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Are any of you using accommodations for lecture? I have hearing loss and I need lecture captions for some professors. My undergrad was really easy to work with (once I realized they offered captioning), and I'd just be curious to hear what experiences have been like with disability services in vet school.
 
PrincessButterCup said:
Are any of you using accommodations for lecture? I have hearing loss and I need lecture captions for some professors. My undergrad was really easy to work with (once I realized they offered captioning), and I'd just be curious to hear what experiences have been like with disability services in vet school.
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I have submitted and been granted accommodations here but school doesn't start for another 2.5 weeks so I don't know how that's going to go in practice. The process wasn't hard but for me required scheduling a phone call and talking to a nurse.
 
I had all the vet school notes because someone quit their fourth year and gave them to me. Our school stopped printing notes so I wanted them. I graduated a semester early and took a year off. But sometimes when I got really bored I would look at the notes. I didn't try studying or anything just general curiosity and Im glad I looked at them because it has slightly helped with just having a basic familiarity of what the professors start teaching about.


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Congrats, @LyraGardenia! I bet you did great 😀

I can't believe we finished our second week! It's going by so fast. Still feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of info, but I feel so much better about anatomy which is helping a lot. Still figuring out how to balance anatomy and my two other lecture heavy classes, but I'm getting better at it.

Hope everything is good with the rest of you!
 
We had a quiz Monday, test Friday and quiz Friday and I am READY for labor day weekend!! (They all went pretty well actually, not as bad as I was expecting!!)
 
Stay safe everyone in Oklahoma! I hope you guys didn't get rattled too hard 🙁
 
WildZoo said:
I feel like I've been in vet school for 5 years...but it's only been 3 weeks!
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Seriously! I didn't realize it was physically possible to consume and learn that much content in such a short time period.

Also, two weeks in now, and I'm still alive! Huzzah! Definitely feeling a bit overwhelmed, but hanging in there thus far.
 
My class just had its orientation retreat over the past 2 days (we start late in Minnesota compared to a lot of you guys!), and it was so much fun! I'm pretty shy and introverted, so wasn't sure how meeting 100 new people was going to go, but had an absolute blast and can't wait to get started with classes.
 
Also two weeks in, also feeling overwhelmed...

Still trying to figure out the most efficient way to really LEARN the material. I used Anki throughout undergrad, and it was great so long as I kept up with lectures and added new cards to my decks incrementally, but due to being sick I really slacked off last week and I'm multiple lectures behind (I did attend all of them; I've just been not good about making new cards for them). I feel like I'm spending far longer getting study materials ready than actually studying at this point. I've started some condensed study guides, too, which I insert into OneNote and highlight/draw/write on, but again with eight classes and so many long lectures to transcribe, that is also taking a very long time. Again, I feel like that these are study methods that work better if you're super diligent about keeping things up-to-date, which I have not been doing the best job of. Anatomy is really the only class I've religiously studied multiple hours every day for, and it feels I'm completely neglecting everything else.

There's still a week and a half-ish until our first few big tests, so I have time, but I can't screw around a whole lot longer. I planned on using this long weekend to get everything together.

Anyone have any really effective and, most importantly, efficient study methods they've found? Should I just run with the PowerPoint lectures and what I've already got and try harder to keep my study tools caught up after this round of exams?
 
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SandstormDVM said:
Also two weeks in, also feeling overwhelmed...

Still trying to figure out the most efficient way to really LEARN the material. I used Anki throughout undergrad, and it was great so long as I kept up with lectures and added new cards to my decks incrementally, but due to being sick I really slacked off last week and I'm multiple lectures behind (I did attend all of them; I've just been not good about making new cards for them). I feel like I'm spending far longer getting study materials ready than actually studying at this point. I've started some condensed study guides, too, which I insert into OneNote and highlight/draw/write on, but again with eight classes and so many long lectures to transcribe, that is also taking a very long time. Again, I feel like that these are study methods that work better if you're super diligent about keeping things up-to-date, which I have not been doing the best job of. Anatomy is really the only class I've religiously studied multiple hours every day for, and it feels I'm completely neglecting everything else.

