Anatomy and physiology! AHHH!

dorkypanda · Sep 18, 2014

Ahh the days of a and p. study daily, read as often as you can, go over notes after class. Do you have a voice recorder? This will be useful for hearing lecture again and make your notes better. Some sites I used was getbodysmart.com and innerbody.com . There's an anatomy app for the iPhone or android that quizzes you where things are. Studying lab models is important especially the ones the professor talk about. I learned that doing this with several other good students is fun and helpful.

Nur2016 · Sep 18, 2014

Here is a link from utube. This guy is great At teaching and he also answers questions. He has helped me a lot although he is not my teacher. I listen and watch him all the time! As an extra, he gives examen review. I hope it helps!

Anatomy and Physiology I (first semester):

Leonardsmom,LPN · Sep 18, 2014

Definitely spend time reading and studying every day. I second recording your lectures, it is a great help, I listen to my lectures after class several times and add things I missed on my notes the first time. Also this way I am able to focus on listening to the lecture the first time in class and not worried about not getting everything thing down in my notes. Anything that I am still unclear about the next time class meets I can ask for clarification. Also if you are not doing so already read the material before class, this way it is already somewhat familar to you, goes a long way in my opinion of getting more out of the lecture times. I also make flashcards and use quizlet to practice on memorizing terms and concepts. For anatomy when it came to the bones I really liked Crimando's skeleton tutorials on gateway colleges website. My anatomy class was a hybrid class and our instructor spent the face to face time on the lecture portion and had us take pictures of the models to study at home. That website really helped me on the bones and there are a lot of videos on YouTube that go over different models which was really helpful also.

honeyrose29 · Sep 18, 2014

I agree on spending time studying every day. I actually bought a study tool "Exploring Anatomy and Physiology in the Lab" and I would go through that and label everything, erase it, and relabel. I did that probably 20 times for every unit. The pages in that one are super thick, so you can write and erase easily without damaging the book. I got mine used. I also bought "A Visual Guide to Human Anatomy and Physiology" by Krieger. That book was a LIFE SAVER! It gives you tons of mnemonics for memorizing, and helps you with certain aspects for example, the thoracic vertebrae look like a giraffe, the lumbar look like a moose, the Atlas looks like a turtle.. and so on. It's great for visual learners. I got an old edition of that one for cheap too. Lots of labeling and erasing there as well. I hope this helps! Those books are so worth the money!

pmabraham, BSN, RN · Sep 18, 2014

Good day, DanielleD

http://umaine.edu/tutorprogram/files/2011/11/tutor_program_tip-taking_multiple_choice_exams.pdf might be of interest as well as https://allnurses.com/pre-nursing-student/how-get-any-846733.html While the general rule of thumb is 2 hours of study time per credit hour of class/lab time, what I've found works best is to treat the lecture and lab of 4 credit science classes as two separate 3 credit classes and then (if able) bump up the study time to 2 to 4 hours per credit hour. That's hard to do if you have children at home, though. For histology, I found Resources - Penguin Prof Pages to be helpful especially her key at http://www.penguinprof.com/uploads/8/4/3/1/8431323/histology_key.jpg For lecture, I found doing chapter objectives, any quizzes at the end of each section/chapter as well as looking for online companion sites where you can take more quizzes / tests.

Thank you.