Anat and Physio vs. A&PI and A&PII...

[jennafezz]

My community college divides A&P into two classes, Anatomy and Physiology. In Anatomy, we learn the anatomy of the entire body, all the systems. In Physiology, we learn how every body system works. At the local state college (as with most of your colleges), they divide it into A&PI and A&PII. You learn the anatomy and physiology of half the systems of the body in each class.

I'm in Anatomy right now, and I feel like this is a disadvantaged way for the class to be split. I'm not actually learning only anatomy - I'm basically learning all the physiology too, because you can't really divide the two, and the textbook isn't good at doing it. So basically, I have to learn all the anatomy and most of the physiology of every body system in one semester, and I feel like it's a much larger amount of information than it should be for a single class. My question is, is anyone else experiencing something like this in their classes? Does anyone know what I am talking about? I'm trying to figure out what is even left for me to learn in physiology. I'm not trying to complain, I mean I'm trying as hard as I can in the class regardless.

My friend took A&PI and I was looking at her textbook, and it was basically the same material I am learning. Why would any college split it this way?

[BellasMommyOBRN]

anatomy and physiology is a lot of work, regardless of how they split up the classes. you may feel as though your doing a lot of physiology currently but, in reality you probably aren't going in depth as you will in your physiology class. look at it this way, your professor may expect more out of you than you thought for anatomy, but physiology should be a smoother transition since you have a general idea of what's going on in the body already.

good luck!

[cardschicarn]

My community college does that as well. I am in Anatomy and a bit overwhelmed. I agree with you that we are learning a lot of physiology at the same time. And also, as I read some of the posts from people in A&P1 they are learning basically the same things as us! We recently learned muscles and we basically learned the complete physiology of muscle contractions and whatnot.

[taodepooh]

Our college doesn't do it that way either but I think it will actually be a benefit to you later on. It is the solid foundation you need for everything that will be coming after that. I know it seems redundant to do it that way but IMO it could be a real positive in the long run.

[smartin13]

At my school we have A&P I, A&P II, and A&P III. In each class we learned about the systems and how they worked in the labs that were with the class (right after lecture) we learned about structure. It was the same teacher, same class all rolled into one. I really liked that you got to see the feature and learn about how it functioned all at the same time.