Histology Sucks

[anxiousmed]

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All in Favor for removing this riduculous course from med school curriculums, please post......for all you future pathologists...you're going to learn it during your FIVE year residencies, why make us suffer......lol..........no offense intended.......

 

[OB1🤙]

You got my vote! Can we get rid of embryo while we're at it?

 

[DW]

i think i might be the only person alive who actually likes histology. and no, i'm not thinking about pathology......

 

[Bevo]

histo wasn't my favorite course, but I did ok in it.

What made it horrible was embryo!

 

[Joe Joe on da Radio]

i'm one of the rare breeds that loves histo! i find it fun and fascinating. 🙂

 

[GoodMonkey]

i don't mind histo as a subject... it's the labs i have problems with because 1) the microscope eyepieces don't adjust inward enough to match my interpupilary distance (hence i can't resolve one image) and 2) i have serious motion-sickness issues. i'm going to try the non-drowsy dramamine, though, and hope that helps.

i also like pathology. 🙂

 

[Stinger86]

Histo within the context of disease is pretty cool, but by itself it's kinda bland.

I hated my school's Histo class because the program was disorganized, lectures were horribly confusing, professors lied to us, and the course director had no idea what was important for us to know. I think perhaps 2% of the information we learned in Histo is coming back to haunt me in pathology

 

[Allygator89]

I agree. Get rid of Histo.... and I second the "get rid of embryology"

 

[smugrinch]

Originally posted by Allygator89
I agree. Get rid of Histo.... and I second the "get rid of embryology"

I 3rd on the embryo and second on the histo

 

[Street Philosopher]

I vote to get rid of first year. Everything is useless.

 

[DW]

Originally posted by Street Philosopher
I vote to get rid of first year. Everything is useless.

word 👍

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by smugrinch
I 3rd on the embryo and second on the histo

You must not realize how many medical problems can be traced back to their embryologic origins. You must also not realize that a solid histo background is required for understanding diseases such as cancer.

 

[OB1🤙]

Originally posted by idq1i
You must not realize how many medical problems can be traced back to their embryologic origins. You must also not realize that a solid histo background is required for understanding diseases such as cancer.

Yeah, but you could easily condense these classes waaaay down, to contain just the material that will be actually useful to the practice of medicine. There's far too much useless crap in there you'll never, ever need to know again.

 

[Street Philosopher]

who cares about embryos? why do i care what happens? doctors deal with the end result of development, not the process of it. it's the phd's who should care about clinically irrelevent science.

 

[sacrament]

Originally posted by idq1i
You must not realize how many medical problems can be traced back to their embryologic origins.

Yeah but... who cares? Histo, I'll agree, is (or at least can be) very useful in clinical medicine. On the other hand, knowing which branchial arch is responsible for what is just simply a factoid. Knowing the embryologic origins of disease or malformation virtually never influences clinical decisions.

 

[KyGrlDr2B]

Originally posted by idq1i
You must not realize how many medical problems can be traced back to their embryologic origins. You must also not realize that a solid histo background is required for understanding diseases such as cancer.

Party pooper!!
















😉

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by KyGrlDr2B
Party pooper!!

It's just that I'm sure most people posting these responses really mean it. One would expect these antics in high school.

 

[Penguin Poptart]

antic

def: n. absurd or foolish behavior.

 

[Samoa]

The reason we have to learn histology is so that, when the clinical pharmacist sitting next to you at noon conference asks, "how can you tell those are cancerous cells? They look just like the last slide, that was supposedly normal." You can say something other than, "F8ck if I know."

 

[What the pho]

ECG and heart sounds suck ass.

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by Penguin Poptart
antic

def: n. absurd or foolish behavior.

Yeah, and?

 

[buglady]

i'm not too sure about histo or embryo, but i sure do like the random conversations about SNL re-runs i have with my anatomy group whilst i pick out the fat pads in our cadaver's orbits, temporal region, etc....

 

[cocoabutter]

I agree with buglady. Histo lab is definitely good for the conversations.

 

[dcpark74]

how can you guys not like macrophages and SEM photographs that give 3D depictions of what's in our body? 🙂

as for embryo, it's awesome how we all formed from a single cell, and come on people...give credit to the guy who posted that it's important since we can attribute any birth defect to a specific time in the embryo's development and that histology allows us to know when a cell is abnormal.

DON'T YOU GUYS LIKE MEDICINE/SCIENCE? I guess i'm a nerd for loving what i'm learning...isn't >$20K a year too much to waste on not learning.😕

 

[Street Philosopher]

Originally posted by dcpark74
isn't >$20K a year too much to waste on not learning.😕

yes it is, which is why i often wonder why i ever chose to "study" "medicine". memorizing facts != learning.

 

[dcpark74]

Originally posted by Street Philosopher
yes it is, which is why i often wonder why i ever chose to "study" "medicine". memorizing facts != learning.

with all due respect...when was the last time any learning occurred without having facts to establish a foundation? memorization is required to learn...but after that things get a lot better.

 

[Rod Farva]

I hated both Embryology and Histo. Come to think of it, I've hated pretty much every class I've taken in med school. Even if I was originally interested in the subject, after trying to memorize 100+ pages of detailed syllabus, I invariably want to shoot myself in the head and never look at the subject again. Here's to getting the hell out of second year and into the hospital.

 

[OB1🤙]

Originally posted by Rod Farva
Here's to getting the hell out of second year and into the hospital.

Amen.

 

[DocRuth]

What's everybody's favourite tissue? Or perhaps a better question would be, what's your least favourite?

 

[Samoa]

Favorite tissues: ones that won't be tested
Least favorite tissues: the ones I got wrong on the test
😀

 

[DocRuth]

Samoa - LOL - that sounds about right. Now that I think about it, I realize my favourite tissue might be Kleenex... I know, not funny, just easily recognizable without a microscope.