There's still a week and a half-ish until our first few big tests, so I have time, but I can't screw around a whole lot longer. I planned on using this long weekend to get everything together.

Anyone have any really effective and, most importantly, efficient study methods they've found? Should I just run with the PowerPoint lectures and what I've already got and try harder to keep my study tools caught up after this round of exams?
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One of the most frustrating things about starting school is that everyone's optimal study methods are different, so what works really well for me may not work for you. Not only that, but you may have to tweak those methods for different courses, which is also super annoying.

The biggest thing that helped me was figuring out how I studied/retained information, and to tune that into active studying. I'm pretty visual, so I need to see how things connect or write it out to really understand it. Once I figured that out, I found my best tool, which is a whiteboard. I turn that into active studying by looking at the ppt slides, then covering them up and forcing myself to draw out the concept/phrase/information without looking. Or I'll condense lecture down into a colorful word document and do the same recall method from there. But I have classmates who are auditory learners, so they do best listening to the lecture again or quizzing each other in a group setting.

Overall, it may take you a while to find a method that sticks. And that's okay! (Took me almost 3 years to find a method that is efficient and I somehow made it through!). Just keep your head up, keep tweaking and trying different methods, and you'll eventually find one that works well for you. 🙂
 
I feel like the biggest mistake I made when trying to study was trying to create the perfect study guides. I spent enough time polishing them that I didn't spend enough time studying them. Unless making them really does help you learn, just get something put together and go over it. Use a whiteboard if that helps. Implement pictures if you can. It's funny to be like, " Oh I remember this, it was at the top of the third page right next to that one picture of _____!" But it does really work like that a lot of the time.
 
SandstormDVM said:
Also two weeks in, also feeling overwhelmed...

Still trying to figure out the most efficient way to really LEARN the material. I used Anki throughout undergrad, and it was great so long as I kept up with lectures and added new cards to my decks incrementally, but due to being sick I really slacked off last week and I'm multiple lectures behind (I did attend all of them; I've just been not good about making new cards for them). I feel like I'm spending far longer getting study materials ready than actually studying at this point. I've started some condensed study guides, too, which I insert into OneNote and highlight/draw/write on, but again with eight classes and so many long lectures to transcribe, that is also taking a very long time. Again, I feel like that these are study methods that work better if you're super diligent about keeping things up-to-date, which I have not been doing the best job of. Anatomy is really the only class I've religiously studied multiple hours every day for, and it feels I'm completely neglecting everything else.

There's still a week and a half-ish until our first few big tests, so I have time, but I can't screw around a whole lot longer. I planned on using this long weekend to get everything together.

Anyone have any really effective and, most importantly, efficient study methods they've found? Should I just run with the PowerPoint lectures and what I've already got and try harder to keep my study tools caught up after this round of exams?
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I'm in the same boat with Anki. It really does work well for me but I've fallen behind on making and reviewing my cards. Trying to catch up this weekend as well.
 
ilikecake said:
Stay safe everyone in Oklahoma! I hope you guys didn't get rattled too hard 🙁
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Apparently a lot of my classmates here in KS felt it, but I slept through it.

We had a formal tonight to celebrate us first years being done with our first test, and it was super fun! Especially because there was an open bar for the first half. 😀 Now I'm home nomming on chips and salsa and watching Friends. 🙂
 
SandstormDVM said:
Also two weeks in, also feeling overwhelmed...

Still trying to figure out the most efficient way to really LEARN the material. I used Anki throughout undergrad, and it was great so long as I kept up with lectures and added new cards to my decks incrementally, but due to being sick I really slacked off last week and I'm multiple lectures behind (I did attend all of them; I've just been not good about making new cards for them). I feel like I'm spending far longer getting study materials ready than actually studying at this point. I've started some condensed study guides, too, which I insert into OneNote and highlight/draw/write on, but again with eight classes and so many long lectures to transcribe, that is also taking a very long time. Again, I feel like that these are study methods that work better if you're super diligent about keeping things up-to-date, which I have not been doing the best job of. Anatomy is really the only class I've religiously studied multiple hours every day for, and it feels I'm completely neglecting everything else.

