Shortest gross anatomy course?

[Mateodaspy]

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I think my school has one of the shortest gross anatomy courses of any medical school... We just started in early September and we have our final exam tomorrow... only eight weeks total (twice per week) of gross! How long are everyone else's courses?

 

[Ypo.]

I think my school has one of the shortest gross anatomy courses of any medical school... We just started in early September and we have our final exam tomorrow... only eight weeks total (twice per week) of gross! How long are everyone else's courses?

MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine did it in 7 weeks this summer...but that was the only class they were taking at the time.

Are you taking biochemistry and cell physiology with that anatomy as well? Why does your school rush you through it like that? (for msucom it was an issue of space-they increased their class size and there simply wasn't enough space there to accomodate both the MD and DO schools-((we share professors and classes for the first year))).

I heard there are only around 5 direct anatomy questions on USMLE 1-I hope that is true!!

 

[Mateodaspy]

MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine did it in 7 weeks this summer...but that was the only class they were taking at the time.

Are you taking biochemistry and cell physiology with that anatomy as well? Why does your school rush you through it like that? (for msucom it was an issue of space-they increased their class size and there simply wasn't enough space there to accomodate both the MD and DO schools-((we share professors and classes for the first year))).

I heard there are only around 5 direct anatomy questions on USMLE 1-I hope that is true!!

Nope -- we are doing biochem and cell bio in a five week block beginning next week... Though, we did take radiology and histology along with anatomy....

 

[ear-ache]

I heard there are only around 5 direct anatomy questions on USMLE 1-I hope that is true!!

Everyone's Step One experience is different, but for the most part, I think you are right. I think I had one anatomy question, and it was pretty clinical - nursemaid's elbow. Because of that, my school has also drastically reduced the amount of anatomy, and what little there is mostly clinical anatomy.



I had a ton of molecular/cell biology (restriction enzymes, southern blots, protein synthesis) and a ton of pharmacology (cellular level type questions – second messengers, receptors, ect.) on my Step One in 04.

 

[Ypo.]

Everyone's Step One experience is different, but for the most part, I think you are right. I think I had one anatomy question, and it was pretty clinical - nursemaid's elbow. Because of that, my school has also drastically reduced the amount of anatomy, and what little there is mostly clinical anatomy.



I had a ton of molecular/cell biology (restriction enzymes, southern blots, protein synthesis) and a ton of pharmacology (cellular level type questions – second messengers, receptors, ect.) on my Step One in 04.

Thanks for the info-

I haven't really been worried about retaining anatomy past each test-I figure whatever anatomy I need I can always relearn-and that the anatomy I'll need will be the anatomy I know-because I'll run into it again and again.

 

[marooner]

anatomy that long? how were you able to hurdle laboratory sessions? isn't shortened?

how would you be able to retain all those info in a flash?

 

[uptoolate]

Ours lasted about 7 weeks- started 8/29 and the final was 10/17. I think I got whiplash in the process.

 

[Fusion]

I heard that the gross anatomy course at MCV/VCU lasts only six weeks. I don't think they take any other courses along with it though, understandably so.

 

[DeterminedMD]

I heard that the gross anatomy course at MCV/VCU lasts only six weeks. I don't think they take any other courses along with it though, understandably so.

we did it in 6 1/2 weeks. . .glad it is over and done with.

 

[Bigbreath]

Ours was supposed to go from end of August until end of December ( that is one semester) but the hurricaine (katrina) booted us out of school until the end of september and up to Baton Rouge. Now we have about 3 1/2 weeks in between each block. Took 2 days to recover from block 1 post-test party....so now we have about 3 weeks for all of head -n-neck, plus HPD and histology..

 

[Dr.Doom]

Wow, you poor souls. We have anatomy over a year and a half. Couldn't imagine the nightmare of doing it in seven weeks.

 

[piggymd]

hey there,
count your blessings. I have 2 hours lab and 1 hour lecture per week for TWO years. The formaldehyde is beginning to get to create a gag reflex for me.

