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T-minus 38 hours, 23 minutes …

extrinsic_eyeThe first year class is just over a day and a half away from our gross anatomy final exam. I am sure my fellow classmates are feverishly studying Mini Moore, MNTS(medical note-taking service) notes, Netter and Grant atlases, flash cards, PowerPoint slides, “netanatomy.com”:http://www.netanatomy.com/, Chung, and other homemade study materials.

Some of my classmates have expressed their disdain for gross anatomy given its wide breadth of coverage (and time-compressed duration), but I, for one, revel in the details. I treat each new factoid like a gem in the rough, to be extracted and saved. Maybe there is a some masochism in me, but I don’t care. I like it, and I will miss the lectures and lab. What is medical school without gross anatomy? We will know, come Monday morning, I suppose.

Anyway, good luck to everyone, study hard, and let’s celebrate when it’s over!

For the curious, the structures in the above figure are:

  1. superior oblique muscle, innervated by CN IV (trochlear)
  2. lateral rectus muscle, innervated by CN VI (abducens)
  3. inferior rectus muscle, innervated by CN III (oculomotor)

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