Which of these anatomy resources did you use?

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I am starting school in a few weeks and was wondering if anyone had an opinion on this. I'm pretty sure my schools gives Netter's atlas, but my question is about the flashcards.

I figured I would buy some flashcards now since I am pretty sure I will use those, but don't know whether to just buy the regular cards or to buy the digital version through inkling, which actually lets you quiz yourself by blanking out the names of the structures. Then I was looks at the regular Netter's anatomy atlas on inkling and that will also let you blank out all of the names of the structures.

I think something similar to what inkling offers is also available on an app called modality, but I don't know much about that. Any difference from inkling?

What do you guys recommend getting? Regular flash cards, digital flashcards, or just the digital atlas on inkling, which I would also be able to use to quiz myself like the flashcards.

I will probably wait until I start to buy anything else, but if anyone has recommendations for anatomy, let me know. I have also checked out old threads and Rohen's seems to be popular too. Thanks everyone!
 
I used Rohen's flashcards. They were decent for studying for the practicals, but definitely not enough on their own. There's no substitute for going into the lab after hours with someone much smarter than you to go over every bolded word in Grants on several different bodies. That's the only way to do very well.
 
Why not get the Netter's app that allows you to test yourself with pins?
 
Didn't even know that existed, but after a quick glance, this version costs $89.99 and then another $45.99 to upgrade to the 6th edition (which is probably not necessary, but still). Inking also does the pin thing, but the cost for the digital 6th edition is $82.99, so I would probably just stick with that.

I guess my main question is should I buy the digital atlas to quiz myself or the digital flashcards, because I will already have a hard copy of the atlas given to me by my school? The digital atlas has way more pins, but the flashcards seem to have little bits of details/facts.
 
it depends on your school. i ended up using my school lectures, dissector and cadavers mostly. i didn't use the atlas as much as I thought i would.
 
coffeesnob said:
it depends on your school. i ended up using my school lectures, dissector and cadavers mostly. i didn't use the atlas as much as I thought i would.
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What is dissector?
 
I have a question, we saw our schedule today for M1 today, is 12 weeks of neuro the norm?
 
whoa 12-weeks of neuro? Maybe if you count our MS2 neuropath and MS1 neurophys together you'd have a total of 12 weeks. Idk if your curriculum is integrated or not.
 
IgE_ said:
Didn't even know that existed, but after a quick glance, this version costs $89.99 and then another $45.99 to upgrade to the 6th edition (which is probably not necessary, but still). Inking also does the pin thing, but the cost for the digital 6th edition is $82.99, so I would probably just stick with that.

I guess my main question is should I buy the digital atlas to quiz myself or the digital flashcards, because I will already have a hard copy of the atlas given to me by my school? The digital atlas has way more pins, but the flashcards seem to have little bits of details/facts.
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Buy Netter's. It's the resource med school prof's use to teach anatomy. Saving $45, $90, or $135 here or there does not matter in the grand scheme of things. You're objective in med school is to stand out amongst your peers. Buy the other sources too if you like, just don't leave yourself wondering whether or not your resources are adequate.
 
JoshSt said:
Buy Netter's. It's the resource med school prof's use to teach anatomy. Saving $45, $90, or $135 here or there does not matter in the grand scheme of things. You're objective in med school is to stand out amongst your peers. Buy the other sources too if you like, just don't leave yourself wondering whether or not your resources are adequate.
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So you're suggesting I get the digital version of the atlas and the flashcards, in addition to the hardcopy Netter's I will have?
 
OP, it really depends on your school. my school heavily referenced gilroy's atlas. most of us didn't use the flashcards. if i were you, i would hold off on buying anything until school starts. browse your school library, and take a look at their copies of different atlas. ask your upperclassmen what they use first. having extra resources will probably not make you stand out.

stick to one or two resources that your upperclassmen recommend. you probably won't have time to go through multiple resources.
 
Thanks for the responses! I guess I will just wait until I start. I figured there will be a lot of expenses when I get to school so I was trying to buy some stuff now to make it less painful when I have to spend a lot at once.
 
IgE_ said:
Thanks for the responses! I guess I will just wait until I start. I figured there will be a lot of expenses when I get to school so I was trying to buy some stuff now to make it less painful when I have to spend a lot at once.
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Yeah. You don't really have to buy anything for med school other than a stethoscope. also, your upperclassmen will most likely try to sell a lot of books at really cheap prices in the beginning.
 
