Last week we started our
summer semester! We have two classes,
Systemic Pathology and Clinical Pathology.
We have Systemic Pathology every day.
We are learning about disease processes in different organs and systems.
It is a lot of reading and studying, but so far so good! We have questions to answer while we are
reading and we receive homework grades for them and we have quizzes almost
every day. Our first exam is on Friday and it is on the lung, pancreas, eye,
and the gastrointestinal system.
Clinical Pathology is every Tuesday and we are learning about the other
side of Pathology that relies heavily on laboratory tests and why the tests are
performed and what they are testing for.
We have quizzes every week on the information we went over the week
before.
If you have read the blog before then you will remember me
talking about our cadaver lab experience last semester. I do not know if you ever wondered how the
university acquires the cadavers, but there is something called the Human Gift
Registry where people sign up while they are living to donate their body to
science when they pass away. At WVU, our
program, dentistry, medicine, and physical therapy utilize cadavers for our
learning experiences. This Saturday, the
university held a memorial service for the family members of the participants
of the Human Gift Registry. If their
family member had passed, they were invited to participate in the service. Students volunteered to help, perform musical
numbers, and speech to thank the
families for their contribution. Myself
and most of my class attended and volunteered.
It was a nice and touching service and I think it is awesome that WVU
hosts this event each year. It really is
such a great gift to donate their body to science. The human body is so intricate and complex
and it would be impossible to learn about it without the lab experience.
