Our physiology prof is a nice enough guy and is clearly an intelligent person. The problem that I'm having (along with some other students) is the content of his lectures. I'm wondering just how much of his material is going to be board relevant.
Some examples of topics we've learned:
Mechanist-Vitalist Controversy (Descartes, Aristotle, Darwin)
Memory Storage - Karl Lashley
Phrenology - Franz Gall
The Function of Zeitgeibers and biological rhythms
Sleep Cycles
REM vs Non REM sleep
Associative and Non-associative learning (habituation, imprinting, sensitization, etc)
Maybe I'm wrong (and I often am), but these things seem more like Psychology, or at best, Psychobiology and will never be on our COMLEX boards.
Some examples of topics we've learned:
Mechanist-Vitalist Controversy (Descartes, Aristotle, Darwin)
Memory Storage - Karl Lashley
Phrenology - Franz Gall
The Function of Zeitgeibers and biological rhythms
Sleep Cycles
REM vs Non REM sleep
Associative and Non-associative learning (habituation, imprinting, sensitization, etc)
Maybe I'm wrong (and I often am), but these things seem more like Psychology, or at best, Psychobiology and will never be on our COMLEX boards.
BUT...."A compelling rationale can be mounted that the many myriad forms of manipulative expression practiced by a variety of practitioners simply represent different points on a treament armamentarium spectrum and that the putative connective tissue, vascular, biomechanical and neurophysiological effects are mediated through final common pathways". WTF?!! This is an EXACT as it's written in his 34 page "lecture". $10 to anyone who can name the subject, object, verb, predicate, etc. Is it a complete sentence?