Posts tagged anatomy

sweet pies

June 2, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged ,

I couldn’t remember my dream on waking, I did wake in the middle of the night and thought that I should write it all down as I could remember it all then but alas I did not do this! Putting a notepad next to the bed tonite.

However I did make a pie from Not Quite Nigella’s recipe, first time making pastry (sans food processor, just crumbed that butter & flour with my BARE HANDS) and it seems ok? I started the pastry before anatomy elective*, let it rest for 3 hours while I was there and then finished it off.

cherrypie

Look at that fancy lattice! Ok so the edges are weird cos in my head I was all “oh i will fold these over like a rustic pie” but you gotta bake it with baking beads/rice/beans first and I thought well I need to fold the edges over first but then only 2 of the edges stayed like that and cooked into position so it’s looks pretty crazy now.

Also I had to cook it way longer than what was in the recipe (about an hour all up) cos the lattice wasn’t cooking at all.

Going to take this to uni tomorrow cos it is my last PBL session with Group G! It’s very sad, you get very chummy with your little group of 8 but next semester we’ll get all switched around again.

Oh man it is midnight! I was meant to have finished my presentation for PBL by now.

Here is something I was going to email to Shara when I was at Coles but Optus 2G/3G has been pretty woeful lately, anyway just wanted to distress her with more weird fruits you can get in a tin

guavas

*my anatomy prof has had stern words with me because I am weeks behind in my assignments, but tonight was a really great session in the lab and a lot of important stuff for the med science exam has been cemented into my head. i totally own the thorax, and am getting better at the cranial cavity, but the brain is still crazy.

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drowning in drawing

March 23, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged ,

so what am i currently avoiding? a supplementary assignment for the anatomy elective.

anatomy has never been my strong point, i managed to get by in nursing by grasping the bare minimum required and to be honest what was required of me was fairly little. i’ve learned more in the past month than i’d done in the past 5 years of study and work, which is slightly worrying to be honest.

but the best part of that statement is that i have learned these body parts and understood how they actually work. a month ago i couldn’t tell you where the duodenum was, let alone it’s four parts, arterial supply and relation to the pancreas and gall bladder. i reviewed a  chest xray from an old mystery problem on my favourite journal site (the ever wonderful and entertaining NEJM) and could read the image more clearly. i can draw and outline on you with a texta/marker where your liver sits.

anatomy

i knew the volume of knowledge i had to absorb was huge, but i still wasn’t entirely prepared for it. it has been drilled into us that this course is based around self-directed learning and we’re not being babied through it, but i’ve found that the weekly anatomy assignments and PBL presentations are exactly what i need to push me to keep up to date with my study which i am entirely thankful for. i’m sure i am in the minority when i say that (so far) i am loving PBL.

on friday we have PBL open then move straight into a very busy long weekend of anatomy dissection which i am feeling hopelessly under-prepared for. which is probably my cue to try and finish one of the drawings for this extra assignment.

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