Neuroanatomy 3

lecture notes can be found here. Please note that the next class will be held Monday March 3 at 1 pm.

Neuroanatomy 2

slide show is found here. Link will be deleted on Friday Feb 15.

Cinemeducation

Another screening will take place in the KSU Common Room Wed Feb 13 at 2pm. Be there or be square....

Last Abdo/Pelvis Lectures

Year 1 students please download pelvic walls, rectum & anal canal, and male genital organs lectures. Links will be deleted Friday Feb 15.

Thanks to Anne Marie Bonnici Mallia for two great videos that beautifully depict the rotation of the fetal head through the pelvis during parturition.

All Upper Limb lectures

Powerpoint shows for muscles, axilla, breast, arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand are found at these links. All links will be deleted Feb 8.

Neuro lectures

IHC students please click here to download the first neuroanatomy lecture. The link will be deleted on Friday Feb 8.

Upper Limb lecture

First upper limb lecture will be held on Monday feb 4 at 12 noon at Mater Dei Lecture room 4. Here is the presentation. File will be deleted on friday feb 8.

Brain MRIs

Some of you are having difficulty with interpretation of brain MRI sections. Take a look at this link for a quick tutorial.

Lectures

As promised, here are the links for the lectures on Arteries and Veins, Kidneys and Ureters, Lymphatics and Nerves and Bladder and Urethra. Please download these asap as the links will be deleted at 12 noon on Sunday Jan 20.

Punctuation is Powerful

A professor wrote the following on the blackboard: "A woman without her man is nothing." The students were asked to punctuate the phrase.
Some students wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
Others wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
How would you punctuate it?

Cinemeducation

For those of you who missed it the first time around, we are screening the movie called Wit on Wednesday Jan 16 at the KSU Common Room at 2 pm followed by a discussion at 4pm. It's a great movie. Read this review. If you have already seen the film and just wish to join the discussion contact Daniel Azzopardi or Christine Cannataci at MMSA. Also read the full transcript. Don't fret over the progress tests. Broaden your mind.....

Laughter is the Best Medicine: Teacher

"If there are any idiots in the room, will they please
stand up?" said the sarcastic teacher.

After a long silence, one freshman rose to his
feet."Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an
idiot?" enquired the teacher with a sneer.

"Well, actually I don't," said the student, "but I
hate
to see you standing up there all by yourself."

Online Hearing Test

Thanks to Daniel Micallef (Year 2 MD) for this free online hearing test. The site also provides some information on hearing, speech and musical instrument acoustics.

Another interesting site regarding hearing: http://www.hear-it.org/

Heart Sounds Tutorial

Another free site with wonderful examples of various normal and abnormal heart sounds with matching physiological explanations. The animations are basic but clear. There is also a testing mode to make sure that you got it. Good revision for Year 3 to 5 students.

Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three...

You should by now be testing yourselves regularly to make sure that the material you are covering is moving from short-term to long-term memory. This website will help you do that by asking you to match structures to their name, and then label them yourself. Fifteen minutes each day should do the trick. Try it!

Aphorism

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A Court Case

No, don't worry, I have not been taken to jail. Take a look here though and you will find a tongue in cheek argument between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Rather fun way to learn. Enjoy!

Learn the Blood Supply of the Brain

This website looks primitive but it's a great way to revise the blood supply of the brain and spinal cord. I particularly liked the quiz mode. Try it out and let me know what you think.

Eye Simulator

This website is a great way to revise the movements of the eyes and test yourself on cranial nerve lesions. Rather clunky, but it works, provided you have Shockwave installed.

Medical Mnemonics

Generally speaking, I'm not very keen on mnemonics, as I find them rather difficult to remember (unless I think them up myself). This is very much the case with most of the ones on this website kindly pointed out to me by Stefan (Year 2 Medicine). There are a few good ones though and here are my favourites for Neuro and Head and Neck:

ObliqLiques cause lateral rotation of eyeball.

Action of the obliques is opposite to their names. Action of the rectii is rightly fitting to their names.
Both superiors cause intorsion and both inferiors cause extorsion.

Geniculate bodies: paired to respective colliculi SLIM:
Superior colliculi: Lateral geniculate body.
Inferior colliculi: Medial geniculate body.

Geniculate bodies: medial vs. lateral system MALE:
Medial=Auditory. Lateral=Eye.
Medial geniculate body is for auditory system, lateral geniculate body is for visual system.

Spinal tracts: Gracilus vs. Cuneatus: origin from upper vs. lower limbs Gracilus is the name of a muscle in the legs, so Fasciculus Gracilus is for the lower limbs.

Precentral vs. postcentral gyrus: motor vs. sensory Just an extension of the rule that anterior = ventral = efferent = motor.
The precentral gyrus is on the anterior side of the brain, so is therefore motor.

Olivary nuclei: ear vs. eye roles Superior Olivary nucleus: SOund localization.
· Inferior olivary nucleus is therefore the one for sight [tactile, proprioception also].

Pterygoid muscles: function of lateral vs. medial "Look at how your jaw ends up when saying first syllable of 'Lateral' or 'Medial' ":
"La": your jaw is now open, so Lateral opens mouth.
"Me": your jaw is still closed, so medial closes the mandible.

Bifurcation vertebral landmarks · A bifurcation occurs on 4th level of each vertebral column:
C4: bifurcation of common carotid artery
T4: bifurcation of trachea
L4: bifurcation of aorta

Deep tendon reflexes: root supply "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8":
S1-2: ankle
L3-4: knee
C5-6: biceps, supinator
C7-8: triceps