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UNOFFICIAL GUIDE
Gross
Anatomy
a.k.a.: “Gross” or just “Anatomy”
Hours: 130
When it hits: Fall
Course Director: Dr. Daniel O’Donoghue - Anatomy
SECTION
A
Rm. 510A BMSB
Anatomy is one of those courses that you will either love or hate. Your
vocabulary is about to expand in ways you never dreamed. This course, while
very challenging, is also quite manageable. Upon completion of this
class and for the rest of your careers you will be
referring to the body and all its complexity and
structure by name. This course, along with Biochemistry,
will demand the majority of your time and study efforts during the fall semester.
Gross Anatomy should not be taken lightly and as you will soon see, cramming is
simply not an option here. Even if you have taken anatomy before, you do not
know near enough about the subject in order to blow the course off. You might
have heard people talk about learning anatomy the “medical” way. To put it
bluntly, learning it the “medical” way means learning everything verbatim, and
then being able to apply what you know to practical and sometimes life
threatening situations. This course consists of lecture, lab, PBL’s (Problem Based
Learning), and ARS (Audience Response System). DON’T wait until the week
before or day before the exam or practical to start studying… I cannot emphasize
this enough! THIS WILL KILL YOU!
LECTURE
Anatomy lectures are something that, if prepared well for, can save MUCHO
amounts of time come test block. Being prepared when you come to class can
really make the difference between an A and a B. Trust me, if there was one
thing I could do over again, it would be to simply look over the material before
class each day. O’Don’s slides are obscenely busy and not being ready for them
can cause you to have a seizure with the sheer number of arrows and lines on
each slide. If you don’t know what shade of green “chartreuse” is, you will by the
end of anatomy because he runs out of normal colors to make his arrows. This
course is taught regionally which means you will be learning regions of a body at
a time with all the associated vessels, muscles, and nerves. As an example of the
detail required of you, let’s look at the trapezius muscle. Not only do you need
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