Didn't you guys get a lot of anatomy at UQ? I thought the curricula were fairly consistent across the big Australian schools...
It's not that UQ doesn't teach anatomy; they don't
assess it, so there was never any incentive for any of us to stay up till 4am studying the muscles of the arm (like we may have subconsciously wanted). UQ tends to demonstrate the extremes with anatomy. There are some students who took it in undergrad at UQ and know it really well (bc apparently the undergrad program teaches it exceptionally, although the med school doesn't), and then there are others who've struggled with it.
In terms of
assessment, first year was ~80% physio and ~20% pathology. Second year was 100% pathology. For that matter, UQ
only teaches pathology. I swear our school only thinks medicine = pathology.
The one good thing is that I've hardly thought twice about any of the path questions I've come across in the 2000 Qs I've done in Rx so far (which might be why I'm at 86% cumulative right now), and any threads I've seen on pathology I just ignore. But to be honest, I give UQ no credit for what I've learned. I give the credit to having read Robbins and BRS Pathology, as well as some other USMLE resources. Since they actually assessed path, I had incentive to read those resources; if they had assessed anatomy, I would have learned that better as well.
It's strange though, because although I consider anatomy one of my weaknesses overall, I've found that Underground Clinical Vignettes - Anatomy and FA have helped out a lot. I've actually surprisingly done >85% correct on the USMLE Rx anatomy questions so far because they're all based on FA and UCV, but if you put me in an anatomy lab and ask me to point to a particular muscle and name its attachment sites, I might as well take a seat in the back of the room.
If there is one thing I do give UQ credit for when it comes to its lack of assessment, is that it gives any number of us time to just study USMLE material instead, and not deal with their requirements.
