question on first aid

[hobbes007]

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I am a little confused about what the optimal way to use this book is. Right now I just started reading it, and i'm doing the anatomy/embryo section. I heard that for these two subjects, the subtopics in FA are enough. is this true? the material just seems so spotty and random, but if it is all i need to know, then I dont' want to waste time reading the high yield books from cover to cover. right now, what i'm doing is reading the topics in FA and then looking them up in the HY books to see if there is anything more, and then annotating FA. Is this enough? Or should I read HY anatomy and embryo from cover to cover?
help!
thanks,
hobbes

 

[automaton]

you can get through HY books in a day, no sweat. for embryo i think diagrams help a lot and HY embryo has some good diagrams. i photocopied those pages and put them in FA. after reading HY embryo cover to cover, i added just a few things to first aid - it's fairly comprehensive if you know what they're talking about. so take home message - read HY embryo only if you feel anxious about it - material wise it hits all the major points but could use some more pictures.

anatomy on the other hand was crazy. i think HY anatomy is a crappy book because it doesn't give you any overviews. it just mentions some system too briefly then spends the next 3-4 pages on examples of clinical correlations. it's hard to understand that crap without understanding the anatomy in the first place. look at some abdominal CT cross sections, MRI of the head in various sections, some angiography of the major blood vessels (most of it is in the FA path photo section) and even Netters (just for reference), then memorize FA and i think you'd be well prepared. HY anatomy is a waste of time IMO. i hate that stinkin book. oh and supplement more random anatomical facts with qbank. qbank asks about hand and leg crap that FA doesn't talk too much about. whether this stuff actually shows up on the real test i have no idea but i remember it being kind of a big deal in my anatomy course so it's worth knowing i guess.