MS1 student who is almost done with my 1st week and would just like to say....

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It's just the start baby. Hang in there! 😎
 
Even though 2nd year is really freaking hard, seeing threads like this just make me smile and realize what I have already made it through lol
 
and why the HELL do people say that taking non-med school anatomy is a waste of time for premeds? I'm having zero trouble keeping up in histo, embryo, genetics, etc. lectures that go at a million miles per hour, but in the anatomy lectures that also go at a million miles per hour, I get completely lost. And it sucks to see all the people who have taken anatomy before keeping up...if I couldve learned like 1/4 or 1/3 or whatever of the anatomy info in an undergrad course, I could probably manage to keep up too 👎

ventventvent.
 
Imo, anatomy was one of the best courses in 1st year. The best being physiology. Worst courses include anything that had to do with ethics.
 
I took undergrad anatomy, though it was probably about 4 years ago now. It doesn't help very much. I might've known the deltoid tuberosity or the greater trochanter going in, but they certainly weren't asking questions about the effects of an injury at the medial epicondyle on motor movement in the hand, or expecting me to know origin, insertion, action, innervation, and vascular supply of hundreds of muscles.

A's in embryo and histo, but absolutely crushed by the first full-sized anatomy quiz. I'm hoping they were just trying to scare us into studying harder before the exam coming up, but I think that's only half true, at best.
 
Actually I agree, anatomy was pretty brutal...
 
Suncrusher said:
and why the HELL do people say that taking non-med school anatomy is a waste of time for premeds? I'm having zero trouble keeping up in histo, embryo, genetics, etc. lectures that go at a million miles per hour, but in the anatomy lectures that also go at a million miles per hour, I get completely lost. And it sucks to see all the people who have taken anatomy before keeping up...if I couldve learned like 1/4 or 1/3 or whatever of the anatomy info in an undergrad course, I could probably manage to keep up too 👎

ventventvent.
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Agreed. Even if it's a superficial base they are building on, they still are building on something.
 
Yeah I havent even started school yet, but I just got my textbooks in from amazon and I opened up Netters and almost had a heart attack. Needless to say its buried deep in a closet for the next week so I can sleep at night.
 
Bacchus said:
Just don't knick the colon and make sure you tie it off well when bisecting the pelvis. I almost vomited that day in lab.
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OMG...horrible flashbacks...I TA'd anatomy last year, and I can't tell you how much I emphasized this to my tables. Just my luck, one of my tables knicked the sigmoid colon way deep in the pelvis to a point where they couldn't tie it off. What do you do in this case? :idea: The students at the table decided to stuff the knick with paper towels to get rid of the horribleness. Well, in case you can't imagine what happened, at the other end of the colon is the anus, so after they stuffed the colon chock full of paper towels, $h1t literally started coming out the @$$. That was the most disgusting day I ever had in anatomy, I ran to the bathroom thinking I was going to vomit, but thankfully I didn't. Of course, being the TA I had to go back in and help them deal with it :scared: Makes me shudder to think about it, a day I never want to relive!
 
Im just starting my first year next week. Is there really time to review using those usmle books during the first two years? Also, is there a pretty clear consensus on the best usmle review book among students? Thanks for the help.

BestResidency said:
The amount of information med schools present in the first 2 years can be overwhelming. Additionally many of the lectures in the first 2 years are not clinically relevant because the faculty giving them are PhD, not MDs. Many of the lectures are slanted towards the instructors individual research.

Hopefully you can figure out early that usmle board review books are a great resource. They distill all the essential information from the first 2 years to a more palatable format. It is good to get them early in your med school career and use them as you study the relevant course material. That way when you are studying for USMLE Step 1 all the material will be familiar.

PM me if you have specific questions.
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2012mdc said:
Just wait till you get down into the pelvis. Total cluster**** down there :laugh:
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This.

We remove one of the legs on our cadavers to get a sagittal view of the pelvis. On one of our practicals I thought an anus was a vagina. And the ligaments of the uterus? Forget about it. I loved head and neck though.
 
Zenfudge said:
This.

