This subject is an amazing time for those interested in the anatomy of the human body and the individual parts that help us function. Jacinta and Rex are excellent coordinators for the subject and readily provide support for students that may find the content challenging or are confused about certain topics. The subject can be overwhelming at first with a bunch of medical and anatomical jargon but eventually becomes second nature after the first topic. The content can be a bit tricky to make notes on and relies mainly on rote learning but so long as you can identify and describe the function of a specific part of the body, it should be relatively okay. Assessments are also fairly easy with 2 MCQ MSTs and an exam the incorporates MCQs and SAQs together. The SAQ part of the exam is relatively straightforward as its mainly about identifying a particular part of a given anatomical diagram and labelling/explaining its purpose. I also highly recommend attending the practicals as they provide a hands on approach to learning and allow students to see/interact with real human specimens which can make understanding positioning of certain muscular/skeletal/vascular/etc. parts really easy. This subject also provides access to the anatomy museum in the medical building which can be a great study space and enables observation of professionally dissected specimens. Overall, this subject is a really fun time and I can't recommend it enough for those looking to engage with biomedical sciences

This subject was very engaging in terms of content, particularly for those who hope to work in healthcare fields in the future. It’s very memory-centred, so Anki would be your number 1 ally there. However, it’s also crucial to note that you shouldn’t get demotivated by a bad MST score. I got a 67% on one of the MSTs, as it clashed with three other exams around that time (I took no essay subjects unfortunately), but managed to lift the overall grade to 83%. If you seek a higher grade than this, try not to fall behind with any of the lectures and make sure you memorise your annotations, as well as the core content on the slides; the questions will be very unpredictable in the MSTs.

REX AND JACINTA ARE THE BEST. I hope both sides of their pillows are always cold and flowers bloom where they walk. My favourite subject, I kind of wish I could do it again. It's a content heavy subject but if you put in the work you'll see the results, they never try to trip you up on purpose. Also, slightly disagree with post below ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ If you create Anki cards with active recall and pair this with other studying methods like labelling blank diagrams this works well for me. I annotated on lecture notes and it was more than enough.

Some of the nicest teachers, Jacinta and Rex, kinda felt sad the last time I saw them. But that’s about it, rest is traumatic. This is truly a tough subject where 90% of your grade is closed booked assessments, so you’ve seriously got to grind and devote raw effort to do very well (2x workload of a typical subject). Lectures are incredibly dense, and simply annotating lecture slides on your iPad will not suffice and you are bound to score crap on the MSTs. You need to collate labelled diagrams and condense the lecture notes so you can consistently and ACTIVELY test yourself, such as labelling plain diagrams. Many students fall into the trap of using ANKI which is inefficient. MST1 was straightforward and basically tested whether you knew a structure or its classification. MST2 was infamously tougher, covering bones, muscles and their FUNCTION. Lots of trick questions, sometimes it examined a concept the lecturer barely touched on. Exam was the easiest, but it came down to luck. Some topics were not even examined (like upper and lower respiratory) but heavily examined embryology and neuroanatomy (as they know students hate it!). If you can get at least 80% on your MSTs, then I guarantee you a H1 for the subject. And oh, practical classes were apparently not useful. People seemed quite toxic and cliquey, they all enter the subject confident like they will get into med and only shut up once they see their average MST scores. Ngl, this subject was kinda traumatic in its sheer workload, may even make you rethink the possibility of surviving med school. I averaged 90% in MSTs but required sheer raw effort (don’t believe anyone who tells you it’s an easy subject).

This is one of my most favourite subjects! There was a ton of subject support from the coordinators (shoutout to Rex and the anatomy lab demonstrators) which made the subject very enjoyable and engaging. A lot of this subjects focus is to get you to understand the basic concepts and then apply it throughout the whole body, which I found really helpful in getting a holistic overview of our human structure and function. I will say that it is very content heavy though and that embryology may be a common pitfall topic for many because it's the earliest topic and is extremely content heavy. So I would really recommend anyone doing this subject to really prioritise understanding and memorising the first few topics early on in the semester, as the content amount will only grow as the semester goes along.

MST1 - use diagrams from lecture slides, know muscle types and their diagram, very easy, know which region most dermatomes MST 2 - very hard. Go very specific. Know every single information written on slides. Know the muscle movements at different joints. Be VERY careful with the question wording. Practice MST not indication of actual difficulty at all. But it does get scaled since difficult. Exam - easy. Know the labelling for embryology and spinal cord. Pay attention to what Rex says in the review lecture - free marks for MST 3 in the exam. I know embyrology is difficult at first, but trust me it gets better. Revise it, then watch the lectures again and suddenly everything Dahgmar says makes sense now. I recommend previewing lecture slides before watching the lectures. Overall, H1 is accomplishable for sure.

Content understanding is limited by lecturers ability. Embryology lecturer was embarrassingly bad, yet MST was heavily based on embryology. Rex is very nice but sets up false expectations for assessment. Eg will teach something and then say don’t worry if you don’t know it, when you do need to know it. But inconsistent. Prac demonstrators were amazing, best part of the subject.

unnecessarily difficult. MST's are way too hard, the subjects throughout the semester couldn't be balanced any worse in the exam. Some topics got max 5 marks while others got more than 20. Lecturer for embryo + reproductive systems was incredibly hard to understand. Questions were very niche and it seems like they wanted to just trick you rather than test your understanding of anatomy. Pros: Rex, cadaver labs are really interesting, demonstrators in labs are great, labs really help understanding relative locations of things

Really great subject overall, I think Rex is incredible and a really involved coordinator (will be at the pracs chatting to people and really furthering your learning. The labs are ultimately the best part, however some parts can get repetitive (as in you see the same thing all the time) but when you see some new stuff with the cadavers its really cool, and it puts context to your learning as how organs look is different to the diagrams you see in lectures when it comes to real people. Some content was a bit dry, starting off with embryology which makes sense in the grand scheme of things but the lecturer for these talked quite fast. Another issue was with the cardiology lectures as well, however everything else was quite good and engaging - including upper/lower limb which is the most "dry" in content but Rex makes up for it. The MSTs were hard, but the exam was incredibly fair, I ended up with a H1 despite hovering around a H2B all semester.

interesting subject but can be a bit tedious and boring - just learning the names of a lot of parts of the body can get boring. But the pracs are great and easy, looking at cadavers with some really great demonstrators that consolidate learning. Overall pracs were good, most of the lecturers were engaging and good but content can get a bit dry