Panic; The Box
Mild panic. Only mild. I need to try to control it, and part of that control lies in not talking about it too much.
It started with the reading assignment for our first anatomy class on Monday. Words are thrown around that I'm not comfortable with: articular, morphological... the context doesn't always help. An excerpt: "Internal (medial) and external (lateral) rotation involves motion of a part around a superoinferior or vertical axis which is typically the part's long axis. Turning the anterior aspect of the part inward or medially is called internal or medial rotation, while turning the anterior aspect of the part outward or laterally is called external or lateral rotation."
So hard to picture, to form an image. And in seeps the panic.
Practice helps, and luckily I remember having this feeling before. Biology 220 was practice, I suppose. You have to be introduced to the lexicon. There's always that uncertainty in the beginning. At least that's how I'm comforting myself.
Yesterday they sent all of us home with this box:
There's a human skeleton inside. I took it on the subway. Only the first of many bizarre, bloggable things that will happen this year.
It started with the reading assignment for our first anatomy class on Monday. Words are thrown around that I'm not comfortable with: articular, morphological... the context doesn't always help. An excerpt: "Internal (medial) and external (lateral) rotation involves motion of a part around a superoinferior or vertical axis which is typically the part's long axis. Turning the anterior aspect of the part inward or medially is called internal or medial rotation, while turning the anterior aspect of the part outward or laterally is called external or lateral rotation."
So hard to picture, to form an image. And in seeps the panic.
Practice helps, and luckily I remember having this feeling before. Biology 220 was practice, I suppose. You have to be introduced to the lexicon. There's always that uncertainty in the beginning. At least that's how I'm comforting myself.
Yesterday they sent all of us home with this box:
There's a human skeleton inside. I took it on the subway. Only the first of many bizarre, bloggable things that will happen this year.Labels: Medical School
posted Thursday, August 09, 2007
Lean Joe
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4 Comments:
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww whose skeleton is it?!!? someone who donated their body to science? did EVERYONE get a skeleton? are you supposed to return it at the end of the year?
They don't tell us whose skeleton it is. Everyone got one and yes, we have to return it. The replacement cost is $1832.00.
That's totally wacky. What are you supposed to do with it?
On the vocab issue, do they have medical vocab dictionaries? I found that to be very helpful with the crazy law vocab when I started law school..
They do. I'm just too cheap to buy one. I'll need to, though. The free online medical dictionaries are great, but you can't log onto one without being tempted to surf the net for other, more interesting things.
And re: the bones... you're supposed to look at them, touch them, "articulate" them. So far I've mostly been holding mine a couple inches from my face and scowling at them out of confusion.
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