Anatomy
Friends, this is a new subject to every first year student and donot panic. You will be surprised to know the internal body of your body and more surprised when you come to know that you have to learn everything that where that nerve came from, where that artery curved, where this muscle is originating from, where it is inserting? And everything in this world you can think of...
But donot worry i will tell you the secrets which are going to help you a lot and to be frank they will reduce your headache to a lot but you have to work hard and be regular with them.
Approach to the subject-
Seriously if you want to learn anatomy from your textbooks they are not going to make you remember it for long but yes you will pass with good scores. For convenience i will divide anatomy in branches and tell their individual approach.
*If you want to suceed and retain the matter then draw as much diagrams as you can. I inserted this line here because it is the basis which will make anatomy easy to recall.
*Read general anatomy(the anatomical terms and type of bones, joints etc. common things.)
1.Gross anatomy-
So to start with any topic of gross anatomy the first requirement will be to see the structure and best would be any atlas of human anatomy, the famous ones are Netter's, Grant's and everyone is probably familiar with them. It gives you a photogeneric memory and exactly what you will see during dissection.
Donot try to learn it but just casually see and read the name of the structures before going to lecture and you will have an idea what the professor is talking about.
A must to understand things is to see the acland's video and you will be very much familiar with each and everything it is a must and can be seen or downloaded from here. Even if you donot follow any other advice please watch these videos.
For the theory, standard books have a complicated language and hard to understand for a freshman so now with the idea of structures take the textbook it would help you. Standard books are gold reference means whatever they have is final and fully researched, updated material, they give you a holistic approach and combine things. Textbooks are designed as syllabus books not focus on integration of body as a whole but tells you about the parts and reproduce the material in exams.
If you really want a perfection try to read one more textbook and then go for standard textbook it will thoroughly help you out and clear the picture.
Or even after reading one textbook you can switch to standard book. If you feel any special interest in some part then directly find about it in standard book for deep reading and finding more cool facts about that.
Overall the standard book is to understand the subject and textbook is to score.
2. Osteology- It is quite easy and you can easily understand it but better to take a look, before attending lecture, in the atlas and you can easily learn it. Acland's video will help you a lot here also. Osteology is first part to be studied before studying any part.
3. Embryology- This is much complicated and you will have to imagine each and everything. For this there is this wonderful website
4. Histology- For histology, you need to compare the structures in microscope with those in the atlas of histology.
A trick to learn them is try to see the slide without microscope and many a times you can figure out the structure yes you read right try to do it and in many slides you can easily see that it is a small version of the organ on slide.
To summarise the best online sources are available are listed as follows (I myself has searched a lot on internet and these are best free sources i could find)-
Acland's video(for Osteology and gross anatomy)
Teach me anatomy (for theory and understanding)
Embryology
*But you shouldnot leave the offline resources, your books, because you feel like that these are much more than everything.
Thanks and tell if you face any problem in comments i will try to sort it out to my best.
You can see the vishram singh anatomy here
Friends, this is a new subject to every first year student and donot panic. You will be surprised to know the internal body of your body and more surprised when you come to know that you have to learn everything that where that nerve came from, where that artery curved, where this muscle is originating from, where it is inserting? And everything in this world you can think of...
But donot worry i will tell you the secrets which are going to help you a lot and to be frank they will reduce your headache to a lot but you have to work hard and be regular with them.
Approach to the subject-
Seriously if you want to learn anatomy from your textbooks they are not going to make you remember it for long but yes you will pass with good scores. For convenience i will divide anatomy in branches and tell their individual approach.
*If you want to suceed and retain the matter then draw as much diagrams as you can. I inserted this line here because it is the basis which will make anatomy easy to recall.
*Read general anatomy(the anatomical terms and type of bones, joints etc. common things.)
1.Gross anatomy-
So to start with any topic of gross anatomy the first requirement will be to see the structure and best would be any atlas of human anatomy, the famous ones are Netter's, Grant's and everyone is probably familiar with them. It gives you a photogeneric memory and exactly what you will see during dissection.
Donot try to learn it but just casually see and read the name of the structures before going to lecture and you will have an idea what the professor is talking about.
A must to understand things is to see the acland's video and you will be very much familiar with each and everything it is a must and can be seen or downloaded from here. Even if you donot follow any other advice please watch these videos.
For the theory, standard books have a complicated language and hard to understand for a freshman so now with the idea of structures take the textbook it would help you. Standard books are gold reference means whatever they have is final and fully researched, updated material, they give you a holistic approach and combine things. Textbooks are designed as syllabus books not focus on integration of body as a whole but tells you about the parts and reproduce the material in exams.
If you really want a perfection try to read one more textbook and then go for standard textbook it will thoroughly help you out and clear the picture.
Or even after reading one textbook you can switch to standard book. If you feel any special interest in some part then directly find about it in standard book for deep reading and finding more cool facts about that.
Overall the standard book is to understand the subject and textbook is to score.
2. Osteology- It is quite easy and you can easily understand it but better to take a look, before attending lecture, in the atlas and you can easily learn it. Acland's video will help you a lot here also. Osteology is first part to be studied before studying any part.
3. Embryology- This is much complicated and you will have to imagine each and everything. For this there is this wonderful website
4. Histology- For histology, you need to compare the structures in microscope with those in the atlas of histology.
A trick to learn them is try to see the slide without microscope and many a times you can figure out the structure yes you read right try to do it and in many slides you can easily see that it is a small version of the organ on slide.
To summarise the best online sources are available are listed as follows (I myself has searched a lot on internet and these are best free sources i could find)-
Acland's video(for Osteology and gross anatomy)
Teach me anatomy (for theory and understanding)
Embryology
*But you shouldnot leave the offline resources, your books, because you feel like that these are much more than everything.
Thanks and tell if you face any problem in comments i will try to sort it out to my best.
You can see the vishram singh anatomy here
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