Don't listen to any of the 5 star ratings or anyone who will tell you this course is easy if you just "keep up with the lectures". You'll realistically need to use ANKI or some form of active recall and spend hours on it, then self teach yourself certain concepts through online videos and sites as the course is quite rushed through some parts. A lot of the students who do this course are some of the brightest students in the whole state and study all day, hence naturally will inherently find things easy and give an inflated review. I'll give a brutally honest review. The best things about this course are the practicals being very engaging and Rob's enthusiasm for teaching being very motivating for students (he's the best lecturer by far...). The first test is also quite straight forward and the course gets more complicated after that. NOW, if you signed up to do this course you're probably a high achieving student and the work load should not come as a surprise, actually if anything I'd say IMED1001 isn't actually too content heavy besides maybe the last few lectures. The main problem with this course is just how much USELESS information are on the lecture slides, making it very difficult to follow and know what is deemed examinable content and what isn't. In lectures, sometimes even the lecturer brushed over these niche, quirky dot point as there's too many of them and they seem trivial, but somehow they can still show up in the tests? It's clear whoever writes the tests doesn't even know either whats deemed examinable content. Furthermore, some major topics are very vaguely taught in the lecture slides with very confusing explanations IF there even is an explanation. For example, lets say you were learning about smooth muscle contraction, some of the lecture slides would just be screenshots of an annotated image of the process stolen straight out of a textbook with no explanations or anything about WHY the given process is happening, which aspects of the process we need to know or anything. Whilst smooth muscle contraction isn't too hard to understand, it gets confusing when this style of teaching is applied to more complicated concepts covered later in the course. There's also almost NO practice resources, with only one practice test given per assessment and you'll be lucky to find formative questions on LMS with more than 3 MCQs. There's one 2017 exam on OneSearch, but it doesn't even have solutions. Also test feedback is very poor and you don't even get access to the tests after completing them for whatever reason? The feedback they give is very vague and generally a mess like the whole unit. The tests just need to be more aligned with the lecture slides, that's all and lecture slides should be shorter and more succinct.

Excellent unit overall. As someone who never did biology before, the content is presented in a beginner friendly manner - all lecturers are good, but special mentions to Rob (such a great lecturer!) The anatomy labs were really good as well - it's very different seeing the body physically compared to an image. Only giving it 4 stars due to the PTSD this unit caused, even a semester later. I cannot emphasise how content heavy this unit is, especially if you have not taken bio before. Personally, I used Anki, but any sort of active recall tool will be very helpful, as the workload will pile up very quickly, and with two multi-choice tests, you have to keep up.

If you keep up with lectures, then it will be a breeze! Belinda is new and sometimes messes up what she is saying in lectures, but very understanding and helpful with clarifications and questions. Rob is amazing as you can see from the other reviews!! Genuinely so passionate and able to EXPLAIN/TEACH. Don't let the to-do content build up, and with some simple googling/textbook/questions for clarifications, this will probably be one of the most interesting and fulfilling units you take.

Rob White is the best lecturer you'll ever have in IMED, Amanda Meyer is the worst lecturer you'll ever have in IMED (assuming they haven't kicked her from the course yet). Rob goes over the physiology aspect of the unit (almost half of the unit), and is extremely motivated and enthusiastic. I didn't go to lectures in person, but would recommend you do; he's very fun. Unit has 32 lectures in total. The physiology content starts off easy, then gets a little challenging towards the middle. The examination questions for physiology weren't too challenging, and didn't go into great depth. Amanda covers the anatomy aspect of this unit, and consequently it is horrible. Her self-stated philosophy is to put as little information on the slides as possible and to narrate them, hypothesising that this helps with learning. She responds to question emails in a hostile manner, and is unable to take any form of criticism - her twitter is publicly accessible and there's a nice reddit argument she's involved in over her teaching capabilities. Make sure to not accidentally refer to her as Ms instead of Dr; she will remind you she has a PhD at the start of every lecture. For some lectures she used recordings from previous years which were in person, and she seemed a lot more enthusiastic than the recorded at-home lectures, so hopefully if you do this unit the lectures will be in person. Or really just hopefully she's gone by then - she's on "stress leave" currently (end of sem2, 2023). Don't be fooled by the first lecture, the content immediately gets harder afterwards. Do the practice anatomy questions to get an idea of what Amanda deems to be important to learn. The anatomy component is fairly content heavy to the point where it's not clear what she expects to be assessible, and the exam makes it evident she doesn't know either, as questions were on some random pieces of information, rather than assessing general or important pieces of information like the physiology component of the exam did. This unit was supposed to have a cadaver lab, and some physiology labs, but they were cancelled due to COVID lockdown during this semester. Exam was 50% MCQ 50% SAQ as far as I can remember, SAQs slightly harder. Practice tests were slightly easier than the real tests. No/Minimal practice exams available, if I recall correctly it was for this unit that a lecturer said to not bother using the available practice exam online since it's horribly written (2017 exam). This unit has a lot of content overlaps with ANHB1101, some overlap with ANHB1102, both of which I'd recommend if you found this easy or enjoyed the content. Fairly content-heavy for a first level unit, but it was very manageable - if not, strongly consider dropping out of pre-med. HD possible and quite achievable, even if you didn't do highschool human biology like myself. Not that it's relevant to this unit, but there's a comically fake 5 star review written by Amanda on one of her units (ANHB2217), so that just shows you the type of person she is. If you're doing the IMSCP (IMED) major, this sem I'd recommend also taking ANHB1101 and one easy unit in case you find uni challenging.

Physiology is perfectly taught by the amazing Rob White. Unfortunately the anatomy section was insufficient, likely due to issues with COVID-19. The lecturer attempted to comprehensively present the content properly and honestly tried their best. This unit is essentially equivalent to a second year unit, in terms of workload, which can make it difficult for those still adjusting to university. Labs 3-5 were meant to include cadavers and electrocution, so COVID cancelling them was rather disappointing. Due to a lack of labs, the assessments boiled down to 3 tests and an exam, which was too easy. The exam was online and hence was mainly MCQ with some short answer. To do well, this unit needs to be your main focus and you will need to study quite a bit.

Physiology taught well, anatomy was a bit of a mess. Very very heavy content in this unit. COVID lockdown removing practicals only made it heavier

This unit was generally well taught (apart from the anatomy lectures) but there was just way too much content for me to even try to keep up with. Was especially difficult since I didn’t take any biology/human in high school so I was overwhelmed at first. Overall a well run unit that was insanely stressful and content heavy

The physiology component of this unit was spectacular! Rob was excellent in presenting the content in a fun and engaging manner, and I felt that he never went off topic during the lectures. What let me down was the anatomy component. Amanda's lectures were quite vague in what we needed to know and she goes into too much time talking about topics outside the scope of the unit. There were several instances in which she would say a certain topic wasn't going to be assessed, yet she would ask us a question about that same topic in the exam! However, overall her short answer questions in the real exam were surprising a breeze compared to the practice exam. To be honest I'm glad that labs 3-5 weren't assessed due to the pandemic as I felt the content in labs 1-2 wasn't well aligned with the lecture content. Overall an HD is possible in this unit, however you do have to work extra hard despite it being a semester 1 first year unit.

The anatomy lectures were really vague and not well taught, and there's a lot of self study required for it. Physiology with Rob was brilliant on the other hand. The exam was alright, though the anatomy parts were worse than the physiology.

Anatomy part of the unit could have been taught better but lots of tips were given closer to the exam which was an absolute lifesaver. Rob's physiology portion was amazing and easy to understand.