At KYCOM, anatomy finishes after the first semester of your first-year… well kind of. Although I finished dissecting a full cadaver in the first semester, the second semester consists of neuroscience. Thus, I am back in the lab dissecting and learning parts of the brain. Here is detailing how anatomy lab is different from neuroscience […]
It’s Not Just Muscle Memory
When we first started learning all the shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand muscles in anatomy, I felt extremely helpless. There were SO many muscles in the forearm that sounded so similar, with such long names – flexor carpi radialis, extensor carpi radialis, flexor digitorum radialis, etc. It didn’t help that the muscles were pretty difficult […]
A Letter to My Cadaver
Dear Donor, Anatomy has always been challenging for me, but was especially challenging this second-year of medical school. Last year, we did a lot of organ system dissection, dissecting very prominent structures that were relatively easy to identify. This year during the neurology and musculoskeletal units, we dissected more nerves than I will ever in […]
