Folks --

I’ve just finished tweaking the Lab Exam a little bit and thought you might be interested in some “details.” There will be 23 stations and a total of 83 questions. Here is the topic breakdown:

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Station	# Questions	Topic
1	4	Model (muscle)
2	3	Dissection (brain)
3	2	Model (neuron)
4	4	Model (special senses)
5	3	Cranial nerve chart
6	5	Model (muscle)
7	4	Model (muscle)
8	4	Microscope
9	3	Figure (CNS)
10	4	Model (muscle)
11	3	Figure (muscle)
12	4	Model (muscle)
13	4	Figure (muscle)
14	4	Model (special senses)
15	3	Dissection (brain)
16	3	Figure (CNS)
17	3	Model (CNS)
18	3	Model (CNS)
19	3	Microscope
20	4	Model (special senses)
21	4	Figure (PNS)
22	5	Model (CNS)
23	4	Figure (PNS)

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Hopefully, this will help you focus your studying.

I’ll have your Lecture Exams graded by tomorrow afternoon and those grades will be posted A.S.A.P.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll see you next week!

Note: I believe another class is coming into our room after us at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, so please don’t plan on finishing Histology Notebooks after the Lab Exam!

Folks --

Please find below information for the Final Exam. I have scheduled the final for 3:30 on Wednesday, May 13, in our usual room. In the past, this has been preferable to the time that the Registar assigns (which is usually an early morning slot). If this time does not work for you, we can schedule something else that's more convenient. If I don't hear from you, I'll assume you're taking it on the Wednesday afternoon.

Here's how the Final Exam is organized:

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Just a quick note: when I say that the Label-the-Figure is from material from Exam 3, for example, that doesn't mean I will be lifting questions from Exam 3. That just means that the figure(s) will come from the Weeks 11-13 material that was covered on the third exam.

The Final Exam is cumulative, but there are some things that will NOT be on the exam.

• "Naked Man" will NOT be on the final.
• Bones and bone markings that were only addressed in lab (for Lab Exam 1) will NOT be on the exam.
• The skeletal muscles and their actions (from Lab Exam 2) will NOT be on the final.
• Lastly, the special senses (eye and ear) will NOT be on the final.

That's it for now; I'll be in touch again before the Lab Exam on Wednesday. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Folks --

Please remember that we will be having Lecture Exam 3 on Wednesday of next week (Week 14). This exam covers material from Weeks 11, 12, and part of 13 (up through & including the spinal cord only).

In the past, there has been some confusion regarding what is and what is not fair game, especially with regard to where I “draw the line” between the spinal cord and the PNS. In reality, we only cover two aspects of the spinal cord in this class. First, we cover the gross anatomy of the spinal cord (Marieb Fig. 12.29a). The rest of the material is simply cross-sectional anatomy and how nerve impulses are routed to and from the spinal cord. This was featured in a Lecture Art file that you can see here. I consider both of those topics (gross anatomy & pathway to and from cord) fair game for the exam. I realize that the pathway information is covered again in the section on reflex activity in the PNS, but we see that info here (in the section on the spinal cord) first.

Once the spinal nerve leaving the vertebral cavity splits into the dorsal ramus, ventral ramus and rami communicantes, that’s PNS material and will NOT be covered.

Other little bits of exam info:

The route of CSF circulation through the central nervous system is NOT on the lecture exam. It will be covered on Lab Exam 2, though.

Some of the material in the figures in Ch. 11 (*cough*, *cough*, *cough*) will come in handy. ;-)

The posts in this blog are archived by month. That means that at the start of each month, the previous month's posts are collected and stored. You can always access those posts by clicking the appropriate month towards the bottom of this page:

Over on the right, you can see the big green Week 3 icon. Clicking this takes you directly to the Week 3 material. Each week, I'll change it over for that week. I have to do that manually (it doesn't change itself over at midnight), so it may switch to the next week late Saturday night or first thing on Sunday morning.

Folks --

Many A&P students like to get extra copies of the images from the textbook. Often, they use these images to either practice labeling structures or to make “visual flashcards.”

If you go to this page, you can download image sets by chapter. They are available as labeled images, leadered images (this means they have leader lines, but no labels). and unlabeled images (no lines or labels).

Hi folks:

Just a quick piece of info: Updates to this blog are always posted to the top of the page, pushing older posts downwards. If you miss a couple of posts, scroll down!

Over the next couple of days, I'm going to post short blurbs of information so you can get used to how this works. I'm also going to do it so I don't overwhelm you with info all at once.

As always, let me know if you have any questions!

This is the website for the hybrid version of Anatomy and Physiology I at Massasoit Community College.

First off, just a couple of technical notes. The instructions that you followed to get here deliberately took you through WebCT, the course management system Massasoit uses for almost all of its e-Learning courses, as well as many of its traditional (face-to-face) classes. While most of your online experience in this course will occur at this site, WebCT is important for three reasons.

1. WebCT uses a browser check-up that ensures that your computer has all of the plugins that you'll need to get the most out of this website. Please run the browser check-up and make sure you have everything. If your computer fails one or more of the checks, follow the links provided to install the needed components.
2. The Grade Book I use to record your grades is found in WebCT.
3. Each week, you'll be responsible for taking an online quiz to ensure that you're keeping up with the material. Those quizzes reside in WebCT.

You can always return to WebCT from this website by clicking on the far right tab at the top of the screen.

By the time you read this, we will have probably already met at the first of our onsite meetings, so you will have seen many of this site's features in action. Therefore, I won't give you long, drawn-out instructions. The best advice I can give is to just explore. I hope that everything on this site is organized intuitively, so spending an hour or so just clicking around should be time well spent.

Once you're settled and you've passed the browser check-up with flying colors, it's time to get to work. Here's what I want you to do:

1. Leave a comment to this blog post by clicking on the Comments link below. In your comment, introduce yourself, tell me what your goals are in taking this course, and whether or not you've taken an online or hybrid course before. When you leave your comment, make sure you include a working e-mail address so I have a way to keep in touch with you and so I can train my junk mail filter to not trash your messages!
2. Then, it's on to the class material. This is Week 1 – a section I call Preview and Review. You can access this material by clicking on the big Week 1 icon on the right. It will take you to the Week 1 page, where you'll see a summary of what's going on and a link to the Reading Guide for this week. Work through the Reading Guide.
3. When you've finished the Week 1 Reading Guide, practice answering some of the Self-Assessments. These are recommended questions from the end of the chapter, as well as links to activities in A&P Place, the open-access website maintained by our publisher.
4. When you feel ready, take the Week 1 Quiz in WebCT. These weekly quizzes count as extra-credit points towards your grade. You won't be penalized for not doing them, but they are only available for a restricted period of time. No crying at the end of the semester!

That's it for now. Please let me know if you have any questions.