 

[Wiggy73]

How do you guys manage dragging anatomy out over two years?!? Yikes!

I wonder which schools have the most and least hours of anatomy, regardless of how they're spread out. We have 8 hrs/day twice a week for a semester.

 

[MadameLULU]

Baylor- 1.5 hr of lab per week of anatomy lab which lasts from August-mid February

I heard that Case has anatomy lab for 2 years 😱

 

[Pianoboe01]

IU, Muncie campus: 10 weeks with anatomy lab 15 hrs/wk
It feels so great to be done with anatomy already!

 

[Uncle Izzy]

we did it in about 8-9 weeks. Not too bad.

 

[Antigunner]

We've got anatomy for 1 semester - 3 hours of lecture, about 6 hours of lab each week (on average). One thing that helps a lot is that Chung (BRS king) is our course director. His reviews are awesome! 👍

 

[FMGP8P]

I think my school has beat everyone so far. We completed our anatomy block in 4.5 weeks, 8hrs/day Mon-Thurs. We didnt' have any other classes, so it wasn't too bad.

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

I think my school has beat everyone so far. We completed our anatomy block in 4.5 weeks, 8hrs/day Mon-Thurs. We didnt' have any other classes, so it wasn't too bad.

Sorry, my first-year friend - everyone else does musculoskeletal as well, so you've got another quarter of it in second year. 🙂

 

[FMGP8P]

Sorry, my first-year friend - everyone else does musculoskeletal as well, so you've got another quarter of it in second year. 🙂

Darn....For a little bit I thought I was special

 

[Callogician]

In the program for integrated learning at DUCOM, we do the anatomical sciences in 12 weeks: Anatomy, embryology, and microanatomy.

 

[emack]

Just finished 8 weeks of M1 Gross & Histo. It was 4 hours of lecture per week, 7 hours of PBL, and 6 hours of labs. Plus, of course, the ridiculous number of hours you'd spend in lab after hours.

 

[drbribri]

At Mayo, we start Anatomy in August and finish in December (usually 2 days a week, from 1-5)...not that bad...however, I cant wait until it is over !!!

 

[deuist]

UMiami does gross (along with pathology and histology) in just six weeks.

 

[Arsenic]

I thought UMiami splits their anatomy into two parts, one in the first year and the other in the second year.

This is the impression I got from what Arsenic810 was saying on the MCAT forum. He's an MS2 there.

we split it into 3 units

1st year - units 1 and 2

unit 1 (6 weeks) = thorax, abdomen and pelvis
unit 2 (9 weeks) = head, neck, back

2nd year - unit 3

unit 3 (4 weeks) = upper and lower extremities

unit 1 is given at the same time as the core path and histo courses. unit 2 is part of the neuroscience block and unit 3 is part of the musculoskeletal block.

 

[Mateodaspy]

Is your anatomy course sooooo short due to problem based learning?? Do they do prosections or do you dissect yourself??? I was asking because LECOM DO school, which also has PBL, has the anatomy course for about 8-10 weeks. But they use prosected cadavers.

We had anatomy lab twice a week (3hrs/day) -- and we did our own dissections... while we did do radiology and histology on top of the anatomy labs, anatomy was definitely the focus of the course. Problem-based learning provided clinical scenarios for us to apply what we learned in lab to actual cases -- only had it everyday, one hour per day, so I don't think it cut back on our anatomy labs *too* much.

 

[KatieJune]

I am SOOO jealous of all of you...ours is like 16 weeks, 4 days a week ;(

 

[abraxas20]

UKCOM - 6 hrs lecture/6 hours lab per week for 12 weeks. And the final was yesterday. Hallelujah that is over.....

We took histo/embryology and a suck social science course at the same time.

S

 

[boilerbeast]

Sixteen weeks: M/W/F, five hours per/meeting (lecture followed by lab).
They spare us no detail.