How To Study Human Gross Anatomy and Histology

[hopefuldentistry]

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For Anatomy I have Netter's Human Anatomy 5th Edition. At my school they give us a list of things to find on our cadavers and then they test us on it during the Lab Practical. The PROBLEM is the structures in Netter's do not look like they look on the cadaver so when I study the list of things to find on netter's it does not really help me find them on the cadaver and obviously I can't take a cadaver home with me and even if I could the muscles and nerves are not labeled on the cadaver so It is hard to know what is what. Is anyone else in this situation? How do the people who got A's on the lab practicals study? Also, with histology everything looks the same, so how do people differentiate the histology slides that you need to know if they all look the same? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I have tried asking the anatomy teacher at my school but with 120 or so students and one teacher it is impossible to get their attention and even when I do their advice is useless so any advice on here would help a lot thanks!

 

[free99]

Color atlas of anatomy for cadaver pictures. It's great.

 

[monstromyfishy]

Our cadaver lab is open to us at all hours. I usually go into cadaver lab for extra time outside of regularly scheduled lab time. I always go with friends so that we can hash out what is what together. I also found it helpful to look at different bodies. Bodies are unique and nothing will ever look like the textbook so its useful to look at as many different bodies as possible. Other than that, when I was at home, I used Netter's to have a general idea of where things are. Also, you can Youtube dissection videos for when you are studying at home to further reinforce what you learned in lab.
For histology, I used Shotgun histology on Youtube. The guy on that youtube channel tells you what the defining features of each histo slide are so its really helpful to just remember what he points out.

 

[arlmay]

Definitely spend as much time as you can studying in the lab as is offered to you if you're having difficulty. I've found that making the spatial relationships of where things lie in relation to each other is the key to conquering cadaver lab, at least for me anyways. Draw out diagrams after you leave and label what's what to make sure you actually are learning everything and you can use this as a method to test yourself. It's really hard to know everything perfect but hopefully good enough for your expectations

 

[ktran17]

I found that knowing origin and insertions for everything really helped me. Sometimes during practicals, the TA's would remove certain landmarks I would normally use to find a certain structure, so I had to depend on my origin/insertion knowledge.

 

[ncamc]

you really just gotta put your time in the lab. knowing land marks and relationships is key. go in with friends and teach each other, going in alone sucks haha. not to mentions its a little weird

 

[ncamc]

and these websites for when youre at home:
http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u5/quiztop5.htm
http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/coursepages/m1/anatomy2010/html/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html

 

[CanaDMD]

Just memorize everything

I did great on both anat and histo - just memorize everything on your lists for anato, spend time in lab. Rohens is good for cadaver pics as well

Histo - go through the pictures 10x before the exam, identifying everything u can. 😉