It's the orthopedic module.
In the morning, we are slogging through the intricacies of gait, ie walking-- which muscles fire when and where the moment arm (torque arm) is for each joint at each part of the walking process.
In the afternoon, we have lab, which today involved putting a long sheet of aluminum foil down on the floor (like 15' of foil), snapping a chalk line down it, and instructing a classmate to walk along the chalk line. (It was easy to see exactly where she stepped, where most of her weight went, measure how long between steps (R to R) and strides (R to R) and take averages.... all good things to know. There was also a homemade, scary looking treadmill, with wobbly looking jacks on the front end so you could make it go downhill. (Now we know where all those studies of downhill running come from.)
Ah, but in the evening... we have an online course in radiology. Ah, yes. Now this... this is fun. Clinical classes tend to have a freak-show element to them, as the professors bring in pictures of the worst, oddest, most classic, or saddest patients they have seen. Radiology is no exception, so this is what you'd hear if you were listening to me read:
Rustle.... rustle.. rustle....
"Cool!" (a barium study of someone's colon, which looks in the film as though it has been suspended in midair in the person's abdomen and is draped elegantly across the pelvis)
"Pretty!" (Dunk a finger in barum, then x-ray the finger, and you get ghostly impressions of skin superimposed on the solid-looking bone, because the barium collects in creases in the skin). Now that is art. I would frame and hang that. It's pretty.
rustle.... rustle... flip... flip...
"Ooooh!" (A severe scoliosis with a metal pin clearly visible in the vertebrae-- I can guess how much that hurt and how the pin got there)
"Grawk!" (A chondroblastoma, ie cartilage tumor, in a teenager's humerus. Ow!)
(sound of pages turning)
"Yeow!" (A CAT scan fails to show a large tumor in someone's thoracic wall, and we see the scan next to an MRI of the same person that does show it. Good thing the tech was thinking that day.)
"Whoops!" (A pet X-ray in the self test section. Identify this pet. Identify why the owner is upset. Uhh... it's a cat, and that metal object is not supposed to be in the cat's intestines, maybe? (I was correct, the cat swallowed a pierced earring. I wonder how Fluffy feels about laxatives?))
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