Even though I'm in medical school in Europe, there is a lot of similarity in the course curriculum when I compare to Canadian medical schools and US medical schools. The main difference is that our program is spread out over 6 years and you can start right out of high school.
One of those courses is Anatomy. And in our program, it's the single most important course we take during medical school because if you fail anatomy, you fail the first year of medical school even if you've passed every other course. They use the course to weed people out (a lot of people do end up dropping out when they fail). If you've read this blog, you'd know how stressed out I was by this course (even though I loved it)! I've never felt a greater relief in my life than when I found out I passed.
Recently two of my classmates (and friends!) started a wonderful Facebook and Instagram page, called AnatomyWithA&D, with the goal of helping students studying anatomy in a fun way. It's a great combo of informative, academic posts and practical applications of anatomy, tips on how to best study and much more. And the two founders know what they are talking about - they had the highest marks in anatomy in my year and they were selected to represent our program at a national anatomy competition, called the Golden Scapula.
Anyway, I highly, highly recommend you check them out and follow!
You can find them on Instagram here and on Facebook here. Go and check them out!
How does your university teach medicine? Is everything on powerpoint or do the lecturers use whiteboards?
ReplyDeleteSo we have a mix. Lectures usually consist of power-point presentations but we also have labs, seminars (smaller group lectures, often with some interaction and use of black/white board) and classes which are small groups and usually we do exercises, such as identifying subjects under a microscope. Some classes are more interactive (like suturing, we actually suture), some more theoretical.
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