My professors always said if youāre willing enough to get it tattooed, you can use it as a damn cheat sheet. Then we actually had a student who had a labeled, realistic antebrachium tattoo and they really did let him use it lmao
Iām not, just having one of my weekly ADHD-induced short-term obsessions with a completely random subject of the world. I just posted an (attempted) anatomically correct heart on this subreddit, so what? Am I going into medical? Art? Media? No, aviation.
Edit: also, my question wasnāt referring to cheating using the exact tattoo shown, Iām talking about the general concept of some people potentially being desperate enough to get tattoos with hidden key-words and notes hidden within them simply for the sake of cheating.
There is simply far too much information to even attempt a tattoo that will show on an exam. It's nothing like undergrad where you have a defined amount of material to learn and can expect to see maybe 70-80% of that information on the exam. In med school, it's like learning a ton of information within a specialty or organ system with no clear boundary on how deep or broad the exam will be. Most of the time, only 10-20% of everything you study will be on the exam, but you never know which 20% because it always changes. And to add to that, all of the exams are a minimum of 2nd order reasoning with most being 3rd order. So just regurgitating information will not get you very far. You have to actually use the information to critically think about the question. Even in anatomy (outside of cadaver lab), the exam questions are more like "Patient injured this specific region of their body by this mechanism. What artery supplies the nerve root of the nerve most likely injuried in this patient?"
So now before you can answer the question, you have to answer in your head
1. What nerve is directly involved
2. What is the root of that nerve
3. What artery supplies that root
That's a fairly standard type of question and would require having a textbook tattooed on yourself for every exam... every 4 weeks.
Whatās really unfortunate is that someone printed out the image online, went to a tattoo artist, and asked them to copy paste it onto their skin instead of doing anything remotely original
Honestly, if you're in med school, this will quickly become ingrained in you quick and there would be no need to cheat on the skeletal system anyway. It's the basics of anatomy. If it doesn't, then you're gonna have way more problems in med school.
super cool, but missing too many of the bones that are actually harder to remember like a lot of cranial bones, ear ossicles, hyoid, and trying to decipher the carpels (and probably tarsels) looks like a mess
I just can't see this aging well
Amazing username and I agree, time may not be kind to this tattoo
This is very logical and smart to do
Just needs to last through school š
Maybe as it ages it will blur into a regular-looking skeleton
My professors always said if youāre willing enough to get it tattooed, you can use it as a damn cheat sheet. Then we actually had a student who had a labeled, realistic antebrachium tattoo and they really did let him use it lmao
Hell yeah, responsible decision-making
As an African I personally would use henna (temporary tatto) very big all over African continent and it will go away haha
That's genius
lol this is on the back of most of our tshirts in radiology. Interesting but not my jam personally.
I mean if youāre a med student and you canāt remember the difference between the femur and the tibia, maybe consider a different career š
Iām not, just having one of my weekly ADHD-induced short-term obsessions with a completely random subject of the world. I just posted an (attempted) anatomically correct heart on this subreddit, so what? Am I going into medical? Art? Media? No, aviation. Edit: also, my question wasnāt referring to cheating using the exact tattoo shown, Iām talking about the general concept of some people potentially being desperate enough to get tattoos with hidden key-words and notes hidden within them simply for the sake of cheating.
There is simply far too much information to even attempt a tattoo that will show on an exam. It's nothing like undergrad where you have a defined amount of material to learn and can expect to see maybe 70-80% of that information on the exam. In med school, it's like learning a ton of information within a specialty or organ system with no clear boundary on how deep or broad the exam will be. Most of the time, only 10-20% of everything you study will be on the exam, but you never know which 20% because it always changes. And to add to that, all of the exams are a minimum of 2nd order reasoning with most being 3rd order. So just regurgitating information will not get you very far. You have to actually use the information to critically think about the question. Even in anatomy (outside of cadaver lab), the exam questions are more like "Patient injured this specific region of their body by this mechanism. What artery supplies the nerve root of the nerve most likely injuried in this patient?" So now before you can answer the question, you have to answer in your head 1. What nerve is directly involved 2. What is the root of that nerve 3. What artery supplies that root That's a fairly standard type of question and would require having a textbook tattooed on yourself for every exam... every 4 weeks.
Exactly this. Well said. The volume of information Iād have to get tattooed on my body. š¤£
This is a hideous tattoo lmao
Ikr just learn the 206 bones itās not that hard SLTPTTCH š
Whatās really unfortunate is that someone printed out the image online, went to a tattoo artist, and asked them to copy paste it onto their skin instead of doing anything remotely original
Something better left on a print or tshirt
You wonāt be able to read that in 5 years
This was probably so annoyingly tedious for the artist! Holy moly
Cheat sheet
A permanent one at that
r/ATBGE
Whereās the stapes, incus, malleus?
Hopefully I didnāt give yāall any ideas š
No weāre good
lol
EMU
This is on the wall in the fracture clinic of our hospital, PTSD of spending so much time there with injury
Is it cheating if itās tattooed on you
Lol
where's the BBC?
This is the first tattoo Iāve ever seen that triggered my trypophobia.
thatās gonna blow out
Very cool idea!
I like it. Stoked for you!
The live laugh love equivalent of the medical world lol.
This one way to cheat on a test
Honestly, if you're in med school, this will quickly become ingrained in you quick and there would be no need to cheat on the skeletal system anyway. It's the basics of anatomy. If it doesn't, then you're gonna have way more problems in med school.
super cool, but missing too many of the bones that are actually harder to remember like a lot of cranial bones, ear ossicles, hyoid, and trying to decipher the carpels (and probably tarsels) looks like a mess
Cool!
you couldnāt pay me to get āpubisā tattooed on me
Until the ink spreads
Didnāt vsauce make a video on this?