Confused on what to use for Anatomy section, please help!

[nabeya]

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I've seen alot of topics with alot of different suggestions for Anatomy in terms of what book to use. I currently plan on using the Kaplan lecture notes for Anatomy (the white book thats supposed to be used in conjunction with the course, not the home study set) and it's pretty thick. I plan on giving myself a week to spend on covering it completely, but I'm wondering if it's overkill? Will I be better off with just First Aid for embryology, and maybe use something like HY Anatomy along with BRS Cell Biology and Histology?

Please give me some suggestions, thanks alot!

 

[viper]

I've seen alot of topics with alot of different suggestions for Anatomy in terms of what book to use. I currently plan on using the Kaplan lecture notes for Anatomy (the white book thats supposed to be used in conjunction with the course, not the home study set) and it's pretty thick. I plan on giving myself a week to spend on covering it completely, but I'm wondering if it's overkill? Will I be better off with just First Aid for embryology, and maybe use something like HY Anatomy along with BRS Cell Biology and Histology?

Please give me some suggestions, thanks alot!

The white book is thick, but there is not alot of info in there. Kaplan puts very little info on each page. That said, the kaplan book didn't seem complete enough to me for anatomy. A week on anatomy is overkill if you are talking about gross only. If you mean gross, embryo, histo, neuro (like FA organizes it), then I think it is not overkill. But gross is not a heavily tested topic, so your time is better spent elsewhere.

With that said, here are some good sources for this:

Gross - USMLE road map, HY.
Histo - don't even worry about it. 2-3 questions max.
Neuro - the kaplan white book is probably the best source.
Embryo - HY embryo - skip a few chapters towards the end. Use HY to make sense of all the stuff in FA. Read the kidney chap as that is not if FA.

Hope that helps, and you can see some more sources at gotmedbooks.com


Good Luck,

 

[Wrigleyville]

Your sources should be:

First Aid
High Yield Gross Anatomy
High Yield Embryology (just leaf through and look at the indented sections with clinical correlates... the rest is wild overkill).
HY Cell and Molecular Biology
The first couple chapters of HY Histology (The general sections, not the ones on specific cell types).

Just remember that they ask questions on clinically-relevant anatomy, not random minutiae.

 

[Long Dong]

Your sources should be:

First Aid
High Yield Gross Anatomy
High Yield Embryology (just leaf through and look at the indented sections with clinical correlates... the rest is wild overkill).
HY Cell and Molecular Biology
The first couple chapters of HY Histology (The general sections, not the ones on specific cell types).

Just remember that they ask questions on clinically-relevant anatomy, not random minutiae.

Agreed 👍 and add HY neuro.

 

[viper]

Agreed 👍 and add HY neuro.

I agree about HY cell & molec bio, I forgot about that.
For histo - really don't worry about it, just look at zonula occludens, cadherin, etc. stuff.
For neuro - stick with the kaplan white book, written much better than HY neuro (and HY neuro has too many errors in it).

good luck