What is the best way to pre study for Anatomy ?

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Hi there,
I just need your experience in studying anatomy. Since Anatomy is all about Latin, I think the best way to do well at it is to learn the Latin roots related. What do you think? and if you agree is there is Any useful Latin dictionaries, good websites for learning Latin root, good iPad App for anatomy, best way to pre study for it
Anything useful you post would be appreciated
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Anatomy is not hard. It's just memorization, like most of medical school.
 
I imagine you didn't take Latin as your college language? Why not work on French or Spanish (go Spanish), as it'll be a much bigger help with clinical rotations than pre-studying for anatomy. Besides, you'll get enough of anatomy in med school.
 
Our anatomy course director sent us a letter and suggested that we get some flash cards and study them during the summer. I got the flash cards... haven't studied them. They're fairly cheap, so I'd recommend that if you really feel the need to study.
 
Student 1 said:
Hi there,
I just need your experience in studying anatomy. Since Anatomy is all about Latin, I think the best way to do well at it is to learn the Latin roots related. What do you think? and if you agree is there is Any useful Latin dictionaries, good websites for learning Latin root, good iPad App for anatomy, best way to pre study for it
Anything useful you post would be appreciated
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No. Do not pre-study anatomy.
 
Don't prestudy anatomy. You pretty much have to learn everything that's in an anatomy atlas (like Rohen or Netter) for the class, and you'll just overwhelm yourself or burn out if you're doing before doing it. Enjoy your summer. Work out. Do research. Read a good book. Find an apartment near your school. Don't do anatomy. Even the hard core people in my class couldn't sustain it and wound up miserable by the end of that module...
 
They say don't pre-study...
I say it is extremely helpful to learn your medical latin/greek roots. I took a latin medical terminology class before pharmacy school and felt like I understood a lot of things much quicker just b/c I knew how to string together prefix, roots and suffixes. Just MHO.
 
bassvp said:
They say don't pre-study...
I say it is extremely helpful to learn your medical latin/greek roots. I took a latin medical terminology class before pharmacy school and felt like I understood a lot of things much quicker just b/c I knew how to string together prefix, roots and suffixes. Just MHO.
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Really? I never learned any greek/latin etc and had zero troubles rockin anatomy.

OP most of anatomy you learn for the exams and forget almost everything except the major concepts after that...as in prestudying you will never retain enough to actually remember anything in enough detail to have it benefit you.
 
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bassvp said:
They say don't pre-study...
I say it is extremely helpful to learn your medical latin/greek roots. I took a latin medical terminology class before pharmacy school and felt like I understood a lot of things much quicker just b/c I knew how to string together prefix, roots and suffixes. Just MHO.
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By 'They' do you mean medical students who actually took the class already? Ya they dont know anything :laugh:
 
paul411 said:
Don't.

/thread
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Well said. Although we did have a quiz on day 1 at 8:00 AM... We had to do a little bit of summer work (they told us about this in advance).

I'd say if this is not your situation... chill.
 
Don't pre-study man just enjoy life for a bit. When it comes time to actually take the class, learn your latin word roots they help alot. Just as others have mentioned, anatomy is a ton of memorization and hardly anything else. Those word roots really help when your stuck on a word you don't know the definition to. Just break the word down and it tells you what you need to know.
 
Sleep

Hang with Friends and Family

Relax

Repeat! (notice nowhere in that is studying- total waste of time)
 
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You almost can't pre-study. Even if you wanted to. Netters is a supplement to lab. You LEARN anatomy in the lab.

You could go in there with a few ideas about basic larger structures that you'll never be tested on.

But memorizing pictures isn't going to get you very far, you have to be in the lab for the stuff to click.
 
LizzyM said:
No lover? Find a well-illustrated magazine and study that. 😀
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Are there any magazines that are more highly regarded/carry more prestige than others?
 
paul411 said:
Don't.

/thread
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lol 👍
But on a serious note, I don't think anatomy's really hard either (of course it's still an UG level course), it's basically memorization.

Also a lot of the bones, muscles etc have a systematic way of memorizing them (like mnemonics, location, directionality etc), which can be learned by either taking the class (if the prof. is not half bad) or reading the text.
Yeah, you could learn the latin/greek roots, but I really doubt that would stick with you unless you put them in some kind of context.

Unless you are really unfamiliar with latin/greek to the extent that you don't know words like digit-, fore-, ante-, crani- etc, I guess you could benefit from the studying, but if you've already finished most science prereqs I doubt that would be the case. And even then, it's still pretty easy to learn while just taking the class.

If you really want to study, I would memorize the bones, 'cause that's what most everything in the body is named after.
 
KindofBlue said:
lol 👍
But on a serious note, I don't think anatomy's really hard either (of course it's still an UG level course), it's basically memorization.

Also a lot of the bones, muscles etc have a systematic way of memorizing them (like mnemonics, location, directionality etc), which can be learned by either taking the class (if the prof. is not half bad) or reading the text.
Yeah, you could learn the latin/greek roots, but I really doubt that would stick with you unless you put them in some kind of context.

Unless you are really unfamiliar with latin/greek to the extent that you don't know words like digit-, fore-, ante-, crani- etc, I guess you could benefit from the studying, but if you've already finished most science prereqs I doubt that would be the case. And even then, it's still pretty easy to learn while just taking the class.

If you really want to study, I would memorize the bones, 'cause that's what most everything in the body is named after.
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UG anatomy=/= med school anatomy...just like UG biochem=/= med school biochem. While I would say undegrad biochem is more difficult than med school biochem....I took anatomy in both undergrad and in graduate school...and my med school anatomy course was way more difficult and way more of a time sink due to the 3 hour lab component every morning.

Technically you could take any med school course and make it into an undergrad course. It is the sheer time required of you as a med student...and the fact that the course is stuffed into a 1/3rd of the time that makes med school courses more difficult. No amount of prestudying is going to prepare you for that.
 
FInd your profs. syllabus online and match your "pre-studying" in accordance to the syllabus and there you are "gunning" for an A 😉
 
LizzyM said:
Take a lover and study external landmarks. 😉

No lover? Find a well-illustrated magazine and study that. 😀

Enjoy your summer!
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This post and the avatar that goes with it. :laugh:
 
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