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[thestudyingapollo]

For some reason I have been waking up at 5 every morning this week, without an alarm, which is annoying when my alarm is set at 6 and I want to sleep 😒 Anyways, I get to see the sun rising every morning while I enjoy my breakfast (which is incredibly calming for my Romantic soul) and balancing workouts and MIR studying has been going better than expected, let’s see how weeks keep going! 🏋️‍♀️ 📖 💻 🧠

[thestudyingapollo]

hey! can you give me any tips on how to start studying anatomy? i’ll be applying to mes school next year & i want to be as ready as possible. i bought netter’s anatomy book but idk where to start, please help!

Hi lovely!! 

I’m rescuing a post from when I was still a first year medical student (so much time has passed since then????) and I still blogged as Studylikeadoctor!!! Here ya go! 

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1. The first thing is, you need a good book.

Anatomy is an ancient discipline  and there are tons of good books out there that you can use as a reference. In my case, I use Sobotta and Netter quite a lot, there are people who prefer Gray’s anatomy, which is pretty great too. I would recommend you Sobotta, the draws are clear and realistic, so it is really clarifying. I also use “Rouviére’s anatomy�?, but I don’t know if that one is available in english, because I only found it in spanish. Anyway, that’s a pretty good book if you want good theory, but not for the illustrations. You’ll find any of these books in your university library. Undoubtedly, the best and quickest resource is Fenei’s anatomy book:

As you can see, the illustrations are so neat and clear you can look everything up in a second, and everything’s marked with numbers so you can know what you’re looking at. It’s one of my favorites and is so small you can carry it anywhere (I always take it with me to university).  ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ You can buy the Feneis pocket atlas of human anatomy here. 

There’s also a book that I only found in spanish, but medical terms are really similar in different languages because they all come form the latin, so I don’t think you’ll have lots of problems, and anyway the best part about this book are the illustrations. It has more than 1000 pages and it only costs 35 euros!! You can look it up here!! 

2. Draw. 

Anatomy is the most visual subject you’ll ever study, so draw, draw and draw everything you can. In my university, we need to buy a book called “Human anatomy in dissection planes”, but this one is pretty expensive so just draw, because it will help you to memorise and understand everything. Draw flow charts of circulations, of muskuloskeletal systems, of nervous systems, of EVERYTHING. You have an example here: I drew the nervous apparatus of the heart. You don’t need to be good at drawing, it’s just a way in which you can revise structures and put everything into relation!! 

3. Use color-coding. 

When I have to study the muscles that are innervated by different nerves, I paint all the muscles of the same group with the same color. Use that technique for the different arteries and veins that come from the same main artery or vein too, for the nerve endings that innervate the same structures, etc.  

4. Quiz yourself. 

When I have to study anatomy, I print out blank images, with no names at all, and after studying I put the names of all the structures I can see in that diagram (the internet version of the Feneis book is good for that, you can print out the images an quiz yourselves!!). That way I make sure I’ve understood everything and that I know what I’m talking about. Using blank diagrams and illustrations with no names is a good way of realizing what you’ve learnt and what you haven’t.

5. Observe the bodies. 

I don’t know if your university offers it, but if you have the possibility of studying in a dissection room with real human bodies, observe everything. Touch the body, realise how differs the touch of veins and arteries and nerves, how ligaments and tendons are not the same…

6. Here are some good apps: 

If you’re an android user, I’d check these ones out:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hssn.anatomyfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5oc3NuLmFuYXRvbXlmcmVlIl0.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GoodwillEnterpriseDevelopment.Anatronica

However, if you’re an apple user like me, I’d recommend 3D 4 Medical apps. They’re so clear and interactive, those are my favorites:

http://applications.3d4medical.com/essential_anatomy_3/

In this page you can also see images and animations, and the have apps for android users too!!

http://www.pocketanatomy.com (this one is also great)

To study the skull (which is the hardest thing ever), use this app:

http://www.iso-form.com/skullviewer/ (ugh I love this one)

7. Reason as much as you can. 

Use mnemonics. Anatomical names have the advantage of being really obvious, clever and reasonable. If the thyro-epiglotticus is called like that it’s because its origin and insertion points are the thyroid and the epiglottis cartilages. That simple. If you can’t remember which are the vases that arrive to a lymphatic ganglion and the ones who leave, remember the “Afferent vases” are the ones which “Arrive”, and the “Efferent” ones, are the “Exit point”. See? I just made a simple relation with the initials that helps me memorizing things!

8. OBSERVE. 

Seriously, I can’t recommend you this enough. Observe the human body. Observe diagrams, illustrations, human cadavers and human bodies in action. Analyze, understand, and then, you can memorize everything you study, but if you just go to the theory without observing and analyzing, you’ll be doomed. Learning anatomy is like learning a new language, so make it fun, live it, and you’ll learn it quicker than you think.

That’s all! I did this for anatomy and I was successful, so I’d really recommend it to any new in-coming medical student! Hope this helps!!! 

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my Pomodoro long pause means food :3 Fat free yoghurt with granola and dried cranberries, fuel my brain! Also, I love my staedtler fine pens and highlighters *^* color-coding my notes the pretty way!

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I’m already tired and it’s only 11pm...I could sleep a thousand hours.

Working on my presentation for the Lab Meeting on Monday: my professor will be there and I am frightened. And bixy doesn’t work. cooperate, you fool! come on! I need pictures!!!

I’ll have to use mendeley and thank god for it.

listening to the theory of everything soundtrack...so calming...

today I got the random chance to chat with the director of my department about physics and hubble’s telescope and stephen hawking, it has been such a cute moment, I’ll remember about it :)

I still have to work on the part of my presentation involving the effects of glucocorticoids, and it’s a lot...oh well *exhausted sigh*

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go me!

when finals approached I was already exhausted, and dealing with one of the most difficult exams left has been so hard.

but I made it. and I went through hours and hours of internship work and I've been close to burn out so many times...

but!

I managed to get good grades in all the exams I went through (three, one split in two parts, so actually they were four) and the poster for our paper is finally done and I feel so happy they included my clues about activating receptors even though I'm terrified they will turn out to be someway...well not wrong, I know I chose the right ones, but...maybe...not fully explored...of course it's just a "for further research' but...(RESPONSIBILITIES OMG PLS GO AWAY)

Now I just have to start again with Neurology and get a striking grade on April the 2nd and stuff an other exam somewhere.

and then the june-july nightmare.

and then september

and then I'm done.

anyways one of the things that pleased my ego the most is the fact that I got A* in all of the exams I performed, at least in one part of them. None of the final grades was A* but the parts I performed this months were brilliantly performed.I'm happy with it. I've done my best.

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3:31 AM

3:31 AM, still working for tomorrow's exam. I guess this creepy last year will be full of all-nighters and fuckingly tiresome stressful challenges. Anyways tomorrow I'll be back to the lab working at my paper's poster for Endocrine 2015 CAN'T WAIT oh god I'm so excited!!! It's been a long long year of hard work and I can't wait to see it all in a single poster :3 Also, I love my tutor, she's just so kind and sweet and she always says 'thank you, dear' and seems to get how much I'm concerned about this whole thing <3