How many hours are your anatomy exam?

[SDNer]

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Here at vanderbilt, we have 3 hours of multiple choice/fill in (100 questions), and a 3 hr of pratical (20 slides identification (mostly cross sections/xrays/mri, 15 bones, 5 x-rays, and about 50 identify structures on 25 cadavers. it's rough...really rough. i've heard students at other schools have easier exams....dunno.

 

[mpp]

Our exams are similar...100+ multiple choice questions, 40+ identify on cadavers with some films over 4-1/2 hours. There are four such exams throughout the course with short quizes every couple of weeks. The final exam includes the standard section exam as above plus the NBME shelf exam over two days.

 

[XxRocKxX]

Univ of Maryland:
2.5 hours for 140 question Multiple Choice test
-2 hour lunch break-
80 minutes for 50-55 questions Dry practical (slides on computer)
80 minutes for 50 question Wet practical


in by 8am, out by 4-4:30pm

dead before lunch 🙄

 

[BiggMann79]

At UAMS we have a 100 question multiple choice test that takes 2 hours. Then we immediately go down to the lab for a 50 station practical on cadavers, bones, and films. The lab test lasts about 2 hours also. Actually half the class does the practical first and then it switches for the next test.

We have five regional tests (upper limb, thorax,abdomen, pelvis/perineum, lower limb, and head/neck) and the NBME final at the end.

The gross tests usually last from 1 P.M.-5 P.M., then we had Microanatomy tests in the morning on those test days also.

 

[Blade28]

Originally posted by BiggMann79
At UAMS we have a 100 question multiple choice test that takes 2 hours. Then we immediately go down to the lab for a 50 station practical on cadavers, bones, and films. The lab test lasts about 2 hours also. Actually half the class does the practical first and then it switches for the next test.

Ditto. That's pretty much what we had too.

 

[Krony]

Loma Linda:

2hrs 100 multiple choice

85 minutes for 85 stations in the lab

 

[Street Philosopher]

15 minutes 10 questions lol

 

[::Seabass::]

90 minute written: 4 questions from each lecture and 1 question each from each clinical correlate lecture (about 5 each block, and of course we are tested on the clinical correlates in our syllabi)

practical: 2 groups oto do 90 minutes for a 50 question practical (5 of those questions are xray and then some bones mixed into the remaining 45) 45 seconds at each station (lots of rest stops) I really felt like 45 seconds wasn't enough for some of the stops and how they chose to tag the cadavers (as in being able to orient yourself, and I did know my crap) and even the MS2s were really pissed off with how they set up our first one.

 

[ispic]

Originally posted by BiggMann79
At UAMS we have a 100 question multiple choice test that takes 2 hours. Then we immediately go down to the lab for a 50 station practical on cadavers, bones, and films. The lab test lasts about 2 hours also. Actually half the class does the practical first and then it switches for the next test.

We have five regional tests (upper limb, thorax,abdomen, pelvis/perineum, lower limb, and head/neck) and the NBME final at the end.

The gross tests usually last from 1 P.M.-5 P.M., then we had Microanatomy tests in the morning on those test days also.

Hi,

Almost exact same here, but the test is at 9 AM, and we started on thorax/abdomen this block. The histo test was two days before and embryo was mixed in with the anat test, even though they treat it as a different course 😡 I wish they just inetrmingled it with the anatomy lectures as we go along by system, instead of taking a whole other class that isn't usually in sync with the anatomy lecture. Thats about it. Nice thread 🙂

 

[Seaglass]

At Penn State it's pretty similar to the above except our written contains multiple choice with multiple answers and essay.

Casey

 

[gotgirth]

Wash U:

1 Hour exam in lab...the cadaver identification questions are sort of combined with lecture material.

 

[Bevo]

Here in hell:

2 lab practicals of mostly identification. Each will be around 70 cadevar identification and then 10-15 Xray/MRI/CAT ids. in about 90 mins or so. Our first one is in 2 weeks I think.

Then we have 3 exams(with about 40 questions each test) and the NBME final.

