What Was Your Hardest Topic In Anatomy and Physiology?

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I just mentioned on another thread that the hardest class I ever took was Physiology (my school had two separate classes). Got me to thinking... what topic in each of these classes was the hardest for you to learn? For me:

Anatomy - Muscles of the arm and hand (Origins and inserts) :wacky:

Physiology - Kidney function / regulation of blood pressure :cry:

Just curious!

I would say the foundational part from A&P 1. Like the transport proteins and stuff like that.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

In A&P I, I found the muscles to be much harder than bones. Agree with the endocrine system as well, but I also took A&P II in summer, so we only had about 3 days to learn all there was to know about 15+ hormones. Additionally, if you can really get the cardiovascular system down, the rest will come easy to you. My biggest piece of advice would be to learn that one very well.

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I found all the chemical transports in and out of cells boring..... but I loved learning the muscles, bones, etc.... So I guess I loved the Anatomy part and tolerated the Physiology part.

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Urinary. We had to know what ions flowed in and out and where (on the nephron loop level) and all that nonsense. Also what's reabsorbed and such.

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Anatomy: the skeletal system. So much information. So little time. Heck I was glad once it was done!!

Physiology: Respiratory >.> After hours of studying this system, I said to myself "I will never be an R.T"! lol

I can say my most favorite chapters covered were the Nervous and the Endocrine Systems!! :) lol

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muscles!

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Krebs cycle and cellular respiration

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Very enlightening comments. Some of you are going to be gobsmacked to discover that those tedious concepts are going to be critically important when it comes to understanding pharmaceutical actions, antibiotic sensitivity,shock, sepsis, IICP, fluid shift/3rd spacing, non-ketotic acidosis, malabsorption syndrome, addisons disease, compartment syndrome, tetany, etc., etc.

I am dismayed that we haven't yet changed the curriculum to make A & P more relevant and interesting for students. It's waaaaay past time.

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Anatomy- Muscles of the arm/hand

Physiology- Nervous system- particularly the different receptors & neurotransmitters that went with sympathetic/parasympathetic. I took this class during the summer- it was a 4 credit class that was taken in 16 days (6 hours per day of straight physiology and a test every Monday over three or four body systems learned the previous Mon-Thurs). :scrying:

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A&P I- muscles (origin/insertion)

A&P II- Renal system by far!

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A&P 2 - electrolyte balance, I think my whole class could agree with me on that!

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A&P 2 - electrolyte balance, I think my whole class could agree with me on that!

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