the students who study hard and those who don’t.

  I think students in Britain also have more time to study and more time for other things. In Britain you would never have classes or exams in the evening or at weekends. Also you only have classes for your major and not for politics, army training or languages. Therefore people often get involved in sports, drama, orchestras etc. British veterinary students also don’t have lectures in other languages. I would have loved to have this opportunity as I enjoy languages, but for many students it would be a great hurdle to overcome as British people are generally not as good at foreign languages as people from the rest of Europe, or China. I can therefore sympathise with the students in my classes who find English hard!

  Chinese veterinary universities seem to teach either large animal or small animal medicine. In Britain at present all the veterinary universities teach small, large and exotic animal medicine. This may change in the future, as the volume of information to learn about all these animals is huge. The veterinary degree course is longer in Britain – 5 or 6 years, compared to 4 years in China. However, the last year in Britain is normally 100% practical. This means that the students work with university vets in the different departments and are assessed doing practical things such as taking blood samples, reading X-rays and operating. As the veterinary world is busier in Britain it is much easier to get practical experience.

  I think there are several things that make studying veterinary medicine more difficult for Chinese veterinary students. One is that some students are not able to choose their major, which means that some veterinary students do not want to be vets. If you don’t like something, it’s hard to study it and hard to be good at it. In Britain, being a vet has far greater social status and a higher salary than in China and in addition, there is a different attitude to animals, so competition for a university place to study veterinary medicine is fierce. This is one of the reasons for the increased social status of vets – to get a university place to study veterinary medicine requires higher school marks and other achievements than any other subject, so vets are viewed as very intelligent people. In Britain it is generally easy to find a job as a vet, in China it is much more difficult. In fact, I have been told that very few students from a class will go on to be vets. Fortunately for China, this situation should change in the future as the economy develops and in fact is already changing in big cities. The area of small animal medicine is developing particularly fast and this is already an area with great opportunity for those that choose to get involved and will be a much bigger source of employment in the future.

bonderic

不同的未来发展空间造就不同的学习态度。如果说兽医的地位和工资水平和人医的差不多，当然学习的积极性就有很大不同了。都是国情不同啊。不过近年来的宠物医疗确实是发展很快。

畜牧人2008

the diffrent between foreign  students and native ones is positive and negative.

kimdaejung

这是两种国情的差别。
中国兽医的待遇再过100年也赶不上人医。

畜牧人2008

no pains no gains!

si00chuan04

空了，翻译一下共享。

tmlf728

试着翻下，水平有限。大家谅解哈。中国和英国畜牧专业学生的不同点是什么？当我接到邀请写下关于这方面的文章时，我的第一反应就是我们怎么能对所有的学生进行简单的概括呢?他们各个都是不一样的！但是，我们可以对中国和英国的教育制度之间的不同以及人们对此的反映来做出一些概述。而我也只能从我自身的经验，和学生教工之间的交流以及我所见到的来谈点看法。在大学教书时让我注意的第一个事情就是很少有学生在报告中做笔记。这个让我有点担心，我想：他们一点东西都不记怎么学习知识啊？后来我才慢慢了解到，在中国课本才是最重要的！也就是说只要你把关于这门课程的课本知识记住了，你就能够通过考试也就算弄懂了这个学科。而老师就主要是帮助你了解课本知识的。而在西方教学方式完全是不一样的。通常来说课程学习是没有课本的。大学讲师（老师）的教学经验非常丰富，而且还能够教给学生们些还没出版的关于课程的最新信息。所以说在课堂上记下老师讲的和PPT中的内容是很重要的。当然书还是要学的，但学生也要在他们业余时间读好多种书或是一些相关的论文，而不仅仅是一本课本。这样的好处就是学生们能意识到关于某个知识点的不同意见并且逐步训练他们如何做出客观的判断。这同样也能了解努力学习和不努力学习学生间的差别。我觉得英国的学生同样也有更多的时间学习和做其他的事情。在英国你是不会在晚上或是周末考试的。同样的你也只有专业课要上而不是那些政治学，军事训练课或是外语课。所以学生有时间来进行体育活动，戏剧表演，参加乐队什么的。英国畜牧学学生同样没有外文的讲座课程。其实我很希望能有个这样的机会，但是对大多数学生来说参与外文讲座是个很大的困难因为他们在学习语言方面明显没有来自欧洲其他各地和中国的学生好。同样那些课上觉得英语很难学的学生，我也只能表示同情。中国的农业院校仅仅是教授大动物或是小动物医学。在英国现在所有的畜牧大学都在教授大动物小动物以及珍稀动物医学。随着关于动物学习方面知识量的扩大这些在以后还会有所改变。英国的畜牧学位课程是比较长的大要要5到6年的时间，而在中国只需要4年。但是英国课程的最后一年并不全是实践课程。也就是说学生要同学校不同院系的学校兽医老师学习，并且帮助做些具体的事情比如采血样，做X光和手术。在英国兽医是很辛苦的，同样的也就很容易得到实践经验。

tmlf728 于 2009-3-4 23:05 补充以下内容

晕死。忘记改下格式了。
不好意思哈。最后一点没翻出来。下次。

lism135

国情不同，事物的特殊性！

pigswine

挺好的文章，不过国内的兽医和国外的相比无论待遇和职业地位都相差很大啊！

cht5616

中国特色由中国的国情决定！
让世界了解中国！
多一些了解，少一些诽谤与猜测！