A/P help needed!!

bryan_RN2911 · Mar 20, 2011

http://www.valuemd.com/mnemonics.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/IBMS/Mnemonics.html#anatomy

Nicole74 · Mar 20, 2011

honestly i'm in a&p 1 and it's the same thing!! uggghhhh! It's a website with the book called www.mya&p.com and It is really helping lots of quizzing and examples.....it's helping me so far.

excedium · Mar 20, 2011

honestly i'm in a&p 1 and it's the same thing!! uggghhhh! It's a website with the book called www.mya&p.com and It is really helping lots of quizzing and examples.....it's helping me so far.

that site doesn't work..

tattedmommy · Mar 20, 2011

Use flashcards every time you are waiting for something. You can leave a stack next to the toilet :lol2:

excedium · Mar 20, 2011

Use flashcards every time you are waiting for something. You can leave a stack next to the toilet

thanks so much for the suggestion!

would you suggest making your own flashcards or buying them? I have no experience with flash cards whatsoever..I generally relied on staring at anatomy pictures and trying to memorize everything.

D00dNrs2B · Mar 20, 2011

I earned pretty good grades in both AP I and AP II. There is a lot of information to learn, and it can seem pretty hopeless. Flashcards only really helped me for muscles when we needed to know the origin, insertion, and action of all the muscles. The only way I had any luck was just rote memorization. It's unfortunate and not very interesting, but it's what worked for me.

JMEO04 · Mar 20, 2011

A & P is tough I found Study Stacks helped me a lot you can print them upload them to an ipod or just study from the computer. http://www.studystacks.com

excedium · Mar 20, 2011

A & P is tough I found Study Stacks helped me a lot you can print them upload them to an ipod or just study from the computer. www.studystacks.com

http://www.studystack.com

nice :) thanks!

redpanda · Mar 20, 2011

Sorry to hear you're having a hard time. Here are some things that helped me. Finding a blank picture of the body system I was studying and trying to label the parts. If you do well in physiology you can try and combine that with memorizing the parts. for example, follow the flow of blood through the heart and keep saying the name of the chambers and valves. Personally I would invest in pre made flash cards. They are sold at Borders for about $25. I'm a visual learner and the way the cards outlined the body systems just helped it stick. I'm not sure how you are tested on anatomy, but at my school we had models and an answer key to look at during lab time, and every week the professor would point to parts on the model and we had to write the name down. I used to take pictures of the models and answer keys to review at home. I also loved to find/make nifty mnemonics. I can't think of any for A&P right now, but for example in microbiology we had to remember the order of classifying organisms (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) I remembered King Philip came over for green salad. If you can think in terms of physiology, flow of blood, creation of urine, flow through the digestive tract, etc then make some mnemonics based on that.

Hope this helps :)

excedium · Mar 20, 2011

thanks!

inthere · Mar 21, 2011

I always worked best for me to actually draw theanatomical parts I needed to learn....I am a bit of a visual learner. Also I purchased an anatomy and physiology colouring book....seems funny but it works....it really cuts time out of learning everything. When I had to learn the bones I used the colouring book then went into the library to actually touch the bones...took 20minutes for me to learn them backwards and forwards....something about being able to touch the bones aided me in my learning....same as the muscles