Day 77
Filed Under (General Talk) by Dave on 19-09-2008
Day 77:
Wednesday September 17, 2008
Another long day starting off with physiology. We continued our talk today of the nervous system but more specially the somatic nervous system. The somatic nervous system consists of peripheral nerve fibers that send sensory information to the central nervous system AND motor nerve fibers that project to skeletal muscle. If you are really interested in finding out more of what we are talking about in class I have found a link that explains things in a really easy manner.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/nsdivide.html
After physiology we went back to the PA classroom to continue our talk on adrenergic agonist. What in the world is that?? Well if you are interested I have posted a link below so you can learn more about that too. On a sidenote, we got some news about the pharmacology grades from our last test. We are all receiving 4 points to our grade. This is to make up for a few test questions that might not have been fair or worded correctly. Hey, 4 points is 4 points…i’ll take’em any day!
http://www.uic.edu/classes/phar/phar402/katz/adragonist/sld001.htm
Next was case study for ophthalmology. We were broken into groups of 4-5 and where handed a printout of different case studies. Each group was assigned a case study and after a while had to tell what they thought was the diagnosis. My groups question was actually dealing with drugs of the eyes. At least it gives us an idea of what to expect come test time tomorrow.
After lunch we continued on with our guest lectures of the eye and had a lecture on refractive problems of the eye. Nothing too difficult. Just the different types of eye refractive problems…like nearsightedness, farsightedness…you know what i’m talking about.
The last lecture of the day was by another guest lecturer and it was on the different external eye disease. He was actually a M.D. from the VA hospital and was quite interesting. I won’t bore you with the details…plus I have to get off to studying!