Good anatomy book

[bluesTank]

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We are currently using the Grey's for students at my school, but I find that the discussions and the text kind of go over my head sometimes. Can anyone suggest a more down to earth and somewhat simpler anatomy text (not an atlas) that I should use? Typically I have found that everyone suggests some kind of magical book right? For example, I never stop hearing about the First Aid USMLE book...

 

[plausible]

Anatomy is hard for everyone, except for a lucky few. For me, it took a lot of repitition and a few trusted sources to do well in gross. I'll list what I used for gross, but also make you do a search on sdn too. Before you know it, you'll also have a group of resources you can trust to help you through the course.

Gray's Anatomy is pretty good. Moore's is good and has some more clinical relevance. The book that I recommend, bar none, to supplement Gray's Anatomy is BRS Gross Anatomy Review. You can probably find it at your med school book store and also amazon. It breaks down the study of anatomy into regions just like grays. It condenses most important points into outline form, gives you some mnemonic devices, and has great clinical correlates. By far, the best thing about the book are the shelf style questions. Our written exams for anatomy were usmle/shelf style and the BRS book helped a lot since there were usually 50 questions after each chapter.

As for dissections, your school will probably provide videos of how to dissect. The University of Michigan has some high definition videos for cadaveric dissection you may want to google. It was great watching the video before starting the lab. www.netanatomy.com was also a great resource to use when I did not feel like going into the cadavar lab.

If you have an iPhone, I recommend getting Netter's Flashcards for it. It features the ability to put it in "quiz mode" so the program on the iPhone will name a structure and you have to point to the correct structure. If given a choice between the box set of netter's flash cards and netter's atlas, I would choose the atlas. Reason being, www.netanatomy.com also features a real cadaveric dissection quiz in every picture.

Finally, www.medicalmnemonics.com is your friend as well. There's a ton of mnemonics here to help you memorize not only gross, but biochem, physio, etc.

Good luck, and don't forget to double glove... That embalming fluid penetrates everything...

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

Brs

 

[Nikki2002]

thanks for all the suggestions! keep them coming!🙂

 

[alfonzarel]

i only used netters for anantomy and did fine.

if you want a book to read, i think moore's clinically oriented anatomy is really readable. i borrowed it from a friend once and read through the knee and kidneys, i think. i kind of wish i bought that book, as it is the type of book that i could just pick up whenever and read for fun or interest or whatever.

but, again, i focused on other subjects and just used netters since i didn't really have time to study from a bigass textbook when our syllabus was informative enough.

 

[shreypete]

I used Moore's for reference along with the Netters Atlas (and Flashcards) and for Neuroanatomy, I used Snell's Clinically Oriented Anatomy....and I did great 🙂 I would definitely recommend the University of Michigan Anatomy site and a few others (you can access them by checking out the "good sites for pre-clinical sciences" thread).

Good luck...

 

[alfonzarel]

I used Moore's for reference along with the Netters Atlas (and Flashcards) and for Neuroanatomy, I used Snell's Clinically Oriented Anatomy....and I did great 🙂 I would definitely recommend the University of Michigan Anatomy site and a few others (you can access them by checking out the "good sites for pre-clinical sciences" thread).

Good luck...

good call.

i forgot, i also used UMich, and it was incredibly helpful

 

[bluesTank]

The Michigan website doesn't work...is there a trick to accessing it?

 

[alfonzarel]

The Michigan website doesn't work...is there a trick to accessing it?

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html#abdo_wall

try that

 

[TheRealMD]

Study more, drink less. 😀

 

[lipstikisntfood]

I like Moore's ESSENTIALS of anatomy - I discovered this book after 1st yr, but definitely wish I had discovered it sooner, as the big Moore's was just way too much for me to read. Other than the obvious perk of being just what you actually need to know, it is cheaper and easier to carry around than the huge Moore's.

 

[DragonWell]

Second the recommendation for BRS. Contrary to it's name, it's way too much detail for boards, but perfect for class exams. There's really not much to conceptually understand in anatomy, so I never saw any advantage in reading a prose-filled textbook over the outline format of BRS.

 

[Blesbok]

I personally liked netter's for the images and gray's for the muscle/nerve/insertion tables.

However, we also had an amazing in house dissection guide that helped a lot in the lab and some great anatomy teachers, so I didn't do too much reading for anatomy, which is really what your original question was about.


P.S. I think too many of you have been watching too much TV. The book is Gray's, the show is Grey's.

 

[Powel6016]

Moores Clinical Anatomy
BRS Anatomy (good charts)
Netters Atlas & flash cards
Kaplan lecture notes & pretest anatomy for the NBME

 

[FenixTx]

q

 

[muzi]

moore clinical anatomy and thieme flexi books are good. in my school most of the students are using both of them..

 

[gman33]

What process did you guys use to study anatomy?
Did you read the notes first or follow the atlas (maybe you did both at once)?