Sign up for AMSA membership online (free for med students) and they will mail you the Rohan's photographic anatomy flash cards for free along with an interactive DVD by Moore's
 
Fluffy Pomeranian said:
Sign up for AMSA membership online (free for med students) and they will mail you the Rohan's photographic anatomy flash cards for free along with an interactive DVD by Moore's
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Lol if AMSA didn't offer this, I bet they'd lose 75 percent of their members.
F*ck AMSA

Definitely agree about not buying anything till school starts. Even "required" materials. If you buy everything they tell you to, you'll add like 3k or more a year to your costs.
 
Fluffy Pomeranian said:
Sign up for AMSA membership online (free for med students) and they will mail you the Rohan's photographic anatomy flash cards for free along with an interactive DVD by Moore's
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Yeah, except many of AMSA's goals aren't necessarily in line with medical students goals. Hence the need to entice them with a Netter's.
 
PL198 said:
But now you're supporting an a group that you don't even necessarily agree with.
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I honestly don't know much about what AMSA does or their policies, as I'm not involved in my school's local chapter. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
 
Fluffy Pomeranian said:
I honestly don't know much about what AMSA does or their policies, as I'm not involved in my school's local chapter. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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Just imagine whatever your administration spews about the health-care landscape. AMSA pretty much regurgitates that.
 
Fluffy Pomeranian said:
Sign up for AMSA membership online (free for med students) and they will mail you the Rohan's photographic anatomy flash cards for free along with an interactive DVD by Moore's
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When you joined did they automatically send you the free stuff? Or did you have to manually "check the box" somewhere during your AMSA membership registration? I just finished filling mine out online and didn't see anything about the free flash cards or DVD
 
LivingOnAPrayer123 said:
When you joined did they automatically send you the free stuff? Or did you have to manually "check the box" somewhere during your AMSA membership registration? I just finished filling mine out online and didn't see anything about the free flash cards or DVD
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lol so now you just supported AMSA(sold your soul to the devil) and didn't even get to reap the rewards. I'll see you in hell
 
LivingOnAPrayer123 said:
When you joined did they automatically send you the free stuff? Or did you have to manually "check the box" somewhere during your AMSA membership registration? I just finished filling mine out online and didn't see anything about the free flash cards or DVD
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It's been a couple years since I signed up, so I don't remember exactly....I feel like it came up somewhere in the registration process because I had to give them my address so they could send it. Couldn't find much about it on their website now besides the message at the bottom of this: http://www.amsa.org/WelcomeMeds/

You joined the national AMSA group right? Not just your school's local chapter?
 
aklark said:
You have to pay $68 to join AMA for four years and get the goodies: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/membership/membership-benefits/for-med-students.page

No mention of free flashcards on AMSA site. Is this offer real, or urban legend? I'll sell my soul for free flashcards, but I won't by $68 to be part of the 15%.
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Generally the deal is at the start of the school year, because that's when most people take anatomy and everyone is like " ZOMG YEAH ILL SUPPORT AN ORGANIZATION I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOR 20 DOLLAR FLASH CARDS."
 
I bought WAY too many books for anatomy because it was the subject that worried me most, but I didn't really use that many of them regularly. In the end, my go-to resources were probably:

1) Rohen's Atlas -- dayum. This is a great book and great both for practicals and for basic learning. Great for quizzing yourself. Saved me a lot of wasted time in the lab. I would study this until I knew each figure cold and THEN go to the lab to reinforce it in multiple cadavers.
2) Netters -- mainstay, used it for class but even better in the lab itself. Everyone at our table chipped in and we just kept it in there.
3) Thieme Head and Neuroanatomy -- great book for those areas. Really like how this series breaks down areas and builds them up layer by layer. Great for learning neuro pathways too. They have some additional atlases that I also bought and really liked, but didn't really end up using them that often.
4) Acland's DVD atlas -- these were awesome and I continue to use them to review when needed because the dissections are in non-embalmed tissue and absolutely stunning. They are also great if you need to sleep and don't have any Nyquil handy.
5) Thieme flashcards -- got them when I too signed up for AMSA and they actually sent me two sets by mistake. Kept one by the crapper and one by my bed.
6) UMichigan anatomy site -- awesome. Quizzes, practicals, dissection videos, free. 'Nuff said.
7) BRS anatomy -- great questions and nice quick review of commonly tested material.