There's still a week and a half-ish until our first few big tests, so I have time, but I can't screw around a whole lot longer. I planned on using this long weekend to get everything together.

Anyone have any really effective and, most importantly, efficient study methods they've found? Should I just run with the PowerPoint lectures and what I've already got and try harder to keep my study tools caught up after this round of exams?
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Seriously, we're like exactly the same. I feel the same way as you do, and like you, my undergrad studying was entirely on Quizlet. I would annotate on my Surface or whatever new gadget I was playing around with, and then I would go back after the lecture and prepare flashcards (usually in question laymen format) to help me study. Yea, that's not working out at all right now. I'm sucking on an information fire hose, and while I started making flashcards for some of my classes, I just cannot keep up. And like you, I'm devoting way more time to anatomy then my other classes.

On Friday, there was a nice round table at lunch with a few second and third years. Based on some feedback, I'm going to try something new:

Instead of relying entirely on OneNote for lectures, I'm going to keep the notes open for main drawings on the board and to follow along, but I'm going to be actively creating Quizlet notecards DURING lecture. If I can cut out the extra time and already have stuff to actively review at the end of each class period, I think that will help me a lot. Many of the notes I'm taking are simply filling in the little blanks in the abridged versions of the PowerPoints that my professor provides, and in my eyes may be a waste of time.

We'll see how this goes.
 
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Seriously, we're like exactly the same. I feel the same way as you do, and like you, my undergrad studying was entirely on Quizlet. I would annotate on my Surface or whatever new gadget I was playing around with, and then I would go back after the lecture and prepare flashcards (usually in question laymen format) to help me study. Yea, that's not working out at all right now. I'm sucking on an information fire hose, and while I started making flashcards for some of my classes, I just cannot keep up. And like you, I'm devoting way more time to anatomy then my other classes.

On Friday, there was a nice round table at lunch with a few second and third years. Based on some feedback, I'm going to try something new:

Instead of relying entirely on OneNote for lectures, I'm going to keep the notes open for main drawings on the board and to follow along, but I'm going to be actively creating Quizlet notecards DURING lecture. If I can cut out the extra time and already have stuff to actively review at the end of each class period, I think that will help me a lot. Many of the notes I'm taking are simply filling in the little blanks in the abridged versions of the PowerPoints that my professor provides, and in my eyes may be a waste of time.

We'll see how this goes.
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Good luck to you and @SandstormDVM. We will all figure it out together. We'll find something that works for each of us.
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Instead of relying entirely on OneNote for lectures, I'm going to keep the notes open for main drawings on the board and to follow along, but I'm going to be actively creating Quizlet notecards DURING lecture. If I can cut out the extra time and already have stuff to actively review at the end of each class period, I think that will help me a lot. Many of the notes I'm taking are simply filling in the little blanks in the abridged versions of the PowerPoints that my professor provides, and in my eyes may be a waste of time.
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That sounds like a really good idea, I might try this
 
Only one week in for us, so I don't quite feel like I'm drowning yet. We had one rough lecture where probably only 5 people in the class understood more than two things, but everything else has been mostly manageable so far. Anatomy is a little overwhelming, to say the least, and it's eating up the vast majority of my study time.

A lot of people have recommended looking at the material in different ways multiple times instead of doing the same thing over and over again. So far, I think this approach is working for me. I'm not a flashcards person generally, and since anatomy is so visual, that's the only way it's making any sense to me. In lab, I've been touching the cadaver as much as possible and actively feeling origins, insertions, etc.. while describing what's going on. My group has been taking videos of that to review later. At home, I've been going back to pictures/video of the cadaver as a refresher. I've been trying to read extra here and there in Big Miller and Dyce when things sound like gibberish. I've started a notebook of just drawings in the order we've been dissecting. For each muscle, I write down the origin and insertion, draw the bones, and then use colored pencils to draw the muscle. They gave us access to EasyAnatomy software, and that's been helpful in visualizing things as I'm trying to draw them out. For actions, I've been reasoning my way through it and then checking it against the book instead of just trying to memorize it and I've been trying to think of muscles as part of functional groups. That's been helpful so far. When I start to get tired, I use the coloring book - adding stuff as necessary - and I talk through it out loud to my dog as I'm doing it. I've also been using CSU's virtual anatomy page and the quizzes there. I'm planning on buying a cheapo plastic dog skeleton model (one of the basic ones, not the $300 ones) so I can use yarn and pipe cleaners to practice origins and insertions.

