T-minus 38 hours, 23 minutes …

The 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 notes, Netter and Grant atlases, flash cards, PowerPoint slides, 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)

1. inferior rectus muscle, innervated by CN III (oculomotor)