Hardest Physiology Concept?

[Onigiri]

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Hi everyone, I was wondering what you all thought was the hardest system of physiology for you? About to finish physiology and wanted to see if it was going to get easier here on end.

 

[bashwell]

At my med school, a lot of people said renal, though I didn't think it was super difficult or anything. I mean it's not brain surgery! 🙂

 

[petrosgp]

Anything CNS aside from blood flow.

 

[FindMeOnTheLinks]

Renal

 

[Taddy Mason]

Hardest physiology concept? Priapism.

 

[PrettyLadyDoc24]

Renal! I still don't completely understand it.

 

[BeddingfieldMD]

Hi everyone, I was wondering what you all thought was the hardest system of physiology for you? About to finish physiology and wanted to see if it was going to get easier here on end.

Agree with most of the folks here...renal physiology I think has the most nuances.

 

[sliceofbread136]

Learning it for the time renal is. Pretty easy once you get it down. Id say pulm is actually the hardest to know really well, lots of nuances in the icu

 

[Spectre of Ockham]

Renal urea handling is the most complex one , bloody thing took two hours to explain by our lecturer. It's not that hard but it is complex.

 

[Anicetus]

Years 1 and 2: renal depending on how in depth they make you go.

Year 3: resp, hands down.

 

[Polonium-210]

I always found the cardio graphs to be painful.

 

[673441]

Hi everyone, I was wondering what you all thought was the hardest system of physiology for you? About to finish physiology and wanted to see if it was going to get easier here on end.

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[Azete]

Probably renal, but there's a lot of physics in cardio that med school basically reduces down to memorization or ignores altogether.

 

[Jabbed]

Respiratory physiology is definitely the "you don't know what you don't know" subject. Everyone complains about renal-- it's tough, but once you have a few light bulb moments it all comes together.

 

[WheezyBaby]

Pulm

 

[Redpancreas]

It's likely renal. You have no know a couple principles like what the kidney does to compensate, you have to know about the ADH effects. It explains why things like heart failure lead to hyponatremic hypervolemia, etc. You should have to know about urine studies, electrolytes, acid/base, and then there's various random things thrown in like the NH4/K+ relationship and RTAs. would say Renal is the toughest subject overall because it's got the most physiology in terms of detail and it's got lots of glomerular pathology. In terms of pure research, I would think Cardiology would be more complex but you never learn about that even as an attending.


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[67552931811]

Idk maybe I'm a giant freak but I didn't find renal that hard. But I also found it fascinating and loved the subject matter.

For whatever reason endocrine physio was the hardest for me. Literally 0 clue why. I'm sure im an anomaly, though.