Teaching Yourself Neuro on Saba

[gianefiasco]

Just throwing it out there.

[BTH]

Salutations:

Haha, that's funny. Is this based on the shelf questions or just overall?

[thedirtychemist]

Just throwing it out there.

Uhh.. dude, seriously? That's definitely not good news for me. I better go buy the book.

[gianefiasco]

Well for the shelf, Im glad I taught myself Neuro this semester, Literally.

Ficks is decent, Snell is average. First AID is GOLD--> knowing this info alone will allow you to pass the shelf.

[wolfvgang22]

Seriously, I don't even like the neuro prof much (asssuming we are still talking about K*****...we never quite saw eye to eye...but if you have the notes handed down from previous semesters you should be in great shape. The course covers more than you actually need for the step 1, if my test was any indication.

Know everything about the frontal eye fields and what happens if they are damaged (as in a stroke), and also about field of vision defects and you are cool for some of the trickiest questions. Don't forget about the medial longitudinal fasiculas.
Know what sections of the medulla, pons, and midbrain look like and what cranial nerves are associated with them, know the three main tracts intimately (spinothalamic, medial lemniscus, and corticospinal). Forget about the spinocerebellar and other minor tracts, they weren't tested and from what I hear usually aren't tested.
Neuro is usually not directly tested on it's own...you'll see it in something that is maybe actually an anatomy or pathology or pharmocology question (know the eye is mainly parasympathetcally innervated, blah blah).

Actual step 1 questions: which nerve is damaged if you cut the inside of your forearm, which nerve is damaged if you jab a glass rod into your thenar eminence when trying to jam it into a rubber stopper in chemistry class (I laughed and yelled "*******!" out loud at that one), which vertebral discs most often slip out, whether they slip out to the right or left (it's right) and what structures are impacted causing neuropathy when they do.

[DocSquatch]

I actually liked K*****. He had a great sense of humor and no matter what you have to teach yourself the material in all your courses...

The only thing I wasn't expecting on our shelf were the pelvic nerve questions. They kind of threw me a bit, but I remembered most of the stuff from anatomy.

The shelf was straight forward only thing I would've done differently is reviewed the peripheral nerves before it.