Good way of memorizing bones?

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

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Any tips? I'm finding it slightly difficult to memorize the facial bones in the skull particularity.

 

[StephBee]

I only have a few tips cause i"m working on them as well.

The skull bones all correspond to the parts of the brain (temporal, frontal, occipital)

Ethmoid bone we nicknamed the ******ed butterfly bone (not politiclaly correct I know). its the one tht's like behind the nose and goes up through the frontal bone and if you look at it kind of looks like a butterfly. I remember it that way but I'm not sure that's all that helpful.

 

[mmmcdowe]

Repetition.

 

[nardini46]

rote memorization

 

[DaisyBuchanan]

Look up a free anatomy game online that lets you match names to bones. Your textbook's online resources might be helpful too.

I had a pretty intense anatomy class where you had to know up to 30 bone features per bone, and the way I got through all that information was making photocopied images of bone pictures with blank labels and filling the labels in like a quiz.

Occasionally, learning the word roots helps form an association that helps you remember too. For example, ethmoid's ethm- means sieve or something.

Good luck 👍

 

[Long Dong]

A good way is to don't worry about. Bones are low yield.

 

[FutureCTDoc]

Print out a sheet and blank out the names. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

A good way is to don't worry about. Bones are low yield.

This makes me scratch my head.. lol

But yah I guess I'll just go over it a few more times and maybe look up an online diagram and practice some more.

 

[Long Dong]

This makes me scratch my head.. lol

But yah I guess I'll just go over it a few more times and maybe look up an online diagram and practice some more.

What are you studying bones for anyways? You don't want to be an orthopod do you?

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

What are you studying bones for anyways? You don't want to be an orthopod do you?

Eh.. A&P.. kinda need it for one of my majors.

 

[Long Dong]

Dude you choose the wrong major. Chose an easier major like psych.

 

[JimmyChitwood]

The good news is that anatomy in med school is quite a bit easier than undergrad. The extraneous details and useless bits of information are never tested and everything is streamlined. We also spend quite a bit of time on each section so you really never feel rushed.

So, like Pac said. Keep ya' head up.

 

[Geekchick921]

I only have a few tips cause i"m working on them as well.

The skull bones all correspond to the parts of the brain (temporal, frontal, occipital)

Ethmoid bone we nicknamed the ******ed butterfly bone (not politiclaly correct I know). its the one tht's like behind the nose and goes up through the frontal bone and if you look at it kind of looks like a butterfly. I remember it that way but I'm not sure that's all that helpful.

I always remembered Ethmoid because it's behind the nose and when I say "ethmoid" I feel like I'm sneezing. That's how I always remembered it. But LOL at your nickname.

Ditto everyone else that said it's really just memorization. Drill it.

 

[broken tibula]

If you're into mnemonic devices, for cranial bones there's PEST OF 6

6 bones:

Parietal
Ethmoid
Sphenoid
Temporal

Occipital
Frontal

and then there's "Virgil Can Not Make My Pet Zebra Laugh" for the facial bones. Also, those really cool flash websites with 3-D skeletons that you can use to quiz yourself.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

The good news is that anatomy in med school is quite a bit easier than undergrad. The extraneous details and useless bits of information are never tested and everything is streamlined. We also spend quite a bit of time on each section so you really never feel rushed.

So, like Pac said. Keep ya' head up.

Interesting.. I always hear most people complaining about it being the hardest class first year.

 

[just one]

The good news is that anatomy in med school is quite a bit easier than undergrad. The extraneous details and useless bits of information are never tested and everything is streamlined. We also spend quite a bit of time on each section so you really never feel rushed.

So, like Pac said. Keep ya' head up.

Our anatomy class is 5 weeks long, so yeah a little bit rushed.

 

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[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Our anatomy class is 5 weeks long, so yeah a little bit rushed.

So how different is the gross anatomy? Do you guys just name things and avoid things like foremen and markings like the sella turica? Or just magically manage to get all of that + 11 more organ systems?

 

[indya]

when I did HS A&P, for most of the bones and muscles, I found it helpful to touch where the bone was on my body while saying the name. I am a pretty tactile learner, so it made it easy to remember. However, I must have looked pretty strange during the tests.

 

[just one]

So how different is the gross anatomy? Do you guys just name things and avoid things like foremen and markings like the sella turica? Or just magically manage to get all of that + 11 more organ systems?

Don't know. Our anatomy class doesn't start until November. Our curriculum is designed so that you only have one major course at a time but each course only lasts 5-6 weeks. Anatomy will be our third course. The dental/PA school on campus does anatomy in five weeks like us but during the summer. From what I hear, pretty much bones and structures on bones aren't emphasized as much. But it's all fair game

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

when I did HS A&P, for most of the bones and muscles, I found it helpful to touch where the bone was on my body while saying the name. I am a pretty tactile learner, so it made it easy to remember. However, I must have looked pretty strange during the tests.

That's what I did for previous topics such as when I was getting regions down. However for the most part you can't really feel out an ethmoid bone, sphenoid bone or an Atlas vertebrae. But I think a lot of people use this method or at least that's what it looked like during the last lab practical.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Don't know. Our anatomy class doesn't start until November. Our curriculum is designed so that you only have one major course at a time but each course only lasts 5-6 weeks. Anatomy will be our third course. The dental/PA school on campus does anatomy in five weeks like us but during the summer. From what I hear, pretty much bones and structures on bones aren't emphasized as much.

Hmm Interesting, but I guess now that I think about it I spent 1 month on histology, and we spend a lot of time on physiology. Condensing just the gross anatomy into 5-6 weeks sounds like it's possible at least.

 

[just one]

For ours, it's 5 days a week at four hours a day.

 

[luke587]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Waxf9KZWpM

 

[orthomyxo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Waxf9KZWpM

 

[JimmyChitwood]

I'm completely kidding. Anatomy is pure horror in medical school.

On a more serious note, there really isn't any perfect method or study advice I could give you that's going to make things click. A good atlas is key (I recommend Netter's and Rohen's for help with the lab), but there is no substitute for pure repetition and industriousness. In gross you pretty much have to know everything, especially those structures/landmarks with clinical significance. So yeah, you just memorize them. It sounds absurdly simple/complex but that's just the way it is.

For example, we had to know everything about the sella turcica. A and P clinoid processes, diaphragma sellae, hypophyseal fossa, tuberculum sellae, clivus, dorsum sellae, the sinus that sits beneath it (which provides an ideal surgical approach to the pituitary gland), etc. You just have to know it. Go over it 10 times and you will be surprised how much you can retain. There's no shortcut.

 

[Chevy Chase Fan]

took it this summer and found it really helpful to just make my own flashcards online. there are a lot of free sites that will host them for you, without any bull**** other than signing up for a free account. its so much less tedious than hand writing 200 cards for every test.

as tedious as memorization is, I find myself so much more comfortable going into those kinds of tests than I do physical science tests that require me to punch every number with the correct sign in a 10 step calculation. the agony.

 

[HotGhettoMess]

If you happen to have an Android phone or an iPhone, I would definitely recommend downloading an app game called Speed Anatomy. 🙂 Helped me lots.

edit: Looks like there are other similar apps they made that cover more: http://speedanatomy.com/

 

[roseglass6370]

http://www.getbodysmart.com

Helped me get an 'A' in A&P. 👍

 

[morning]

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