A&P Summer 2008

Hi y'all! I'm planning on taking A&P I for this summer and this thread is for anyone else doing the same. Am I crazy for taking a summer AP class? You betcha! It's gonna be MTThF 5-9:30PM, starting in june and lasting 8 weeks. I'm working a full-time contract on the side that I'll finish up at the end of June, so for me it'll be full-time work for the first half, but then a much-needed break from work at the last half of the semester. Any advice from the AP veterans out there?

Right now I study at least 2-3 hrs a night. There is allot of information to cover even in a 16 week semester.When tests come up, I just review what I have learned. Study as much as you can because those 8 wks will go by fast.

There are many people out here that took A&p1 during the summer that can give you some valuable advice.

Hi y'all! I'm planning on taking A&P I for this summer and this thread is for anyone else doing the same. Am I crazy for taking a summer AP class? You betcha! It's gonna be MTThF 5-9:30PM, starting in june and lasting 8 weeks. I'm working a full-time contract on the side that I'll finish up at the end of June, so for me it'll be full-time work for the first half, but then a much-needed break from work at the last half of the semester. Any advice from the AP veterans out there?

I took A & P I and A & P II in summer sessions last year, each session was almost 6 weeks and I did fine, you should have no problem doing it in 8 weeks as long as you dedicate plenty of time for studying. Hope this helps!

KC

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My best piece of advice...start now. The first couple of things you do in ANP 1 is bones and muscles and regions of the body. Get your book and memorize those (including the landmarks on the bones) If you don't have a book there are a thousand websites WWW.GETBODYSMART.COM is one the best and easiest. Also www.mhhe.com/saladin4 is the website for my textbook, but they all are about the same (I think) It is doable, very much so, but much easier if you have a good head start. and that second site has all kinds of tests and quizzes for lecture and lab type stuff.

Well i too am in.. Although it is a 10 week instead of 15 week class here in CO. I'm worried about the lack of 5 weeks, but I really want to get on with it since my husband is military and we could move. I want to get going.

But I will be taking Dev. Psych. as well online because I need 6 credits I'm nervous about taking an online class as I hate to write papers and I'm afraid that is what i'll have to do!!

Hi,

I'm planing on taking A&P II this summer. It's online starting in May lasting 10 weeks. I think it'll be similar to the one I'm taking now even though I had 15 weeks for this one. I started 2 weeks late and skipped a couple of weeks when I was busy in on campus classes. I am behind now and trying to catch up these last couple of weeks.

I'm taking A&P online this summer. I've already started preparing for it. I'm also taking statistics so that's my main worry. I bought the Complete Idiots Guide to A&P and I've been using http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2002_general/Esp/default.htm which is the same on listed above. I am going to check out the GetBodySmart website, it looks interesting.

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I, too am one of the crazies.

I'm taking A&P II and lab this summer during a 7 week mini-mester. The class will be Tues and Thurs 8am-10:30am for lecture and 11am-2pm for the lab. One positive is that my A&P I instructor is teaching part II this summer, so I know what to expect from him regarding tests, etc.

Good luck everyone! I'm also taking Pharmacology this summer at the same time. I already got my acceptance letter for the nursing program, so this is the only way I can get in my last pre-reqs in time to start Fall '08.

Hey thanks for everybody's advice! In particular, I'll be sure to use Coltsgirl's A&P links. There's also this site:

http://groups.msn.com/AnatomyPhysiologyTests/

The guy who runs the group is an actual A&P teacher and has a lot of useful information about it. Good luck to everyone joining me on "drinking from the firehose"

I m also doing the same thing starting in June, 4 nights a week 5:30-9:30 and work full-time with two small children at home. So this will really be a test! Good luck to you!

add me to the crazy list im takin a&p 1 and 2 this summer each section is 6 weeks so 12 all together....im doing it this way so i can concentrate on this critical class and because if i take it in the fall then i have to take a&p 2 in the spring....which is when im supposed to start actual nursing school....so in short a&p this summer chem in the fall and nursing school in spring!! yay im ready!!

I'm sure it's possible, but also crazy :) haha jk

I just finished A&P and it was a lot of work- if flashcards work for you start them from class one so that for the final you can just go over all of them to study.

I agree with the person who said learn bones and muscles now. You don't have to get very specific (for example, we didn't have to know all of the ridges on the bones- you might, but trying to learn them all would be frustrating if you didn't have to) but even just knowing where the main bones and muscles are will save you a bit of precious time later on.

If you want to get a bit ahead you could also learn the directional terms (ex. anterior, superior, distal, ex.) as they're not that hard to learn, but knowing them right off the bat will help

But don't study too hard now- save it for when you're in the course!

Good luck!