A&P 1: The Spring '05 Anatomy & Physiology Club

einsteinsboi · Mar 4, 2005

We still don't have our 1st lab exam grade, but with a 5 point curve on the lecture test, I made a 100!! :)
I'm so excited!!
Good luck everyone!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS! :coollook: :Melody: :)

Fun2, BSN, RN · Mar 4, 2005

CONGRATULATIONS! :Melody: :)

Thanks! :)

For my class, Marieb ch. 1 - 15 is A&P 1. We skipped chapters 2 & 3.

Our first exam covered Introduction (ch1), Tissues (ch4), Integument (ch 5) & Bone Tissue (ch 6).

Our second exam covers Skeleton (ch 7), Joints (ch 8), Muscle Tissue (ch 9), Muscular System (ch 10), and Nervous tissue (ch 11).

Our third, and last exam, will cover Central Nervous System (ch 12), Peripheral N.S. (ch 13), Autonomic Nervous System (ch 14) and Special Senses (ch 15).

I also came across a great website with muscle lab model pics:

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/ap1model/practical3.htm, which is a link off of a site I think I had previously posted (???). Anyway, the main site is:

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/ap1lab.htm.

BoonersmomRN · Mar 4, 2005

Cool so when I get to bones/muscles you all can help me....and when you all get to the CNS+PNS I can help you!

YAY!

BoonersmomRN · Mar 4, 2005

For those of you doing muscles I found an AWESOME site

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/muscle/mustut.htm

Click on each area it brings up a page and a b+w picture on one side with a colored on on the other. Put your pointer over the colored sections- it will light up the same secton on the B+W and then if you " click" you will see what muscle it is...good way to test!

einsteinsboi · Mar 5, 2005

Thanks for the links Fun2Care and BoonersMom! They are awesome and will be really helpful in mastering all the info we need to know. Last I was singing bones, landmarks and joints. Now I'm singing muscles, origins, insertions, and functions. Oy!

Good luck all and have a great weekend!!:)

CAG12345 · Mar 5, 2005

Ok, I'm home from the muscle lab exam. On the up side of things, I didn't have that sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach of sheer ignorance at each new item. I actually knew a lot. I know I missed a bunch of origins/insertions/actions and made a really silly mistake on a histology slide, mistaking myofilaments for glycogen granules (would have been right on a larger magnification, but I guess I won't get any points for that!).

I'll do alot better than I did on the bone exam. Thank goodness, and I'm so relieved it's over. I came home, gathered up the debris of studying I found all over my dining and living room: flash cards, notes, a card game I made with index cards so I would match up all the muscles to their insertions, origins and actions (I didn't exactly win this game, but I think it helped a little), and after an evening of relaxation, I think I'll be ready to face...

ta da (drum roll), Coelom and Viscera, the new topic. I was shocked to find out that "Ceolom" is actually pronounced "see-loam" and not "ko-ee-lum". I guess it's safe to say that I have a lot to learn. Oh well, I'm not going to let my muscles get into spasm over it.

Have a good weekend everyone...

heatherp · Mar 5, 2005

Ok, I'm home from the muscle lab exam. On the up side of things, I didn't have that sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach of sheer ignorance at each new item. I actually knew a lot. I know I missed a bunch of origins/insertions/actions and made a really silly mistake on a histology slide, mistaking myofilaments for glycogen granules (would have been right on a larger magnification, but I guess I won't get any points for that!).
I'll do alot better than I did on the bone exam. Thank goodness, and I'm so relieved it's over. I came home, gathered up the debris of studying I found all over my dining and living room: flash cards, notes, a card game I made with index cards so I would match up all the muscles to their insertions, origins and actions (I didn't exactly win this game, but I think it helped a little), and after an evening of relaxation, I think I'll be ready to face...
ta da (drum roll), Coelom and Viscera, the new topic. I was shocked to find out that "Ceolom" is actually pronounced "see-loam" and not "ko-ee-lum". I guess it's safe to say that I have a lot to learn. Oh well, I'm not going to let my muscles get into spasm over it.
Have a good weekend everyone...

I did great on the cadaver side, but I did horrible on ALL the histology. Only 1 slide looked like one I had seen before : ( Overall I think I did pretty good though, not as good as I needed to do, but good enough to be happy : )

Oh, and CAG, didn't Danielle tell you, this section is not a section that anyone at other schools is going to have, Dr. Rubin "made it up" and now all the instructors get to teach it! I also thought it was pronounced with a K sound. We only get 2 lectures on it, and 2 weeks of lab for it, and there is a LOT to know! I took my break this evening, back to the books tomorrow, and I'll be in the lab on Sunday...no weekends for this Anatomy student.

Heather

maliat · Mar 5, 2005

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I find it interesting how each school splits A+P I + II. What are you all going to cover in A+P I?[/quote]

I was wondering this too.