It's way early yet to tell how well it's working, but I feel like it's sinking in. Maybe some of these techniques will help other people, too.
 
The CSU virtual anatomy is my best friend. Some of my classmates have been really good at learning the muscles just from the diagrams and then knowing where they are during dissections, but I need to learn them by finding them on the dog first. Then I've been going over the muscles we're learning in the CSU VA every night and it's really helped to cement them. Now just to get their origins/insertions/actions down.... I've started using Anki for that and it seems to be helping.
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Instead of relying entirely on OneNote for lectures, I'm going to keep the notes open for main drawings on the board and to follow along, but I'm going to be actively creating Quizlet notecards DURING lecture. If I can cut out the extra time and already have stuff to actively review at the end of each class period, I think that will help me a lot. Many of the notes I'm taking are simply filling in the little blanks in the abridged versions of the PowerPoints that my professor provides, and in my eyes may be a waste of time.
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This is a really good idea, actually, and I'd definitely be willing to give it a go if it means saving time.

Well, 17 hours and 1239 cards later, my Anki decks for anatomy, histophys, and molecular and cell bio are all caught up! Just radiology and nutrition left. I don't think I'm going to bother making decks for the other three courses I'm in, since they're just kinda "show up and pass" classes. I can safely say... this weekend has taught me to never, ever get behind on making cards again. Haha.
 
SandstormDVM said:
This is a really good idea, actually, and I'd definitely be willing to give it a go if it means saving time.

Well, 17 hours and 1239 cards later, my Anki decks for anatomy, histophys, and molecular and cell bio are all caught up! Just radiology and nutrition left. I don't think I'm going to bother making decks for the other three courses I'm in, since they're just kinda "show up and pass" classes. I can safely say... this weekend has taught me to never, ever get behind on making cards again. Haha.
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How many classes do you have?!

We have 6 core classes. Anatomy+lab, micro/histo+lab, cell phys lecture, and then ethics, intro surgery+skills lab, and animal handing+skills lab. Aside from surgery, the last three are basically show up and pass classes with minimal work.

Are any of those classes (I count 9 I think?) electives?
 
Caiter92 said:
How many classes do you have?!

We have 6 core classes. Anatomy+lab, micro/histo+lab, cell phys lecture, and then ethics, intro surgery+skills lab, and animal handing+skills lab. Aside from surgery, the last three are basically show up and pass classes with minimal work.

Are any of those classes (I count 9 I think?) electives?
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Close! There are 8:

- Principles of Morphology I (small animal anatomy)
- Biomedical Sciences I (histo and phys in one class, basically)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Radiology Imaging
- Nutritional Biochemistry
- Clinical Foundations I
- Veterinarian in Society I (careers)
- Case Study I

None are electives. I considered taking one but decided that it was probably more prudent to use this semester to get accustomed to the workload/schedule. Needless to say, I am thrilled with that life choice already.
 
SandstormDVM said:
Close! There are 8:

- Principles of Morphology I (small animal anatomy)
- Biomedical Sciences I (histo and phys in one class, basically)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Radiology Imaging
- Nutritional Biochemistry
- Clinical Foundations I
- Veterinarian in Society I (careers)
- Case Study I

None are electives. I considered taking one but decided that it was probably more prudent to use this semester to get accustomed to the workload/schedule. Needless to say, I am thrilled with that life choice already.
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Dang! So many classes. Looks like we basicsally have the same classes aside from radiology and nutrition though (our into surgery class is case studies during the lecture portion, and ethics is technically "vets in society"). We technically have a 7th, "intro to clinics" class, but this semester we're only required to have 2 hours of shadowing so it's not something to worry about.

