how on earth can ppl like anatomy and histo?

[shreypete]

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how on earth can anyone like anatomy and histology? I mean there's so much stuff to study and it has to only be memorized (and application kicks in sometimes too). these subjects are so dry and filled with crap. can anyone give me some tips to study anatomy and histo....greatly appreciate it!

 

[SomeDoc]

how on earth can anyone like anatomy and histology? I mean there's so much stuff to study and it has to only be memorized (and application kicks in sometimes too). these subjects are so dry and filled with crap. can anyone give me some tips to study anatomy and histo....greatly appreciate it!

Anatomy is a lot of memorization. Rote memorization aside, there are lots of clinical applications. You should refer to your textbooks for these. Once you get the memorization taken care of, you can then move into the critical thinking and problem solving part of anatomy. It is this aspect of anatomy which can be very fun (fractures, soft tissue/organ dysfunction ID's on imaging, figuring patient stabilization post-trauma, accurate ID of injury, etc.)

 

[GodoShingo]

Well for starters, you can stop hating it. It will make the studying easier.
Believe me, I know from personal experience.

Second of all,use the knowledge to think how cool you look inside 😉.

 

[TMP-SMX]

I think the material is good and it's a bit like a story. The problem is the practical. Practicals suck. The subject is good.

 

[Terpskins99]

how on earth can anyone like anatomy and histology? I mean there's so much stuff to study and it has to only be memorized (and application kicks in sometimes too). these subjects are so dry and filled with crap. can anyone give me some tips to study anatomy and histo....greatly appreciate it!

Anatomy is a little easier simply because there is more clinical application.

I think it kind of helps to relate physiology with histo.

Outside of that, in both instances you have to look at as many images as possible and get used to identifying EVERYTHING. And not just netter-ized perfect images, get used to identifying structures/tissues taken at unusual cuts.

Studying with a friend and testing each other can help, but really... its all about putting in the time.

 

[ubcredfox]

Anatomy is the bomb man! I love going to the lab, taking that scalpel up and carving that turkey up. It's fantastic. Beats the living hell out of sitting through a mind numbing lecture on topic x or, a yet another wonderfully wasteful session of PB-Hell.

At least with anatomy you can see the practicality of what you're learning. You get to understand how certain injuries cause real, physical pathology. It makes sense, and isn't as gray as almost anything else in medicine. It feels "real". I think similarly of histo - provides you with a solid foundation for learning the rest of the material. Those two classes seem like the only real world stuff we do, except for clinical skills.

It's all the disease and symptom stuff that gets to me. You wouldn't believe how many pages of notes I have that start with either "an approach to memorizing the ddx for this condition" or "condition y: etiology, incidence, pathology, clinical presentation, treatment, complications etc."

Wonderful.

 

[Medikit]

I have no idea but try hanging out with someone who does enjoy it because wallowing in your loathing won't get you anywhere.

 

[rickthetwinkie]

how on earth can anyone like anatomy and histology? I mean there's so much stuff to study and it has to only be memorized (and application kicks in sometimes too). these subjects are so dry and filled with crap. can anyone give me some tips to study anatomy and histo....greatly appreciate it!

I've only had a little bit of histology and I've loved it so far. So I guess people just... like it? I find the identification of cellular structures and applying it to the function of that tissue fascinating . I probably wouldn't be able to give you many tips, though, because we have an integrated curriculum, and I'm assuming you all don't. Our histo load is probably not as heavy as yours. In this beginning section that serves as an introduction, we've mainly been getting biochem, genetics, and basic cell biology(general cell and tissue types) out of the way.

 

[NCF145]

Anatomy is awesome. Histo sucks, but that is only because it is the second time I am taking it. On the other hand, I find histo to be interesting b/c it is similar to physio, but at a cellular level.

 

[shreypete]

well i don't have physiology in the 1st yr. I'm in a 6 yr. medical program and i've entered medical school right outta high school...that probably explains my frustration in dealing with such voluminous amount of stuff.....