My personal routine was something like this:
1) Watch class lecture videos twice at 2x speed. Repetition is key.
2) Review relevant sections in Netters and Rohen's. Begin quizzing myself.
3) Go to lab during required dissection time. Our lab never really followed the dissector enough to make reading it useful, so I would just wing it.
4) Watch relevant section of Acland DVD atlas 2-3 times.
5) More quizzing with Rohens.
6) Go through all of the UMich questions/practicals
7) Review class lecture handouts and watch videos again on 2x.
8) Go back to lab 2-3 days before practical and review. Find all testable structures on 4-5 bodies. They should all be pretty well dissected at this point so this doesn't take much time.
9) Review lectures/handouts leading up to test.

That's basically what I did and it worked well for me. We have a systems based curriculum so anatomy was spread out over the year; I just worked the above routine into my overall studying.
 
operaman said:
I bought WAY too many books for anatomy because it was the subject that worried me most, but I didn't really use that many of them regularly. In the end, my go-to resources were probably:

1) Rohen's Atlas -- dayum. This is a great book and great both for practicals and for basic learning. Great for quizzing yourself. Saved me a lot of wasted time in the lab. I would study this until I knew each figure cold and THEN go to the lab to reinforce it in multiple cadavers.
2) Netters -- mainstay, used it for class but even better in the lab itself. Everyone at our table chipped in and we just kept it in there.
3) Thieme Head and Neuroanatomy -- great book for those areas. Really like how this series breaks down areas and builds them up layer by layer. Great for learning neuro pathways too. They have some additional atlases that I also bought and really liked, but didn't really end up using them that often.
4) Acland's DVD atlas -- these were awesome and I continue to use them to review when needed because the dissections are in non-embalmed tissue and absolutely stunning. They are also great if you need to sleep and don't have any Nyquil handy.
5) Thieme flashcards -- got them when I too signed up for AMSA and they actually sent me two sets by mistake. Kept one by the crapper and one by my bed.
6) UMichigan anatomy site -- awesome. Quizzes, practicals, dissection videos, free. 'Nuff said.
7) BRS anatomy -- great questions and nice quick review of commonly tested material.


My personal routine was something like this:
1) Watch class lecture videos twice at 2x speed. Repetition is key.
2) Review relevant sections in Netters and Rohen's. Begin quizzing myself.
3) Go to lab during required dissection time. Our lab never really followed the dissector enough to make reading it useful, so I would just wing it.
4) Watch relevant section of Acland DVD atlas 2-3 times.
5) More quizzing with Rohens.
6) Go through all of the UMich questions/practicals
7) Review class lecture handouts and watch videos again on 2x.
8) Go back to lab 2-3 days before practical and review. Find all testable structures on 4-5 bodies. They should all be pretty well dissected at this point so this doesn't take much time.
9) Review lectures/handouts leading up to test.

That's basically what I did and it worked well for me. We have a systems based curriculum so anatomy was spread out over the year; I just worked the above routine into my overall studying.
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No wonder you did so well on boards and only needed 2 weeks!! You studied hardcore.
 
operaman said:
I bought WAY too many books for anatomy because it was the subject that worried me most, but I didn't really use that many of them regularly. In the end, my go-to resources were probably:

1) Rohen's Atlas -- dayum. This is a great book and great both for practicals and for basic learning. Great for quizzing yourself. Saved me a lot of wasted time in the lab. I would study this until I knew each figure cold and THEN go to the lab to reinforce it in multiple cadavers.
2) Netters -- mainstay, used it for class but even better in the lab itself. Everyone at our table chipped in and we just kept it in there.
3) Thieme Head and Neuroanatomy -- great book for those areas. Really like how this series breaks down areas and builds them up layer by layer. Great for learning neuro pathways too. They have some additional atlases that I also bought and really liked, but didn't really end up using them that often.
4) Acland's DVD atlas -- these were awesome and I continue to use them to review when needed because the dissections are in non-embalmed tissue and absolutely stunning. They are also great if you need to sleep and don't have any Nyquil handy.
5) Thieme flashcards -- got them when I too signed up for AMSA and they actually sent me two sets by mistake. Kept one by the crapper and one by my bed.
6) UMichigan anatomy site -- awesome. Quizzes, practicals, dissection videos, free. 'Nuff said.
7) BRS anatomy -- great questions and nice quick review of commonly tested material.


