one day anatomy crash course - your thoughts?

[aashkab]

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Hi,

I was going to devote one day to anatomy about 2 weeks before my test to cram in small details, attachments, CTs, etc...

I was wondering what sources you think are good.

I have ANATOMY: Review for USMLE, Step 1 Third Edition Johnson, Slaby, and Bohn (green book)

I also have USMLE road map gross anatomy by Lange.

What do yall think of the Johnson Anatomy book? I heard good things about it.

And, I know there have been some threads about browsing through CT websites that I will look up later. But if you want to add them into this thread, then feel free!

Thanks

 

[PokerDoc]

Too much wasted time IMO, im a strong believer that between the 2 Qbanks you've done u get enough anatomy + whats in FA.. anatomy in itself just isnt high yield enough

 

[IMGUSMLEStep1]

Too much wasted time IMO, im a strong believer that between the 2 Qbanks you've done u get enough anatomy + whats in FA.. anatomy in itself just isnt high yield enough

This is solid advice.

Know the anatomy in first aid really well. For Neuroanatomy, High Yield Neuroanatomy is helpful, but sometimes too detailed.

 

[PokerDoc]

This is solid advice.

Know the anatomy in first aid really well. For Neuroanatomy, High Yield Neuroanatomy is helpful, but sometimes too detailed.

yah neuroanatomy might be a better way to spend a day if you were gonna pick one, but I did read that book and didnt learn much that again, didnt show up in UW in some form.. I learned it a lot better by getting it wrong in UW and then memorizing the structures for all the wrong answers too.

also dont forget the images section in the back of FA has a ton of MRI/CT pics that you should def be able to recognize.

 

[aashkab]

yeah, true. i already am going to flip through neuroanatomy, CTs, etc and stuff but there are those random anatomy questions that pop up on the nbme's so in a decent attempt to prep for that even though its low yield, i'll roll the dice and give it a few hours. so any advices specific to anatomy that may have helped on a random question or two is appreciated! thanks.

 

[PokerDoc]

yeah, true. i already am going to flip through neuroanatomy, CTs, etc and stuff but there are those random anatomy questions that pop up on the nbme's so in a decent attempt to prep for that even though its low yield, i'll roll the dice and give it a few hours. so any advices specific to anatomy that may have helped on a random question or two is appreciated! thanks.

i've yet to encounter a single straight up anatomy question that was not in first aid in some form.

 

[singinfifi]

I think that's probably too much time. I read the roadmap anatomy book and thought it was AMAZING (took me about 4 hours to read) and I learned how to draw http://lessons4medicos.blogspot.com/2009/07/brainstem-rules-of-4.html and made sure I could draw the brachial/sacral plexi and was good to go. Now, I managed to FORGET the sacral plexus the day of my exam which cost me about 4 questions on the lower limb, but other then that? that worked out REALLY well.

 

[xanthomondo]

Don't bother learning origins/insertions either....that's such a waste of time.

 

[hartbot]

Sacral plexus is that important?

I dont even think I had to know it cold in 1st year anatomy!

 

[singinfifi]

Sacral plexus is that important?

I dont even think I had to know it cold in 1st year anatomy!

Ugh. It was on my exam 🙁

 

[aashkab]

wow that sucks man. god i hope i don't have that. thats absurd.

 

[aashkab]

i've yet to encounter a single straight up anatomy question that was not in first aid in some form.

there have been questions on the real test regarding sacral plexus, thigh insertions, bursas, etc...so yes, maybe not in qbanks, but real thing its fair game. yes i know its low yield but i mean, i feel prepared enough to take some time and gloss over low yield stuff.

 

[PokerDoc]

there have been questions on the real test regarding sacral plexus, thigh insertions, bursas, etc...so yes, maybe not in qbanks, but real thing its fair game. yes i know its low yield but i mean, i feel prepared enough to take some time and gloss over low yield stuff.

like a picture of the sacral plexus pointing to a nerve or just a lower extremity nerve question? theres a big difference there. I'd have trouble labeling a picture but i never get nerve questions wrong down there (thats what she said)

 

[bizurk]

UMich's anatomy quizzes are nice and snappy, with good explanations. I'm going to spend one day cranking through those if I have time.