 Let's talk about required materials for anatomy in spring 2016. First, anatomy, you must have a textbook. I recommend a textbook that you can bring with you to lab. And the reason for this is because you must, I mean lab in anatomy, it isn't about doing experiments. It's about messing with specimens. It's about getting in there and identifying things and naming them and then committing all of that to memory. If you sit in lab and you wait around and you're not doing something, if you're staring at a model or a cadaver in lab and expecting someone else to tell you everything that you're supposed to know, you're going to be really sad. You need your textbook to help you out with this process. You need your textbook to answer the questions because often you'll get a list of required structures and then it's your job to figure out where those are in the models and the cadavers. You can totally do that. Now, if you don't have a textbook, it's going to be really challenging. Textbooks, don't get me started on how much it bothers me that textbooks often cost more than the course itself. I won't talk about that. I'll talk about the fact that for the first time, I am making our official textbook a free and open text from OpenStax College. These guys are amazing. Grant-funded, they've produced a whole bunch of high-quality, amazing resources, textbooks. So we're going to use the Anatomy and Physiology textbook in Anatomy and I'm also using it in physiology. So if you end up with different, like if you buy it, you can use it for both classes if you have me for physio as well. That's my official required textbook. That said, in the library, there are about 20 copies of the McKinley and O'Loughlin Human Anatomy Textbook, which is a phenomenal text. They're old editions. I purchased them for like 10 bucks and then threw the whole lot of them at the library and they are there for the entire semester. You can check them out. The bookstore, I believe, is going to have hard copies of the Anatomy and Physiology textbook. I'm actually not positive about that. Not sure how that's going to shake down, but we'll go over there and find out eventually. Regardless, you better have a textbook. Let's get it worked out. Now, M&O, McKinley and O'Loughlin is my favorite Anatomy textbook. I don't care what Anatomy textbook you use. If you want to check any other text with me, I'm happy to give you the E.A. or the N.A. You also are going to need a histology guide. Now, the histology guides, they actually have about 15 of those in the lab. You use the histology guide when we do microscope work in Anatomy, which actually happens in about 40% of the labs that we do. If you don't have, again, if you don't have a book that you can look at the pictures, then you are kind of like going blind and of course you aren't going to know where things are because how would you know where they are? It's not in there yet. So you need books to help you with this process. So you can borrow them for free during lab. They'll be in the lab at that time. If you want your own copy of it, I've had lots of students go either way. So if you want a copy, I believe there's going to be copies in the bookstore of the histology guide. You've got to have a clicker. We already talked about that. So you're golden in clicker land. The advice for the external brain in Anatomy in particular is make it huge. Make your notebook huge because there's a lot of content and the more that you can put in your external brain, the happier that you'll be. And Anatomy, you must have a box of gloves. There will be a point at which I actually hold you accountable for having gloves. It's totally doable for you to actually share a box of gloves. It's always good to share gloves with your table mates in lab. And I'm totally cool with that. But you must have gloves available to you. I recommend non-latex, like exam gloves. You can get them at Costco. I don't know. You can tell me where you got yours. Some people, it's happened once that someone was like, I don't want to throw away all those gloves. And then they tried the dishwashing gloves and they're just so big and bulky that it kind of defeats the purpose of getting in there. That brings us to the cadavers and it's very relevant to talk about the fact that yes, we do cadaver work in Anatomy. You don't actually do dissections, but we have bodies that we get to go in and work with. And the sooner you are comfortable working with our cadavers who we love, the more you're going to get out of your lab time. We're going to meet our cadavers on day one and to have a talk, we'll totally go through kind of what the expectations are around that. But it's definitely happening. So get your gloves and if you have some serious concerns about it, by all means talk to me. But cadavers are not an optional part of the course. And finally, there is a copy packet in the bookstore. The copy packet should have the lecture notes and the external brain study guide questions and the lab handouts. So it's just up to you. If you want to get them off of Canvas, by all means, that's fantastic and if you would rather not, that's awesome too. I tend to be a rather color-coded human, so there's a bunch of stuff on my list of other things that you might find helpful in your syllabus. Everybody's different. I have a lab coat that I wear when I work with the cadavers just because I don't know. I mean, I'm not super uptight about it, but it's whatever I have a lab coat. And the fact that I have a lab coat probably means that most people are going to want something because I tend to be kind of casual about things like that. You do have to wear closed-toed shoes when you come into the cadaver lab. We've got chemicals. We store our cadavers in finaxi ethanol, which is the least toxic of our list of toxic chemicals to store preserved specimens in. However, it is a toxic chemical. We can talk about all those kinds of details. When I lecture, I'm super color-oriented, so colored pencils or pens for note-taking and activities in class that you might find that helpful. Definitely index cards, flash cards, or magic. That's awesome. And then there are a couple of resources here that are extra things. Man, I had a student last semester who had like a $20 app from, I think it was on his iPad. I can't remember, but it was awesome. It wasn't that expensive and you could do all sorts of stuff with it. So as you guys find stuff, resources like that, let us know. And then we'll do some dissections and if you want your own kit, rock on. If you don't, if you just want to use our scalpels and scissors and stuff, then that's fine too, knowing that they will be in well-used condition. All right, let's talk about the specific assignments that we're going to have for anatomy this semester.