Grey's Anatomy

[Jsscales05]

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I would like to know how many people have taken a stab at this beast of a book? I'm working my way through Grey's 1100 page refrence on the human body and wondering what the first year anatomy courses at med school might consist of. Does anyone know what textbooks some schools use for their first year anatomy class? I'm on page 100 and it doesn't even look as though I have started, nothing like a huge book to humble your reading skills.

 

[Street Philosopher]

I use Netter's and some of my classmates use Rohan's. Those are just pictures though, not textbooks.

 

[Jsscales05]

I've got the Netter's Flash Cards. I was just wondering if there are any textbooks out there? (I'm sure there is a whole slew, but I would like to know what some first year students are using)

 

[beanbean]

We use Moore's as our required text and supplement with an atlas. I use Netter and Rohen for atlases.

 

[Dr. Lector]

Try BRS anatomy and High Yield, you can pass anatomy if you know them like the back of your hand. If you want to honor it then go ahead and read moore or grey's, but let me tell you anatomy is a small part on the boards.

 

[sacrament]

Originally posted by Jsscales05
I would like to know how many people have taken a stab at this beast of a book? I'm working my way through Grey's 1100 page refrence on the human body and wondering what the first year anatomy courses at med school might consist of. Does anyone know what textbooks some schools use for their first year anatomy class? I'm on page 100 and it doesn't even look as though I have started, nothing like a huge book to humble your reading skills.

Nobody actually uses Gray's Anatomy to learn anatomy anymore. Thank god. Trying to learn anatomy with that book would be like trying to learn French by just sitting down with a French dictionary. It's a classic text, but other than having a ostentatious place of honor on the bookshelf of every freshman pre-med, I don't think it is particularly relevant any longer.

(Almost every med school I know of uses Moore and Dalley as the "required" text.)

 

[Zweihander]

Gray's does not have a great deal of pedagogical value. It is so dense that you would need to know what you were looking for already for it to be a really useful source of information. But it is a definitive work, and it has pretty much everything you could ever want to know about anatomy, and probably far more than you will ever need to know in medical school.

 

[TTSD]

All hail the mighty Netter! Hail Caesar.. I mean, Netter!

 

[Street Philosopher]

Originally posted by Jsscales05
I've got the Netter's Flash Cards. I was just wondering if there are any textbooks out there? (I'm sure there is a whole slew, but I would like to know what some first year students are using)

how are the flash cards? are they thorough enough?

 

[heelshmeel]

our class uses Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy as the reference book...

we then supplement it with Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy...

some kids get the Chungs Board Review of Gross Anatomy as a review book... but I definitely wouldnt get that first... (the book is a review book, it's not the bible)

 

[Jim Picotte]

Yeah, stop reading Gray's its really not a good text at all and hasn't been updated. Use the suggestions above. I look at anatomy texts all the time and I don't own a copy of Gray's.

 

[WaitingForJuly]

As others have said, Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy supplemented with Netter's Atlas is the standard combo for learning anatomy.

The American edition of Gray's is pretty useless. I have heard good things about the British edition as a reference, rather than as a learning resource. The 38th edition came out in the mid-90s and they are working on the 39th, though I haven't seen anything about a publication date yet. Since I'm doing a radiology residency, I plan to buy the new Gray's when it comes out to use as a definitive bookshelf reference.