You guys must be so busy! i can't even imagine trying to fit more classes into our schedule.
 
We have 9, but some meet a lot less frequently than others. Our schedule looks crazy because of this.
Anatomy + Lab
Advanced Anatomy + Lab
Bacteriology/Mycology
Immunology
Physiology
Physical Diagnosis + Lab
Clinical Correlation & Ethics
Success & Wellness
ABLEs (our PBL class)
 
I've got
Anatomy w/ lab
Histology w/ lab ( and a few weeks of cell bio mixed in)
Micro/immuno/viro/myc -ologies
Neuro anatomy
Nutrition
Animal science for vets (its like an industry overview)
Clinical competency w/ a lab and requirement to attend rounds a few times over the semester

I think that's all of them. I do constantly forget how many classes ive got
 
Ugh, you guys talking about classes makes me feel lucky to be on the quarter system (so far). I have anatomy I, biochemistry, physiology, interprofessional skills, and practice of veterinary medicine (my favorite). We'll have biochem again next quarter I think, and anatomy for the rest of the year, but all in separate quarters. Really like the schedule so far, besides the 8-5 days with 4 hours of anatomy at once :laugh:
 
I have 13 courses this semester, but I don't think all of them go for the entire thing, looking at my schedule (@LetItSnow @kcoughli is that accurate?). At least one of them is more an orientation study group type thing, so I'm leaving that off the list.

So the required coursework for us is the following:

Interprofessional communications
Microscopic anatomy I
Anatomy I
Physiology I
Veterinary biochemistry, nutrition, & genetics
Clinical skills I
Professional development I
Critical scientific reading
Immunology

and then I have 3 electives: large animal neonatology, intro to non-domestic animal medicine, and a study skills seminar. Going to be a busy semester!
 
I have found that making your study material DURING lecture is supppppper helpful as well. I am either making quizlet cards (in Nutrition for instance) or making an outline with pictures from the powerpoints as we go along, writing in any helpful notes that I would take on the powerpoint anyway. Then at the end of the section, I have a jumbo outline to study from, or quizlet cards to look back at. I find I am actively listening during lecture and making use of my time efficiently, because I cannot sit there for an hour for each class doing that AFTER class oh and study somehow. And my class has been amazing about sharing study materials. People post their quizlet sets on our Facebook page, I shared my 40 page BacT outline with everyone so we can all keep up. You can't fall in the trap of spending a million hours making flashcards only to not have time to use them. aint nobody got time for that.
 
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I have found that making your study material DURING lecture is supppppper helpful as well. I am either making quizlet cards (in Nutrition for instance) or making an outline with pictures from the powerpoints as we go along, writing in any helpful notes that I would take on the powerpoint anyway. Then at the end of the section, I have a jumbo outline to study from, or quizlet cards to look back at. I find I am actively listening during lecture and making use of my time efficiently, because I cannot sit there for an hour for each class doing that AFTER class oh and study somehow. And my class has been amazing about sharing study materials. People post their quizlet sets on our Facebook page, I shared my 40 page BacT outline with everyone so we can all keep up. You can't fall in the trap of spending a million hours making flashcards only to not have time to use them. aint nobody got time for that.
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I think it will depend on the class and the person (those who take 12734874 notes during lecture might find it difficult), but ever since first semester, I've had a rotten time paying attention in any class. So I also started to write my study guides during class and it's so much better and so more efficient that way.
 