I'm having a hard time reading, as pretty much every sentence contains a bunch of new terms. I read a page or two and realize I pretty much have no idea what I just read. I comprehend it, but nothing sticks.

What I have done in past courses is make outlines of the material as I read, but it seems like there is too much material to do this for anatomy. Everything would be in my outline.

 

[TheGalvaniFrog]

We used Essential Clinical Anatomy and I think it's a decent book.

My approach was to read the text, go to lecture and then look through atlas and do practice questions from the U of M website and other places. Worked out pretty well. There is a very good book of questions called Review Questions for Gross Anatomy and Embryology. I used to do comprehensive review just by doing questions from that book before the exams. But it's kinda hard to find now.

 

[shreypete]

Oh I forgot to add that I did also use Rohen's (photographic atlas) for dissections...it really helped 🙂

 

[Uegis]

We used Essential Clinical Anatomy and I think it's a decent book.

My approach was to read the text, go to lecture and then look through atlas and do practice questions from the U of M website and other places. Worked out pretty well. There is a very good book of questions called Review Questions for Gross Anatomy and Embryology. I used to do comprehensive review just by doing questions from that book before the exams. But it's kinda hard to find now.

Essential Clinical Anatomy is great. Our course instructors recommended Clinically Oriented Anatomy, also written by Moore. I seriously read less than 50 pages of this 1000 page monster. ECA is baby Moore with all the relevant info in three to four hundred pages. I used it for undergrad anatomy and used it for med school.

 

[Dedikated2liftn]

I'm using Netter's and supplementing with the Moore Clinical Anatomy. I haven't had my first test yet and am curious if I should buy the Rohen b/c of the photographs (as opposed to the illustrations found in Netter).

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

I'm using Netter's and supplementing with the Moore Clinical Anatomy. I haven't had my first test yet and am curiosu if I should by the Rohen b/c of the photographs (as opposed to the illustrations found in Netter).

I used Rohen strictly during finals. It was a quick and easy way to identify all the possible structures that might be tagged. Imagine how much longer it took those students who actually spent hours in the lab trying to find ridiculously difficult things in the lead up to the practical portion of the exam. Why not let the professors spend the long hours looking through our horrible dissecting jobs to find things that are acceptable to be tagged? And you can just check them out quickly in Rohen's. Netter's works well, too. But as we all know, nothing in real life is ever Netter quality, so Rohen gets you ready to go for the lab.

 

[The Angriest Bird]

Netter + Rohen was all I needed. One has cartoons and one has real pictures.

Anatomy is NOT the hardest class. It's actually one of the easist classes. Even in terms of memorization, anatomy is not as tough as many other classes, such as CNS pharm.

 

[TheRealMD]

Netter + Rohen was all I needed. One has cartoons and one has real pictures.

Anatomy is NOT the hardest class. It's actually one of the easist classes. Even in terms of memorization, anatomy is not as tough as many other classes, such as CNS pharm.

Anatomy becomes the hardest class when you put off studying everything.

 

[Uegis]

I used Rohen strictly during finals. It was a quick and easy way to identify all the possible structures that might be tagged. Imagine how much longer it took those students who actually spent hours in the lab trying to find ridiculously difficult things in the lead up to the practical portion of the exam. Why not let the professors spend the long hours looking through our horrible dissecting jobs to find things that are acceptable to be tagged? And you can just check them out quickly in Rohen's. Netter's works well, too. But as we all know, nothing in real life is ever Netter quality, so Rohen gets you ready to go for the lab.

Tip for everyone. If any of your instructors tag a piece of fat in the retroperitoneum, it's the adrenal glands. Happened to me.

 

[ZagDoc]

Tip for everyone. If any of your instructors tag a piece of fat in the retroperitoneum, it's the adrenal glands. Happened to me.

Happened to me too.

 

[mdgator]

I used mostly BRS, while occasionally referring to a textbook. Netter's was at my side constantly

Oh, and I saw the most gigantic adrenal glands imaginable. They were bigger than most spleens! I'm talking Increcible Hulk adrenal glands.

 

[thebeatblitz]

I'm using Netter's and supplementing with the Moore Clinical Anatomy. I haven't had my first test yet and am curiosu if I should by the Rohen b/c of the photographs (as opposed to the illustrations found in Netter).

The problem with all the atlases are they all look too good. I still remember doing the suboccipital triangle...and finding no triangle. Meanwhile, the Rohen sitting there had everything dissected out perfectly. Either one will be good enough to supplement your reading, but you really have to look at the other cadavers in your lab to get a good feel for what might be tagged.

All I did was read the syllabus and corresponding Moore's sections. Anatomy is easy if you don't get sidetracked and fall behind.

 

[tss7]

Netter and Chung's review book are absolutely necessary. Moore is good, too if you have the time.

 

[Mr Cookie Pants]

So we were required to buy Moore's. I dont like it at all. I bought it, Grays for students (which I love), got netters and rohen (yeah theres a little M1 book extravaganza). I have very rarely used netters, just grays and I like to quiz myself from Rohens.