Best website for anatomy?

[willow84]

Can anyone recommend a website or free online materials to introduce me to anatomy? I haven't taken the course before, and I'd like to get myself moderately familiarized before starting school in the fall. My brain is bored, and I need a teeny tiny bit of something to work on.

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[catmullclark]

I'd highly recommend taking a look at 3D4Medical's Complete Anatomy. It's a 3D program for your tablet or computer that is by-far the best resource for not only learning static anatomy but also how things connect and move. Alpert recently gave all its students access to this program, and I think a few other med schools are on board as well. The free version only has the skeleton iirc, but it's definitely the best $20 or so you'll spend for your education.

Especially as you're bored, you'll probably get sucked in and learn a lot more than what you were expecting.

 

[CAFFEINE!]

TeachMeAnatomy

For some reason the website isn't working right now (who knows if it will ever get fixed), but when I took gross anatomy last spring this website was a life saver.

 

[ciestar]

I second teachmeanatomy.

 

[zibizibiko]

hhmi and wiley it can work for you.

 

[aldol16]

Complete Anatomy app. It's incredibly detailed (no sex-specific reproductive structures though) and it's what many medical students use to learn from. You won't be going through it in a stereotyped manner as we do in classes but it can be useful to use some of the saved screens and go through the organ systems and see where everything is. You get a better sense of the 3D relationships between organs when you actually do dissections and see real specimens that you can actually rotate in 3D.

Also, I would not recommend any anatomy app for iPhone. The screen is too small to learn the structures in any good detail. iPad is the smallest I'd go on the app if you're going that route.