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NYUCD anatomy
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yes. you must learn all of human anatomy, even though we will mainly be working with head and neck. making yourself a well-educated practitioner is of prime importance. if you want the doctoral degree, you have to earn it.
according to their curriculum, there is only head and neck anatomy.
I can't find the human anatomy in their curriculum.
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OH~~then in NBDE test, do they ask about all human body? (Anatomy part)
Anatomy at NYUCD is called Head and Neck anatomy, but it is the entire body. You spend most your time on the head and neck, with a good deal on thorax and decent amount on the rest. You will learn the head and neck inside out, but they don't go into as much detail for the lower limbs, for example. You need to know every branch of every nerve and the contents of every triangle, but they won't make you know all the flexor digitorums... basically, it's focused on head and neck, but not limited to it.
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I heard they don't dissect cadavers in NYU and use models from those "Bodies" exhibit instead. Is this true? If so, would this be an advantage or a disadvantage compared to others who are performing dissections to learn anatomy?
We just got done with Head and Neck Last semester...And yea we used models from bodies exhibit...I think it was a great thing because u get to see the littlest thing in the body like Otic Ganglion, which you would be impossible to locate in cadavers...You basically have more time learning rather than spending time dissecting...
Both methods of learning have their advantages. The plastinates (what the "bodies" are called because they are injected with a plastic polymer for preservation) show a lot of detail and allow you to focus on learning the material rather than trying to figure out where to make the incisions and what to peel away to find the structure. You can also go back and look at anything you want to review rather than just seeing it once and being done with it. You also don't have to worry about cutting through any nerves or blood vessels (something EVERY person going through dissections has done). Lastly, you'll also get to see structures that people doing dissections will not-- Chorda tympani passing through the middle ear for example. People doing dissections have to rely solely on pictures for that because they can't really open up the petrous portion of the temporal bone... Then again... how cool is dissecting?
NYU is, starting next year, should be offering a dissection course over summer. That way you can go through and learn all the anatomy using plastinates and, after first year, go through and do the dissecting and know what you're looking at. Surprisingly, the course is free. They were trying to offer it to my class but had to push it back a year due to administrative stuff.
NYU is, starting next year, should be offering a dissection course over summer. That way you can go through and learn all the anatomy using plastinates and, after first year, go through and do the dissecting and know what you're looking at. Surprisingly, the course is free. They were trying to offer it to my class but had to push it back a year due to administrative stuff.
Mann..I miss anatomy..it was fun!...Dr. Baker rocks!..haha
