Dental school anatomy
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I would relax, but if you insist, Netters. I found drawing was very beneficial. Understanding the origin, insertion and innervation before we dissected was extremely helpful. The class moves as such a quick rate, whatever you do know will be, most likely, timed wasted. Unless you're dying to learn interventions.
OP, I'm in the same boat!
Plan to take some trips to B&N once a week to read into anatomy.
Although everyone says to relax, I'm nervous of the class and figured the prep would chill me out.
Plan to take some trips to B&N once a week to read into anatomy.
Although everyone says to relax, I'm nervous of the class and figured the prep would chill me out.
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Nothing you can do to prepare. I went through an INTENSIVE 8 AM-3:30PM six week summer program and when I got to dental school we blazed through ALL of that stuff in about two weeks. It's not hard at all, just massive amounts of info. So, just relax and enjoy your free time. You'll do fine once school starts.
If you try to study in the summer, you will be wasting your time because you would have to study damn near all day everyday just to get MAYBE a few weeks ahead. Not worth it.
If you try to study in the summer, you will be wasting your time because you would have to study damn near all day everyday just to get MAYBE a few weeks ahead. Not worth it.
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I don't think that studying before dental school is a bad thing or waste of time. True, you may blaze through everything and be done in a few weeks, but don't you have to know that stuff for boards anyways? I plan on studying in the summer before dental school as well. Probably nothing hard core just a few hours every day of anatomy, biochem, learn all my teeth, get a micro book, etc. Of course this is just an opinion as I have not gone through d school yet.
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Dude, have fun summer time. The best part of dental school is the summer before you start, and the summer after your boards are done. Dental school anatomy is fast, furious, and different. Buy a plane ticket to Europe or SE Asia, see the world, and worry about it when it comes. If you study before school starts, you're retention will be 20-40%? Is it better to sacrifice summer for that minor boost or have a life experience? Depending where you go, this could be your last FREE summer. Personally, I traveled in a literal circle around the world in 92 days, stopping in 16 countries. I had the best experience of my life and wouldn't trade that for any kind of minor "advantage."
Oh and honestly, if you're that type of proactive crazy gunner type student, you'll get a A anyways. I would only suggest summer time study if you're awful at anatomy and don't think you can pass it - but then again if you're accepted to dental school you def can.
Oh and honestly, if you're that type of proactive crazy gunner type student, you'll get a A anyways. I would only suggest summer time study if you're awful at anatomy and don't think you can pass it - but then again if you're accepted to dental school you def can.
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Please just relax and have fun...you'll get your share of studying when school starts. 🙂
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If you really want to preview the material, I would recommend the Gross Anatomy section of First Aid for the NBDE Part 1. It will give you an excellent overview of what you learn in your dental school anatomy course.
If you just want to know which anatomy textbooks are helpful for dental school anatomy course, in another thread I made a detailed post about which textbooks I used. I just copied and pasted my post below. Good luck.
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http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=411152
Anatomy was my best subject. These are the books I used with approximate proportions of time I spent studying each book:
1. Netter - 40%
2. Gray's Anatomy - 20%
3. Grant's - 15%
4. Gray's Anatomy for Students - 15%
5. McMinn's - 5%
6. Instant Anatomy - 3%
7. Moore - 2%
I used Netter as the primary resource for learning the structures for the first time. Netter's cross-section drawings were especially helpful to identify structures on slices.
I used Gray's anatomy as the primary textbook. I used the book extensively to clarify the things I did not understand in lectures and also for making summaries. I mostly used the search function of VitalBook and copied and pasted relevant sections from Gray's Anatomy to supplement my notes. I have both hard copy and electronic copy, but I hardly used the hard copy because it was too heavy and the print was too small for me. Without the electronic search function, it is difficult to get to the sections you want to read.
Grant's atlas has very helpful summary tables of innervation and blood supply, and I also found their schematic drawing of vessels and nerves very helpful. For studying certain regions, I found Grant's drawings to be more helpful than Netter's plates.
