another fun day, it's just like going to school again - more like high school than college because we pretty much stay with the same classmates each day ...I guess in that regard it's actually more like grade school :)
We met a few more teachers today. Our Histology/Cell Biology class is taught by two different teachers. One teaches the Histology which is the study of tissues and the other focuses on the biology of cells.
Our Cell Biology teacher is from India and came to the United States back in 1971 and started teaching in 1975 at Logan. When he took roll and called out "Dr. Scott Dukowitz" he commented that the name looked very familiar to him and I told him Troy graduated back in 1996. He was very interesting and talked a lot about how much more advanced the United States was over the rest of the world in terms of pretty much anything scientific. He stated that back in the mid '80s that the National Institute of Health (NIH) determined that the USA was about 50 years ahead of the Soviet Union.
We saw our Gross Anatomy teacher twice today, once in the morning for lecture and once in the afternoon for a "Dry Lab"
At SWIC we learned the main names for each bone like femur (thigh bone) or humerus (arm bone) but we're going to be learning that each of the 206 bones in the body have different names for different areas of the bones. From what I've seen so far it looks like each bone has anywhere from a dozen to maybe 30 different names to exactly describe which part of the bone you're talking about.
Our study of muscles is much more in depth as well. Just at the basic level, we'll need to know the origin, insertion, action, nerve intervention and specific blood supply for every muscle in the body ...and there's over 600 muscles in the human body. :)
I learned the reason we learn minor surgery in Tri-9 is because in states like Oregon chiropractors are able to perform minor surgery as well as do things like deliver babies. This starkly contrast with a state like Michigan where chiropractors are only allowed to adjust the spine and nothing else on the body which basically eliminates the appendicular skeletal regions which would predominately be the arms and legs.
Our Histology teacher is allowing us to obtain a rather generous amount of extra credit by participating in up to three studies ran by upper class students (2 extra points per study) along with an extra 2 points for making a poster ...wait a minute - That was our Spinal Anatomy teacher.
btw - I did find a spine model they have in the book store for only $89 and it has a 30% off sticker on it! :)
It's a basic model of the spine with the pelvis attached and comes with a stand. I'm sure I'll learn more about what's really needed in future classes.
Our Gross Anatomy teacher is 40 years old and graduated from logan in the early '90s, I think in 1993. She said we might have to consult more than one Anatomy book to find all the pieces of the body she labels. She is *very* thorough. She said when we study a particular region of the body that the things we'll need to know about the specific regions are "everything and anything" about that area. I kind of like that level of rigor and high standard. Her name is Dr. Jan and her right leg is approximately 14 millimeters shorter than her left leg. :)
Our biochemistry teacher is a man with a very strong voice and has been teaching for about 25 or 30 years. From a basic diagram he drew up the first day regarding metabolic pathways in the body we learned things like it's possible for carbohydrates to change into fatty acids (or, just fat) but it is not possible for the reaction to go the other way so fats can not turn into any kind of carbohydrate. Fat can't really turn into anything, it can only be burned as fuel. It's kind of a one-way street once fuel gets to the point of being turned into fat.
I've easily printed up over 200 pages worth of powepoints and slide show presentations. The first Gross Anatomy powerpoint was 75 pages long.
I think it was in our spinal anatomy class that we learned some embryology stuff, basically every time a fertilized egg starts splitting cells there's different names for each stage of cell division and just like a DVD I watched last semester, it would appear that the spinal cord is the first thing that gets developed (along with the brain) so, the command center comes first :)
We learned that some bones, like the patella or knee bone, develop after birth and inside a persons tendons. It was also alluded to that pressure helps to develop these bones so when a baby crawls on the floor they are helping to develop a bone like the patella.
Some bones fuse together every 5 years or so after birth so before age 20 or 25 a person will have more than 206 bones but a fully mature adult will generally have about 206 bones (there's always a few anomalies out there to help keep things interesting) :)
We saw several x-rays today of bones in the pelvic region and different kinds of fractures that can occur and some typical causes for the breaks. In our Spinal Anatomy class the teacher had us take a break to stretch then had us turn to our left and then to our right to give the people next to us massages. The teacher said this was a touchy profession so we'd have to get used to it.
Tomorrow we have our first Spinal Analysis Lab
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