How to learn anatomy? :(?

Answer 1

Anatomy is one of the most difficult subjects of medicine.Firstly it is voluminous And secondly the facts are very confusing and difficult to remember.To learn anatomy properly,try spending enough time with a topic.Try using you imagination to remember and use your assumption also to learn.Like by knowing the impressions of the liver,you may as well work out the relations of liver.Similarly by knowing the impressions of spleen you may work out its relations as well.Remember the arteries and the nerves by tracing them back to the main arteries,like abdominal aorta etc.As myself being a medical student,from my personal experience,i will advice you to use mnemonics.Anyway best of luck.

Answer 2

As it has been said by the others, memorisation is pretty much it. How you go about it is up to you, from making up mnemonics or diagrams etc. For me, I majored in anatomy, and I did dissection also, I ended up also teaching dissection and being a prosector (one of the people who make the teaching specimens you learn off, and bottled specimens in museums etc). I found that visualisation is very important. But, more important is relationships, both in function and physical. i.e. The heart is located approximately 6 ribs down, 2 cm to the left side of the thorax. directly above it is the aortic arch which branches into the subclavian and brachial tree. By learning the relationships of function and physical locality of major organs or muscles, at any time if you recall one component, the rest of them are there also easily drawn from memory because they are 'linked' by your learning. At least, that is how I taught my students during dissection because they can trace, draw and follow the structures.

Answer 3

Red an anatomy book.

Answer 4

Go to university and study a subject that teaches anatomy.

Answer 5

human anatomy? what kind of anatomy?
Textbooks may teach you very well about anatomy. Or the internet---there are tons of sites if you just search on Google.

Answer 6

Try the anatomy and physiology book Tortora and Grabowski - I found it v useful for my 1st year A&P module of human biology degree.

Answer 7

I suggest you buy a copy of "Grey's Anatomy". That is what they have used at medical school for years.




Jeremy

Answer 8

Learn it through another route such as muscles used for a favourite sport.

Try and learn a handful of latin words that are used for the positions of muscles such as anterior/posterior medial/lateral etc. don't try and just memorise them without understanding the meaning

Answer 9

get an anatomy and physiology book, one with sections that you can answer yourself! xx

Answer 10

Please see the web pages, related topics, external links and Google search for more details on Anatomy.