 

[smugrinch]

Here we have nothing, NOTHING I TELL YA!!!
We dont have cadavers we use a Mr.Potato head to ID anything we need to.
I asked for volunteers but everyone refuses to be a cadaver. I actually thought of become a cadaver part-time, you know, to pay my way through medical school. They tell me though that I wouldn't get any benefits. But I would get touched in unusual ways by the female students....and some males as well....perhaps I should reconsider....

 

[vigils]

UMDNJ

Writtern: 2 hours 100 questions
Partical: 1 hour 100 questions, 50 stations, two questions each (and they have that anyoning damb buzzer)

 

[JMD]

@ SUNY Buffalo we have no paper exam component to anatomy. Just 3 practicals about 2.5 hours each. Doesn't sound that bad compared to some of the other things posted, but it's still pretty tough. Do you think a paper exams are necessary/useful for anatomy?

 

[mattorama]

Originally posted by JMD
@ SUNY Buffalo we have no paper exam component to anatomy. Just 3 practicals about 2.5 hours each. Doesn't sound that bad compared to some of the other things posted, but it's still pretty tough. Do you think a paper exams are necessary/useful for anatomy?

They can be usefeul to see if you can make clinical connections...can't really do that on a practical.

 

[xaelia]

Ohio State:
Hour-long lab practical with films and cross-sections intermingled with tagged structures on cadavers, 50 questions total.

Two hour multiple-choice written exam with ~75 questions.

Every three weeks, four exams total in the anatomy block.

 

[ramsestiger]

We have a quarter system here at KCOM. As far as anatomy goes, there are 8 short quizzes for cadaver identification, X-rays, etc.; 3 hellish 100 multiple choice exams + a comprehensive final exam; and we have to write a lab report about abnormalities in our cadaver for the sections we dissected near the end of the quarter. On top of that, we have OTM exams on LIVE humans where we identify and manipulate the patients (classmates). Just imagine, you check the PSIS in the butt dimples, press on the ASIS, check the ischial tuberosity for levelness and even check the pubic tubercle and pubic symphysis for shears! We get to know some of our classmates a lot more closely than we would like.

 

[Adcadet]

U of Minnesota:
we take gross antomy with embryology over an 8 week period (during this time we also do ~2 hours/week on an introduction to medicine-type course).

We have three non-cumulative anatomy/embryo exams. We spend two hours in lab identifying 75 tags (mostly on bodies, some radiographs, some dry skulls/bones). Two hours in spent on a written test, of which 1/3 is embryology.

 

[redleft123]

At Duke --

3 hours for 175 question Multiple Choice test

90 minute lunch break - wanted to crash and hybernate by then!

90 minutes for dry practical
90 minutes for wet practical; each about 60-75 questions, from what I remember

Then, went home and practiced anatomy by Braille for several hours with SO! 😀 😀 😀

 

[Spelbo420]

UAB does:

3 hours for 100 question written test (combination of lecture questions, clinical case study questions, and MRI or X-Sec slides ID)...

2.5 hour 100 question practical with slides, bones, and cadavers mixed in (2 minutes per station, with each station having 2 pinned structures)

 

[charlatangirl]

think i've got it easy:

for my first exam this week-

50q/60min mcq section
50q/50min lab section


😱

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by ramsestiger
We have a quarter system here at KCOM. As far as anatomy goes, there are 8 short quizzes for cadaver identification, X-rays, etc.; 3 hellish 100 multiple choice exams + a comprehensive final exam; and we have to write a lab report about abnormalities in our cadaver for the sections we dissected near the end of the quarter. On top of that, we have OTM exams on LIVE humans where we identify and manipulate the patients (classmates). Just imagine, you check the PSIS in the butt dimples, press on the ASIS, check the ischial tuberosity for levelness and even check the pubic tubercle and pubic symphysis for shears! We get to know some of our classmates a lot more closely than we would like.

😱 I'm glad I don't go to your school. Any DRE's yet?

AS for my school,
3* 60mcq written exams
3* 35 tagged-ID practicals
1 miniboard, 2 days after our last test, and 24 hours before 2 histo tests and a histo miniboard

 

[deleted29780]

i am in Ghana, Africa . Well our system is a little difft.
It is equally loaded. We do not have a final exam on cadaveric stuff. We have 4 I.A's on the basic regions
head and neck
upper limb and thorax
lower limbs
the abdomen, pelvis