Good tools/learning strategies for learning Bones and Muscles

[tzp2]

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I'm a first term medical student. Today I was paging though the course syllabus for Human Anatomy and noticed right before midterms my professor was going to have us learn all the muscles and bones from a list that he had given us. I decided to get a jump on the material. I looked over the list and downloaded the Netter's applications for my iPod touch. While the application is good and detailed it does not allow you to star specific structures but rather an entire card so quizzing on the structures I need to know is a pain.

I'm looking for a good program or tool that will allow me to select structures and then quiz myself on them. If anyone knows of some good programs to do this I would be very appreciative.

Also if anyone has some tips on how to study and learn the bones and muscles I would love to hear them!

 

[ChemEngSoonMD]

I'm a first term medical student. Today I was paging though the course syllabus for Human Anatomy and noticed right before midterms my professor was going to have us learn all the muscles and bones from a list that he had given us. I decided to get a jump on the material. I looked over the list and downloaded the Netter's applications for my iPod touch. While the application is good and detailed it does not allow you to star specific structures but rather an entire card so quizzing on the structures I need to know is a pain.

I'm looking for a good program or tool that will allow me to select structures and then quiz myself on them. If anyone knows of some good programs to do this I would be very appreciative.

Also if anyone has some tips on how to study and learn the bones and muscles I would love to hear them!

Link

Look what I did, its pretty amazing huh? Its like magic how the answer just comes to you. Whoa.

 

[tzp2]

Ha ha ha. Google. Classy. I was simply asking for specific stuff. Anyone can Google stuff. I was just hoping that someone knew of a good program that would be able to quiz on specific parts, etc.

 

[ChemEngSoonMD]

Ha ha ha. Google. Classy. I was simply asking for specific stuff. Anyone can Google stuff. I was just hoping that someone knew of a good program that would be able to quiz on specific parts, etc.

You don't need a fancy program to quiz yourself. Just open a book, put your hands over the word that points to the bone/muscle. Take a guess, and move your hand to check your answer. Keep is simple, its not that hard.

 

[tzp2]

Alright, thanks.

 

[username456789]

Since ChemEngSoonMD has been trying wayyyyyyyyy too hard to be a dick on purpose lately, here you go OP, this might be a start:

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

Pick the "practical" tabs and you can get pictures of actual cadavers.

There are also some decent review games here:

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/games/games_index.html


In the future, ignore ChemEngSoonMD. He's simply trying to establish his e-cred as a rough and tumble internet gunslinger.

 

[Bacchus]

See if your library subscribes to AnatomyTV. I don't personally like it too much, but it does have a layer by layer quiz feature that is customizable. Also, you should be learning these structures through the laboratory component of gross. There is no point in memorizing all the structures if you can't see them on a cadaver.

 

[ChemEngSoonMD]

Since ChemEngSoonMD has been trying wayyyyyyyyy too hard to be a dick on purpose lately, here you go OP, this might be a start:

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

Pick the "practical" tabs and you can get pictures of actual cadavers.

There are also some decent review games here:

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/games/games_index.html


In the future, ignore ChemEngSoonMD. He's simply trying to establish his e-cred as a rough and tumble internet gunslinger.

He is a first term med student. I think his goals are to get a foundational understanding and wants to get it quick. I don't see the value of him looking at those individual pictures because it wont get him the big picture quickly. Its all too common for people to get lost in the nitty gritty details and the tricks rather than the fundamentals.

 

[basupran]

Interesting....


OP: this book is amazing-

Clear pictures + everything is broken down for you. Grant's atlas of anatomy (not gray's) is also great.

 

[beyondbethany]

I have found these to be helpful for learning muscles:

http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Skeletal-Muscle-Flash-Cards/dp/0070229163

Each card has a drawing of the muscle with its origin and insertion points - bones are B&W outline, muscles are red. The reverse side of the card gives the muscle name, origin, insertion, innervation, action, compartment, and a few have clinical information. What helps me is the fact that each muscle is shown separately. It's much easier to understand how the muscle works when it is shown by itself on the bony anatomy.

As for bones - I physically go over each bone by itself (get the dusty old bone box from the anatomy lab out), naming important features. I keep a Netter's handy for this - his bone drawings are very good. I usually dedicate 10-15 minutes at the beginning or end of each lab to this, and that is all I need.

 

[iMD]

youre a dick chemeng, true story.

 

[AlexMorph]

Since ChemEngSoonMD has been trying wayyyyyyyyy too hard to be a dick on purpose lately, here you go OP, this might be a start:

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

Pick the "practical" tabs and you can get pictures of actual cadavers.

There are also some decent review games here:

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/games/games_index.html


In the future, ignore ChemEngSoonMD. He's simply trying to establish his e-cred as a rough and tumble internet gunslinger.

he's like brett favre, if you take away the talent and double the childishness

 

[meister]

Just stay in the lab for hours and pimp yourself constantly and also with peers. That worked best for me but we're all different.


I never used the atlases.

 

[tideleonheart]

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