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I was wondering do you take Anatomy & Physiology together or separate? I am a pre-nursing student and I am getting ready to start taking my pre-reqs and I am not quite sure if you take them together or not!!! And if anyone could give some helpful websites for Anatomy & physiology, ones that give notes and other materials that I could print so that I can learn the material better.:idea: would also be great, thanks:balloons:

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

My school taught Anatomy and Physiology 1, and then Anatomy and Physiology 2 the next semester. I was surprised to find out that not all schools do it that way. Some programs teach Anatomy one term, then Physiology the next. In fact, one of my fellow students has a BS degree in Biology; her program taught Anatomy, then Physiology, and our school wouldn't accept the credits, even though they were less than 5 years old.

Check out this link for further links to A&P information. I think you'll find lots to browse.

https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/pathophysiology-p-fluid-electrolyte-resources-145201.html

Good luck!

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

My school did the same as the posters above. A&P 1 was both the Anatomy and physiology of half the body systems, and A&P 2 was the other half of the systems.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.
My school did the same as the posters above. A&P 1 was both the Anatomy and physiology of half the body systems, and A&P 2 was the other half of the systems.

same here..

oh the websites listed are *really* helpful :)

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my school offered it both ways, at A&P I & II, & also as anatomy & physiology seperately. it pretty much just depends on what your school accepts.

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A little off the topic here, but it still relates. What do you do in the labs for Anatomy and Physiology? My school has them as seperate classes and I was thinking of taking both in the same semester. Am I crazy?

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A little off the topic here, but it still relates. What do you do in the labs for Anatomy and Physiology? My school has them as seperate classes and I was thinking of taking both in the same semester. Am I crazy?

Im not sure about your school but where I am going we need to take A&P with the lab at the same time. Lecture is 50% of the grade and Lab is 50%. They are also two different classes.

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Yes, I know you have to take both, but what does the Lab work involve? How do you study the human body in a lab?

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A&P is one class at my school.

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

The labs were very interesting. We used models of everything. We had life size models of the human body for skeleton, and muscles. We had models of pregnant women, fetuses, hearts, kidneys, memberes, lady partss, legs, arms, bladders etc (I mean everything). Then we used tons of cats. We skinned, and dissected them for many organ systems and labs. We also dissected a cow eyeball, a pig lung, and a sheep brain. At times with all the cats stored in the lab it will get very smelly, but you get used to it. If you want you can put a little vicks under your nose if it bothers you. During your lab practicals they will lay out the models and dissected cats, cow eyeballs, cow brains and sheep lungs and ask you questions regarding them. Most labs also have open lab time to go in and study a little extra.

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Thanks. That is exactly what I wanted to know! I take it that cow eyes and cats have a lot in common with human body parts then?

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

I was told that the cat anatomy is as close as we can get. They save the good cadavers for the doctors....

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