A & P study ideas

[amber0627]

I'm sure this is posted somewhere but I just started my class today. I only have class two days a week so there's a lot of teaching myself basically. I know flash cards will help for some stuff and writing the notes more than once and such. What are some other ideas that have helped you be successful in A&P?

[wannabenurse88]

I love this feed! I started human anatomy this week and all this information has been helpful. At my school they have anatomy separate from physiology because we use cadavers but this info will most definitely help! I do NOT want to take this class again lol. One time and one time only lol. Good luck to everyone this semester!

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

I find that utilizing YouTube is extremely helpful in my studying. You can find videos that explain different aspects of what your studying more in depth and many times you learn great tricks to remembering things. I also go through my chapters or chapter review and rewrite in my own words an outline of each section and it helps with memorization and it allows me to go over everything and gauge where I need to focus my extra study time.

Khan Academy was an incredibly useful resource for videos for the hard sciences. I watched them until I could draw them out and explain them myself like Sal does; tests were no problem after that!

[StevenC]

Anybody have any recommendations for histology? What techniques helped you differentiate between the different types of tissues and muscles?

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

remember key features about the different types of tissues; as much as it doesn't seem so when you're starting out, all the different types of epithelium, muscle, and connective tissue have unique features, and all the organs have different unique arrangements of the tissues.

Draw it out, study pictures, and study descriptions, understand the function, and look for the function in the form -- for instance, if you see a bunch of stratified squamous cells packet together densely, you're probably looking at some kind of surface that see's a lot of wear and tear. If you're looking at simple cuboidal epithelium, chances are you're looking at some kind of duct or tubule.

For muscle tissue, look for features like multi-nucleated cells, intercalcated discs, branching structures, or absences there of.

[Cali_RN18, ADN, BSN, RN]

Does your teacher post slides online and go over the material in lab?? I had a really awesome professor. She took the time to go over each slide with us, gave us copies to label the different parts of the tissues on the slides, and gave us the functions. We had open lab every friday so we could go look at the tissues under the microscope if we were having trouble. I would suggest that if open lab hours are available to you, use them! Also, if you can make lots of copies of the slides if they are available, writing over and over what the tissue it and its function is very helpful. Buying a histology book works great too! I hope this helps!

[StevenC]

Unfortunately we do not have open lab. The teacher did however go over the slides in class and did very well explaining the different types and their functions but apart from the obvious types like Osseous tissue, the cardiac and skeletal muscle I was wondering if there was techniques in identifying like for example the epithelium tissues etc by just its image. Thank you for the help!

[smartassmommy]

Khan Academy was an incredibly useful resource for videos for the hard sciences. I watched them until I could draw them out and explain them myself like Sal does; tests were no problem after that!

I love Khan Academy. I'm using it to review my math so I don't have to take it over after 20 years out of high school.

And how does one survive anatomy if they can't draw?