1Sep/091
First Semester with HST
The HST program began its classes today. This term lasting until December, we will be taking four:
- Anatomy - The human body - nerves, muscles, circulation - through dissection of a cadaver.
- Pathology - What tissues look like and what can go wrong.
- Immunology - The development and maintenance of the immune system to fight disease.
- Genetics - Survey of genetic disorders - that is, caused by mutations in specific genes.
The HST curriculum always has concurrent classes, while New Pathway tends to study one block at a time. For instance, they will study anatomy for several weeks everyday.
While we have more variety day to day, we have a larger time commitment - we spend between 9AM-6PM each day in class. This doesn't include the work we have to do at night after class.
It should be fun, but it's also daunting. A number of students here are worried about balancing personal life, classwork, and sleep. We'll see.
Me in a month?
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September 2nd, 2009 - 20:32
I would have preferred the HST method. At my med school, we had anatomy for 4 straight months. It would have been nice to have some variety.