 

[Blade28]

Histo is painful. No way around it.

But anatomy? It's the basis of all physiology!

 

[Ashers]

I liked anatomy and histo. I thought histo was easier than anatomy though.

 

[WiscDoc]

how on earth can anyone like anatomy and histology? I mean there's so much stuff to study and it has to only be memorized (and application kicks in sometimes too). these subjects are so dry and filled with crap. can anyone give me some tips to study anatomy and histo....greatly appreciate it!

1- Did you not know med school was a lot of memorization?

2- For me, I think I really liked anatomy because I knew soooo little about the human body before med school....I remember asking what "other bladder" we had after talking about the gallbladder. I also didn't know we had one spleen, that happened to be on the left side of our body! To me, it all felt relevant!

3- How to study: read the material with lots of attention (try to understand things). Use atlases as needed. Good luck.

4- Your attitude about a topic will affect how well you retain it/do in it. There are exceptions.

 

[WiscDoc]

Histo is painful. No way around it.

But anatomy? It's the basis of all physiology!

couldn't have said it better.... although histo at my school is not that bad.

 

[Terpskins99]

Histo is painful. No way around it.

But anatomy? It's the basis of all physiology!

Unless you're talking about the hand or foot. In that case, it exists only to make your life miserable.

I'm willing to bet even orthopods hated studying that. 😳

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Unless you're talking about the hand or foot. In that case, it exists only to make your life miserable.

I'm willing to bet even orthopods hated studying that. 😳

We had an orthopod give us a clinical applications lecture about the hand and remarked when he reached the wrist "Oh, I could spend the entire morning telling you about the scaphoid bone. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time"

🙄

 

[shreypete]

1- Did you not know med school was a lot of memorization?

2- For me, I think I really liked anatomy because I knew soooo little about the human body before med school....I remember asking what "other bladder" we had after talking about the gallbladder. I also didn't know we had one spleen, that happened to be on the left side of our body! To me, it all felt relevant!

3- How to study: read the material with lots of attention (try to understand things). Use atlases as needed. Good luck.

4- Your attitude about a topic will affect how well you retain it/do in it. There are exceptions.

hey there, like i said i' in 6 yr. medical program right outta high school so I haven't done "much" of anatomy as such. but anatomy is getting better as i'm trying to practically correlate the structures (bones) to my text with the help of an atlas.....

but histology is still a bit painful (i mean the tissues and all are interesting but the part when it gets tough is when they show us different slides and we're supposed to identify it and explain any special features about that tissue.)
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[smuwillobrien]

hey there, like i said i' in 6 yr. medical program right outta high school so I haven't done "much" of anatomy as such. but anatomy is getting better as i'm trying to practically correlate the structures (bones) to my text with the help of an atlas.....

but histology is still a bit painful (i mean the tissues and all are interesting but the part when it gets tough is when they show us different slides and we're supposed to identify it and explain any special features about that tissue.)
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Just look at as many different slides as you can - over and over - identifying as much as you can on them - in a while it'll get second nature.

 

[NCF145]

We had an orthopod give us a clinical applications lecture about the hand and remarked when he reached the wrist "Oh, I could spend the entire morning telling you about the scaphoid bone. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time"

🙄

As far as I am concerned, the only thing you need to know is that the scaphoid is the most easily fractured.

 

[Top Gun]

Funny, I actually thought anatomy was pretty cool in first year. It was the chance to see what the human body looked like inside, and I liked the clinical applications (i.e. learning landmarks for doing procedures, reading X-rays, which muscle groups would become paralyzed following damage to a specific nerve). Histo was pretty cool, too, seeing all the different tissue slices under the microscope and understanding how they worked. Of course, histo probably doesn't have any real clinical application, except of course for pathology.
The course I thought was worst was biochem. Like I need to know every detail of the urea cycle in order to treat a patient.

 

[SltatryDduction]

I just finished anatomy and I really loved it. I hadn't ever taken it before and it was great to see what everything really looked like in there! Plus our professor was fantastic so it made everything much much better!