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Struggling in Neuroanatomy .
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Have you accepted Dr. Najeeb as your Lord and Savior?
Neuro lectures at my school are difficult to pay attention to, and keep engaged. Dr. Najeeb's lectures are somehow really easy to follow along, hours on end.
Also Draw It To Know It might work for you
Neuro lectures at my school are difficult to pay attention to, and keep engaged. Dr. Najeeb's lectures are somehow really easy to follow along, hours on end.
Also Draw It To Know It might work for you
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I second this. I have been a faithful Najeeb follower since 2015. Take my neuro section breakdown on step 1 as my testimony.
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Draw it out!!!! Neuroanatomy isn't about wrote memorization of facts that can be learned on flashcards. When students say one learning style will work for one class, but not for another, this is the prime example. Ditch your paper flashcards or anki or quizlet or whatever, and go buy a small whiteboard or a stack of printer paper then draw out the pathways. Make lesions at random spots and try to figure out what is knocked out. Draw out the cross-sections and label everything.
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Boards and Beyond is the way. You can even look up one of his nuero videos on the rule of 4 on youtube. Once I learned that, I swore I would never go back to the other way.
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Draw everything out in an extremely simplified manner and repeat multiple times. A left to right (or top to bottom) drawing of boxes, arrows, and a dotted line to indicate midline should suffice for most of those "where is the lesion" type questions. The sectional gross anatomy is easier to cram just in case you're looking to save some time.
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Have you gone to chat with your Faculty in the subject???
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Not to high-jack the thread, but Neuro is my weakest subject on boards thus far, especially deficit type stuff, not so much the anatomy. Anyone have any good/concise resources more geared towards board (i.e. quick n'dirty tricks)?
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Welcome to Neuroinexile
See above. I used neuro in exile and absolutely loved it. Good animations in a step by step manor. She goes into a little more detail than required for boards but not overboard. It's intended for med students preparing for step 1.
See above. I used neuro in exile and absolutely loved it. Good animations in a step by step manor. She goes into a little more detail than required for boards but not overboard. It's intended for med students preparing for step 1.
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Yeah hes great! But kinda long... No?
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yeah its great for pathways!
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The whole series is pretty long. I made a list of what I needed to learn for my course. Then combed through Najeeb's videos to find those particular topics.
Main thing was that there was so much material crammed into my school's 2 hr lecture that I just couldn't understand it. A pass through the much slower/longer Najeeb video (and easier to comprehend) usually helped out
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Ahh, yes....Neuroanatomy -- the Dr. John Aschenbrenner special --- Dr. A as he was affectionately known at TCOM back in the day truly enjoyed teaching the subject and went into great detail which caused a lot of my classmates some angst -- especially when he brought out the meat slicer when we started the lab section.....and he endeared himself to the entire class when he sliced up a spinal cord, put a magnifying glass near it and the exam question was to identify which section of the cord you were looking at ----
His favorite question was something to do with bisecting your spinal cord with a broadhead (avid bowhunter) and left you with the following signs, what level did he hit.....
Good luck my friend, don't overcomplicate the issue, unless you go into neurology, you'll likely never use it again --- dermatomes are more important and knowing basic motor nerves and which muscles they innervate ----
His favorite question was something to do with bisecting your spinal cord with a broadhead (avid bowhunter) and left you with the following signs, what level did he hit.....
Good luck my friend, don't overcomplicate the issue, unless you go into neurology, you'll likely never use it again --- dermatomes are more important and knowing basic motor nerves and which muscles they innervate ----
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Ok, so you want me to have screaming nightmares of MS1, I get it.....
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Yeah, but looking at it from where I am now, I have to ask, "Who really cares other than neurology or neurosurgery?" -- yeah, I get it, it's de riguer to know when you're a med student and it's really cool to be able to figure that stuff out, but how are we going to treat all those tracts that go south? Being a former design engineer and having to do fault recovery software down to the lowest replaceable unit, I tend to look for the "Ok, so great, we've found the lesion( or if your prof was a Filipino -- Leeszion), now what?".....
