Hi,

I've been hearing a lot about students purchasing additional atlases of human anatomy for first term. I checked the booklist, and it appears we receive the Netter atlas with our course books when we get to SGU...

So I have three questions:

1) Is it necessary to purchase another atlas (in addition to the Netter altas we get with our course material)?

2) Do most people buy a supplemental atlas?

3) Which of the following atlases by Moore, Chung, or Rohen would you recommend? I've heard a lot of split opinions on this, so any pros/cons of these particular atlases would be appreciated.

Thanks, so much!

Coco

From what I haveheard, it is absolutely NOT necessary to get any outside books. However, many have praised the rohen book because it uses actual color photographs of dissected cadavers, which has obvious benefits. I will be bringing rohen with me

Andy

our class in 1995 protested and chucked the Slaby book for the far superior moore (slaby has its good points but not when initially learning i dont think). Chung is NOT a primary source and I dont think its even a good review source, but people do differ with me on the latter point.

A photographic atlas is the only suppliemntal thing id ever recommend and again, try the library. It helps to no end ocme practical exam time. Drs Jordan et al will clean up your horrible dissections so that when you take the exam, you can see what they're marking. Note: watch for the nipple being slipped into the exam.

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Steph
If you get a warning, put on yer manpants and stop whining about it.

I strongly recommend bringing down Rohen. It is extremely helpful especially for the 2nd half of anatomy where the head and neck are nearly destroyed by our wonderful dissection skills and it is difficult to identify structures in lab. I have one should anyone be interested in buying it. PM me.

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Yadira

Students have been suggesting to me Rohen because it contains REAL LIFE dissections that are comparable to what you see in the anatomy lab, while in Netter they are illustrations.

Is this true?

IndianBabu

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Just to make sure, Chung is not an atlas. It is a board review book in outline/note format with a couple pictures thrown in. I didn't use any extra atlases. Netter is enough for everything. However, u can just check out atlases with real pictures from the library every once in a while when u want to look at it. Use the SGU library to the fullest!

I have to jump in with an anecdote here. Stephew isn't kidding. On our final exam, our group's cadaver had the mylohyoid marked. When I looked at it, it was obvious what I was looking at. The other answer choices didn't make sense either. But I swear, I probably stared for 5 seconds in pure surprise. The reason being that the real mylohyoid had gotten destroyed in our dissection.

Having a better understanding of anatomy when I went to take the final exam allowed me to appreciate how the anatomy staff can definitely create Netter type structures.

Ravpreet

Thanks for all the responses, everyone!

I'll be purchasing the Color Atlas of Anatomy by Rohen.

You guys are so helpful - thanks, again.

Coco

Netter is great then Moore.

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H. MD

yeah I used Netter about daily, looked over Rohen once before midterms and once before finals, and cannot imagine trying to use another source.