What do I do about ANATOMY and HISTOLOGY?

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This might have been asked before sorry...I'm gonna start Anatomy, Physio, and Histo soon and I was wondering WHAT gameplan (books, review strategies, etc...) I should have in mind and how I should approach the course.

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You need to know

-where the structures are
-3-d relationship (what lies lateral/superior/inferior etc)
-Functional anatomy


Personally for learning where structures are/branches of arteries/veins/nerves/muslces I just use an atalas (I've found Gilroy's to be excellent). For learning their organization and relationships in 3-d I use the cadaver dissection manual. And finally for learning functional anatomy/embryological development I just use class notes/online lecture vids.

I really don't read through the anatomy textbook that tries to explain all of that in one book. I find reading an anatomy text far too dry and too much reading with way too much superfluous information.
 
If you somehow haven't figured out what works best for you in studying, then you'll find out pretty quickly once things start. My school thankfully eased us in with our classes, though it didn't seem like it. For anatomy, I only have a netters, the notes given, and online materials from a few websites provided/found. Like Masticate3Xaday said, it is way more important to understand 3D relationships and structure/function relationships than wrote memorizing them. One of the friends I study with told me how he appreciated that I focus on that, and understanding, as he does, because other people he studied with are only trying to memorize the details and can care less why things work the way the do (and those people are the ones who I've heard saying they are struggling to pass). It is slower, but you retain much more, and come exam time, everything will be much clearer and even if you don't know an answer, you'll be able to reason your way into guessing very well.

As far as histo, there are great online resources, and hopefully you'll be able to relate it to gross anatomy and physiology so it makes more sense. I was lucky to have an insane histo class in undergrad which makes the histo I'm in now look like a joke.
 
Anatomy: Get a color atlas OR a photographic atlas. I used Netter's and Rohen's. For explanations, if your lecture notes suck (and mine do), get Gray's Anatomy for Students. For practice questions, I used http://www.amazon.com/Grays-Anatomy...9387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318071330&sr=8-1

If you are really good at 3D relationships you can get by with just the Rohen's without spending too much time in lab. It gets really bad when you get to abdomen, pelvis, and head/neck. You need to know which vessels and nerves cross which ones and where. Just knowing their individual diagramatic schemes won't work.

Histology: Lecture notes and Histology Time and Histo QBank for practice. No book required.
 
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