L3 Life Sciences - Anatomy/Sports Medicine

Ahhh, the joys of having an advisor in the wrong subject, good old Glasgow Uni

I'm a fourth year anatomy student (Starting this September!) and I have pals that are going into fourth year Sports medicine so ask away! I don't really know if you can change your mind if you've already submitted your choice and been accepted because sports medicine (like anatomy) is an oversubscribed course so chances are there will be no places left now. :/

But all I can say is, anatomy is brilliant! Just ask Quentin Fogg, he gets really excited talking about career prospects for anatomy students.

You start off with head and neck which is fascinating, and taught by the brilliant prof Payne. You get a lecture then go to the anatomy museum to look at the specimens that he was referring to in the lecture.

Next course is Upper Limb. This is the best course cos you get to be a proper anatomist for the first time and dissect a body. Really interesting course.

Then in second semester you do a neuroanatomy course where you dissect the brain, again, really fascinating.

Last course is an embryology course. This is probably the most difficult but this is the course that made me want to take anatomy!

Those are the four anatomy courses. You are tested on them with spot tests and the end of course exam. You also do an integrated human course which is more like physiology....and generally hated by all forced to take it. There's a few lab reports to write for that course (including a big statistics one worth 10% of your grade before Xmas) and again, the end of course exam in May.

There is also a molecular methods segment that takes the form of nine lectures and a weeks worth of PCR labs.

The sports scientists were in molecular methods lectures with us but apart from that they are separate from the rest of our degree group (anatomists, neuroscientists, physiologists and pharmacologists) lectures and get their own special lectures.

It's a lot of hard work but I hope you enjoy it! Maybe see you at the anatomy socials!


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Thanks for the reply! I think I've defs gone for the right choice with Anatomy, it sounds really good from what you've said =) Looking forward to the brain dissection now!!!
I know the timetable will probably change, but how was it? Were there 9AM's everyday, or did it vary? I'm in a sports club, and we have training on two afternoons everyweek and I really hope I can still make it!

Thanks!

I'm hoping to go to Glasgow for the 2013 session to study chemistry, but since 3 subjects are required I was thinking anatomy and pharmacology. However I'm a slight hypochondriac and was wondering how much disease and dissection topics are in anatomy? Don't want to make the wrong choice! Thanks for any advice.

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Hi, I'm hoping it's ok to quote you considering it was ages a go! I don't know if you are still on this. I'm currently in 5th year and I think I want to apply for anatomy next year - it sounds fascinating. After reading your reply, I felt like it sounded just as fascinating as I imagined.

Would you say it is a good course to do? And difficulty, how hard is it? I'm planning on taking adv biology so hopefully some of that might interweave with first year!

Plus, is it true in first and second year you choose 3 subjects like anatomy, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology etc etc?

Anatomy is great! I wouldn't say it's really difficult, but some of the stuff can be hard to get your head around, and there are a lot of things to learn - but it's not that bad!
Advanced Biology does definitely have some resemblances with first year, but I found there were quite a few new topics I hadn't covered before as well, though once I got into 2nd year I found that there were things I'd done at school.

Yeah, in first year you choose 3 subjects, you'll do Biology 1A and 1B, and then you have to take Chemistry(if you've got Higher B) or Science Fundamentals (if you've not got Higher B), the 3rd subject choice is completely free, I chose Latin as I had studied it at school, but you can pretty much choose anything!

Second year is a bit different, there are lots of 10 and 20 credit biology courses that you take, and you need a total of 120 credits. You'll also have to take certain ones to get into certain courses, so for Anatomy you need to take Human Form and Function, Physiology, Neuroscience, and Drugs and Disease - these can also get you into Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiology. There are then lots of others which you can take to total your credits to 120.

It's only in 3rd year that you really specialise into Anatomy - I found this quite good as it meant that I was able to change to Anatomy from my original plan to study Zoology. So you go Integrated Human 3(with Neuro, Pharma and Physio) and then also Anatomy 3.

Thank you for your length and detailed reply, I really appreciate it!

I think it sounds great so I'm glad you think it is as you have done it. So for your 3rd subject, is there a big choice of subjects? Can you really pick any subject that they offer or is it limited?

And yeah I've heard that 1st and 2nd year are a lot more general, like general biology rather than specific. So at least I have even more time to decide which field I can go into as I may find another course just as interesting

Again, thank you