Studying tips for A&P and Kiniesiology

[asianlad]

I am starting OT school in fall and I am really nervous to take Anatomy and Physiology and Kiniesiology... Can anyone share their study tips?

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[Twomoreclasses]

I am starting OT school in fall and I am really nervous to take Anatomy and Physiology and Kiniesiology... Can anyone share their study tips?

I'm applying to OT programs but I just finished A&P 1 & 2. I used youtube. You can watch extra lectures from UCBerkley and see clips for specific content.

 

[asianlad]

I'm applying to OT programs but I just finished A&P 1 & 2. I used youtube. You can watch extra lectures from UCBerkley and see clips for specific content.

thanks!

 

[tastybeverage]

For A+P 1, whenever I got the chance, I would sit down at my computer, strum my guitar, and record myself singing things that I needed to memorize. Then I would sync the recordings to my iPod and listen to them while driving or walking. I wasn't sure, when I came up with the idea, if it was going to end up being a waste of my valuable study time... but it actually helped. (And I needed the help, since I had no bio or chem background and was taking the class condensed into five weeks, taught by an unforgiving prof.) The only downside is that I now walk around with songs about myofilaments stuck in my head. So, try to think outside the box, as they say. But mostly, figure out how many packs of index cards you think you'll need, then go out and buy five times that amount. 🙂

 

[MOTstudent]

I am starting OT school in fall and I am really nervous to take Anatomy and Physiology and Kiniesiology... Can anyone share their study tips?

I just finished Gross Anatomy in my program (and am in Kinesiology right now!)

Kinesiology builds off Gross Anatomy, so it's REALLY important to do well in anatomy. When I was almost done with the course I read a book called "super power memory" by harry lorayne and I wish I had read it BEFORE -- it was really helpful. It's memory by association.... and also teaches you how to remember numbers (which is important for nerve roots! You're going to hate nerve roots!).
The biggest thing I wish I had known to do was GET A TUTOR. I did fine in the class, but I think my time would have been better spent with a tutor (and time is very valuable while in gross anatomy.... at least in our program we were in class 8am-5pm, then lab was open until midnight, so we pretty much stayed from 8am-11pm/midnight every night, then got up to do it again the next day).
Another thing I wish I had known -- PALPATE on yourself and your friends or family!!!!! This will help you when you get to kinesiology too (in kinesiology you'll need to know how to find bone landmarks on people...muscles... so when you study the posterior portion of the scapula try to find the major landmarks on someone). Don't just find the muscle on the cadaver - FIND IT ON YOURSELF. Feel how it moves, if it's a back muscle feel it on your friends/classmates and have them do whatever movement that muscle does while you have your hand on it, so you can really feel it.

This class is all about memorization, but you need to apply it to yourself to have it stick. Don't memorize "this muscle does abduction..." actually do the movement while visualizing (or feeling) what muscle that is.

Aaaand that's my 2 cents for now! Good luck!!!!!

 

[MOTstudent]

Oh, another thing -- I made videos of the bones on my phone. I'd just go to the library, check out bones or a skeleton, go to a private room, and go through the list of landmarks while explaining each to the camera. It's REALLY convenient for when you go home and don't have a skeleton to practice on (I have some on youtube too), also great for right before the test as a review.

example: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1462817364064


p.s. yeah, anatomy's hard.... but you will survive it. I have NO background in science whatsoever. My A&P courses didn't even have lab and the professors didn't teach me anything (community college for that), and I survived.... if I can, you will!!!!

 

[MOTstudent]

Haha I keep thinking of thing.
When learning origins and insertions, it's VERY helpful to use a skeleton, which I didn't learn until I was most of the way through the course....
example video my roommate and I did for the deep gluteal muscles:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1481938522081&ref=mf

 

[asianlad]

Haha I keep thinking of thing.
When learning origins and insertions, it's VERY helpful to use a skeleton, which I didn't learn until I was most of the way through the course....
example video my roommate and I did for the deep gluteal muscles:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1481938522081&ref=mf

Thank you so much MOTstudent and tastybeverage. OMG! I hated studying the bones, landmarks and insertions. Muscles were not so bad. By the way, I remember things in a weird way. For example, when I think about the hemurus I always think of the armpit and when you tickle it you laugh. hahaha.

 

[OT2Be2013]

If you are taking a cadaver lab, there is no substitute for just going in and spending time in the lab looking at dissections. Pictures will only help so much; to really do well in that course, it's necessary to see it and study it up close & personal. Not every dissection will look the same- they could pin a structure on one cadaver, and it may look very different on another cadaver. It helps to see the differences. There is also variation in each human body. If it was common enough in the general population, variations were fair game to be pinned on the exams in our class (so it's important to have a handle on innervation, blood supply, function etc.). It doesn't always look like the atlas.