Heeeelllppp!!! Calling all Anatomy and Physiology study survivors!!!

Hi everyone!

So, I'm currently studying the Diploma of Nutrition - loving it - it's fascinating!

BUT there's one small problem. The first subject is Anatomy and Physiology and I am just completely overwhelmed with the amount of things that I feel I have to memorize. All of the terminology (as you know - there's hundreds of words!), not to mention all of the functions and locations for all of these new words.

Understanding the content isn't a problem. Memorizing it is! The worst part is, there's a test coming up in which I will be given 20 minutes to answer 13 questions. I'm nervous! They don't give us an idea about what will be on the test, hence my concern that I have to remember EVERYTHING I read.

Does anyone have any tips or pointers they could share with me?

Practice the terms by drawing/labeling the skeleton/muscles.....also by using your own body in front of a mirror and flexing/bending while labeling things....for instance if you have your body/arm supine ( palms turned up ) facing the mirror your Ulna is closer to U while your radius is on the outside of U

I know it sounds stupid but there really is no other way to get it memorized well without labeling blank skeletons and filling them in over and over (like children's diagrams so to speak).....it will eventually get into your brain that way....I know that's how I got an A+ in both AP1 and AP2.....also the little mnemonics/raps help you out too like my above (ulna is closer to U But understand that is only true when your body/hands are in the supine position..... You'll be fine don't sweat it just have some fill in the blank label skeletons and go part by part and repetition will help a ton....

Hmmm

Get together with a friend and write body part names on each other? (Make sure it washes off easily!)

I was going to suggest Netter's Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy.


If you're interested, just shoot me a PM since I have this on my Google Drive account.

If not, best of luck to you.

I promise that it will get easier.

Good advice so far above ...
General test taking review
General note taking review
Lots of youtube video supplements out there
Don't bother watching Grey's Anatomy on TV
Do watch all the re-run episodes of 'House MD'

Video reference non youtube:
Standard Deviants School Anatomy Muscles
Without the Standard Deviants and Wikipedia I would know a lot less

Give yourself time and order and get your rest
Give yourself practice quizzes, make index card notes, have others drill you
Enjoy your class and get a massage when or before you are done - they know all the A.P.


[video=metacafe;5708759]http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5708759/standard_deviants_school_anatomy_muscles/[/video]

BTW is your program certified e.g. Dietary Tech, R.D. other?

If I were a concerned Aussie (or American) I might ask more about the food industry as much as our dietary choices. I hope that as your study progresses you take a larger view to the global food market, "Livestock's Long Shadow", the Wall Street involvement in bottled beverages, alcohol and tobacco, snack foods, confections, livestock consumption, salt, fat and sugar and such like that are known dietary/lifestyle causes of disease and carbon footprint and water use.

I hope that your studies lead you to dietary prevention and diet therapy in your approach and that you take a holistic, natural medicine approach in your involvement despite government and industry pressure and control.

Best wishes in your studies.

Australian beef exports to the US in 2015 reached a record high of 415,951 tonnes swt. The year-on-year growth in exports to the market were assisted by strong demand for manufacturing beef, as the US domestic lean beef supply was tight throughout the year.

Frozen grassfed beef continues to make up a majority of Australian beef sent to the US. However, chilled beef exports have been on the rise for the past decade. Chilled grassfed beef exports came to 74,260 tonnes swt, around 20% of the total beef volume.

Manufacturing beef made up 70% of total Australian beef exports to the US in 2014.

US beef quota

Australia exports beef to the US under a tariff rate quota of 418,214 tonnes in 2016. In 2015, Australia used 99% of its tariff rate quota. Australia was the largest source of imported beef in the US in 2015. As at 22 July 2016, import entries of Australian beef had reached 159,434 tonnes swt - 28% less than the same time last year, and 38.1% of the annual quota, so far.

Reference Link: Beef

Listening to classical music on youtube seemed to help me when I was studying for pharmacy. Mozart is supposed to help in learning because they say he uses the fibonacci sequence in some of his music. I listened to mozart.