Not sure if my college offers just a physiology class? Worth it to take over the summer?
Here's the type of questions I am routinely seeing on practice passages & questions:
A patient with hypotensive induced diabetes is actively taking glucagon but has a mutation in the D45 and E61 site on their 19, q. Patient regularly complains of having muscle spasms in the feet on early morning exercise routines but is taking propranolol and prednisone for pain and inflammation. The albumin in the serum is ranging from 2.0 - 13.0 on a normal day whereas a person in a normal population has an albumin range of 500 - 1000.0 on a normal day. The patient is induced to stress levels and the myestynia gravis engages a painful, but short, stimulus during which the patient is chased by a poisonous snake in Orlando, FL where the temperature is 37 degree Celsius.
A student wanted to perform an experiment to see if the Na+ channels engaged when the patient was actively experiencing symptoms of myasthenia graves and therefore, performed the following.
**insert a crap ton of graphs here**
Figure 1: *insert a bunch of explanations for Figure 1**
blahblahblahblahb
**insert a table here **
Table 1: *insert a minimal explanation of the table*
Insert more experimental blahbalhblabhlabhlabhlabhldkalfkhbalblalblahb for another 4 paragraphs.
Question 1:
If the blood pressure of the patient were to increase due to the snake, which of the following would occur?
a) aldosterone would be excreted by the kidneys so that the K+ was reabsorbed by the glomerulus and therefore the water would follow
b) ADH would be excreted by the anterior pituitary so that the water would be reabsorbed by the kidney so that the blood pressure would decrease immediately
c) the parathyroid gland would secrete osteocytes so the Na+ channels could open the ligand gated voltage channel
d) the right answer (all the above are blatantly wrong for one reason or another)
Question 2:
Which of the following statements, if false, would be least likely to assist the patient in rendering a healthy solution to the snake chase?
If you don't know parasympathetic and sympathetic along with all ion channels impacting them, and how ions affect nerve synapses and myelin sheaths along with myosin/actin, Na+, K+, Ca2+, etc... and hormones and which ones are activated by which glands along which pathways and which organs will be impacted by the same....
It's hell to take without physiology
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Also, if you don't realize that what I wrote in any of this is patently WRONG, take physiology or take a very, very good MCAT course either live on-line or in class.
I did not have a formal physio class but learned everything I know by taking and paying for a $3000 Kaplan class. If I did not, I'd be screwed. Capital S.
