When it comes to studying medicine, one of the most frequently asked periods is, have you ever taken an anatomy class? Is the anatomy class bloody? Since everyone is so concerned about the anatomy learning of medical students, let's talk about anatomy today.
As any 18- or 19-year-old young man, if you let him look at the body directly, it will be unacceptable. Therefore, the anatomy class in medical schools is also gradual, and the foreplay is very sufficient. Before actually touching the corpse, there will be a lot of theoretical lessons to pave the way, and in the process of learning, you will also see a lot of maps, some of which are drawn, and some of which are real photos. And the learning process is also a gradual deepening of layer by layer, the first contact is the skeletal system, because the bones do not cause discomfort symptoms at all. Then there will be contact with the muscle nerves, and then there will be the unpleasant parts of the internal organs and so on. After each part of the theoretical lesson is completed, I will contact and watch the specimens, that is, the real human specimens made by the predecessors. This process is a process that is completely watched, and does not require self-help. Then it's a cycle of going through and over again, eventually learning the parts of the body and watching it again, usually up to six months.
After the above learning process, it is called general anatomy in medicine, that is to say, there is already a preliminary and rough understanding of the whole body. Later, there will be a real anatomy class, because you can finally get started on your own. At this time, each medical school will be divided according to the number of their own corpses, and the best medical school I have heard of is 6 people per corpse. But I was a corpse of 15 people at that time, because the source of the body was very small, it was difficult to buy, mainly through personal donations, followed by unclaimed dead patients in the hospital, unclaimed corpses at the execution site, and so on. Then 15 people divided into 4 groups to study the same corpse at the same time, roughly divided into left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, each time the class will be rotated, so that all parts of the body can be learned.
What exactly does a real local dissection look like? This has to start from the weekly course schedule, when I first got the class schedule that year, I found that the local anatomy class was occupied in the morning, and the afternoon was all rest and did not arrange other classes, and secretly felt that the class day was very relaxed, you can have an afternoon of free time, but after the class, I found that I did not arrange the afternoon class because I could not eat at noon, I could not finish the work at hand, and I would stay in the anatomy room until after 3 pm. Anatomy class is actually a real lesson for the previous day. Due to the high degree of mental concentration, I went back to rest except for bathing.
Another is the daily class schedule, when classes all start at 8 o'clock. However, the anatomy class will ask the boys in each group to go to the anatomy building before 7:30 in the morning to "retrieve the body". Because the corpses are stored in a 40% formaldehyde solution tank, that is, a formalin solution tank. The "floating corpse" needs to be pulled to the edge of the pool with a 2-meter-long pole, and then carried into a flat car and transported to the dissection room. The corpse itself + formalin will make the overall weight very heavy, and everyone can't really hold the body and carry it to the flat car, so it takes a while to prepare. After the official start of the course, the taste of formalin is still very pungent. As you can imagine, the usual decoration of formaldehyde exceeds the standard will make the eyes and respiratory tract very uncomfortable. 40% of the large amount of formaldehyde volatilizes indoors, even if the door is always open, it is very choking. At that time, everyone would generally wear double-layer or even 3-layer masks, but there would be problems with too much, that is, they could not catch their breath, so they could only pick one in the choking and choking.
Another big problem is the temperature. When the body is preserved, it is in a cool environment, or a very cool place, here is to mention a digression, the temperature around the anatomy building of our school will always be several degrees lower than other places, so every summer around the anatomy building is definitely a good place to cool off, but I don't know if it is because of the poor quality of the surrounding street lights, the anatomy building is always dark, and few people will go there.
Why is the temperature a big problem, because the fat of the human body will be solidified if it is in a cold environment, but in a large room where dozens of people stay together, as the temperature rises, the "human oil" will begin to melt away, not only the position of the corpse is not easy to control, but also accidentally rubbed on the white coat. So at that time, no matter how careful the students were, their bodies were greasy. This greasy condition will also make the anatomical field of view very poor, and many tissue structures will become blurred, which is very unfavorable for separation.
The whole local anatomy is an outside-in process, and every medical student spends a lot of time in the process of → flesh to separate muscle nerves. Step by step to understand the structure of the human body. The whole process of local dissection is a process of meat removal, but it is not possible to completely cut off the muscle, and there are strict requirements for where to disconnect and flip. After reading the skin, musculoskeletal bones, they will enter the internal organs and brain. In the process of going deeper and deeper, the weight of each body will become heavier and heavier, because there will be more and more space in the body to hide formalin. The harmful gases in the dissection room will also exceed the standard, but at this time we all have extremely high immunity, and it is not so easy to "cry and drool".
Finally, to complain about the girls in our class that year, at the beginning, everyone would not want to eat after the anatomy class, especially meat, and everyone would always have a few days a week to temporarily eat vegetarian. However, as the nerves grew larger, near the end of the term, there was a girl in our class who could eat buns in the dissection room, or meat buns (illegal operation). So the girls who study medicine are all good!
Every time I mention anatomy class, I end up saying to my patients that I am very grateful to the deceased or their families who donated their bodies to medical schools. The growth and learning of doctors is based on the "final dedication" of these great people to gradually grow up. I still remember that my body died due to multiple neuromas in my body. Once again, I would like to thank the unknown man for his great help to me.