Human Anatomy / A&P I Club for Fall 2007

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I'm starting human anatomy next week, and would love to get a sticky started to keep each other sane. I'm a bit nervous about starting this class, as I really need an A, but work full-time and will also be taking abnormal psych. It's going to be a lot of work! :uhoh3:

Let's help each other out through this forum! :welcome:

So, when are you starting, where are you taking it, and how are you feeling?

Ok this is quite embarrassing. I took my first A&P test on Tuesday and we'll get the results back today and I think I'll get a C. Why? Because of my spelling!

I need help with learning how to spell the new words I am learning correctly! The first part of hte test is fill in the blank and short answer, then you turn that in and you can start the multiple choice. I was struggling with how everything is spelled instead of the answer! I knew most of the answers but didn't know how to spelling them correctly like Hyaluronic Acid, I know what it is, its function and where its located but I couldn't remember how o spell them worth a dern!

Yes our teacher even said that any misspelling is a wrong answer. Anyone have any tips on learing how to spell correctly :imbar ?

My GF suggested that I just write all the words out as many times as possible while studying.

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About 5 weeks in to my Anatomy 25 course, its a once a week class ( Saturdays lecture in the morning and lab in the afternoon ) thats offered through the hospital I work at, which is great because the hospital is paying for everything from tuition, to books, to paid educational time off for studying and what not.

The professor is pretty cool, our first lecture exam being a take home, open book exam. The only gripe from me is that the first lab exam was last week, and we were all given a study/word list, but not everything on the test was covered in the list ! But I guess that just means I have to put more effort into studying.

The class is great so far, we've covered the basic gross anatomy, cells :trout:, and tissues...and now we've just recieved our box of bones and will be covering that.

Question for anyone who can help, what are some of your methods for studying, that you've found effective ?

Thanks in advance !

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Specializes in L&D.

Our professor grades on spelling, also.

My big study tip/spelling tip is to put EVERYTHING on notecards. I literally have hundreds of notecards with terms and definitions, even did cell cartoons on the front of cards with parts labeled in numbers, and then the corresponding answers on the back of the cards. It helps me SOO much to just study the cards over and over - for some reason it doesn't stick with me very well when I just read it and highlight in the text.

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Our professor grades on spelling, also.

My big study tip/spelling tip is to put EVERYTHING on notecards. I literally have hundreds of notecards with terms and definitions, even did cell cartoons on the front of cards with parts labeled in numbers, and then the corresponding answers on the back of the cards. It helps me SOO much to just study the cards over and over - for some reason it doesn't stick with me very well when I just read it and highlight in the text.

I agree that making notecards is great, and I also purchased "Netter's" cards, which are FANTASTIC! Search on http://www.barnesandnoble.com or http://www.amazon.com if you are interested in them. :)

Continued good luck, everyone!

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We just got done with cells and tissues. Monday we have a lecture exam and then wednesday I have a lab exam. The instructor is kind enough to provide us with already made notecards that he did himself and I sort of went back and redid them because his handwriting got kind of confusing.

I would not say this class is hard....yet. But it sure is overwhelming because when you sit and look at everything, it's a lot. It's way easier when you sit down and start sorting through it though.

It's funny how much my note taking has changed since starting this class. My notes now consist of drawings with some writing instead of just writing LOL.

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Ok this is quite embarrassing. I took my first A&P test on Tuesday and we'll get the results back today and I think I'll get a C. Why? Because of my spelling!

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Apparently my spelling wasn't too off I got an 88.5%! And this just assures me that I know the material its just the spelling, I got 10/10 on the short answer, 38/40 on the multiple choice, but got 12/20 on the short answer. However, my answers were wrong because of one or two letters being off from the spelling :madface:.

Our teacher said that a lot of people did poorly on the spelling since the words are so new and suggested 9what I've heard many times from others) is to just take a sheet of paper and practice spelling each word over and over again, not necessarily writing out the definintion but going over the definition in our heads as we are writing them down.

I'm going to start doing that for all the new terminolgy going forward.

Our professor grades on spelling, also.

My big study tip/spelling tip is to put EVERYTHING on notecards. I literally have hundreds of notecards

Yeah me too! But the thing is that I've been creating the note cards once and then reviewing them. That really does help me in knowing the material!

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Specializes in LTC, Cardiac Step-Down.

Another thing that might help you with spelling is learning word roots really well since they're everywhere in anatomy. It will not only help you spell the words by breaking them down into more manageable ones, but will also help you study. The infraorbital foramen? Why, that must be a hole under the eye! No memorization required ;)

Here's a site that has really good lists of said word roots:

http://ec.hku.hk/mt/dictiona.htm

Pepper

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Another thing that might help you with spelling is learning word roots

Here's a site that has really good lists of said word roots:

http://ec.hku.hk/mt/dictiona.htm

Pepper

Nice! Thanks!

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Question for anyone who can help, what are some of your methods for studying, that you've found effective ?

I have found the website material for my textbook very helpful. If your textbook has a website or it came with a CD with quizzes, etc., definitely check them out. It helps me sort out what's VERY important from what's just merely important.

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I just found this cool grouping of A&P quizzes from a college in Colorado! The quizzes are apparently designed to be used by the college's students, but anyone can do them. What I like is they tell you why each possible answer is incorrect or correct, so you know why you got it wrong (or right). And when you get one right, it says something like, "Yes! That is correct!", and you feel all kinds of good about yourself. :) I found the organelles quiz to be a great quickie way to figure out which organelles I need to study more. Here's the site:

http://www.fortlewis.edu/academics/school_arts_sciences/biology/anatphys/mainmenu.htm

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I just found this awesome website!! It's called BioCoach. If you want to understand/review organelles, cellular respiration, mitosis and lots more, check it out:

http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/biocoach/

It's a website run by Pearson/Prentice-Hall, the publisher of a number of college anatomy textbooks. It really helped me understand osmosis and hyper/hypotonic solutions. I'd recommend doing all the quizzes and all the practices (many of which include art labeling exercises) for whichever topic you need to review. They are challenging, but do-able, and they made me realize right away where my weak points were regarding organelles.

There's also an accompanying section called LabBench, with labs similar to many of the labs we're doing in class -- with explanations. (Sigh of relief.)

I think this would also be a great review site for the biology portion of the HESI A2. Now if only they had a similar one for chemistry...

Enjoy!

(Sorry, I just was having fun trying out different smilies.)

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just got my score for my first lecture test. i got an 82%. not bad, but not good either. im not used to not getting A's!

but... at least now i know what to expect from my professors exams. the first one is always the toughest because you dont know what to expect.

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