What's the toughest part of A&PI?

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Feb 18, 2011

As far as the physiology part of A/P 1 the muscle system was a killer! I ended up doing well, but only because I spend endless weeks and hours studying it and making flash cards. The anatomy part was learning all the cracks, crevisis, marks, processes, etc.. of the bones.

And if the bones aren't bad enough- learning all the muscles on the cat has been just torture! (A/P 2) The digestive system, while not too difficult, I found really boring and had a hard time memorizing all the ducts and stuff. We are doing metabolism right now and I actually like it. :)

stefanyjoy · Feb 18, 2011

I am also in A&P I this semester, and the intro, histology & integumentary system were a breeze to me. I thought, "Ha! Everyone on AN complains about this? I can totally ace this class, no problem!"" hehe.. joke was on me.. we just moved into the skeletal system and I'm freaking out with having to memorize 3x as much stuff as the previous lessons, and less time before the exam. I can imagine the muscular & nervous systems are going to make me crawl into bed and cry for mommy.

The only thing that is really my saving grace is that my instructor has an exam after each system, AND no cumulative exam. Thank god. My Chem professor would have SEVEN chapters on one monster exam and it was so hard trying to keep all that information in my brain all at once... plus a ridiculous cumulative exam for general, biological, and organic chemistry. I thought I could never make it out of that class alive :) Thankfully I find A&P more interesting.

ICUterry · Feb 19, 2011

We are doing skeletal next but we have done the rat so far... Not the cat or cadaver but again we have anatomy and physiology separately which I don't like because I'm doing a whooole lot of memorization and when I take phys in the summer I gotta remember it and apply it to what I learned before??? Not really fair.. I say histology labeling from cross sections it's just soo Mich more trickier but besides that it seems pretty fun and easy although I won't take ad some call it faux or pseudo confidence for granted.. I understand as should all of you that long hours additional resources SI groups and study groups are needed along with of course confidence :)

ErinRN2B · Feb 19, 2011

E. g. Sella turcica, a Turkish Saddle

I remember my final in A&P 101, which my grade was very dependent on, had a question about the "Turkish saddle." I was so glad I remembered where that was!

My instructors for A&P 1 and 2 used very different teaching styles and I personally thought 101 was harder. I had a lot of trouble with endocrine in 102, though. My instructor was helpful, but I wish I'd paid more attention then. I'm in the nursing program now, and it's just assumed that you know the A&P stuff. A lot of endocrine and acid/bace imbalances questions have tripped me up on exams. I know the material, it's just easy to make mistakes.

stitchincricket · Feb 19, 2011

the endocrine and nervous systems are rough. on muscles, I would focus on their attachment points, that will help.