can anyone comment on nova's anatomy program? i was there in october and i cannot remember anything about the anatomy lab, how big the groups are, is the lab portion traditional dissection or prosected only?? also, does any one know if lecture notes are available online or do they give out packets at the beginning of each class? are there powerpoints available? are exams taken on the computer or on paper? regarding standardized patients and early clinical exposure... is this started in the first year? i think it is but i'm wondering how many standardized patients we get in the first year and when we're expected to start taking h&p on patients in a real setting? does anyone know, regarding the 3 months of rural rotations, i know we can do one in clinics in another country, but the other 2, can those be done in a field of our choice in a rural area? for instance, could we pick to follow a neurologist in a rural area? or is it all rural family medicine? not that i want to do one over the other i'm just wondering if we have any say in the matter. i know i asked all of these questions like 7 to 8 months ago lol but i just cant remember the answers!
Here are some pretty blunt answers to your questions so I hope this helps:
The entire class gets broken up into Group A and Group B. Using this year as an example, this is how the schedule was. Group A would go to OPP lab on Thursday from 1-3pm while Group B was in Anatomy lab from 1-3pm. Then, from 3-5pm they would switch and Group A would go to anatomy lab and Group B would go to OPP lab.
There is a prosection lab and a dissecting lab. You will be in a group of 4-6 people for each cadaver. You dissect, go to the prosected lab to check out the week's prosections on whatever you are learning, as well as view the XRays, CTs and MRIs pertaining to the subject material.
You will receive a packet of notes for each exam. The lectures were not recorded for us, and powerpoints were not made available. The notes will be sufficient to get an A in the class and using a book such as Netter's or Grants will help supplement.
Exams are taken on paper (usually 50 questions with 2 hours to complete it).
Lab Practicals are taken on paper (and multiple choice) with 50 questions (usually 1 question per station, with 1 minute to answer).
You start learning how to take an H&P the first two weeks of class and will have your first standardized patient exam within the first 8 weeks of classes. You will have a total of about 5 or 6 standardized patient exams the first year and you will learn how to do most (if not all?) exams....HEENT, neuro, abdominal, cardiac, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, derm, etc.
You will also be rotating every other week through an assigned doctor's office where most doctors expect the students to take histories and perform most physicals on patients. It is not pressured so do not get worried or intimidated. They ease you into the patient encounters to get you comfortable talking/touching patients.
As far as rotations and what not, I do not know. I am just wrapping up the first year.
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