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!

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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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