We finished up the extensors of the upper limb on Monday and spent Tuesday to Thursday learning the whole thoracic area from the regions of the mediastinum, lungs, and heart as we dissected a whole lot of structures this week. Throughout this experience we also had some afternoons spent on our Introduction to the Patient class which teaches us practical skills of patient exam. We listened to lung sounds and also listened for heart sounds although frankly we don't have too much of a grasp on really what we are looking for just yet but only a little bit of how to do it. With time I am confident that we'll be able to master the material a bit more.This was basically a typical week of anatomy, the ins and outs of a typical day is basically waking up at 5:30 am to preview the day's material, arrive at school at 8:00 am, lecture until 9:15 am, dissect in the cadaver lab until 11:15 am, finish more lecture and get rocked in our Audience Response System (ARS) questions which are basically quiz questions that we answer with our own clickers in 60 seconds each, and done by 12:00 pm. If we have an afternoon class, which run typically 3/5 days of the week we go back to lecture from 1-2 pm and then from 2-4 pm typically we go to a clinical setting to practice either on standardized patients or each other. I get home by 4:30-5:00 pm, eat dinner and unwind until 6:00 pm, and read, study, review and memorize until 1-2 am. The process repeats itself day in day out and you see pretty quickly that you start burning out. The handful of hours between days and between systems that we are learning just doesn't seem to be enough to solidify everything.
Needless to say this week introduced me to the terror of gross anatomy.
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