Best way to cram Head and Neck

[alakazham]

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So I have my final test on Gross Anatomy coming up this Wednesday (excluding embryology) and it's on head and neck.

I'm cramming right now and trying to maximize my studying with the limited time I have. Unfortunately I didn't go to lab much this block (burnt out and tired of going into anatomy lab) and I'm definitely paying the price right now. Any suggestions for maximizing my understanding in the least amount of time?

 

[Dr Oops]

So I have my final test on Gross Anatomy coming up this Wednesday (excluding embryology) and it's on head and neck.

I'm cramming right now and trying to maximize my studying with the limited time I have. Unfortunately I didn't go to lab much this block (burnt out and tired of going into anatomy lab) and I'm definitely paying the price right now. Any suggestions for maximizing my understanding in the least amount of time?

If you're feeling Burnt out, take an entire day off don't even think about studying. Then next day get a bunch of caffeine & hit the lab, preferably w/ other people. Try quizzing each other, see how much you know then re evaluate

 

[txprodigal]

if your school lets you hire TAs for tutoring sessions, do that. have them run you through all the structures and also quiz you

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Whats the best way to cram head and neck?

Right up your own...

 

[KTD]

For me hiring TAs was golden if you can get good ones (that not only point to things but also say you can tell this is such and such because it wraps under this while this is something else cuz it passes over it).

Also, I wasn't the biggest fan of lab either. I really think Rohen's is key for studying cadavers without the smell. I quizzed myself a lot and tried to understand how I could know which structure was which for the ones I missed.

 

[coldweatherblue]

best way to cram anatomy is do clinically relevant questions (umich and brs gross questions).

memorizing plates (netters) and dissections will help you on surgery and in clinical medicine reading CTs and other imaging but just to pass M1 anatomy exams w/ limited study time you are best studying clinical correlates.

 

[waitwhat]

you don't cram head and neck, head and neck crams you.

 

[greatnt249]

Whats the best way to cram head and neck?

Right up your own...

You seem to abandon threads once people get fed up with/call you out on your trolling, so with that you should take a healthy dose of your own advice.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

you don't cram head and neck, head and neck crams you.

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So true. Not sure what I'd do to cram for that test. Knowing the skull well definitely helps, but from a conceptual level - you have to understand in 3D how the spaces behind the nose and mouth are connected. Sphenopalatine formen, anyone? Then learn the pharynx. Basically just a tube with some longitudinal muscles and circular muscles. The hardest part are all those muscles that attach that tube to the face/skull/jaw/hyoid/tongue. The actual superficial facial muscles, larynx, inner ear, eye, etc. are all pretty easy and high yield. It's that "deep neck" area around the pterygoids that makes it tough. You have to know that stuff to get to the little branching nerves and arteries. Skull foramena are a beast and should be left for last.

 

[abmd]

if you know anyone with rohens, you can use that to study instead of going to lab. also get a skull, get pipe cleaners ...

 

[Cruzinman]

Study a surgical text or watch a video on radical neck dissection to see how the surgeons dissect away structures as they identify the borders of and contents within the respective cervical triangles.

 

[OveractiveBrain]

You seem to abandon threads once people get fed up with/call you out on your trolling, so with that you should take a healthy dose of your own advice.

Perhaps you have me confused with some one else... Im pretty sure Ive never been called out for trolling, and, fed up with me? Really?

Edit: Oh you did. In ONE thread. I feel like people missed the point in that post of mine. Read it closer. I dont respond more than twice when people nit pick. I offer my opinion. You can take it or leave it.

 

[JokerMD]

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[vcfor3]

We're doing head/neck right now, this is by far the hardest in my opinion. Soooo much stuff going on in such a small area, and all kinds of muscles and triangles and every nerve has a branch that has a branch that has a branch etc etc, ugh freaking sucks. Does this mean ENT is out for me?

 

[christina30]

you don't cram head and neck, head and neck crams you.

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head and neck is horrible, i wouldn't recommend trying to cram. but i guess it's too late for that advice, OP.