Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students by Robert H. Miller & Dan Bissell M.D

Author:Robert H. Miller & Dan Bissell M.D. [Miller, Robert H.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780312330088
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2010-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

A STUDY TECHNIQUE TOOLBOX

Here’s a quick list of tools the mentors used to build their knowledge base in medical school. You may want to consider adopting them as well.

Flash cards

Mnemonics (the raunchier the better!)

Diagrams and drawings

Old tests for sample questions

Revising and rewriting your notes

Commercial course outlines and reviews

Listening to taped lectures and reviewing prepared noteservice notes

CHAPTER 13

The First Year: Normal Systems

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

—HENRY MILLER

THE FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM is all about understanding how the human body is supposed to work. Much of this material will seem a long way from any clinical application, but it will provide a critical context for the classes to come. Your core anatomy training will include Embryology, Human Gross Anatomy, Cellular Biology, and Histology. Mastering these classes will require that you learn a completely new language of anatomical terminology while at the same time developing a multidimensional sense of spatial and structural relationships of the different pieces and parts. Not an easy undertaking, but it’s fascinating stuff. Your Anatomy course will doubtless be an experience you will recall for the rest of your life. The rigors of managing such a staggering volume of information, the challenges of surviving new classes with new classmates, and the emotional impact of dissecting a human being will inevitably leave an indelible mark.

Your core physiology training will focus on developing an understanding of the function of individual organ systems and the overall symbiotic function of the body. Course work here will likely include Human Physiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Nutrition. It is, for obvious reasons, vitally important that you understand completely the normal function of the human body before you can begin to address the impact and management of disease—and that’s the rationale for the organization of the traditional curriculum. Your course work here will build on your growing understanding of anatomy and yield functional insights. The human body is an intensely dynamic machine, and an appreciation of physiology in action is truly awe-inspiring.

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