I plan to start at AUC in Sep-04 and have purchased these flashcards to give myself I good head start for the first semester. There are roughly 300 cards with every anatomical part included. I figure that if I can digest 3-4 a day before I get down there...I will have every part committed to memory. This way I can just concentrate on associating what I memorized to the actual dissection. Does this seem realistic?

How many current students do you know that started heavy prep work before getting down there?

spend weeks study anatomy on your own but to some, it only makes sense once you see it on a body. I never used them. I studied from Netters book and then went to the lab to see it everynight.

We have those cards. My hubby uses them every now and then and they seem great: except that there are several errors (and Dr. Colborn even says so in general about Netters) and the bodies do not look like flash card pictures. So really they are only good to supplement your studies. There are many variations between the different cadavers and that is what can get tricky.

It has been said on here many times that if you have some time and you want to "freshen" up on some of your anatomy or biochem before you get here, you can....BUT your time is best spent enjoying having time off. You will have plenty of time to study when you get here. This advice used to drive my hubby (Flash) insane when he would ask what he could do to prepare, get ahead, etc, before school started. Once school started, he understood what everyone on here was telling him...b/c there is SO much you could focus your time and energy on, but each professor has it narrowed down to what he/she wants you to learn. So in all that prep work you were trying to do, you could potentially be wasting more time instead of getting ahead. So it is up to you, but it is great advice to think about. Different books have different terms and you could learn things one way...and they have to re-learn it another.

It seems that you can't go wrong with reviewing anatomy. Even if your professor doesn't cover a particular item in lecture, it is still useful information.
For myself, I plan on having at least that mastered by the time I get there.

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I have those... but found them to lacking in detail as we got deeper into the course. But I still have a fairly new set if anyone wants to buy it.

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I saw microphage's Netter's flash cards and thought they were seriously lacking in content as well (but don't let that dissuade you from buying his flash cards )...better to invest in a Rohen & Yokochi Photographic Atlas of Anatomy which is about the closest thing you'll get to a real dissection outside the lab (now, if the publisher would just make a scratch-and-sniff version, we'd be on to something!)

Aloha,

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Scratch and sniff... hummm then would the key to doing well on the exams be dependent on your sense of smell???

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yes they are rare but here it goes:

to get a head start review the muscles of the back and the neck including the s. occ triangle, then the arteries and nerves to the level of the occ. nerve and artery then go deep in the spine until you can see the dorsal root ganglia. the muscle names should be a given and you should know insertion and innervation and any clinical significance...ie which ones contribute to a "winged" scapula, or what innervates latissimus dorsi...

have fun

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the first part of anatomy, the back, is really simple. you literally need to know four nerves (accesory, suprascapular, greater occ and axillary) and about the same number of arteries (suprascapular, 2circumflexes, vertebral)...that is for id in the lab. the majority of the back lessons are the muscles, including function and insertion (for the scapular muscles you must know origin also) and the spinal cord and its components, which for id purposes is only a few structures.

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