Does anyone else passionately hate/hated Gross Anatomy?

[NickNaylor]

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Sounds like a colossal waste of time. That time is better spent actually studying and practicals come down to "spend the weekend in the laboratory going over all the structures." Actually dissecting won't really help you for the practical.

I pretty much just shoot the **** with the two other tank mates while the one dude who is gung-ho does all the work.

Lol - it's nice having a hardcore "cutter" in the group.

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[elyswim]

Out of curiosity, how many of you that hate anatomy are surgeons? (or want to go into surgery)

 

[Planes2Doc]

Out of curiosity, how many of you that hate anatomy are surgeons? (or want to go into surgery)

It's funny you ask this, because I wonder the same thing... I hate standing around with my group since I am not one of those "hardcore cutters" as notbobtrustme mentioned. But I wonder if I will enjoy surgery. We'll see when it comes down to rotations!

Also I'm guessing most surgeons become experts in one particular area where they know the anatomy well. But still, I don't think they probably know it down to the tee that an anatomist would. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[D elegans]

It's funny you ask this, because I wonder the same thing... I hate standing around with my group since I am not one of those "hardcore cutters" as notbobtrustme mentioned. But I wonder if I will enjoy surgery. We'll see when it comes down to rotations!

Also I'm guessing most surgeons become experts in one particular area where they know the anatomy well. But still, I don't think they probably know it down to the tee that an anatomist would. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm merely an M2, but from conversations I've had and my limited exposure to surgery, 1st year anatomy is a terrible way to gauge your interest in surgery.

 

[flodhi1]

It's the only class so far where I get to see on a macro level what they are talking about in lecture. Compare that to other courses where it's ahan glucose-6-phosphatase? oh p53 mutation ? ok yah totally.

 

[Renaissance Man]

Sounds like a colossal waste of time. That time is better spent actually studying and practicals come down to "spend the weekend in the laboratory going over all the structures." Actually dissecting won't really help you for the practical.

I pretty much just shoot the **** with the two other tank mates while the one dude who is gung-ho does all the work.

This is exactly what I do. I go into lab by myself twice 2-3 days before the practical and it seems to work. I can't pre-study for lab, and find myself dipping out of dissections early a majority of time to study for the other testable material which is 90% of our grade.

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Lol - it's nice having a hardcore "cutter" in the group.

(sent from my phone)

Yep, we have one in my group too. Let 'em have at it.

And to answer the question, I hate this class.

 

[GadRads]

Some of you have it good in that you only spend 6-8 wks on anatomy. We spend 6 months on anatomy because it's "integrated" with the physiology. We are almost done with the first month, but we still have 5 more months with the cadaver.

I don't hate anatomy per se and I find it slightly interesting, but there is just not enough time to think about what you are learning ...err.. memorizing and it sort of kills the fun. You just memorize, learn a few heuristics and move on e.g. damage to the brachioradialis can affect radial nerve, medial epicondyle vs ulnar, etc. I really hope the rest of medical school isn't like this.

 

[GadRads]

My biggest gripe is knowing the material cold and then getting tested on absolutely tiny minutia.

I have the same experience, and perhaps this is nearly universal, but why do the instructors do this? It's not like the board exams are minutiae-driven.

 

[FIREitUP]

Some of you have it good in that you only spend 6-8 wks on anatomy. We spend 6 months on anatomy because it's "integrated" with the physiology. We are almost done with the first month, but we still have 5 more months with the cadaver.

I don't hate anatomy per se and I find it slightly interesting, but there is just not enough time to think about what you are learning ...err.. memorizing and it sort of kills the fun. You just memorize, learn a few heuristics and move on e.g. damage to the brachioradialis can affect radial nerve, medial epicondyle vs ulnar, etc. I really hope the rest of medical school isn't like this.

it's not all this way, but it's bad in different ways. you get tired of learning about random diseases and drugs after a certain point just as you get tired of learning about random muscles.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

it's not all this way, but it's bad in different ways. you get tired of learning about random diseases and drugs after a certain point just as you get tired of learning about random muscles.

Yeah wait till you do pharm...it's like memorizing a damn phonebook.

 

[notbobtrustme]

Yeah wait till you do pharm...it's like memorizing a damn phonebook.

lol, I love this description because it works just as well for anatomy. Close to 70% of these words don't mean anything to me. It's like blah blah blah nerve to blah blah blah muscle.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Does anyone else think that Gross Anatomy is/was the bane of their existence? I think the class is absolutely horrendous, and is definitely overkill since it is taught from an anatomist perspective. I get strange responses from people when I tell them I don't like the class, kind of like in the pre-allo boards if you tell someone you didn't enjoy volunteering.

What did you think of Gross Anatomy? And for older students, how does it compare to stuff you've taken later on?

I disliked it. Strongly. Late night happy hour while reeking of formalin was fun, though.

 

[FIREitUP]

Yeah wait till you do pharm...it's like memorizing a damn phonebook.

yeah i am learning pharm, my previous post agrees with what you just said. i want to gouge my eyes out when reading some of the names of these stupid drugs

 

[deleted413795]

I don't mind learning about it, and I think prosections are useful, but I'm not a fan of doing the actual dissection - takes up valuable time, and we often don't find what we need to because we aren't that great at dissecting.

I feel the same way. The lab itself is very useful and a cool experience. I fail to see the point of spending all the time actually doing the dissection. The profs and TAs in my program are in there quite a bit during the week. I am sure they could easily dissect however many bodies they feel is appropriate for an exam/studying in that time or even less.