help with anatomy???

[bkflaneur]

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I'm at the end of week 1 in a 4 week schedule. Yesterday afternoon was supposed to be the first of 2 x 1/2 days on anatomy (1 day total of anatomy on my schedule). It sucked. I don't know anatomy well at all. I don't like it. The bookstore was out of both HY Gross Anatomy and USMLE Road Map Gross Anatomy. I tried Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. I love their micro book, but the style does not work for me with anatomy.

I probably should have moved onto something else until I could get another book. But I was stubborn and covered as much as I could in 4 hours (careful not to mark up the book so I can exchange it).

Then I did anatomy questions in USMLE World and ate crap. I don't know anatomy!

So my question is what to do now? I have another 1/2 day of anatomy left on my schedule. That was originally going to be today. But I'm postponing until my bookstore gets the new books in next week. But even with a different book, anatomy is a huge subject (and supposedly low yield). What's a better strategy to cover the important areas efficiently?

I've considered just doing all the anatomy questions in kaplan and USMLE World, getting them wrong, and trying to learn from the answers. I think there's some use to that. . But I do much better learning from a book where I can write and make notes.

Any ideas? I should note that I have another full-day in the schedule for neuroanatomy, which I've heard is higher yield. So this is for everything except the neuro.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I'm right there with you. I actually did well in GA but didn't retain a bit of it. I've looked a little at HY GA and do like what I've seen so far. You can get it very cheaply used at places like amazon or half.com, so I'd suggest looking for it. I actually have learned some stuff from Qbank, so your idea about missing questions isn't really a bad one.

 

[DragonWell]

If it were me, and I only had a 1/2 day for anatomy, I'd probably just focus on the anatomy in FA, and maybe one or two chapters in HY or RoadMap (extremities?). I feel like I know anatomy fairly well, and it still takes me a while to get through a chapter in RoadMap and get much out of it. Quite a few people on here seem to feel that the anatomy covered in FA is enough.

 

[ASDIC]

it took me 3 days to go through the entire road map...but again i was also studying pathology in between and working out.

 

[bkflaneur]

Have I missed the anatomy in FA? Do you mean the basics that go with the system chapters?

 

[DragonWell]

Have I missed the anatomy in FA? Do you mean the basics that go with the system chapters?

Yes.

 

[SoCuteMD]

First Aid - brachial plexus, plus neuroanatomic lesions. Spend some time on embryologic defects, too, if you haven't blocked out a day for embryology.

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