VetToBe585 said:
I have found that making your study material DURING lecture is supppppper helpful as well. I am either making quizlet cards (in Nutrition for instance) or making an outline with pictures from the powerpoints as we go along, writing in any helpful notes that I would take on the powerpoint anyway. Then at the end of the section, I have a jumbo outline to study from, or quizlet cards to look back at. I find I am actively listening during lecture and making use of my time efficiently, because I cannot sit there for an hour for each class doing that AFTER class oh and study somehow. And my class has been amazing about sharing study materials. People post their quizlet sets on our Facebook page, I shared my 40 page BacT outline with everyone so we can all keep up. You can't fall in the trap of spending a million hours making flashcards only to not have time to use them. aint nobody got time for that.
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Agreed. And I'm definitely going to start putting cards together during class rather than after to save time.

The thing with Anki is that often the number of cards made is inflated if you use cloze and image occlusion, which both put out multiple cards at the same time (I had one anatomy diagram I made an image occlusion from and got, like, 20 "label this structure" cards from it). So it isn't like I manually wrote out 1000 cards -- I wrote out maybe 300 and the rest were variations that made automatically by the software. Haha.

I do type up big study guides, too, to help out with the material that doesn't lend itself well to Anki. Honestly, even just rewriting and condensing down the material in my own words helps jog my memory of it pretty well.

It's definitely feeling a little bit more doable now that I am actually caught up with the lectures from last week. 🙂
 
I totally bombed my first anatomy quiz and it was online, multiple choice, open-book. I felt confident about it too until I clicked submit. Now I feel completely incapable because if I can't pass an open book multiple choice quiz, how am I supposed to do the practicals? 🙁
 
heyyimhayley said:
I totally bombed my first anatomy quiz and it was online, multiple choice, open-book. I felt confident about it too until I clicked submit. Now I feel completely incapable because if I can't pass an open book multiple choice quiz, how am I supposed to do the practicals? 🙁
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How long do you have until the next quiz? And then how long until your first exam? Try not to fret too much, this just means that now you are aware that you need to change something before an actual exam (wish we had that!). How have you been studying? Maybe you need to reexamine your study habits and try something different. Sending you lots of hugs.
 
WildZoo said:
How long do you have until the next quiz? And then how long until your first exam? Try not to fret too much, this just means that now you are aware that you need to change something before an actual exam (wish we had that!). How have you been studying? Maybe you need to reexamine your study habits and try something different. Sending you lots of hugs.
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We have quizzes every week, but the practical isn't until the second week of October, so I do have time before that.

For studying I've mostly been studying with Quizlet, I made flashcards for each muscle's origin, insertion, action, and innervation and I've been doing well with memorizing those. And then for remembering muscle location and stuff, my lab partners quiz each other on all the muscles and I've been doing well with that too...

I think my issue on this quiz was that everything had to be identified in 2 dimensions (it was an online quiz so the questions were basically photos of dissections and answering questions about muscles which had arrows pointing to them), where as in lab, I figure out what things are based on their locations next to other muscles and things like that. So I'm not sure how to approach this issue
 
heyyimhayley said:
We have quizzes every week, but the practical isn't until the second week of October, so I do have time before that.

For studying I've mostly been studying with Quizlet, I made flashcards for each muscle's origin, insertion, action, and innervation and I've been doing well with memorizing those. And then for remembering muscle location and stuff, my lab partners quiz each other on all the muscles and I've been doing well with that too...

I think my issue on this quiz was that everything had to be identified in 2 dimensions (it was an online quiz so the questions were basically photos of dissections and answering questions about muscles which had arrows pointing to them), where as in lab, I figure out what things are based on their locations next to other muscles and things like that. So I'm not sure how to approach this issue
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Have you looked at the CSU virtual anatomy? That's pictures of an actual dissection. Maybe studying that too will help? Then you can get use to seeing muscles in 2-D as well, not just in lab.

Hopefully you can find something that works for you!
 
heyyimhayley said:
We have quizzes every week, but the practical isn't until the second week of October, so I do have time before that.

For studying I've mostly been studying with Quizlet, I made flashcards for each muscle's origin, insertion, action, and innervation and I've been doing well with memorizing those. And then for remembering muscle location and stuff, my lab partners quiz each other on all the muscles and I've been doing well with that too...

