Day 2 and 3 Anatomy & Physiology

Tuesday

Nervous System & Endocrine System, both fascinating topics. Also paid a visit to the library and had a look at the nursing collection. Borrowed the Anatomy and Physiology book we are using for this course. So glad I didn't buy it because it's about $100 but there were HEAPS of copies in the library, like 20. But it's far too big for a one-week course and too heavy to carry around, so I also borrowed the simplified version by the same author which is specially for 'Short courses' (like mine), and I'm taking that to classes each day and keeping the big book at home.


Wednesday

Blood, Cardiovascular System and Lymphatic System were today's topics. Blood and the Cardiovascular system were both really interesting, but they rushed over the Lymphatic system so maybe they don't expect us to know as much about that, although in most of books I've looked at a whole chapter is devoted to it. The afternoon Practical Session included disecting a mammalian heart (sheep), measuring the electrical activity of the heart on the computer, and measuring blood pressure using a sphygmometer. We did these things in small groups of 4 or 5 students.

When I got home I did a couple more online quizzes and these were my results:

Cardiovascular System - 90%
Blood - 50%
Lymphatic System - 60%

The review questions in the textbooks cover too many details. A lot of them ask about things we haven't learned in this course and there are so many questions. On the final test there will only be 50 questions though. Also, 60% of the assessment is our answer book from the practical sessions. There are about 3 or 4 topics to write about or draw each day and we hand those in each day. The last days lecture topics which are the Digestive system and the Reproductive system won't be on the test and I don't think we have Practicals for those either, so tomorrow will be the last day of assessable material, which is the Respiratory system and the Urinary system.