*Officially* had it with Moore's "Essentials of Clinical Anatomy"

[Sicilian]

This is a terrible source of recreational reading. I suppose I could've put the old atlas to better use; stiil, I find it amusing that Moore chooses to represent membranes & nerve innervations with curved lines (are med students that busy?!!).

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[skypilot]

I switched to the Board Review Series book by Chung for anatomy. It has everything Moore has and less. 🙂

 

[Taus]

The pictures/drawings in Essential, aka "Baby", Moore are not what people buy it for. The concise and easy to follow information is what makes it so popular. If you want good drawings, do what most med students that I know do and use your Netter's atlas in conjunction with baby Moore or Chung's BRS. If you have the time, big Moore (clinical) is nice, but the combo of an Atlas and review book seem to be working very well.

And yes....we are that busy...

 

[Sicilian]

Not a med student quite yet. I figured if I did one chapter of Moore a month, it would put me at an advantage later on. But seriously, that thing is not readable (maybe accessible is a better word). Seems like endless lists to memorize, especially of muscle origins/insertions & nerve innervations. The guy does not go into details. I suppose dissections are essential in that regard. So I'm just gonna wait. Agree that Netter's atlas is nice, very nice; the guy is a real Picasso. He should've written a textbook and illustrated it.

 

[OSUdoc08]

This is a terrible source of recreational reading. I suppose I could've put the old atlas to better use; stiil, I find it amusing that Moore chooses to represent membranes & nerve innervations with curved lines (are med students that busy?!!).

That book is trash.

The following books are useful for gross anatomy:

Netter's Atlas of Anatomy
Rohen's Color Atlas of Anatomy
Chung's BRS Gross Anatomy

 

[OSUdoc08]

Not a med student quite yet. I figured if I did one chapter of Moore a month, it would put me at an advantage later on. But seriously, that thing is not readable (maybe accessible is a better word). Seems like endless lists to memorize, especially of muscle origins/insertions & nerve innervations. The guy does not go into details. I suppose dissections are essential in that regard. So I'm just gonna wait. Agree that Netter's atlas is nice, very nice; the guy is a real Picasso. He should've written a textbook and illustrated it.

Don't waste your time, since you don't even know what to study for medical school. You don't have to know muscle origins & insertions.

Medical gross anatomy is essentialy nervous and arterial supply. Nerves & arteries are pretty much all you identify.

 

[Taus]

You seem to be missing the important point here that Moores' "Essential Anatomy" is meant to be a condensed version of Moores' larger "Clinical Anatomy". Also, the charts and tables will be some of your best friends in medical school when you have to memorize tons of info in a short amount of time and want a high-yield reference. If you are really that into reading this stuff before med school I would recommend that you give Moores' Clinical Anatomy a try. I have found no use for it during my MI year and it is just collecting dust on my shelf in case I need it as a reference, but it is very detailed and might be more of what you're looking for.

The books that Osudoc listed are all that I use and I'm doing really well. I have to add that Rohens' Atlas is un-f*&ckin-believable...

 

[synapse lapse]

Don't waste your time, since you don't even know what to study for medical school. You don't have to know muscle origins & insertions.

Medical gross anatomy is essentialy nervous and arterial supply. Nerves & arteries are pretty much all you identify.

you don't have to know origin and insertion? We are required to know both, as well as movement, which muscles assist, blood supply and innervation. Anyhow, I think baby moore is a great book when used in conjunction with netters and while taking the class.

 

[Sicilian]

Slight discrepancy. The book is actually called "Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students." 5th edition, by Snell, not Moore, with a false claim in the preface about the books popularity. Pardoning my amnesia ,I'll look for Moore's "Clinical Anatomy" in the library, as someone has suggested. Anatomy will be useful for me (BioE concentration here) whether or not I go into medicine. Again I regret the discrepancy; I got the "Roger" and the "Richard" mixed up. And thank you for your advice; its always insightful to hear med students or former med students complain/comment.

 

[OSUdoc08]

you don't have to know origin and insertion? We are required to know both, as well as movement, which muscles assist, blood supply and innervation. Anyhow, I think baby moore is a great book when used in conjunction with netters and while taking the class.

Not on the boards.

 

[Amy B]

Don't waste your time, since you don't even know what to study for medical school. You don't have to know muscle origins & insertions.

Medical gross anatomy is essentialy nervous and arterial supply. Nerves & arteries are pretty much all you identify.

I hated learning all the origins and insertions. I am glad they aren't on the boards. 🙂

And I agree, don't read until you are in med school. Use this time to enjoy life.

 

[PhotoMD]

Just a shout out that (A) Moore sucks and (B) April's anatomy is extremely concise and I've found that using it in conjunction with Netter is the ultimate anatomy read. But maybe I'm biased.

 

[Kazema]

Slight discrepancy. The book is actually called "Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students." 5th edition, by Snell, not Moore, with a false claim in the preface about the books popularity. Pardoning my amnesia ,I'll look for Moore's "Clinical Anatomy" in the library, as someone has suggested. Anatomy will be useful for me (BioE concentration here) whether or not I go into medicine. Again I regret the discrepancy; I got the "Roger" and the "Richard" mixed up. And thank you for your advice; its always insightful to hear med students or former med students complain/comment.

I don't know what the Snell book is but I do have "Clinically Oriented Anatomy" by Moore.

I've flipped through that a couple times and it has some interesting stuff, but no way do I have time to actually read it. If you're really that bored I guess you could try it. But I really can't imagine reading that recreationally.

And while we do have to know origin/insertion (but it seems more like it's assumed that we'll know it) I think OSUdoc is right, it's more about innervation and action.