Clinical Assistant Professor
Kinesiology
PHD 2015 Boston University
76.7% of students reported.
I found that Dr. Stamm was a wonderful lecturer and really wanted you to succeed. Anatomy is a TOUGH class and be prepared to put the work in, but she is very accessible outside of class to answer questions and discuss study techniques.
Anatomy is structured poorly at UW but Stamm does her best to make the content interesting, though not even a fraction of it can be covered in lecture. Getting an A is very possible if you make flashcards and keep up with them. Stamm gives lots of extra credit as well. The class is INTENSE but people are dramatic and it is not her fault.
Prof. Stamm was a decent lecturer. I moreso have issues with how Anatomy is taught at UW. It never seemed fair that there could be a class with so much content that it might not even be covered in lecture and still end up on the exam. Sorry, but if there's that much content, the class needs a mandatory discussion section, not just "optional" review
Anatomy is a difficult class in nature. However, Stamm did not make it any more bearable. Material covered in lecture was skimmed over so fast, with a good amount of exam material not being mentioned in class once. On several occasions, we had lectures with new content for the next exam that was scheduled for the following day! Horrible.
Anatomy 337 would be tough if you are not concurrently enrolled in Anatomy 338 (anatomy lab). Even when enrolled in both, you definitely need to study A LOT and put forth your best effort for every exam. I recommend enrolling in lab as well, as you do learn some of the structures and content on real human tissue, which does make exams easier.
Stamm is super nice and passionate about this course, but there is no way to pass this course W/O spending at least 6-8 hours outside of class on a non-test week. Studying for exams is impossible as the questions are very specific and they don't give much outline of what you should and shouldn't focus on.TA's weren't much help either.
Tough, weed-out class with exams that are sometimes too specific. Professor Stamm is clearly passionate about the class but I often found myself learning more from external resources than from lectures. If you want to excel in this class, be prepared to self-study 70-80% of the material.
her exams were insanely hard, specific and it felt like she was trying to trick you. her lectures were general and often missed important content because she could not fit it in the time allotted. if i were to take the class again i would study way in advance and go over all the little details that are covered in the readings
Lectures and class material was extremely content heavy with specific questions asked on each exam. Nearly impossible to learn all of the content details unless you have no other challenging classes or job. Some assignments were clearly directed towards people who want to be doctors, but irrelevant to other professions.
I have nothing but great things to say about Dr. Stamm teaching anatomy 337. Her lectures were extremely clear and concise to the point where I only had to use the online readings and outside sources very minimally. Anatomy is extremely content heavy, so do expect to have to understand a large amount of information. I would recommend her to anyone
Dr. Stamm was an incredible anatomy professor and is very well-respected as an educator across the U.S. Although Anat 337 is a difficult and in-depth course, it was super interesting. Get ready to study and prepare for the exams early, but if you do, it will definitely pay off; you can retake 2 exams. Super kind and is available outside of class.
This class requires more work than 3 credits. It's content heavy and exams are specific-missing even the smallest detail can lead you to the wrong answer. That being said, Dr. Stamm was very sweet and wanted everyone to do well, though I do wish the content was more broken up, since there is so much of it. Have a light semester with this class
Dr. Stamm is very nice and shows examples to make the class more interesting. The lectures do move very fast but this is because the class is very content heavy for 3 credits. Anatomy is hard and I would expect to spend a lot of time preparing for every exam because you can (and will) be asked very small details.
I took Anat337 over the summer. The class itself was difficult, as others have mentioned, but Stamm was far worse than her co-professor, to the point of me audibly groaning when I saw she recorded the lecture. She's disengaged in the material, and rather monotone. If you've taken a Drew Lokuta class, imagine the exact opposite in a professor.
She is a horrible teacher. Lectures move too fast, it is so difficult to comprehend the material. The textbook readings are so insanely long, you never know what is going to be on the exam and what isn't, so you don't know what to focus on. The TA's are clueless! DON'T TAKE! I worked so hard, blood sweat and tears went into this class for nothing
The exams have the most specific questions ever. I cannot believe anyone passes this class. I worked so hard and did not do well even after going to the optional TA meetings. I am NOT looking forward to 335 with her :(
Awful class. Pretty much everyone I know is failing or close to it. I have never taken a class this hard in my life. 3 credit class but you will spend hours upon hours outside of class studying just to most likely fail the exams. This class has destroyed my mental health
This is the hardest class I have taken so far at UW. Lectures move so fast, if I get distracted for one second it feels like i'm 2 slides behind already. The professor moves at lightning speed and I never leave lecture knowing what we talked about. I study for weeks and the the tests are still so insanely specific and hard.
This was the hardest class I have ever taken. I never know whats going on and I study for weeks before the exam only to have the questions be impossible and difficult. Textbook and lecture does not match up very well. Homework is significantly easier than exam questions. Lectures are fast and confusing. Avoid if you can!
This class is just way harder than it needs to be. Professor Stamm's lectures are confusing and her expectations for what you need to know is often unclear. The exam averages for this class have been about 78% which is so low for a class that is not curved. Be prepared to know every little detail that is brought up in lecture.
