Anatomy Flashcards: YES OR NO?

[peachshan]

I am going to be taking A&P 1 in the Fall and I noticed the flashcards. Arehey helpful for the class or was making your cards better?

[IndyElmer]

I had access to both Netter and Kaplan anatomy flashcards. I thought the Kaplan cards were adequate for the job at hand, though I didn't really think they were necessary. I liked the cards for bones and even for anatomical reference terms, but I didn't like the muscle cards in the Kaplan or Netter (so I used the disc that came with my text to copy pictures from the text into PowerPoint then used white boxes to cover the labels then added numbering for the muscles I needed to know and wrote up a key for them). Once we got past muscles, the cards were OK for the other systems, but I could have just as easily just taken pictures of the models and made my own cards (and I often did with my study group). We would either do the labels in PowerPoint (so we could easily share the load) or we would all use the same pictures and have each person hand-label one picture with numbers & a key then we could quickly copy down the numbering & lines from the completed picture and e-mail the answer key(s) to each other.

If you do get cards, you can minimize learning stuff you don't need to know by pulling out the relevant cards for a particular lecture(s)/test then use a pen to put dots next to all of the numbered indicators that you DO need to know so that when you look at a card with 20 questions/indicators and you only need to know 8 of them, you don't waste your time on the 12 that you don't need to know. (Of course if you have loads of time, anatomy and physiology are pretty interesting so go ahead and learn them all.)

[peachshan, BSN, RN]

Thank you everyone for the advice.