Poll: Was your anatomy & physio separate or combined?

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I start nursing school next week, and my school's nursing program required that the anatomy & physiology prereqs be taken as two separate, 4-credit hour lab classes. It looks like the majority of people on here took them combined in A&P. Did you like your format, either combined or separate? Did you think the classes were difficult? I enjoyed mine as separated. Thanks for your replies! :D

in CC in california, Anatomy and Physiology are each a 4cr hour class, one semester long. It's separate becuase that's the credits that CA 4 year schools will accept for transfer. Im in school in FL now, and taking A&P 1, and next semester A&P 2. I'm liking it so far. My proffesors in CA were exteremly tough, and so many students failed, depends on what school you're at!

Separate in CC in California (nursing no longer accepts A&P starting in 2009-ish).

Our anatomy was "average" as in historically 2 A's, 2-3 B's, then the rest C's and D's and F's.

Our physio was a lot tougher but actually ended up with about 5 A's, and this particular instructor was crazy-tough.

E.g. we had to draw and label and explain the glucose structure; did the same for action potentials, all the blood cells, the 2nd messenger sys., etc. Charts/diagrams appearing in the chapters are free game during exams (and I thought micro was tough). A lot of students were complaining about having too much chemistry in physio.

We started with about 40 students the 1st 2 wks; then settled to 32 students; then ended up with about 22 students by Halloween.

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