Best way to memorize for A&P

[AmericanChai]

I'm going to take advantage of my summer off school and get a head start on memorizing body parts for A&P in the fall. I'm in my 30's and my brain does not memorize as quickly as it used to.

What is the best way to memorize mundane facts like the names of bodily structures? I have the Barron's A&P flashcards and am thinking of making several photo copies of them and using them as tests. I am also going to read The Idiot's Guide to A&P which I have on hold at the library.

Any other suggestions or tips?

[kellia]

Where do you find the coloring books? I love the picture idea, too!

[TnKzMom]

Kellia i saw the coloring books at Barnes and Noble and I'm sure they have them online or as well as other book stores. Good Luck!

[Lilorfnannie]

Try figuring out what your learning style is, first. A good key to this is listening to yourself speak, or get someone else to listen to you for a while. Do you use phrases like "I hear what you are saying!" or, "I see what you mean", or, "I feel like we should do this". The kind of language you use will give a rough idea of what your learning style is. (It's all more complicated than that really but it's a good rough guide.) Do you use your hands a lot when you speak? That's kinesthetic, but it could be partly visual, if you are always drawing pictures in the air. If you can draw a map to your house without a second thought, that's a visual task. If, like me, you have to take the person by the hand, go to the end of the driveway, and point down the road- that's kinesthetic.

If it's auditory, try making recordings and listening to them over and over. Speak the lists out loud.

If it's visual, try charts.

If it's kinesthetic (touch), use the coloring books, and get one of those plastic models of the human body, and put it together. Also, write the information out longhand.

[Multicollinearity, BSN, RN]

For A & P I simply read the chapter in my textbook (quickly) and then re-wrote the worksheets I had for each chapter. We were given an outline of sorts for each chapter with fill in the blank spaces. I would just copy over the worksheets by handwriting them once. They were usually 10-15 pages per chapter. Then I'd take the exam.

So I guess I learned almost entirely by copying the worksheets in my own handwriting. Mine was a self-paced, no lecture class.

[CuriousMe]

Flash cards, flash cards and more flash cards!

Not the ones you can buy though....I bought two sets of those and didn't find them useful at all. I made flash cards all the way through A&P1 and 2 and I'm making them still in A&P3 (we're on Quarters, so we have three). I use these things called RingDex's from Mead. They are 80 cards with two steel rings through them and plastic covers. I love them, I always have one in a pocket so I can study anytime I find a few minutes (in the supermarket, in line at the bank, etc)

Best of luck!!

Peace,

Cathie

[Blue_River]

Guys, I was watching Youtube. I found this brilliant idea to memorize things. Watch this:

Lucky (Remixed for AP BioIdol). This was just simply amazing idea.

[Iridescent Orchid, CNA, LPN]

I've been using flash cards insanely! I make my own and study ones that others have made online (I've found cueflash.com very resourceful!) Although a lot of our books are different, the material is pretty much all the same and in the same chapters, so I find them useful as well! I feel this is the best way for me to memorize all the terms and parts we have to learn in A&P! Good luck everyone! I also scan copies of figures/images in my books to place with my notes, so I can study them as well, considering my instructor does labeling tests often!

[KatieJ91]

We used a program called Human AP Revealed which highlighted the parts of the body that I needed to know on a cadaver. I would save these all on my computer and seperate them into folders based on what area of the body they were on (i.e. - leg, arm, heart). I would name them all and then go through and see if I could remember the name by writing it down. If I forgot I could just look up in the corner, write it down, and keep going! I would do this over and over and over. It worked great for me. Spelling counted on out tests as well so this helped to ensure I knew how to spell it correctly.