Anatomy Practicals...Multiple Choice or Fill In The Blanks?

[Old_Mil]

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...just curious as to what formats those of you at other schools were encountering in your anatomy practicals. Is it a fill in the blank test where you "name that tagged part or innervation" or a multiple choice test with A,B,C,D & none of the above with 2nd and 3rd order questions?

 

[OSUdoc08]

...just curious as to what formats those of you at other schools were encountering in your anatomy practicals. Is it a fill in the blank test where you "name that tagged part or innervation" or a multiple choice test with A,B,C,D & none of the above with 2nd and 3rd order questions?

OSU-COM has fill-in-the-blanks. Histology, Anatomy, and Neuroanatomy labs are like this. These fill in the blank have second and third order questions---especially in histology.

 

[jonb12997]

OSU-COM has fill-in-the-blanks. Histology, Anatomy, and Neuroanatomy labs are like this. These fill in the blank have second and third order questions---especially in histology.

UNE has exactly the same set up...

 

[(nicedream)]

...just curious as to what formats those of you at other schools were encountering in your anatomy practicals. Is it a fill in the blank test where you "name that tagged part or innervation" or a multiple choice test with A,B,C,D & none of the above with 2nd and 3rd order questions?

At LECOM-FL it's multiple choice based on projected slides in the lecture hall.

 

[somnolent]

At LECOM-FL it's multiple choice based on projected slides in the lecture hall.

Do you have a cadaver lab, or does LECOM-FL use something like a computerized lab with just slides and textbooks?

 

[Non-Trad DO]

😉 At the LECOM main in Erie it was always fill in the blank.

 

[kumark13]

...just curious as to what formats those of you at other schools were encountering in your anatomy practicals. Is it a fill in the blank test where you "name that tagged part or innervation" or a multiple choice test with A,B,C,D & none of the above with 2nd and 3rd order questions?

How is the set up at des moines? I think all schools should have fill in the blank for anatomy practicals. students dont learn anything if you are doing a multiple choice test for anatomy practicals.

 

[Old_Mil]

Thanks for the information. They're changing ours midcourse - the first practical was fill in the blank the subseuqent ones are going to be multiple choice with the potential of 2nd and 3rd order questions. The time limit per station will either remain at 60 seconds or *decrease*. Since it sometimes takes me 60 seconds to read through a multiple choice question and potential answer choices and account for all the always, most, least, true, false, etc I have a very bad feeling about this.

 

[(nicedream)]

Do you have a cadaver lab, or does LECOM-FL use something like a computerized lab with just slides and textbooks?

Cadaver lab.

 

[GregsAnatomy]

NSU-COM has multiple choice (with secondaries) for Gross Anatomy, fill-in-the-blank for Histology and Neuroanatomy. The Pathology "practical" is also multiple-choice.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

NSU-COM has multiple choice (with secondaries) for Gross Anatomy, fill-in-the-blank for Histology and Neuroanatomy. The Pathology "practical" is also multiple-choice.

So you'll go to a body during the practical and you'll have options to choose from to answer?

 

[Kubed]

So you'll go to a body during the practical and you'll have options to choose from to answer?

That would be awesome. Our anatomy practical is all straight up naming.

 

[Inquiringmind24]

Here at Midwestern AZCOM, we have pinned structures on cadavers, cross sectional diagrams, x-rays, mri's, and some bones as well. The last practical was tough, since it was on the upper extremity and the brachial plexus. In histo/embryo the profs use power point slides. Now it's on to the heart and lungs.....

 

[peppy]

At MSUCOM, anatomy practicals are fill in the blank questions. The questions are almost always straightforward identification of pinned structures. The unusual thing about anatomy here is that we don't do the dissecting of the bodies ourselves (although it's offerred as an elective for people who really want to do it).

 

[Buckeye(OH)]

Here at Midwestern AZCOM, we have pinned structures on cadavers, cross sectional diagrams, x-rays, mri's, and some bones as well. The last practical was tough, since it was on the upper extremity and the brachial plexus. In histo/embryo the profs use power point slides. Now it's on to the heart and lungs.....

Same at CCOM.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Here at Midwestern AZCOM, we have pinned structures on cadavers, cross sectional diagrams, x-rays, mri's, and some bones as well. The last practical was tough, since it was on the upper extremity and the brachial plexus. In histo/embryo the profs use power point slides. Now it's on to the heart and lungs.....

Same as COMP. We get a couple cross sections, a couple xrays/mris and a few bones - and like 40 structures on the body - fill in of course. About your last practical, that's the hardest one. It gets MUCH easier from here - especially the heart/lungs. Enjoy!

