Learning Tissues Bird by Bird

What?! Bird by bird?Yep —that ' s thebest way to begin learning how to distinguish the various tissue types of the body.Thebird-by-bird approach to learning anatomy is based on two major concepts, described here.Chunk the ListThe first was described by authorAnne Lamott in her bookBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life:" Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he ' d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother ' s shoulder, and said, ' Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ' "Wow —doesn ' t that sound just like the feeling you have when you are given a list of human tissues to learn in your A&P course? Withcrazy names likenonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium,specimens that look like the abstract art exhibit at the art museum, and aninsanely short time frame to master them all,of course itfeels overwhelming.Really, that ' s the best way to tackle the tissues. Just get started! Andtake them one by one, rather than thinking about the whole long list of them facing you. You ' ll find that bychunking the list this way, it ' s not so paralyzing. It s...
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