studying anatomy without textbook?

[mddoc201333]

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How do you all study for anatomy? I know netters and rohans are a must have, but other than those do you all study by reading an anatomy textbook or using lecture notes, wikipedia, and looking up the notes in netters/rohans and memorizing without looking at any textbook?

Is there any point in buying an anatomy textbook like "clinically oriented anatomy"? Thank you all.

 

[FrickenhugeMD]

How do you all study for anatomy? I know netters and rohans are a must have, but other than those do you all study by reading an anatomy textbook or using lecture notes, wikipedia, and looking up the notes in netters/rohans and memorizing without looking at any textbook?

Is there any point in buying an anatomy textbook like "clinically oriented anatomy"? Thank you all.

unless your school has horrible notes (which would suck) than that should be all you need

 

[medstud2be]

For my school, Moore's Clinical oriented anatomy was essential. About 30%-40% of our test questions came from the Blue Boxes in this book. Also, Netter's is essential. Rohen is not essential in my opinion. I had it, and I used it only rarely. Bottom line, I would recommend Moore's and Netter's.

 

[astrocreep96]

I used Moore's COA quite a bit and thought it was very useful - certain things such as lymphatic drainage aren't covered in Netter's as much as I thought was necessary. If you don't want something that extensive, I believe there is also an Essentials of Clinical Anatomy (ECA) that is available - it was recommended to our class as a condensed alternative, although I stuck with COA.

 

[Jolie South]

used school notes and Gray's (though it was more detailed than necessary). Gray's has really good pictures.

I studied with Gray's and Rohen's flashcards.

 

[badasshairday]

I just checked out Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. Quick read, and supplemented my lecture notes. Although sometimes I wonder if I missed out on a lot of good stuff by not reading or at least looking through Moore. Moore is so huge though, that is why I didn't bother, and I felt that anatomy is mostly about memorization. There are a couple of clinical gems here and there, maybe I missed those, but oh well.

 

[Mattabet]

'Studying anatomy without textbook' sounds like the start of a horrible pick-up line.

 

[cpants]

'Studying anatomy without textbook' sounds like the start of a horrible pick-up line.

Haha!

Rohen's is not necessary. We didn't have any lectures at my school so I don't know if the class notes would be enough. I recommend Moore's for the blue boxes alone. The text itself is very wordy description of anatomical relationships, which can be useful for clarification, but reading of the whole book is not necessary. Also highly recommend the Netter's flashcards. I bought them half way through anatomy and my grades went way up afterwards.

 

[uncbluesky]

I studied anatomy using the course pack, the powerpoint slides from our lectures, and Netter's flashcards. At my school, textbooks are purely supplemental, and most of the ones they suggest are actually review books.

 

[Lanvin]

I used Netter's, University of Michigan website, and class powerpoints.

 

[Jolie South]

I used Netter's, University of Michigan website, and class powerpoints.

University of Michigan website is key. They have awesome quizzes and practice practicals.

 

[87138]

University of Michigan website is key. They have awesome quizzes and practice practicals.

At first it never clicked with me (and was never explicitly stated in our class, although I probably should've realized) that there'sa gray rami communicans at EVERY spinal nerve level. Something small and trivial, but I happened to pick up that tidbit on one of the Michigan quizzes, and sure enough it showed up on my next anatomy exam.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I just used the dissector for our written exams. It probably helped that the guy who wrote it taught the course, but still, I thought it was a great resource. The pictures seriously suck, though, and they're formatted terribly.

 

[basupran]

I didn't feel like I could 'read' anatomy so I purchased a used Grant's anatomy

and kept drawing and redrawing the anatomy I needed to learn. I chose Grant's over Netter bc 1) clearer pictures 2) pics with just nerves or just blood vessels


sticking around in the anatomy lab also helped.

 

[Isoprop]

For my school, Moore's Clinical oriented anatomy was essential. About 30%-40% of our test questions came from the Blue Boxes in this book.

Those blue boxes are notorious it seems.

For the record, the blue boxes in big Moore (COA) and baby Moore (Essential's) are different.

 

[slight365]

For my school, Moore's Clinical oriented anatomy was essential. About 30%-40% of our test questions came from the Blue Boxes in this book. Also, Netter's is essential. Rohen is not essential in my opinion. I had it, and I used it only rarely. Bottom line, I would recommend Moore's and Netter's.

+1 I have an old-old edition of Moore that's somewhat superior in many ways to the newer edition and it cost me $10 shipped in 2004. I also use the newer version. The correlaries in the Moore book are extremely helpful for tying in the information into a form where the little terms can be retained and recalled.

For my schooling, I need ones more biased for German med schools, so I'm using German printings of Netter and Sabota's Anatomy on my computer.

 

[mddoc201333]

I only have Clinically Oriented Anatomy book, and am only reading that... a lot of it seems excessively verbose...... do we have to know every single thing in this monster?

Learning anatomy solely from this book seems very difficult, .. is it because i need a cadaver and other things to truly understand anatomy... or is it expected to understand anatomy just using this big book?

How do med students study anatomy... is it just mindless memorizing of locating and identifying structures (is that it, and what is tested)... or is there some understanding involved of what the significance of these structures is also....? Is success in anatomy just knowing every single minute detail of the cadaver, or actually reading up more on it and understanding what these minute structures do?

In memorizing, what are students expected to memorize (every single thing)... and what is the most effective way to memorize... in front of a cadaver reciting every thing millions of times over?

Tests are usually broken down into two parts. How does one study for the written multiple choice tests? It is hard to imagine that becoming a master of the cadaver is the sole preparation for that part too, and not just the lab part.

 

[braluk]

You could do it but you would learn it better with a textbook (more often than not). I always liked Snell to accompany studying- gave a pretty decent background reading and it didn't overwhelm me in the same way that Robbins did.

 

[coldweatherblue]

I have three huge anatomy textbooks handed down from upperclassmen but I hardly touched them all year. Our ppts had good images from netters/grays and that's what I mostly used to study because they were supplemented with useful clinical info. Also BRS Anatomy and UMich questions. That was pretty much it.

 

[Lanvin]

You could do it but you would learn it better with a textbook (more often than not). I always liked Snell to accompany studying- gave a pretty decent background reading and it didn't overwhelm me in the same way that Robbins did.

You *may* learn it better with a text, but by reading a book as large as Moore's COA you will likely neglect other classes. I personally don't believe that any text is an efficient tool in the study of anatomy. It can be done, but I'm not sure the time investment is worth it.

 

[MMN]

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[braluk]

You *may* learn it better with a text, but by reading a book as large as Moore's COA you will likely neglect other classes. I personally don't believe that any text is an efficient tool in the study of anatomy. It can be done, but I'm not sure the time investment is worth it.

That's cause most students get bogged down in reading to memorize. If you read it to just read it, get a broad picture, and not sit and highlight, annotate or memorize, it will go by a lot more smoothly and much faster than anticipated. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

 

[Jolie South]

That's cause most students get bogged down in reading to memorize. If you read it to just read it, get a broad picture, and not sit and highlight, annotate or memorize, it will go by a lot more smoothly and much faster than anticipated. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

agreed. I'd learn the basics from flashcards and use the book to fill in the details. I think you'd have a hard time honoring without a book.