I think my issue on this quiz was that everything had to be identified in 2 dimensions (it was an online quiz so the questions were basically photos of dissections and answering questions about muscles which had arrows pointing to them), where as in lab, I figure out what things are based on their locations next to other muscles and things like that. So I'm not sure how to approach this issue
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Well, these weekly quizzes sound like a new thing. I may not actually have nearly failed anatomy if we had those, although definitely agree with you that 2D can be harder. But as a forewarning unless things have changed, you won't be able to actually touch the specimens on the practical, so it's sort of like being 2D since you can't rotate it and just have to figure it out (or not in my case).
 
orca2011 said:
Well, these weekly quizzes sound like a new thing. I may not actually have nearly failed anatomy if we had those, although definitely agree with you that 2D can be harder. But as a forewarning unless things have changed, you won't be able to actually touch the specimens on the practical, so it's sort of like being 2D since you can't rotate it and just have to figure it out (or not in my case).
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Yes, the quizzes are new this year! Supposed to be a grade booster and keep us on track, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me according to the first quiz 🙁

Someone actually asked about touching specimens and our professor did essentially say yes except a few questions and that we'll be told which ones those are. Not sure if that's also a change, but that's what we were told...
 
orca2011 said:
Well, these weekly quizzes sound like a new thing. I may not actually have nearly failed anatomy if we had those, although definitely agree with you that 2D can be harder. But as a forewarning unless things have changed, you won't be able to actually touch the specimens on the practical, so it's sort of like being 2D since you can't rotate it and just have to figure it out (or not in my case).
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Yeah, we were never allowed to touch in our exams either.
 
heyyimhayley said:
Yes, the quizzes are new this year! Supposed to be a grade booster and keep us on track, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me according to the first quiz 🙁

Someone actually asked about touching specimens and our professor did essentially say yes except a few questions and that we'll be told which ones those are. Not sure if that's also a change, but that's what we were told...
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I honestly blocked a lot of it out. Anatomy was kind of traumatic for me.
 
heyyimhayley said:
I think my issue on this quiz was that everything had to be identified in 2 dimensions (it was an online quiz so the questions were basically photos of dissections and answering questions about muscles which had arrows pointing to them), where as in lab, I figure out what things are based on their locations next to other muscles and things like that. So I'm not sure how to approach this issue
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The way I do it is by keeping the origins/insertions in mind and looking for landmarks that don't necessarily depend on the other muscles being there. So I'll try to learn the general location of a muscle (eg, palmar aspect of the forelimb) and then use the bones to orient myself. With pictures, the first thing I try to do is figure out what I'm looking at - what view is it? Which side is lateral and which is medial? With the figures from Miller, they all look very much the same, and I confuse them all the time so I make myself stop and figure that part out first. When looking at them on the cadaver, I use the other muscles all the time, but since each dog is different and since the pictures can be confusing, I've been trying to make myself learn it the other way, too. That way you can also double-check yourself. If this muscle next to the other one really is the one I think it is, then the origin should be blahblahblah and the insertion should be over there with the thingy.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about the quiz. It's a drop in the bucket. We have more time to figure things out. And if it makes you feel any better, I have no idea what I'm looking at with the cat... .
 
Y'all are making me feel like I don't study enough. 😛 I know I'm behind on reviewing muscles, but we've only had two days of dissection so far and we don't have anatomy lab tomorrow, so it's not the end of the world. My classes this semester are:
Gross Anatomy I w/lab
Microanatomy I (basically histology) w/lab
Physiology I (which is more like cell bio/biochem)
Cross-Course Integration (which so far seems to be "random lectures that don't really fit anywhere else")
Veterinary Career Development

Those last two are both show-up-and-pass classes. Then my electives:
Practicing Vet Med in a Multicultural Society
History of Vet Med (so far not as interesting as I hoped it would be)
3-D Imaging Anatomy of the Dog (which doesn't start until mid-October)

The electives I've had so far seem like they'll be really easy, and only gross anatomy, microanatomy and physiology meet more than once a week. It seems like they kind of ease us into things first semester, I've looked at the schedules for future semesters and there are a lot more classes.
 
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