Signing Up for Anatomy Class?

[Queen_B]

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I would like to take an anatomy class prior to matriculation, as my college did not offer anatomy. I am a college grad, so I am unsure how I would take a college level course. I contacted my local university, and they did not seem too welcoming of college grad students. How do I go about signing up for an in person 1 semester or quarter anatomy class? Or do you recommend taking an online anatomy class? If so, what is the cheapest online class out there?

 

[AlteredScale]

I would like to take an anatomy class prior to matriculation, as my college did not offer anatomy. I am a college grad, so I am unsure how I would take a college level course. I contacted my local university, and they did not seem too welcoming of college grad students. How do I go about signing up for an in person 1 semester or quarter anatomy class? Or do you recommend taking an online anatomy class? If so, what is the cheapest online class out there?

Online anatomy really won't do much if you are trying to prep for med school. Try enrolling in allied health anatomy at your local community college (it'll help but again, it won't give you any sort of advantage come gross anatomy time in med school).

If you're really trying to expose yourself to anatomy use this website: http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/coursepages/m1/anatomy2010/html/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html

You could always buy Moores Clinically Oriented Anatomy (close to 1000 pages) and try and memorize stuff from there as well.

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

I took undergrad anatomy and it didn't help at all for medical school

 

[Didierdrogba]

If you are already admitted to med school, there is absolutely no need to take the anatomy class. Most med students do fine without pre-studying anatomy.

 

[WedgeDawg]

There's no point to taking an anatomy class before medical school. The michigan questions that @AlteredScale posted are a phenomenal resource once you're in medical school (I and many of my classmates use them to prep for exams). The problem is you won't really know what to focus on. Too much effort for too little payoff. You'll learn what you need to learn in medical school. Anatomy isn't that hard, I promise.

 

[AlteredScale]

Agreed. Though there's a lot of information in the gross anatomy section, it's fairly dry and straightforward.

@WedgeDawg your status is pre-opt, is that an accident?

 

[WedgeDawg]

Agreed. Though there's a lot of information in the gross anatomy section, it's fairly dry and straightforward.

@WedgeDawg your status is pre-opt, is that an accident?

I'm basically pre-opt for the rest of my life

 

[Queen_B]

Any thoughts as to which is the better introductory anatomy book between the Moore's anatomy book and the Gray's anatomy book? I am thinking about buying an old edition of one of these

 

[AlteredScale]

Any thoughts as to which is the better introductory anatomy book between the Moore's anatomy book and the Gray's anatomy book? I am thinking about buying an old edition of one of these

I dont think either of those are introductory. Try rhe grays anatomy coloring book.

 

[Queen_B]

I dont think either of those are introductory. Try rhe grays anatomy coloring book.

By introductory, I meant which book would be better for someone who has little anatomy background. I am looking for a textbook, so I can expose myself to anatomy as well as get back into the habit of reading science textbooks.

 

[AlteredScale]

By introductory, I meant which book would be better for someone who has little anatomy background. I am looking for a textbook, so I can learn about anatomy as well as getting back into the habit of reading science textbooks.

The Grey's Anatomy coloring book is a good start for someone who has not had a strong anatomy background. Moores is way to clinical and in depth for you to use as an into and Grey's Atlas is really just...pictures which you won't nor shouldn't memorize at this point. I would highly highly suggest you use the coloring book to expose you to the material and honestly just read articles in medicine if you want to get back into the habit of reading scientific texts. Try JAMA, NEJM, Nature Medicine.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Lol reading an anatomy textbook or looking through an anatomy atlas is going to be wayyyy too intense for someone with 0 anatomy background.

If you're really curious, get Essential Anatomy 5 (or whatever the newest version is) for either your ipad or your mac (or your iphone, but that's kind of small) and play around with that. The computer version is like $30 or something and the ipad/iphone version is a bit less. I recommend the computer version unless you have a full size new ipad air (1, 2, or 3) (otherwise it'll lag and/or you can only look at a certain number of systems at once). I have both but because my ipad is super old, I only really use the computer version. This might change when I get around to procuring a new ipad.

Or go on itunes and get the ibook versions of the Columbia Clinical Gross Anatomy Dissection Manual (full disclosure, I'm a student there, but I'm not affiliated with the writers of this book and am only recommending it because I think it's an absolutely phenomenal resource) which is interactive and has great pictures of actual dissections as well as an encyclopedia that allows you to click on the name of a structure and it'll give you a full explanation of where it is and what it does. Each chapter also has review questions and built-in flashcards. It comes in 5 installments and altogether it'll run you about $35.

These resources will be great when you're actually in med school taking anatomy. No need to do anything beforehand.