Essential vs Clinically oriented anatomy

[deleted564496]

Hey guys, this might be a random post, but I'm slightly curious about something/somewhat freaking out.

I'm going to be starting my first year here real soon and I finally decided to order an old edition of a book called "Clinically Oriented Anatomy by Moore," which is used in an introduction to anatomy class that we have the option of taking.

I'm blown away by the level of information in this book. I understand that there is a lot to learn about Anatomy and that the level of information is going to be insane in medical school, but did anybody else use this book? Is it worth using? From what I have read it seems like a lot of people just used this book for the 'blue boxes'.

I did a quick search throughout the forum and found that the same author writes another book that people did have the time to use and learn, called Essential Clinical Anatomy. Should I get this one instead?

Sorry if this isn't relevant for this forum, but this book seriously scares the crap out of me! I haven't been that worried all summer until now. :/

Thanks for any advice!

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[SouthernSurgeon]

You should buy the textbook that your school recommends. Then supplement with atlases. Extensive and multiple reviews of the various atlases and their relative strengths can be found on this forum using the search function.

 

[Donald Juan]

My school used Moore's COA. I liked it. Yes, I mostly used it for the blue boxes, but that was because our powerpoints were usually good enough to cover the other stuff I needed to learn.

Don't freak out about anatomy textbooks seeming confusing at first. It's normal.

 

[yehhhboiii]

bought a used version for cheap and opened it approximately zero times
but anatomy was my worst class so it might be a bad idea to trust me

 

[deleted564496]

My school used Moore's COA. I liked it. Yes, I mostly used it for the blue boxes, but that was because our powerpoints were usually good enough to cover the other stuff I needed to learn.

Don't freak out about anatomy textbooks seeming confusing at first. It's normal.

Okay so this kind of gets into more of my concern...

You say that your powerpoints were enough to cover the stuff you needed to know, does that mean we will not have to learn everything from the book?!

Maybe I'm being a wuss or stupid, but damn I do not think I could ever memorize all of that stuff within the book.

Haha, I'm a complainer I guess..

 

[theseeker4]

Okay so this kind of gets into more of my concern...

You say that your powerpoints were enough to cover the stuff you needed to know, does that mean we will not have to learn everything from the book?!

Maybe I'm being a wuss or stupid, but damn I do not think I could ever memorize all of that stuff within the book.

Haha, I'm a complainer I guess..

You don't need to memorize everything. You are doing nothing but making yourself panic by trying to pre-study or pre-read before school starts. Relax until the lectures and labs actually give you some direction as to what to study, and if it helps, use text books to supplement the material presented. Don't pick a random text book and try to memorize it; that will lead to burn out so fast you won't make it through anatomy. If you wait to see what the professors actually expect you to learn, and try to learn that, you will have a much better first year experience than you will if you continue the way you have started to go.

 

[Donald Juan]

Okay so this kind of gets into more of my concern...

You say that your powerpoints were enough to cover the stuff you needed to know, does that mean we will not have to learn everything from the book?!

Maybe I'm being a wuss or stupid, but damn I do not think I could ever memorize all of that stuff within the book.

Haha, I'm a complainer I guess..

While you won't have to memorize EVERYTHING in the book...you'll probably end up learning a lot more of it than you think you will have to at this point in time.

 

[def1]

Im currently using Clinically Oriented Anatomy and I find the pictures useful. I don't think I've actually read any of the text within it, but I do like the pictures.

I haven't actually gone through it but I skimmed through Clinical anatomy made ridiculously simple and it seems like it would be a useful review as well.