I am excited to say that this is my last week of gross anatomy!! Considering our cadaver is not fully embalmed and she is deteriorating in front of us, it is safe to say i am really really ready to cover up her body for the last time! Sadly, I will still have head and neck anatomy for another 3 weeks but this will be much less smelly since we will only be working on, well..her head. For some reason most medical schools separate the anatomy course into two courses; Gross anatomy (everything below the shoulders) and head and neck (self explanatory). Thus, I have a total of 4 weeks left of formaldehyde.
We started dissecting the thigh late last week and already we have worked down to the knee. During lab this morning a professor came up to my dissecting group and announced that our neighbor had an artificial knee and that we should take a look. One table down I came to see my first knee replacement. A very very shinny metal knee that I could see my reflection in, it was pretty cool. The rest of the week will be dissecting the leg, ankle, and foot and then we have some review stuff friday. Then once again, an anatomy exam on Monday...technically its our gross anatomy final. yaaaaaaay! Also this week I have another patient encounter thursday and a whole lot of OMM to practice since we have our OMM midterm next friday. This will consistent of me doing a physical assessment and an OMM technique to a classmate. We are given our partners right before so we go in blind and are given 20ish minutes. Im still a lil fuzzy on the details and am pretty scared since I have not been focusing on this class at all....
to end this, i would like to say that i did not study at all this past saturday. i layed out, went swimming, and relaxed GUILT FREE. glorious
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