Dr. Stamm is one of the best professors I have had at UW! This course is not an easy course and will most definitely challenge you. Be prepared to memorize every lecture slide as exams are very intensive. However, she is an amazing professor and will teach you numerous tricks to memorize anatomy. Don't be afraid to visit her in office hours!
While I found this class impossible, the truth is, I'm not sure how else to teach this material. Most people taking this class are going into health professions, and it will be at this level or worse at the graduate level. I frankly don't see how anyone can get an A unless they master the material after each lecture. Be prepared to do this.
There's no question Dr. Stamm is an expert in what she teaches, but her lecture style is much too fast for any layperson learning about anatomy. Lecture was undigestable, an enormous amount of content in each sitting. You need to prepare to teach yourself this course content outside of class because lecture always went over my head.
This class really is bad. Worse than ochem for sure. Lectures go like this: "Here are dozens of terms to know. Memorize them." Exams are unreleased so unless you schedule a specific time to go in, you don't get to see what you did wrong on the test. Tests are shockingly specific and one line from the textbook is worthy of a test question. Avoid it.
this class is insanely difficult. very manageable if it is your only science course, but do not take if you are taking any other rigorous courses. can be a bit condescending at times.
I didn't really enjoy this class unfortunately. As things are online still, much of the classwork was merely reading through the textbook and watching slightly confusing lectures (you are teaching yourself FYI). She's also very inflexible and rude. Some people just aren't meant to be professors...
Took this course online and I found Professor Stamm's lectures confusing and way more complicated than her co-professors. Also the tests are insanely specific, so get ready to study a lot and have to remember every single lecture slide.
lectures were unbearably choppy and did not aid in learning the content at all
Ridiculous amount of work and exams are nearly impossible with the amount of information you need to understand and apply
Professor Stamm was honestly one of the worst professors I had my entire time at UW. Anatomy was substantially hard and after the class was over, she sent a video out to everyone saying that if we failed, it is our fault and they aren't doing anything to accommodate for anyone (during the first real online semester w/ COVID). Very inconsiderate.
This class is very difficult in general, but the lectures that professor stamm goes over are always harder to understand due to her boring lecture style where she reads a script. She also isnt very understanding of students and even sent out a harsh email saying there will be no consideration for additional challenges this semester due to Covid.
This is the most humbling class I have ever taken. I took college level anatomy in high school and was surprised at the change of level of difficulty. I would study for so many hours and that would not be reflected on the exams. My advice is to focus more on the lectures than the textbook. Stamm is very smart but lectures get hard follow sometimes.
The amount of work I've had to do for this class was ridiculous. Even after spending at least 50 hours studying, one can only get a B, at best. Avoid if possible.
studied for weeks and the tests are still impossible. hardest class ive taken. Prof. Hills Meyer is great tho
Julie seems very knowledgeable about anatomy; however, that sometimes gets in the way of her teaching. She described new topics using words that required previous knowledge and went through lectures very fast. This class has been the hardest class I have ever taken. Exams are insanely specific and you can fail even with 25+ hours of studying.
I took anatomy when the class was online. It was apparent that in Pro Stamm's recorded lectures she read off of a script. She would read the information in an order that was inconsistent with the slides and added extra information making it very confusing. Anatomy is an already confusing subject and she honestly just makes it more difficult.
Dr. Stamm is a really good professor and puts in a lot of effort into teaching 337. This class is very challenging and requires a lot of outside work. There are many resources available and I definitely recommend using as many as you have time for. Dr. Stamm really wants her students to succeed, but this class is not for everyone.
Professor Stamm is a very knowledgeable woman, however she has a hard time conveying it. I often times could see her squinting at her laptop in order to read the lecture slides. She made anatomy hard to learn as she provided no new information in addition to what was on the slides. She also did not seem very understanding of students who struggled.
This class has been the hardest class I have ever taken here at UW, but very valuable and learned so much. You NEED to study in order to pass, you CANNOT just get by. There is no curves, nothing. Join PLT and attend optional discussion review. I am a humble pre-nursing major and needed a good grade in order to apply to the Nursing School.
Hardest class I have taken at UW, by far. Physiology is arguably tougher material, but the way this class is taught makes anatomy so much harder. Exams are insanely specific. I would study 30+ hours for these exams and still do poorly.
Professor Stamm is incredibly smart and does have high expectations for her class. However, she is one of the nicest professors that I have had here and is extremely understanding about certain circumstances if you go and talk to her. The class itself wasn't too bad especially if you are also in lab.
This class is A LOT of memorization, if you've taken Phys 335, it IS NOT the same approach. Stamm gives you a basic overview in lecture, and you need to study every single slide on her powerpoints. I made notecards for every lecture. The first 3 midterms are very doable, but as others have stated the last extremity test was HARD, study EARLY.
By end of the semester I really dreaded going to this class. I really enjoyed the material of the course but because of it's ridiculously high grading standards and high pressure/stress, it made me dislike it. Both profs made it unclear about what we actually needed to know and I felt like they made the exams a lot trickier than they needed to be.
