Wow, what a crazy end to the week. Wednesday morning was our last clinical skills session, which had to do with examining very old or very young patients. We then had a talk on professionalism followed by anatomy lab. We actually had to decapitate our cadaver by cutting the ligaments attaching the skull to the vertebral column and then pulling the head forward until the head detached. This allowed us to view the prevertebral region between the pharynx and vertebral column. Thursday we went over the anatomy of the pharynx and studied Maxillary nerve (V2) and all the structures it innervates in the head... it goes all over the place. We had a clinical correlation in the afternoon where we got to watch various surgeries in the neck region. Friday was our first histo lecture in a long time, but this one was actually interesting. We learned about the special senses of hearing and vision, and were able to see on a microscopic scale how the eyes and ears work - how sound and light are converted into a signal to be interpreted by your brain. Very interesting stuff. In the afternoon we had a lecture over the larynx, immediately followed by another anatomy lab. This time we had to saw our cadaver's skull in half along the midline so we could look into the nasal cavity and sinuses. Another very cool lab.
This weekend will be spent trying to stuff 10 lectures into the limited confines of my mind. This will be interesting.
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