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So, today was my orientation for college in which I signed up for my classes. The first three classes I am taking is Intro to Comp (online), Anatomy and Physiology (online), Med Terminology (online).

What to expect??? Difficult?
 
Are you prepping for medic school? If so then you'll on a great start.

I hate online classes, so they wouldn't work for me, but it's all good if you do like them.
 
Yes I am prepping for Medic school when its all said and done!
 
If it's online, they shouldn't be that difficult. Anatomy isn't a tough subject (at the "underhand coach pitch youth league baseball" level that describes most undergraduate courses) unless you have a cadaver lab. Pay attention, don't slack and you will be fine.
 
If it's online, they shouldn't be that difficult. Anatomy isn't a tough subject (at the "underhand coach pitch youth league baseball" level that describes most undergraduate courses) unless you have a cadaver lab. Pay attention, don't slack and you will be fine.

All I want is to satisfy the prereqs for taking A and P at my college. Eeek there are a lot of them. Apparently we are one the few undergraduate only colleges with a cadaver lab.
 
Get a good chair and hide the Cheetos.

Good luck.
 
This may sound crazy; but what is Cadaver Lab, obviously I don't have to take that because it wasn't mentioned at my school.
 
This may sound crazy; but what is Cadaver Lab, obviously I don't have to take that because it wasn't mentioned at my school.

Dead person = cadaver. You dissect them.
 
This may sound crazy; but what is Cadaver Lab, obviously I don't have to take that because it wasn't mentioned at my school.

Cadavers are rather expensive and hard to come by so you probably would be hard pressed to find an undergraduate anatomy course with any significant degree of actual human dissection. Also dissection is a definite skill and dissecting a person tends to be somewhat more difficult than what you find with say a cat. The other problem is that human anatomy is seldom as easy to distinguish as it is in books so it's easy to destroy or miss important structures (nerves come to mind) if one is either inexperienced (undergraduates), inept (most undergraduates), inattentive (think ADHD which could be more or less a criteria to be attracted to EMS based on a lot of my former partners and students) or just plain lazy (the vast majority of undergraduates).
 
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Cadavers are rather expensive and hard to come by so you probably would be hard pressed to find an undergraduate anatomy course with any significant degree of actual human dissection. Also dissection is a definite skill and dissecting a person tends to be somewhat more difficult than what you find with say a cat. The other problem is that human anatomy is seldom as easy to distinguish as it is in books so it's easy to destroy or miss important structures (nerves come to mind) if one is either inexperienced (undergraduates), inept (most undergraduates), inattentive (think ADHD which could be more or less a criteria to be attracted to EMS based on a lot of my former partners and students) or just plain lazy (the vast majority of undergraduates).

Very true.

With that said, at the undergrad A&P classes here all have cadaver labs as part of the class.

Hell my medic class had two cadavers to practice skills on as well as access to the lab to observe dissections.
 
Now I feel stupid because I didn't know what a cadaver lab was, but now I sit and think makes more since WOW I feel like a D/A haha!
 
Don't worry about it. If you're new to the field, you would have no plausible way of knowing about it.
 
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