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Member 30346 · 05-07-2012, 01:20 PM

I loved neuroanatomy in med skool (one of the few in my class who did). It seemed nice and logical -- kind of like circuit diagrams. I did reasonably well at it. It put me on the path toward being a neurologist.

Now that I'm a neurologist, I realize that the vast majority of real-life clinical neurology has very little relevance to neuroanatomy to the degree it's pushed in med school. You don't need much neuroanatomy to put a migraine patient on topamax and a triptan, or send someone with back pain to PT or surgery.

The only time I really fall back on detailed neuroanatomy is when there is some patient in your office with totally whack symptoms and you have to ask yourself -- "Wait a minute -- is this even physically possible?"

05-07-2012, 01:20 PM	#3
Member 30346 En garde . . . Status: Attending Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,800	I loved neuroanatomy in med skool (one of the few in my class who did). It seemed nice and logical -- kind of like circuit diagrams. I did reasonably well at it. It put me on the path toward being a neurologist. Now that I'm a neurologist, I realize that the vast majority of real-life clinical neurology has very little relevance to neuroanatomy to the degree it's pushed in med school. You don't need much neuroanatomy to put a migraine patient on topamax and a triptan, or send someone with back pain to PT or surgery. The only time I really fall back on detailed neuroanatomy is when there is some patient in your office with totally whack symptoms and you have to ask yourself -- "Wait a minute -- is this even physically possible?" __________________ ********************************** "Patient care interferes with practicing medicine."