My personal routine was something like this:
1) Watch class lecture videos twice at 2x speed. Repetition is key.
2) Review relevant sections in Netters and Rohen's. Begin quizzing myself.
3) Go to lab during required dissection time. Our lab never really followed the dissector enough to make reading it useful, so I would just wing it.
4) Watch relevant section of Acland DVD atlas 2-3 times.
5) More quizzing with Rohens.
6) Go through all of the UMich questions/practicals
7) Review class lecture handouts and watch videos again on 2x.
8) Go back to lab 2-3 days before practical and review. Find all testable structures on 4-5 bodies. They should all be pretty well dissected at this point so this doesn't take much time.
9) Review lectures/handouts leading up to test.

That's basically what I did and it worked well for me. We have a systems based curriculum so anatomy was spread out over the year; I just worked the above routine into my overall studying.
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Holy crap. I am ashamed.
 
operaman said:
I bought WAY too many books for anatomy because it was the subject that worried me most, but I didn't really use that many of them regularly. In the end, my go-to resources were probably:

1) Rohen's Atlas -- dayum. This is a great book and great both for practicals and for basic learning. Great for quizzing yourself. Saved me a lot of wasted time in the lab. I would study this until I knew each figure cold and THEN go to the lab to reinforce it in multiple cadavers.
2) Netters -- mainstay, used it for class but even better in the lab itself. Everyone at our table chipped in and we just kept it in there.
3) Thieme Head and Neuroanatomy -- great book for those areas. Really like how this series breaks down areas and builds them up layer by layer. Great for learning neuro pathways too. They have some additional atlases that I also bought and really liked, but didn't really end up using them that often.
4) Acland's DVD atlas -- these were awesome and I continue to use them to review when needed because the dissections are in non-embalmed tissue and absolutely stunning. They are also great if you need to sleep and don't have any Nyquil handy.
5) Thieme flashcards -- got them when I too signed up for AMSA and they actually sent me two sets by mistake. Kept one by the crapper and one by my bed.
6) UMichigan anatomy site -- awesome. Quizzes, practicals, dissection videos, free. 'Nuff said.
7) BRS anatomy -- great questions and nice quick review of commonly tested material.


My personal routine was something like this:
1) Watch class lecture videos twice at 2x speed. Repetition is key.
2) Review relevant sections in Netters and Rohen's. Begin quizzing myself.
3) Go to lab during required dissection time. Our lab never really followed the dissector enough to make reading it useful, so I would just wing it.
4) Watch relevant section of Acland DVD atlas 2-3 times.
5) More quizzing with Rohens.
6) Go through all of the UMich questions/practicals
7) Review class lecture handouts and watch videos again on 2x.
8) Go back to lab 2-3 days before practical and review. Find all testable structures on 4-5 bodies. They should all be pretty well dissected at this point so this doesn't take much time.
9) Review lectures/handouts leading up to test.

That's basically what I did and it worked well for me. We have a systems based curriculum so anatomy was spread out over the year; I just worked the above routine into my overall studying.
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Yeah I've always said that the key to boards is hard work during the first two years. Do that and review is easy. I hate having to learn things more than once so I decided to learn it well the first time and remember it.

I didn't think my anatomy studying was all that much because in practice it spreads out well and becomes a reasonable part of regular study.

Time spent:

1) Watch class lecture videos twice at 2x speed -- lets say 5-12 lectures per block at 4o minutes per lecture = 200-480 minutes or 3-8 hours
2) Review relevant sections in Netters and Rohen's. Probably 1-2 hours
3) Go to lab during required dissection time. ~5-6 hours per week
4) Watch relevant section of Acland DVD atlas 2-3 times -- 2-3 hrs
5) More quizzing with Rohens. 2-3 hours
6) Go through all of the UMich questions/practicals 3-4 hours
7) Review class lecture handouts and watch videos again on 2x. 5-12 hours
8) Go back to lab 2-3 days before practical and review. Find all testable structures on 4-5 bodies. They should all be pretty well dissected at this point so this doesn't take much time. 2-4 hours
9) Review lectures/handouts leading up to test -- varied from 2 to 8 hours depending on block

So in total that's 25 to 50 hours divided over blocks that are 5-6 weeks in length. With one day off per week that's 30 days or so and averages to about 1 to 1.75 hours per day when it's all said and done. That's pretty small actually when you consider that anatomy is a fairly large part of any first year curriculum.
 
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