First Aid Anatomy?

[MedStudentWanna]

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Some of the second years at my school suggested following along in FA for my classes because a lot of our professors follow board review books in their lecture planning/testing. So I bought it, but I was surprised there's not an Anatomy section. Is there not much anatomy on the boards?

Is there a good board review book out there for Anatomy? Our school's lecture notes just aren't enough for me and I'm not a textbook kinda guy.

 

[beachblonde]

I liked BRS. there's anatomy in FA, but it's in the organ systems part of the book as opposed to a dedicated section.

 

[coldweatherblue]

Check out BRS Gross Anatomy. First Aid has anatomy in it (at the beginning of each chapter in the systems part of the book is a broad overview of the involved anatomy) but it's very basic and you really need a stronger source if you're learning it for the first time. BRS Anatomy is good because it's pretty detailed and very clinically oriented, which helps because many of your exam questions will be at least semi-clinical. BRS has good questions as well at the end of the chapters and an exam at the end of the book. Use BRS and the umich quizzes as well as an atlas (netters). Learn what it really looks like (in lab) and know as much as possible from the above sources and you should be good for anatomy.

 

[C5toC9]

Is BRS Anatomy overkill for Step 1?

 

[MossPoh]

Is BRS Anatomy overkill for Step 1?

You use it more as a reference to refresh your memory and hammer concepts in and to do questions than just sitting there and reading it straight through. You begin to learn what anatomy is relevant once you start cranking away as well. All that anatomy is hard to remember because we usually take it at the beginning of our education and have no real clinical correlation. It is just words to us. It gets easier when you can merge it together with other stuff and your medical vocabulary grows.

 

[2012mdc]

Is BRS Anatomy overkill for Step 1?

As a review for Step 1 probably but the anatomy in FA just isn't enough. If one has a good anatomy background one can get away with annotating FA from UW and using BRS Anatomy or Essential Clinical Anatomy for weaker sections.

A good amount of my anatomy questions on Step 1 were strictly anatomical w/o a clinical scenario (i.e. - what is this artery's relation to this muscle? as opposed to brachial plexus deficits) so referencing an atlas when needed can be helpful