HOW do people do well in Anatomy & P?

nursephillyphil, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

welcome to nursing school, anatomy is straight memorization. might be a good time to utilize open lab, or get an anatomy atlas book and use post it notes to cover names of bones.

cracklingkraken, ASN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

You had multiple choice!? Ours was fill in the blank. Honestly, repetition and practice is the only advice I can offer.

selectallthatapply · Oct 4, 2015

You had multiple choice!? Ours was fill in the blank. Honestly, repetition and practice is the only advice I can offer.

Same. I made flash cards!

AceOfHearts<3 · Oct 5, 2015

I took it as a 5 week summer course and like others have stated- it was fill in the blank. We used post-it notes and labeled the models and then took pictures. We studied pictures with and without the post-it notes with the answers. That way we were studying from the models that we were being tested with. We went around to stations, got about a minute at the station and had to move on and that was the exam (didn't get to go back to any stations).

bunnysanford · Oct 5, 2015

I will suggest what I always suggest: The Anatomy Coloring Book, and a large-ish set of colored pencils.

Upward_Bound · Oct 5, 2015

I've been studying 4+ hours a day everyday.

Now concentration is another story...

All these words are foreign to me.

200 plus bones on exam 1. Oh and left, right, anterior view or posterior view were also included:(

And this is A and P 1 btw...

Upward_Bound · Oct 5, 2015

How many hours do you guys study a day?

nikkimc43 · Oct 5, 2015

I did well in A and P 1 and 2, but it was a LOT of studying. I used Barron's Anatomy Flash Cards and just wrote everything over and over and over again. I met with a study group twice a week, and we would split the material up and teach one another. I studied at least an hour and a half a day-more before an exam. For bones, touch the part of your body where the bone is located (this is the humerus, this is the ulna) and know the numbers in groups of bones (like 8 carpals). Also, there are a ton of mnemonic devices for the carpals and other tough groups. Good luck!

Sizzline · Oct 5, 2015

I passed both A&Ps with a A- and an A by using flashcards, the anatomy & physiology coloring book, and labeling diagrams. I'd make 2 copies of the pages from the coloring book with the diagrams, then white out the answers on one and number the things I needed to memorize. Then I made a bunch of copies of the blank one, and write in the answers over and over until I could do it by memory. In lab, our teacher let us take pictures of things we had labeled, and I'd do the same thing. Edit one picture to blank out the labels, and make copies, then fill them in until they were memorized. I put in a lot of time studying, but it paid off.

Upward_Bound · Oct 5, 2015

Thank you, I will need it.

And I'll look up some mnemonics.!

MeiDei · Oct 5, 2015

The lab I had for A&P 1 and 2 didn't even give us multiple choice. Ours consisted of actual specimens and body parts laid out at different stations with pins in them labeled with numbers. There was always a piece of paper below the display that said, "What bone is pin #31?" Or "What process is associated with pin #11?" You're lucky you got a word bank. Our instructor would sit down, link his fingers, and just watch.

Lecture consists of; the teacher talking about the weather for a bit, then tells us what pages we have to memorize, then we leave.
Seriously. I got a D on the first exam.
We had to memorize about 40 pages bones of
-The skull (anterior, posterior, lateral, and dissected views from inside)
-Every single foramen, condyle, canal, etc.
-Shoulder
-Ribs (sternum and os too)
-Pelvis
-Arms
-Legs
Each question had a multiple choice of 10 ANSWERS!!!!!!
How do people do well in this class? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION!!!
And that's JUST the lab. The lecture is more straight forward.