Hours/week in Anatomy Lab

[GreenShirt]

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How many lab hours per week are devoted to anatomy lab at your school?

I ask because people often site saving time as a benefit of prosection over disection. At my school we have prosection and spend 2hrs/week in the lab. I'm curious to see how much more time is spent in lab in disection programs.

 

[nlax30]

We usually have 4-6 hours of "dedicated" lab time per week. Our lab scheduled class time is 2 hours at a time, either 2 times or 3 times a week, depending on other stuff going on, tests, lectures, breaks, etc....

We have lab "assignments" (in powerpoint) that most people do in groups in during the lab time. So the time is available for us to work on that in groups, or to go and look at the bodies. In reality we can come in whenever we want to look at the bodies, these are just the officially scheduled times that the professors will be here to help out with any questions.

 

[GliuKoZe]

We have 2 hours in anatomy lab.. 🙂 but we can study in lab 17-19 p.m. on every monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, of course if we want to do that.. 🙂😉

 

[cyclohexanol]

How many lab hours per week are devoted to anatomy lab at your school?

I ask because people often site saving time as a benefit of prosection over disection. At my school we have prosection and spend 2hrs/week in the lab. I'm curious to see how much more time is spent in lab in disection programs.

At COMP we did dissection. According to my schedule from last year, there were about 12 hrs/wk devoted to lab. However, the class was split into two groups and we alternated days. So the amount of time any one spent in lab per week was more like 6 hrs/wk (not counting time spent in lab outside of the schedule).

 

[DocBR]

We have a 3 hour block once a week scheduled and we are suposed to spend 6 hours a week during off-hours in the lab.

 

[Boner]

At DMU, we have two two-hour blocks each week for dissection lab. We're also expected to put in a couple hours a week during open lab hours for study time, but usually people only put in an extra hour a week. The week before a test people spend a good 4-6 hours in open lab. I will say that with the new plasma screen system we have, things are a lot more efficient in terms of studying since you can pull up Netter's plates and radiographs at will without having to flip pages in a dissection guide/anatomy atlas/textbook.

 

[medmom]

We are scheduled 2 hours blocks twice a week. On rare occassions we may have a 3rd day. We also have 1-3 hours of anatomy lecture twice a week. We are full dissection. The lab is accessable to us 24/7 with our proxy card.

 

[MaximusD]

3 to 4 3-hour sessions per week... in other words, 9-12 hours per week are typically scheduled in lab.

At PCOM, we always dissect.

 

[lastchanceDO]

at LECOM-erie,
it's about 3 times a week for about 1.5hrs per lab. Most of the anatomy is prosected, but we do some cutting here and there. Usually one of the group teaches the last group of the day for 30 mins-45, which cuts down the total time spent in the lab to about 4hrs a week.

 

[IgE]

6-10 hours per week. Supposedly, KCOM has more hours devoted to anatomy than 99% of all med schools (DO and MD). That's what they told us on the tour anyway, and I believe them. That continues for the first three quarters of school too. (August through May) We do all of the dissection with 4 students per cadaver.

 

[MaximusD]

6-10 hours per week. Supposedly, KCOM has more hours devoted to anatomy than 99% of all med schools (DO and MD). That's what they told us on the tour anyway, and I believe them. That continues for the first three quarters of school too. (August through May) We do all of the dissection with 4 students per cadaver.

You are still working with your cadavers in March... wow that sounds FUN.

I'm halfway through and loving that it's almost over 😀

I learn a lot in anatomy lab, but I hate having to go every day.

 

[MJB]

Approx. 4 hours/week of scheduled class time.

The lab is or will be open pretty much every night until Midnight and 10 on Sundays.

It's great because we get plenty of time to get in and work. There's never been a time that I've wanted to go in that I couldn't. The added benefit is we don't have to do dissection, so that saves time as well.

 

[go_mountaineers]

We are scheduled 2 hours blocks twice a week. On rare occassions we may have a 3rd day. We also have 1-3 hours of anatomy lecture twice a week. We are full dissection. The lab is accessable to us 24/7 with our proxy card.

I couldn't have said it better myself Medmom!!

 

[madscientist50]

At NSU-COM we have one day a week per lab group in which we have a 2 hour session blocked off for dissection. Usually lab goes over about an hour, and usually people send an extra hour or two per week in there up until the week before the exam. Then its an all out zoo in the lab. We also have reviews hosted by some clubs which helps out too.

But we have started to integrate the prosection as well. Some of our profs will patrol the dissection lab answering questions for the dissecting group while others will be in the prosect lab answering questions for the group not dissecting that day. Which has been a great addition in my opinion. Doing both dissect. and prosect. has really helped me.

 

[nerdgrrl]

I'm at TUCOM-CA, anatomy is spread over first and second year. we have three 3-hour labs this semester (back dissection only), 5 in the spring, and the rest are second year.

we actually just had our first lab this week, though they're not going to wait that long for next year's first years.