Did anyone here who is or has taken A&P 1 had to memorize

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the origins, insertions and actions to 95 muscles? And if you did how did were you able to study and memorize all?

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Flash cards, flash cards, flash cards... and it helps if studying is the last thing you do before going to sleep.

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Definately break it down into body part...its the easiest way to study and come up with little riddles...they truely work. Like for the ligaments..for example the annular ligament, think annual comes around each year so it goes around. It's easiest to use actual models or find online sights with the pictures of models...if you are a visual learner you will remember it this way both on a lab or lecture exam. Getbodysmart.com is a good website our instructors recommended!!! Good lucK!

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Yeah. But our professor had us highlight EXACTLY what we needed to remember so it may have been a little less than that but still a lot. He gave us plenty of time though. We had about 3 weeks or more to memorize that. It was in this huge packet he passed out. I would study a page a day for a few hours and then eventually I had the whole packet memorized.

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Yeah. But our professor had us highlight EXACTLY what we needed to remember so it may have been a little less than that but still a lot. He gave us plenty of time though. We had about 3 weeks or more to memorize that. It was in this huge packet he passed out. I would study a page a day for a few hours and then eventually I had the whole packet memorized.

Our teacher gives us huge powerpoint packets with all the muscles and such that she wants us to memorize, but we only ever get tested on 1/8 of it, tops. I spent about 2 years (or so it felt like) learning the muscles of the arms and the foot, and maybe one question about it was on the test! Crap like that irritates me. It's a damn miracle I got an A and my brain is still in tact. Origins and insertions are the worst, and I figure you would need to know those if you are going into exericse physiology because I can't see where it fits into nursing exactly, but perhaps I'm wrong. UGH, this class. 4 more weeks:yawn:

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Now way.. we only have to memorize 16 muscle origin, insertions and actions! Thankfully

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Read then re-read. Get a coloring book of the anatomy body and repeat the names as u color them in. That really helped. If you have a lab manual read the same chapter ur going over in Lecture. It helps to hear the same info in different words sometimes. Oh and pray that God opens your mind to absorb the information.

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Now way.. we only have to memorize 16 muscle origin, insertions and actions! Thankfully

Lucky you. We had about 90 to memorize. O, I, and A (action). TORTURE.

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Ifyouseeamy,

I took anatomy 17 years ago and never had to memorize origins, insertions and all actions, only needed to name the muscles and their prime action. I know things have changed but this teacher was expecting too much from us especially when she combined two chapters together on one test (Chapter 9 &10, Elaine N. Marieb) and lab test(naming bones and muscles) in the same week each containing containing 100 questions each. And because the amount of information I needed to learn was overwhelming, I ended up more confused than ever. And I was doing pretty good on all the test until this one and so was my study partner. And I did study alot. So not only did we have to memorize 90 O,I and A but we had to memorize bones locations and Chapter 9, all in one week! And I didn't wait until last minute to study, I studied almost everyday.

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Oh, I forgot to mention that with muscles we always had to memorize origin, insertion, actions AND innervation.

Uphill, both ways ... cold gravel ...

The thing I like about basic anatomy is everyone is studying the same thing: the body has a limited number of parts. They really haven't changed since they started naming them in the, what, 1500s? Our understanding of them has just increased. We can see them better so can describe them better.

Medical students, nursing students, PAs, PTs, hygenists, dentists, etc. everyone is learning off the same game board, so to speak. If you go into the doctors forums, they're struggling to learn the extensors and map the abdominal arteries too! It's a bit like all of us falling asleep under the same moon.

Not necessarily true with physiology or micro or some of the other sciences where every class is learning very different things, because the subject is so huge there's very little common ground.

I find it comforting.

You'll get through this.

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