Human Anatomy & Physiology II

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I start Human Anatomy & Physiology II in a week. I would like to know what topics I should read on before starting the course? Was it manageable over the summer (6 weeks) ?

Thanks :)

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

I asked my teacher last semester what students typically had the most trouble with in A&P 2, and she said cardiovascular, lymphatic, and the renal system.

I am taking it now, and also found the endocrine system to be challenging, just because its a lot of hormones and mechanisms to know in a short amount of time. We had less than a week to learn everything! All of our exams are essay question, so you really have to know it backwards and forwards to answer the questions. If you're able to get a head start on the material, I would start there.

It's a TON of work. I study way more than I would in a full semester. If you're working a lot or taking too many other classes, you might find the workload unmanageable. Otherwise, as long as you're able to study daily and keep up with the fast pace, it's doable.

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For me, most of the difficulty in A&P II was in the renal system due to fluid exchange/balance, electrolytes, and the physics behind all the filtration, secretion, tubular flow, etc. I know the rest of my class struggled a bit with this exam as well. I found the respiratory system a little frustrating as well because of gas exchange laws, but aside from that, the class was much simpler than A&P I. A lot less memorization of anatomy and a lot more physiology. It made much more sense. If you start with cardiovascular (you probably will), make sure you know it like the back of your hand! The rest of the systems tend to correlate with it.

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Great..I will start off with the cardiovascular & then I would work my way through. thanks all

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I had a really hard time with the cardiovascular system. I would start start studying that now, especially the heart anatomy & the pathway through the heart.

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I had a really hard time with the cardiovascular system. I would start start studying that now especially the heart anatomy & the pathway through the heart.[/quote']

Will do..Thank you!! :)

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Watching YouTube videos on the topics makes it much easier to understand. Usually getting another perspective besides lecture makes learning hard information easier.

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We started with endocrine, so you might not begin with CV. My TA told me if you can really get cardiovascular down, everything else will be much easier. I agree, definitely focus your studies on that.

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We started with endocrine so you might not begin with CV. My TA told me if you can really get cardiovascular down, everything else will be much easier. I agree, definitely focus your studies on that.[/quote']

Definitely thanks..I started reading the EZ A&P by Barron's review book.

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I start Human Anatomy & Physiology II in a week. I would like to know what topics I should read on before starting the course? Was it manageable over the summer (6 weeks) ?

Thanks :)

Study, study, study its all hard!!!

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I asked my teacher last semester what students typically had the most trouble with in A&P 2, and she said cardiovascular, lymphatic, and the renal system.

I am taking it now, and also found the endocrine system to be challenging, just because its a lot of hormones and mechanisms to know in a short amount of time. We had less than a week to learn everything! All of our exams are essay question, so you really have to know it backwards and forwards to answer the questions. If you're able to get a head start on the material, I would start there.

It's a TON of work. I study way more than I would in a full semester. If you're working a lot or taking too many other classes, you might find the workload unmanageable. Otherwise, as long as you're able to study daily and keep up with the fast pace, it's doable.

So Right girl!!

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For me it was very challenging when I took it in the summer, because the summer is so fast paced and we had a test every week until the final. Not to happy with my grade but i did come out with a B

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