Last full week of Summer B

Holy cow.  Time has flown by.  Can you believe that this is my last full week of class?  Here's what's going on.

Anatomy
Last Friday, we finally got to do the face.  I forgot to mention that after our midterm, we switched up our small dissection groups and switched bodies.  So, I guess I wasn't as attached to this one, which made reflecting back the skin of her face a little less disturbing.  The head/face is what's going to kill me on the exam.  There are so many muscles and nerves and blood vessels there.  And not only do I have to know the names of the nerves, but what they innervate.
After we had done the face, the professors came in after-hours and took the top of the skulls off and cut the cranial nerves.  So, when we came in next and took off the towel covering our cadaver's face, the brain was just sitting there, waving hello.  It's a shame that we just don't have time for the brain in Anatomy.  All we got was a 1 hour neuroanatomy lecture with PA faculty and a 1 hour lab with some med students.
Anyway, now that are brains had been taken out and we had done the face, we got to saw the skull (and part of the neck) in half...right between the eyes.  Some of it could be done with the electric bone saw.  But the rest I had to do with a big hack-saw looking thing.  Interesting tidbit, burning bone smells just like burning hair.  With the heads cut in half, we could identify the sinuses of the skull; the nasal cavity with associated structures (turbinate bones, torus tubarius, etc); muscles of the tongue and mouth (genioglossus, geniohyoid, mylohyoid); and a great view inside the pharynx, larynx, trachea, esophagus, and C1 and C2 vertebrae.  Very cool stuff!
Today, half the group did the anterior upper leg and the other half did the upper arm.  Really not looking forward to lower leg and lower arm.  There are a ton of muscles there that always confuse me.

Med Com
Essentially, this class is done.  We took the final on Monday and turned in our last mock-interview write up today.  Here's where I stand...

Not bad, eh?  The class average on the final was a stinkin' 98%.  Only PA school can make you feel sub-par by missing 2 questions on a test. :)  All we have left now is our last mock-interview with an actor tomorrow.

Radiology
We did Skull and Spine radiology this week.  This was pretty cool stuff since it applied to 90% of the patients I took care of at the hospital.  And for you few Rehab people that read this blog--or anybody else for that matter--I will give a dollar (literally) to the first person to identify all 4 problems pointed out in this CT (contest restricted to non-PA students).  This guy was a goner.

I know there are more than a couple nurses that read this blog, so one of you better get it!

Anyway, that's what's been going on in my world.