Head Games
I survived the written test on the ribs and sternum positioning. This test wasn’t too complicated. The amount of material to know just wasn’t that significant compared to other sections we have covered in the past. I made a 96 on the test plus 2 points of extra credit for a 98 total. I’m not exactly sure when we are gonna pass of on those positions in lab, but it won’t be long… I’m guessing a week from Monday.
We started on the skull anatomy today, and this section is going to be covering a lot of material. I find it ironic that this section will probably cover the most detailed anatomy that we’ll have in this program while it will encompass the positioning that we will encounter the least in the real world. In my clinical experience, the only x-ray imaging I have seen done above the C-spine is a couple orbits (looking for metal fragments before sending a patient to MRI) and one mandible. I realize that my experience in clinical is limited, but these exams don’t happen as often. I’m already feeling overwhelmed just after the first hour of lecture on the skull anatomy. I remember this material very well from my two semesters of Anatomy & Physiology last semester. My lowest grade in both semesters of that class was the skeletal anatomy, oddly enough. It’s not that I couldn’t learn the material, I just couldn’t swallow all the detail of the entire skeleton in the amount of time we had to do it. I’m doing fine with skeletal anatomy in this program since we are taking it one section at a time though. This particular segment is still going to be difficult… The flash cards I mentioned in an earlier post are going to be quite helpful…