A&P I study materials

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I'm starting A&P I in two weeks. What study materials should I buy? I have Barron's Anatomy Flash Cards and Anatomy Made Easy. What materials did former students use and what worked for you?

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Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy

Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

In the atlas and my text I would cover up the labels with a 3x5 card and quiz myself. Did it over and over and over.

I would draw out very rough sketches of the system or component and then label my sketch. I'm talking very rough approximations, here... I have no artistic talent at all. NONE.

I made lots and lots of my own flash cards. It's easier to remember what I write than just what I read from somewhere else.

Make sure you know all of your terminology cold. If you struggle with it at all, you don't have it well enough.

I worked at learning the word roots and found it helpful in remembering my terminology. For example, why is a trochanter called a trochanter? Because the "troch" part means "wheel", "pulley", "runner"... It helps to explain why the parts are called what they are.

I also spent a lot of time looking at my own body and tracing components and systems. It just helped the material to sink in and I get to bring "me" to the tests :-) I may have looked a little weird fondling myself during the tests but I got the results that I was looking for (an "A" and the high score in the class).

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Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy

Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

In the atlas and my text I would cover up the labels with a 3x5 card and quiz myself. Did it over and over and over.

I would draw out very rough sketches of the system or component and then label my sketch. I'm talking very rough approximations, here... I have no artistic talent at all. NONE.

I made lots and lots of my own flash cards. It's easier to remember what I write than just what I read from somewhere else.

Make sure you know all of your terminology cold. If you struggle with it at all, you don't have it well enough.

I worked at learning the word roots and found it helpful in remembering my terminology. For example, why is a trochanter called a trochanter? Because the "troch" part means "wheel", "pulley", "runner"... It helps to explain why the parts are called what they are.

I also spent a lot of time looking at my own body and tracing components and systems. It just helped the material to sink in and I get to bring "me" to the tests :-) I may have looked a little weird fondling myself during the tests but I got the results that I was looking for (an "A" and the high score in the class).

This is EXACTLY how I studied, and it worked for me. Repitition is the key....when you can fly through the system naming the parts (and it will SHOCK you, at how quickly you can learn a couple hundred items for an exam), then you know you are ready for the exam.

She isn't kidding when she says very rough sketches will help you, for example the digestive system, just start by drawing a line down for the esophogus, the stomach, a circle below and attached to the esophogus...what you trying to teach yourself is PLACEMENT...and that is the key to learning.

Once you learn, you won't forget...I can proably take my bone exam again today and get 100%..it sticks with you that much.

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I have this thread bookmarked for A&P. It's got a TON of info.

https://allnurses.com/forums/f198/great-sites-anatomy-223120.html

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[color=#ffa500]you have a study guide..its about 50-60lbs and has 1000+ pages.;)*oh and make plenty of notecards and take them everywhere...thats what i *did i got a b :).wysiwyg { background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-position: 0% 0%; background-color: #f2f2f2; background-image: none; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, arial, arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal } p { margin: 0px; }

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If your textbook comes with a CD you should try it. I used mine and it helped a lot. There were a lot of helpful study guides and practice quizzes in there. I know a ton of people in my class that never even put the disk in their computer.... :uhoh3:

I also used flashcards (mostly for bones and muscles), and I bought a coloring book but I didn't use it.

The most important part of the memorization is being sure that you get into the lab and really know your stuff.

Outside of lab, I was sure to read all of the material... being sure that I actually understood what I was reading and not just "reading" it. I have a tendency to read something and not absorb any of it. I can go back and re-read the same thing and not know a thing... :idea:

Good luck to you! I loved Anatomy. Just follow your teachers lead, keep up with the reading and lab assignments... study study study... and you will do great.

Jennifer

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Thanks for tips. I will be sure to take everyone's advice. I can't wait to get started. I was worried about college algebra and I got an A because I studied so I'm just going to study even harder and reread everything and make my own cards as well as us flash cards, websites, and matrials that come with textbook. Thanks again.

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