Anatomy videos for medical students

Todays post is not a book review. Its a rant at how sexist stereotypes still persist. As any preschooler knows, Dora the Explorer is an intrepid pint-sized adventurer with a purple backpack and a boot-wearing monkey for a sidekick. A show featuring her exploits took off in 2000. Five years later, Doras cousin Diego was given his own series.

When my nephew was younger, he loved Dora and wore her backpack with pride. It didnt matter to him one wit that Dora was a girl. And yet, fourteen years after the shows debut, Dora has been sold out, a victim of merchandising. The above photo was snapped in my doctors waiting room. Sexism is so insidious that it took me a while to realize what was wrong with the decals stuck to the wall. But look closely. The toons body language says it all. Dora stands with her arms folded, legs crossed, while Diego is running full speed. The message is clear: Girls = Passive; Boys = Active. (I wont even go into the butterflies surrounding Dora versus the menacing paw prints near Diego.)

Not to be hasty, I checked to see if there are more active wall decals of Dora on Amazon. Not really. Theres one showing her holding a bunch of flowers and another, the best of the bunch, in which shes on tippy toes, arms wide open.

Now imagine a preschool boy seeing the two figures on the wall. Would he choose Dora as his model? Not likely. A preschool girl would, though. And with her choice comes the implicit message that boys do all the running.  

Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go generally get high marks from the media for setting nonstereotypical examples for its young viewers. Unfortunately, its licensing department has a long way to go.

Okay, todays rant is over.

My students are now struggling with learning all those darn bone markings in lab.  Last week, I shared one of their suggestions . . . the bone dance from the Hannah Montana TV series.

They also have found it useful to learn the naming system for bone markings first, before trying to even find the specific markings on the skeleton.  This method for understanding the conceptual framework before you begin learning a list of structures is more fully explained in my Survival Guide For Anatomy And Physiology: Tips, Techniques And Shortcuts.

In the Survival Guide, I explain how learning bone markings is like learning geography.  Before you can find specific calderas on a map, you have to know what a caldera is.  Should you be looking for a stream?  A mountain?  A valley?  Once you know a caldera is a volcanic mountain that has collapsed for form a big crater, its easy to find any caldera assigned to you on a map.  You wont waste your time and effort looking at every feature . . . just the big craters.  And knowing what a caldera is, youll remember what it looks like as you learn the name.

Thus, if you learn that a condyle is a rounded bump where a bone articulates (joins) with another bone, its easy to find and remember all the condyles in the skeleton.  If you know that a foramen is hole, then finding them (and remembering them) is now that much easier.

When we compare learning anatomy to learning geography, we are using an analogy.  Such analogies are comparisons that help us learn. 


Something my students have found to be really, really helpful in finding good analogies for learning the bone markings is the Visual Analogy Guide series.  This series has been used by my students for a couple of years now and my students love them.

Created by my friend Paul Krieger at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), the Visual Analogy Guides really meet the students where they are at to help them master some of those little tricks for learning the core concepts of an A&P course.

Using his considerable skills as an illustrator and his great talent as a teacher, Paul has put together some great tools that help students focus their study time by using visual and kinesthetic processes to help them learn "the hard parts" of A&P.

Check out his video, in which he explains how the Visual Analogy Guides work.

cracked feet? Oppss ..... No ..... The fear that he actually ilfil aka ilang feeling. Appearances already ok, but legs like coconut, so not confident it ........? Besides not pretty, cracked feet can cause discomfort, maybe even hurt.
Issues surrounding this leg is often we experience. And causes chapped feet there are several factors, including: the weather can change dramatically due to or affected by the lack of suitable detergent when we wash clothes because the content of soda in excess detergent can cause skin to lose moisture and cause foot leg skin becomes very dry and finally cracked. Age and hormonal disorders can also be a trigger. Increasing age makes our body condition deteriorated, including the legs, so prone to various problems. It could also be due to a deficiency of vitamin that works to rejuvenate the skin. Or often run in a dry and rugged with not using footwear.
The real problem cracked feet problem considered classic because every woman has the same risk, and it depends on how we take care of him. Spend about 20-30 minutes, soak feet in a container of warm water that has been added a few drops of disinfectant low-yield soda or table salt. The function of salt here shown to soften the dead skin cells making it easier on the skin of the foot when the problem was about to be rubbed or brushed.
Rub using a pumice stone or foot smoothing tools are usually sold in beauty stores. This tool is able to exfoliate the skin dry. It is advisable to use every night to clean feet foot lotion containing emollient, or aloe vera which is soothing and moisturizing. At night is the perfect time to treat the skin because thats when your metabolism is being repair and rebuild cells that have been damaged. Avoid barefoot in damp or muddy feet and try not in direct contact with the floor that can cause dry skin.

To cope with broken legs broken There are several ways you can do:

• Increase the consumption of water and fruit

Cracked dry feet and cracked one of the reasons is the lack of water consumption so that the legs lose a lot of fluids to keep kelambapannya. Can also be added to the consumption of fruits that contain lots of water

• Conduct regular foot care

Soak feet into a container of warm water that has been added a few drops of disinfectant. Rub your fingers and toes with a soft brush, to the heel of broken broke Brush using a pumice stone or foot smoothing tool.

• Use special care Cream broken leg broken

Additionally There are several traditional medicines without us knowing it is all around us proved to be overcome cracked feet are among others:


1. Garlic
Rub garlic that has been finely broken leg. More effective when used at night after the move. As it turns out, according to research, garlic has the ability to enhance the rejuvenation process of the skin and removes dead skin cells.
2. Hazelnut
Take a taste and then roasted pecans until the color turns black and mash until smooth. Soak feet in warm water then dry and apply a lift that had been burned pecans and finely ground last for approximately 10 minutes. Then wash and dry cracked feet earlier.
3. Papaya latex
Halve a papaya papaya latex and wait it out. Rub a piece of papaya on the broken part and do regularly up until the problem is reduced.
4. Apple
Take the grated apple and mash until smooth. Spread apples that have been crushed on cracked feet. Let stand for 15 minutes, wash feet with warm water and dry with a towel to dry.

Forget, wear shoes made of soft leather or fabric that allows the foot to breathe still. Try not to use closed shoes all the time. Occasionally remove the shoes to the air exchange. Select the shoe model open, legs covered during the day will also bring pleasant aroma.
Hope it can help so that we are free from the problems we face, and we may present our confidence again shouted "Goodbye cracked feet .....!!"

A Chinese grandmother(Granny Zhao, 95, of Zhanjiang city, Guangdong province) has a five inch "horn" growing out of her forehead. The horn curves downward and looks like the stalk of a pumpkin. In fact, this horn is actually not a bone that grew out from her skull, instead its a mole with elongated skin making it looking a horn. “At first, it was only a mole, but it gradually grew and became like a horn,” she said," the horn dont cause me any trouble and discomfot except to affect my vision slightly and block part of my view." Her family are hoping that medical experts can explain the phenomenon.