It's a very subjective world

I just came from presenting an evaluation report with my group mates. We we're absolutely grilled by everyone, by that I mean our block mates and both of our professors. We did all that we can to present a 
very thorough report and each of us was designated to a task or area of evaluation to write on. 

We were told by Maam J, that we should do this and that with our reports and that we should be considerate enough of the people who could be reading it that are not equipped with the SLP jargons. So that's what we initially did. 

But what made everything we were planning on doing go down the drains, was the results of the tests of our case. We expected to receive very thorough results of the case per area. But what we were given is limited information and to make matters worse, when we came to question the results to our professor, she didn't even bat an eyelid at us. I mean seriously, we were asking such a pertinent and serious question regarding our case and she doesn't even give us an answer. 

I know you're confused know to what I'm saying. Let me back track a bit. At the start of the semester, the class was divided into 5 groups and each was given a hypothetical case with different conditions or diagnosis. At the end of the semester, we are given a chance to present our evaluation report complete with results that were given to us by our professor during our meetings. Weeks before the presentation, we were dumbfounded by the results given to us. They weren't even complete at all. Plus there was a certain result that was supposed to be found in this area but it was placed into another area in the results.

During case presentations, there are meetings where in we would only have Maam J as our professor, some times it would be Maam G. But just our luck, both professors were present during our case presentation. And let me tell you, these two professors are very conflicting in terms of perspectives on how to do what. 

The whole time we valued the input given to us by Maam G and we learned new ways to write the evaluation report which I felt we wouldn't have learned from Maam J. Maam G grilled every aspect of the report and it was all the parts wherein Maam J, edited or pointed out in the previous case presentations. 

Sure it was fantastic to see Maam J be corrected in front of everyone and for here to admit her mistakes. Although it wasn't done in front of us, we knew that she too was being grilled by the information that she passed on to us. 

An evaluation report is created relative to the understanding and order of importance deemed worthy by the clinician. How could you create a cohesive report in the first place if you are 8 in a group and you have 2 professors with conflicting beliefs on how it should be written? I know we shouldn't copy whatever is being told to us to put into the evaluation report. But we are still students. Trying to get the feel of how to write a report. So many views on one thing that even our basis of why we evaluate that part is being corrupted by the words of different professors and how they create one. 

With this experience, I believe I am not ready for internship and I am not looking forward to having Maam J as my Clinical Supervisor. But as I think about it, there more atrocious professors compared to her. T.T