Anatomy

[DarksideAllstar]

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I decided to "study" pelvis and perineum today. Holy cow (in Harry Caray voice)! I'm sitting here reading and thinking to myself, "Self, stop now and go to bed 😴 . You arent going to remember this tonight, tomorrow, and certainly not next Friday."
If you had anatomy (not neuroanatomy) questions on your Step 1, how would you rate their difficulty (ie. if I knew something half-assed could I pick the right answer?). I am pretty solid with extremities, thorax, and abdomen, put pelvis and perineum might put me into an early grave.
Thanks everyone.

PS- Odoyle rules! 👍

 

[Willamette]

I decided to "study" pelvis and perineum today. Holy cow (in Harry Caray voice)! I'm sitting here reading and thinking to myself, "Self, stop now and go to bed 😴 . You arent going to remember this tonight, tomorrow, and certainly not next Friday."
If you had anatomy (not neuroanatomy) questions on your Step 1, how would you rate their difficulty (ie. if I knew something half-assed could I pick the right answer?). I am pretty solid with extremities, thorax, and abdomen, put pelvis and perineum might put me into an early grave.
Thanks everyone.

PS- Odoyle rules! 👍

Hey UCSFbound,

I'm in the same boat as you (i.e. have yet to see the elephant), but I've heard that as far as the perineum/pelvis goes you should just stick to the following: embryonic derivatives of the external genitalia (including analgous male/female structures), blood supply to the ol' pooper (int/ext 'roids...not the ones Bonds likes), and surface landmarks for things like pudendal nerve blocks and LPs. Anyway, hope this helps some...

Willamette

 

[Stinger86]

I felt the anatomy questions on my exam were the most difficult. Partly because there's so much information they can test from, and partly because they didn't test from very much of it. I thought a lot of my anatomy questions came out of left-field and the only way I could answer them was to do some heavy duty thinking. In other words, no amount of studying would've prepared me for them, I just had use the concepts I knew already and reason my way through them. Perhaps that's what the question writer had in mind, but I'm not sure.

 

[Idiopathic]

I worry most about abdominal anatomy, such as mesenteries, ligaments, different parts of the duodenum and what artery crosses what structure and where...

 

[lindyloohoo]

PS- Odoyle rules! 👍

please tell me you're not watching billy madison....the only thing keeping it on mute right now is BSS ?s!!! 😡

 

[DarksideAllstar]

please tell me you're not watching billy madison....the only thing keeping it on mute right now is BSS ?s!!! 😡

Actually, I was tempted to watch it earlier (have it on DVD), but then my conscious got the better of me and I decided to take a nap instead.I think its one of the best movies ever made.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I really think I am gonna wing this one (mailnly because I pretty burnt out), and hopefully I get some questions I can figure out.

Stinger-did the questions at least pertain to clinically relevant topics (femoral hernias, ectopics, BPH), or was it like, "what obscure branch of the unidentified third artery on this MRI feeds into the unidentified object not visible on this film?"

 

[Stinger86]

Stinger-did the questions at least pertain to clinically relevant topics (femoral hernias, ectopics, BPH), or was it like, "what obscure branch of the unidentified third artery on this MRI feeds into the unidentified object not visible on this film?"

It's kinda funny, actually. At first glance some of the questions didn't seem clinically relevant, but they would always throw in a few words here or there that would sorta make it clinically relevant. For example, they would simply say "a patient was involved in a car accident", then proceed to ask you a question that really didn't need the car accident "introduction", but without it would have no relevance.

The majority of the anatomy questions, though, dealt with relevant clinical topics, so no real worries. The xray/MRI/CT questions were pretty clear and not very difficult, in my opinion. But there's always the chance that you'll get some crappy imaging on your exam, so be prepared

 

[DarksideAllstar]

Thanks bro