We remove one of the legs on our cadavers to get a sagittal view of the pelvis. On one of our practicals I thought an anus was a vagina. And the ligaments of the uterus? Forget about it. I loved head and neck though.
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Today, while working on a medical school application, I asked my mom what she thought my greatest challenge in life had been. She replied : "Trying to lose your virginity." FML
 
it gets worse
 
Im an MS1 at SLU, and the faculty decided that we wouldn't start with anatomy this year. We instead are starting with metabolism, cell bio, and biostat. :laugh:
 
You will begin to appreciate anatomy for it's straight-forwardness. Memorize important structures, their relationships to other structures, and a few clinical correlates. It does seem overwhelming at first, but it's honestly one of the best classes in MS1 (and most fun).

Just wait until the ****-show that is Pathology, Pharm, and Phys for organ systems where you have no real idea what you need to know.
 
Makes me glad one of my undergrad majors was anatomy.
Like a boss.
 
Physio Doc 2 Be said:
What is this pelvis of which you speak? I've heard the words and seem to remember saying pudenal over and over again, but I can't seem to recall learning of this pelvis.
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Gosh. Pelvis is such a blur to me. Thank god for having 3 months to study for boards, lol.
 
Can someone estimate how many anatomical structures there are to memorize in anatomy for the purposes of examination?
 
I apologize for rubbing salt onto the wound, but IMO anatomy was in fact one of the easiest course in medical school. Neurologic pharmacology is way worse.
 
MilkmanAl said:
It gets better when you realize that there are literally about 5 useful concepts to know from embryo. The rest of it is crap. Good use of your time and brain space!
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Agreed, especially the first chunk of embryo. The systems-embryo is at least interesting if nothing else. Gastrulation and all that garbage...😴
 
The Angriest Bird said:
I apologize for rubbing salt onto the wound, but IMO anatomy was in fact one of the easiest course in medical school. Neurologic pharmacology is way worse.
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IMO pharm was much easier than anatomy
 
Thanks for the feedback guys. Anatomy is actually very interesting and straightforward. It just feels like trying to learn all of this material is like drinking from a fire hose.

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I'm 7 weeks into 3rd year and it is far worse than either first or second year. The hours are bad and having to be so nice and so submissive to attendings and residents with horrible personalities is going to be the toughest part of all of medical training.

Second year is the best year of medical school. People say it's 4th year but I doubt there is any way it's going to top 2nd year.
 
Baron Samedi said:
Agreed, especially the first chunk of embryo. The systems-embryo is at least interesting if nothing else. Gastrulation and all that garbage...😴
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No joke. there's a reason High Yield Embryo is only like 40 pages despite having a ton of full-page pictures.

I'm 7 weeks into 3rd year and it is far worse than either first or second year.
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Geez, I'm glad I didn't go to your school. I would gladly work 10 hour days over doing first year again. Second year was pretty nice, though, I'll give you that. I still liked using my time productively better, though.
 
I think another major pitfall is to think that "anatomy is all memorization". It is a lot of memorization, no question about that. Yet the hardest part is to three-dimensionally understand some critical landmarks in the body. As a 2nd-year surgery resident, I still struggle to fully understand the 3D relations between the subclavian vein and the thoracic outlet. Trust me, when you are putting a large-bore needle into a patient for a central line, this knowledge is so important.
 
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Welcome to med school. Close your eyes, plug you're nose, and lap up as much of what hits you in the face as you can. It does get better, and try to have some fun with it along the way. 🙂
 
I don't know, anatomy hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be (3 weeks in, I may be singing a different tune in a month). It's probably because everyone on here has talked it up so much that I thought it was going to be hell on earth. Sure, it's a lot of studying, but since it's pretty interesting stuff it's not that bad.
 
Rocher said:
I don't know, anatomy hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be (3 weeks in, I may be singing a different tune in a month). It's probably because everyone on here has talked it up so much that I thought it was going to be hell on earth. Sure, it's a lot of studying, but since it's pretty interesting stuff it's not that bad.
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this forum churns out self fulfilling prophecies of gloom, after a while you start to notice which posters are notorious for this and you can just not pay attention to stuff they say.
 
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