What do you dissect in A&P Lab?

LeesieBug · May 31, 2003

In my A&P I we used cats. The freakiest part was the look on their faces, not the dissection!

I am taking A&P II in the spring at a different college. I know they use pigs, but I think they use other things also. Not sure what. At least the pigs don't have that awful look on their faces!

NicuNsg · May 31, 2003

I went to a community college as well. The A&P lab was shared by all A&P instructors. My instructor for 1 and 2 didn't feel that cats, cow eyes, pigs, ect were necessary. There were others that used the cats and cow eyes, our class got to smell them YUK! It just permiated the room. My instructor played a joke on me one day preparing for a lab test, he asked me to get him just "a bone", out of that bucket over there. Well, let me tell ya, I opened up that bucket and it was full of cow eyes LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!!

:roll :roll :roll

I leaped back and he just laughed at me, it was a shocking sight when your not expecting it. Good luck and enjoy school!!!!

NicuNsg · May 31, 2003

I went to a community college as well. The A&P lab was shared by all A&P instructors. My instructor for 1 and 2 didn't feel that cats, cow eyes, pigs, ect were necessary. There were others that used the cats and cow eyes, our class got to smell them YUK! It just permiated the room. My instructor played a joke on me one day preparing for a lab test, he asked me to get him just "a bone", out of that bucket over there. Well, let me tell ya, I opened up that bucket and it was full of cow eyes LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!!

:roll :roll :roll

I leaped back and he just laughed at me, it was a shocking sight when your not expecting it. Good luck and enjoy school!!!!

marilynmom, LPN, NP · May 31, 2003

We got a real human brain at one point which was totally cool, a lot of our dissecting was just with fake parts but it still was really informative and I learned a TON. I loved Anatomy!!

M

Nurse2bSandy · May 31, 2003

We used cats. we were told that they got them from Mexico because PETA wouldn't let US cats be used that way... anyway, our cat was "Jorge". He served us well for 2 semesters. I couldn't eat chicken at all during the muscle unit... it looked too much like what I was working with on Jorge! My daughter knew when that unit was done... "Mom must not have her cat... we're eating chicken tonight.";)

LoriB · May 31, 2003

That's hysterical Sandy!

Mkue · May 31, 2003

Cats and sheep brains:D

fnimat1 · May 31, 2003

In A & P 1 lab we dissected a rat and a fetal pig. I don't know what's in store for A & P 2....I take that in the Fall.

Fatima

straba · Jun 1, 2003

At the CC That I took A&P at, all we had were cheap old plastic models to learn from (and a cd rom for histology) . Oh, did I mention I had to walk 5 miles to school, in the snow, up hill, both ways!!!

FarmgrrlRN · Jun 1, 2003

I guess no one else had this experience...

In A&P I we diseccted fetal pigs....and then we were doing the nervous system...they actually had dissected a human head medially straight down the center. It was really gross and freaky! I swear this is no joke. So we had half of this lady's head (never found out where the other half was), if my instructor had her turned one way you could see her hair, and one half of her face...on the other side was her brain, skull, mouth, throat etc. You get the picture. My A&P instructor really got a kick out of showing us that lady that day!(I think they called her Alice in the Biology Dept.)

In second semester we used human cadavers. Our instructor would unlock the door to the walk-in 'frig and we had to wheel them out. They were in these stainless steel tanks-on-wheels. We had a male and female. It was really interesting, they told us we were really lucky since that was all at a community college.

maire, ASN, RN · Jun 1, 2003

Originally posted by LoriB
Maire I'm in South Jersey too. Where did you do your pre-reqs and where are you going to school?

I go to Burlington County College in Pemberton. Where are you? :)

Mithrah · Jun 1, 2003

In my A & P class we didn't dissect any animals. Instructors brought in cow brain, eyes, and lungs. I don't think I would have been able to dissect a cat. I love them too much!