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

At PCOM they just have structures with pins in them, but we also are responsible for reading films in anatomy so for that they just put a sticker on the films and that is also just right down the answer. As far as histology, we have multiple choice on the written(histo, anatomy, and embryology are all on the same written exams), but for the practicals they show a slide on the screen and you just write down the answer.

 

[GregsAnatomy]

So you'll go to a body during the practical and you'll have options to choose from to answer?

Yes, you go up to a cadaver (or X-ray or MRI or prosection) and there will be a tagged structure with a card next to it. For example, if the brachialis muscle was tagged the card might say:

IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURE:
A. BICEPS MUSCLE
B. BRACHIALIS MUSCLE
C. BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE
D. PRONATOR TERES MUSCLE
E. CORACOBRACHIALIS MUSCLE

or

SELECT THE CORRECT FEATURE:
A. ACTION: LIMITED TO ELBOW FLEXION
B. INSERTION: RADIUS (RADIAL TUBEROSITY)
C. NERVE SUPPLY: MEDIAN NERVE

(the answer is A by the way) They do about half primary and half secondary type questions.

 

[Karina]

This is exactly how they are done...even though at NSU we have a total of 50 questions, maybe 15-18 are Secondary questions. I don't mind it, but the first anatomy practical felt more like a written exam to me 🙁

Yes, you go up to a cadaver (or X-ray or MRI or prosection) and there will be a tagged structure with a card next to it. For example, if the brachialis muscle was tagged the card might say:

IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURE:
A. BICEPS MUSCLE
B. BRACHIALIS MUSCLE
C. BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE
D. PRONATOR TERES MUSCLE
E. CORACOBRACHIALIS MUSCLE

or

SELECT THE CORRECT FEATURE:
A. ACTION: LIMITED TO ELBOW FLEXION
B. INSERTION: RADIUS (RADIAL TUBEROSITY)
C. NERVE SUPPLY: MEDIAN NERVE

(the answer is A by the way) They do about half primary and half secondary type questions.

 

[Amy B]

At VCOM all the anatomy praticals are in the cadaver lab. They are 25 fill in the blanks and 25 multiple choice. They can be pure identifying of a sturcture, nerve, vessel, etc and also what innervates this tagged structure, etc...
I am so glad that class is now over. 👍

 

[OSUdoc08]

At VCOM all the anatomy praticals are in the cadaver lab. They are 25 fill in the blanks and 25 multiple choice. They can be pure identifying of a sturcture, nerve, vessel, etc and also what innervates this tagged structure, etc...
I am so glad that class is now over. 👍

OSU-COM's are 40 fill-in-the blankes, and be pure identification or second order questions related to disorders/injuries or functions.

 

[Drugtech]

PCOM-GA:

Anatomy Lab: 32 cadaver Q's, 8 models/plastinated specimens Q's, and 10 histo powerpoint slides. All of which are fill in the blank. Our radiology films are part of the written exam with incorporated into a clinical Q with multiple choice options.

 

[Buckeye(OH)]

Oh man, speaking of lab practicals, I have one tomorrow.

🙄

 

[jjmcentee@hotma]

Oh man, speaking of lab practicals, I have one tomorrow.

🙄

Lecom -erie is fill in the blank, 40-55 structures, with one or two secondary questions.

its tough but worth it, I remember almost everything.

j

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

Multiple choice? wow

 

[cooldreams]

Since I don’t see it posted yet,

KCUMB has about 55 fill in the blank questions, about 10 are bones or x-rays... this is for a pure gross anatomy practical, no histology, pathology. We seem to be getting most of the histology questions as pictures /w multiple choice questions. With the Anatomy practical in the morning, there is a pathology practical same day, in the afternoon. This test is also fill in the blank... after these tests the following day, we get the section final exam. Each section of about 6 weeks has about 3-4 quizzes.

this process repeats for each section, for instances we are in the musculoskeletal section now, so all of the classes are focused on this aspect of medicine - pathology, histology, embryology, anatomy, physiology, internal/family/er/ortho/radiology medicine, immunology, virus, macro, pharmacokinetics, etc...

we do have anatomy lab, about 5 ppl per lab per cadaver, but there are 2 labs, and you are only in one so you do about half the disection. at the end of the week there is a review of the labs, and in each lab there is again a review. plus we are allowed down there until midnight to do our own studying.

 

[medhacker]

UMDNJ-SOM practicals are fill in the blank so are its histology practicals

🙂

 

[FutureDocDO]

How about WVSOM? Thanks.

 

[Karina]

Yeah, here at NSU-COM, we just found out our 3rd anatomy practical (abdomen, pelvis and perineum) has been cancelled because of Wilma...I don't know how to feel about that. They had originally planned on having us come on saturdays and to stay until 5pm in order to make up lectures and dissections...guess they decided that was kind of a lot, considering how the situation in South Florida is right now...

I hate hurricanes!

Karina