Deno said:
Anatomy Exams at UNE:
There are two portions:
The written is multiple choice.
The lab part is divided in to two sections. The larger portion is the ID or a question secondary to the ID of a pined structure or marked image (the pined muscle is innervated by what nerve). Second is the ?live anatomy? poriton; this is usually a week before the test and you are asked to find various structures on your partner.
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Anatomy at UNECOM is a 10 hour course that consumes your life from August 1st to November 3rd. It is split into 4 sections: upper limb, lower limb, head and neck, and TAPP (thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perenium). There are no proscetions: you disect everything from the eye muscles to the teeny muscle that abducts your little toe (what is that called again?).
The written section of our anatomy exams here at UNECOM is mostly multiple choice, with occasional sections of fill in the blank, label the baboon shoulder (not kidding), and complete the cranial nerve table, depending on what professor writes the test.
Live anatomy (with a partner, and an anatomy fellow asking stuff like: 'show me where the ____ vein crosses the wrist, where is the prominence of X vertabrae) is something like 10% of your lab grade for each section of the course.
The remainder of the lab practical is just like what everyone else described: pins, tags, etc on cadavers, cross-sections of stuff (super hard), dots of silly putty on x-rays, maybe a bone poined out with a 'what muscle attaches here?" question. You do have unlimited time at each station, basically we wander around looking confused for an hour and a half, eventually all stuck on the same 5 tags for the last 10 minutes, and then they kick us out and send in the other half of the class to do the same. The professors and fellows get very creative with questions, once this year they put a bone in a bag and stuck it in a box so we had to reach in and feel the bone and then write down what it was.
Fortunately, histo and embryo are separate classes, altough the professors would overlap occasionally. A good experience, although a bit daunting at first, and as you can see I've already forgotten a lot...but I think I learned more than I've forgotten. I actually miss anatomy. :'(