Ever since I was a little kid, I think I’ve been obsessed with words. I loved the idea of capturing a feeling in a sentence or describing a person so completely that you could see them right there in your mind. The perfect words in the perfect order, or at least that’s what I strove […]
The Differences of the Labs
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 […]