Extremely smart and has high expectations. Her drawings are helpful if youre a visual learner. Join a PLT and attend the review sessions. This class is virtually all memorization-ESPECIALLY for the muscle unit. Do a lot of studying early on for that one and categorize! I studied 30+ hours for it and it still was the hardest test Ive ever taken.
Dr. Stamm was clearly well versed on anatomy. She took the time to draw out structures and give study tips. However, she skipped over slides tons saying "oh you read about this before." The class itself was WAYYY more work then 3 credits. Took up all of my time. Tests were insanely specific.
Love Julie Stamm. She cares about her students so much. I especially loved her lectures on the brain. Make sure that you start studying early for the test with all the muscles. That is easily the hardest exam.
Dr. Stamm is extremely knowledgeable. She doesnt always seem comfortable with lecturing but she wants you to succeed. If you put in the work, you will do great in her class. Its not going to be a cake walk, but the exams come straight from the power points.
Definitely the hardest class I have taken at UW. Her lectures move at an extremely fast pace and theres some inconsistency in her exams. Some of the exams were very general while others had extremely specific details. You must memorize the slides, which is hard because there may be over 300 on an exam.
Only spend time studying lecture notes. Make sure you have the info down really well. I regret not rewriting things down from memory/making lists/categorizing things from the beginning because there is a lot of that & it helps you study! This was my most difficult class, so put time into it from the start. Extremity exam is the hardest.
The class itself is very difficult, and Julie will often skip around in lecture. She also has the tendency to not be consistent in her testing, as in one of her exams was very general and the next one was VERY detailed oriented.
Overall, Julie is a somewhat challenging professor. A lot of her lectures are confusing and VERY fast paced, so printing off her slides ahead of time is helpful. Her exams are decently fair though, if you put in the work to memorize. Highly recommend joining a PLT.
Her lectures are very dense, but the exams are straight from the lectures so if you study the powerpoints you should do well. The worksheets she provides in lecture also really help students further understand the material.
THIS IS NO LONGER A CADAVER LAB and your grade suffers because of it. Each of the 4 exams covers way too much material. This lab is basically an open lab; some TAs give you a packet of material and you're free to go.
This class is very lecture heavy. I would recommend taking a basic medical terminology class as a prerequisite. Lecture is optional if you read the textbook, though drawing pictures of structures is the best study method.
Julie is a very sweet person, but her lectures are often pretty disorganized and way too dense. In order to do well in this class you will have to make it your #1 priority and put in hours upon hours of straight memorization. Test questions are nit picky and very detail oriented. For such an interesting topic, I have not enjoyed this class
She's new at teaching but she's definitely trying to improve. This semester she redid all her slides in 328 to make the class easier, and all exam questions were straight from the ppt. If you don't do well, it's your fault for not studying enough. 329 is HARD but again, she's trying. After everyone bombed an exam, she made the next one way easier
One of the worst professors I have in my four years at this University. Avoid her class at all costs. She crams way too much information into one exam and you should expect to study at least 20+ hours a week to get an A.
It's anatomy, so the class is going to be a lot of straight memorization no matter who's teaching it. Make quizlets/flashcards of everything on the slides and you'll be fine. Material isn't hard, there's just a lot of it and making time to learn everything is the biggest difficulty of the course.
Julie gives out very fair tests; everything she asks you can find right from the lecture slides. The tests are heavy but if you put in the work for it, you will be ok. I didn't do well on my first test because I didn't study the right way. I highly recommend going to the discussions, joining a PLT, and attending office hours. It's a rewarding class
Julie was an okay prof. The tests were completely based on lecture. If you studied the slides, the tests were not bad. Everything you need to know was given to you. She did not try to surprise you will random questions. Optional discussions are a must. Printing the lecture slides really helped. Overall, not a bad class if you put in the effort.
This was the worst class I have ever taken. Too much material to shove into lectures for one test. Very detail heavy. This class should be broken into two semesters or have less information and split the class in two. 300+ slides to memorize per test. Even if you started studying the say the new unit starts you wont get far. Studied for 40 h/week.
Worst instructor I have ever had. Thought telling you to "just know what is on the slides" narrows down your studying, when in reality that is every bit of information we talk about plus its details, and could be 300+ slides per exam. There is no focus in the class. Would study weeks prior to exam and still do poorly. This class needs a prof change
She is a very kind person and in general wants to help students in the class. Unfortunately lectures go far too in depth. Exams are detail oriented and questions often focus more on small pieces of information rather than big picture concept. Memorizing lecture slides is a MUST.
Poor lecturer, often unprepared and unable to answer questions. Reads off of slides Lectures so quickly it is nearly impossible to take good notes. Extremely difficult tests. Connect online homework is time consuming and does not help prepare for the difficulty of exams. Too much extra material required to learn outside of class.
All memorization. Don't need to go to class, Do the homework and start studying early. Go to discussion those help. It really comes down to memorizing all the slides.
Extremely difficult class. Julie made this class way more in depth than any of the Anatomy professors prior. She is very kind but makes tests extremely difficult and is not a strong lecturer. Many times I left lecture wondering what the main point was. Be ready to memorize more than ever.