We use Tortora & Grabowski.

Our exams are split like this

Exam 1: Intro, Chemistry, Cells Part 1 (mostly just cytoskeleton stuff)

Exam 2: Rest of Cells, Tissues, Skin

Exam 3: Skeletal System (4 chapters)

Exam 4: Muscular System (2 chapters); Nervous Tissue

Exam 5: Spinal Cord & Nerves; Brain & Nerves; part 1 of sensory, motor integrative systems

Exam 6: Rest of last chapter, Special Senses plus a comprehensive of everything else.

That's 16 chapters total.

Don't ask me about lab. It's way to confusing.

There are 12 sections of the lecture and I don't know how many of the lab. I'm glad I'm in the one I chose. We all have to cover the same basic stuff. I'm just lucky to have the instructors for lecture and lab who don't want you to memorize everything.

PhoenixGirl · Mar 6, 2005

I took my midterm yesterday and got a 67/80 on the multiple choice questions. There were 4 essays, worth 5 points each, and I was able to answer them. I had remembered them from class and I did all the essays so I was prepared. So I figure if I got full credit on those essays, which I'm pretty sure I did because I knew them, I got an 87/100.

Not bad! But I was a bit dissapointed in myself, i figure there is still time to get an A in this class. BTW, i noticed you all were asking what other classes were covering. We are covering the muscular and nervous in the second part of the class and stopping before endocrine. That is for bio 201.

I seriously overstudied my skeletal bones and markings, and did not pay enough attention to the slides. That is where I went wrong. oh well.

Becca

Fun2, BSN, RN · Mar 6, 2005

PhoenixGirl, B is good! I feel sorry for the 1 person in my class that made an F in the first lecture test. Well, maybe I don't. It was so easy. There were 12 A's, 6 B's, about 5 C/D's, 1 F. If you made an F on that test, you didn't study AT ALL!!!!

BUT...like I said, B is good. Good luck to you on your other tests, and trying for that A!

Luckily, our we separate our tissue slides from the bones/muscles identification. That would be a bunch to have to study for 1 exam.

I think that is how it was when I took this class 13 years ago....didn't do well at all. I try to say it was because I was 18 with a newborn, not because I didn't take it serious and study enough. LOL

Oh well, I am doing the right thing now. That is what counts!!

CAG12345 · Mar 7, 2005

I did great on the cadaver side, but I did horrible on ALL the histology. Only 1 slide looked like one I had seen before : ( Overall I think I did pretty good though, not as good as I needed to do, but good enough to be happy : )
Oh, and CAG, didn't Danielle tell you, this section is not a section that anyone at other schools is going to have, Dr. Rubin "made it up" and now all the instructors get to teach it! I also thought it was pronounced with a K sound. We only get 2 lectures on it, and 2 weeks of lab for it, and there is a LOT to know! I took my break this evening, back to the books tomorrow, and I'll be in the lab on Sunday...no weekends for this Anatomy student.
Heather

Hi Heather,

Sorry to hear about the histology side of the test, but if you aced all the cadaver questions, that's fabulous! I'm curious about the coelom and viscera section being "made up." Were these just included in other sections, then? It does seem kind of fast to be tested again in lab in two weeks. I saw a sign stating that there was no open lab this weekend outside of lab, so I hope you didn't go in and end up being disappointed. I started studying the histology book, the blood and blood vessel section, to try to get going on the part of the coelom and viscera lab material that is on slides, because I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get going on the cadavers. I think the key for me for this coming exam is getting ahead, staying ahead and then on top of the material, going to open lab whenever I can.

I hope we get our lecture exams back tomorrow. I know you you said you would like to have done better than you think you may have, but perhaps it's better than you think it will be. I'm not really sure about how I did on the unexpected diagrams. At any rate, I really just want to know and get it over with.

Good luck this coming week... :)

CAG12345 · Mar 7, 2005

I took my midterm yesterday and got a 67/80 on the multiple choice questions. There were 4 essays, worth 5 points each, and I was able to answer them. I had remembered them from class and I did all the essays so I was prepared. So I figure if I got full credit on those essays, which I'm pretty sure I did because I knew them, I got an 87/100.
Not bad! But I was a bit dissapointed in myself, i figure there is still time to get an A in this class. BTW, i noticed you all were asking what other classes were covering. We are covering the muscular and nervous in the second part of the class and stopping before endocrine. That is for bio 201.
I seriously overstudied my skeletal bones and markings, and did not pay enough attention to the slides. That is where I went wrong. oh well.
Becca

If you got an 87/100 that would be great in my book. I hope you won't be too disappointed in yourself. That is almost an A. And you know how things average out w/several exams. I hope you can enjoy the good work you did on this test, now, even before you get your official grade. I know it's disappointing not do to even better when you hoped to, though.

Chin up...there's always the next test right around the corner!