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This topic came up when I was studying with birdman the day before the Limb Dissection exam. (Thanks must go to him for teaching me what happened to show up on the exam, the “ulnar paradox” and other relevant stuff). We both (jokingly?) decided that we would go and study all of this right after exams. That’s right, right after. The reason at the time being that we hadn’t really put enough into getting the full benefit out of the course, and the other reason being that we needed a new motivation for learning.

The motivation that we are learning not to pass exams, but to learn so that we know more; and that’s not something you do just before exams, is it?

And so the quest begins this holidays, with a new copy of the latest edition of Harrisons, possibly some books that the fifth years might sell us after passing their final barrier exams, and then wikipedia. Well, the ultimate in Wikipedia happened last friday when Axxaer found an image on Wikipedia to be identical to one on our exam except with the labels removed (the question in question involved labelling parts of the shoulder). For the image - check the entry for Shoulder in wikipedia; it’s the black and white drawing in the top right corner.

birdman also posted something on our discussion board that I didn’t initially get, but realise how relevant it is. In preparation for the SAQ (which most of us have down to an art, the art of doing past papers and memorising answers), which most of us did, I realised just how irrelevant it makes the MCQ/SAQ to our actual practice. The
comic in question, if you get it, explains all.

Now to close this and get onto that newfound love of a textbook.