Embryology will break my sanity.

[madskillz]

It's funny that every group has developed objectives of their. That ever so shallow consistency has disappeared from the PBL objectives I've read previously is long gone.

Also, my group has opened the debate that Martini is not sufficient for Embryology even though the summary in the atlas seems to be enough.

My tension headache keeps getting worse the more I think about it.

Although I'm 100% sure that most Qs in the exam will involve blood vessels, immune system, innervation, skeletal system and muscular system.

[Chang]

seriously, don't go into that much detail in embryology, you'll end up taking a long walk into the mersey i think its one of those topics that you either love or loathe. just know the martini atlas stuff - have a good idea about the process of the first week or two development i.e blastocyste and implantation etc (can't remember much about it tbh, so i may be making words up) then look at each layer ecto, meso, endo and look generally at what happens during development and which layer develops what.

dangerfield seems to like foetal blood circulation so know the differences between the foetal heart and umbilical vessels etc, and why they are like that. and then the process of how the foramen ovale closes during birth - something to do with different pressures on different vessels or something, i really cant remember and cant be arsed to look it up right now

and finally, look at the role of the placenta, what can cross it, what can't, structure etc.

i only used martini with the atlas and that did me fine, but go with what you're happy with.

tbh, once you get your head round the wierd little lizardy thing that we all started out as and figure out which bits going to turn into what you're kinda there.

hth xx

[FruitcakeLiz]

thanks for that chang- v helpful x

[Vixter]

You need to get hold of a copy of "before we were born" and look at the summaries at the end of each weeks development.

then get yourself the anatomy colouring book and there are about three pages in that with the different stages of implantation in them. You need to be able to label them, as we got that in our summative.

Dont stress about the different organ systems, just know what week each one starts to develop. make a timeline maybe.

Also, the neural development, mesencephalon, diencephalon etc etc. dangerfield does a lecture on it. Attend.

Embryology is near impossible to teach yourself via the lovely pbl method. It becomes much more relevent in third year, as you can see how it affects disease.

Hope thats of some use

Vic

[madskillz]

Thanks.

It's funny how my anatomy coloring book doesn't have the implantation stages in it.....hmmm....it was the only I could find in blackwells at the time.

No biggie. Martini does have them so I guess I have to memorize them.
Or isn't that enough?

[Vixter]

I think there are a couple of versions of the anatomy colouring book. mine is by Kapit and Elson.

I think the Library have it.

Memorise them if you want, but having a general understanding is more useful....just so long as you have the general idea

[madskillz]

Yeah. The one I had contained lesser content and the pictures were lifted straight off Martini. I got the Kapit and Lawerence one. It's pretty good.