Gray's Anatomy for Students has excellent 3D illustrations. This is a great book to use as a textbook, and the illustrations clarified a lot of things that were not readily understandable from looking at plastinations. I found the book to be especially helpful to understand what structures are compartmentalized in which region.
I used McMinn's for self-test. Once I familiarized myself with the structures in Netter, I opened McMinn's and tried identifying each labeled structure. The dissected pictures look so different from Netter's drawings, and they were very helpful when preparing for practical exams.
I found Instant Anatomy to be extremely helpful when learning blood vessels and nerves and the foramina they pass through. When learning blood vessels and nerves, don't just look at drawings. Instead, always have a pen and a piece of blank paper with you, and write out all the branches like a road map. You will notice that you can learn much more by spending 30 minutes drawing the nerve and vessel branches by yourself than staring at drawings in atlases for 3 hours.
I read Moore's textbook when I needed an extra resource for clarification.
If you can afford it, I strongly recommend getting a realistic skull model. At my school we were able to borrow a skull model for the entire semester. The skull model was essential for learning the skull bones and all those foramina for the first time.
So in conclusion, I highly recommend getting both Netter and Grant's atlases, and Instant Anatomy. Even if your school uses VitalBook, it is helpful to have a hard copy of Netter and Grant's. While I liked reading Gray's Anatomy on VitalBook, I don't recommend getting a hard copy of it. I would not have used it had it not been for the search function of VitalBook.
I hope this helps. Good luck.
If you just want to know which anatomy textbooks are helpful for dental school anatomy course, in another thread I made a detailed post about which textbooks I used. I just copied and pasted my post below. Good luck.
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http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=411152
Anatomy was my best subject. These are the books I used with approximate proportions of time I spent studying each book:
1. Netter - 40%
2. Gray's Anatomy - 20%
3. Grant's - 15%
4. Gray's Anatomy for Students - 15%
5. McMinn's - 5%
6. Instant Anatomy - 3%
7. Moore - 2%
I used Netter as the primary resource for learning the structures for the first time. Netter's cross-section drawings were especially helpful to identify structures on slices.
I used Gray's anatomy as the primary textbook. I used the book extensively to clarify the things I did not understand in lectures and also for making summaries. I mostly used the search function of VitalBook and copied and pasted relevant sections from Gray's Anatomy to supplement my notes. I have both hard copy and electronic copy, but I hardly used the hard copy because it was too heavy and the print was too small for me. Without the electronic search function, it is difficult to get to the sections you want to read.
Grant's atlas has very helpful summary tables of innervation and blood supply, and I also found their schematic drawing of vessels and nerves very helpful. For studying certain regions, I found Grant's drawings to be more helpful than Netter's plates.
Gray's Anatomy for Students has excellent 3D illustrations. This is a great book to use as a textbook, and the illustrations clarified a lot of things that were not readily understandable from looking at plastinations. I found the book to be especially helpful to understand what structures are compartmentalized in which region.
I used McMinn's for self-test. Once I familiarized myself with the structures in Netter, I opened McMinn's and tried identifying each labeled structure. The dissected pictures look so different from Netter's drawings, and they were very helpful when preparing for practical exams.
I found Instant Anatomy to be extremely helpful when learning blood vessels and nerves and the foramina they pass through. When learning blood vessels and nerves, don't just look at drawings. Instead, always have a pen and a piece of blank paper with you, and write out all the branches like a road map. You will notice that you can learn much more by spending 30 minutes drawing the nerve and vessel branches by yourself than staring at drawings in atlases for 3 hours.
I read Moore's textbook when I needed an extra resource for clarification.
If you can afford it, I strongly recommend getting a realistic skull model. At my school we were able to borrow a skull model for the entire semester. The skull model was essential for learning the skull bones and all those foramina for the first time.
So in conclusion, I highly recommend getting both Netter and Grant's atlases, and Instant Anatomy. Even if your school uses VitalBook, it is helpful to have a hard copy of Netter and Grant's. While I liked reading Gray's Anatomy on VitalBook, I don't recommend getting a hard copy of it. I would not have used it had it not been for the search function of VitalBook.
I hope this helps. Good luck.
