If you could study before A & P I, what would you have done to get ahead before it??

polka-dot, RN · Dec 22, 2008

I never used any of the coloring diagrams either. A good book to read is "Get Ready for A&P"... a lot of schools include it in the bundle of books. Good luck!

Lennonninja, MSN, APRN, NP · Dec 22, 2008

I would learn the orientation terms like proximal, distal, medial etc. And the regions of the body like cubital, cural, pedal, brachial, costal, etc. I studied that over winter break last year before my AnP 1 class started and it helped a lot. I also got a set of the Netter flashcards for Christmas last year and they were worth their weight in gold!

js408 · Dec 22, 2008

Amazon has 283 books with the words "Netter" and "Anatomy." Can you narrow that down?

Grab a Netter's Anatomy and start learning. Netter's will have way more than you need to know but has everything. Once you get the structures (bones, muscles, origins/insertions, organs, etc.) down everything else makes sense and is easy to digest. I recommend learning the microstructures of the kidney as well.
Good luck.

kalley · Dec 22, 2008

I would get a general idea of the bones and muscles. If nothing else just the names of the bones and muscles. Then I would read your text book and if you can get your hands on a syllabus from someone who is taking A&P at your school that would help give you some direction on what chapters to focus on. For the chapters that you know you will have I would take notes on the chapter. That is how I got through this semester of A&P. I would take notes on the chapter that we would be covering in the next class. Then I would highlight my notes during lecture and write in anything I missed in the margins. I really felt like I "got" the information better that way because I was hearing it and writing it 2 times. Get a general feel for how the information is writen so when you have to learn it in class you will not have to decipher that. Good Luck.

baldee · Dec 23, 2008

I won't make no bones about that, ha-ha.

If the prof hadn't let me take my practical at a later date, it would have hurt me bad. I got laid off and rehired that week, but with only 16 hrs which made me pull my belt in a notch or two.

600 ******* bones that 50 of the hardest ones had to be spelled right. I studied about 5 hrs a day for 2-1/2 weeks for that. There was nothing to chunk your memory with, since that is the anchor to relate the rest with. And there was so many of them.

Start studying your practicals early and hard. They were the hardest for me. Foreign students said that was the easiest for them since the class tests are biased toward English literate students. Your other classes will take a back seat if you don't have an LPN or similar class background.

The only 2 who did better than me were LPN's, and none of us used Flash cards; but it helped some in Practicals and hurt them in tests. Everyone is different. Good luck!

osagarese · Dec 23, 2008

Hello,

Bones are easy, try looking up cells (e.g. golgi, mitochondria etc.), and also basic Chemistry(e.g., Lipids, ions, bonds, Carbohydrates, etc.)

It is actually all memorization, not all professors teach the same, not all want the same.

Basically don't stress it! Chill! :smokin:

You'll do fine.

Good Luck!

baldee · Dec 23, 2008

Hello,
Bones are easy, try looking up cells (e.g. golgi, mitochondria etc.), and also basic Chemistry(e.g., Lipids, ions, bonds, Carbohydrates, etc.)
It is actually all memorization, not all professors teach the same, not all want the same.
Basically don't stress it! Chill!
You'll do fine.
Good Luck!

That's what all the B and C students keep telling me.

TypeA · Dec 23, 2008

Amazon has 283 books with the words "Netter" and "Anatomy." Can you narrow that down?

Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. :)

c_white1 · Dec 23, 2008

If you could study before A & P I, what would you have done to get ahead before it??
What would have helped most?

I definitely would have benefited from a biology refresher -- with particular emphasis on cellular biology and chemistry.

Good luck!

osagarese · Dec 24, 2008

That's what all the B and C students keep telling me.

Well this time an A student is telling you. Just got a 4.0 in A&PI, and I have a 3.9 GPA. Darn English class got a B+, that's what I get for going to school in Europe.

student005 · Dec 25, 2008

I'd get familiar with:

*Organ systems and organ functions

*Anatomical terminology (superior, inferior, proximal, distal, etc.)

*Cell structures and functions

*Cell cycle (interphase, mitosis, etc.)

*Cellular respiration (glycolysis, Kreb's cycle, ETC)

*Tissue types

We had to learn all the bones and muscles. I'd imagine you'll have to do the same, and the sooner you start, the better off you'll be! It's not hard, just time consuming. I made copies from the text book of the pictures of all the bones/muscles and then whited-out the labels on the copies I ran. Then I ran multiple copies of that (the pictures of the bones/muscles without the label) and just went through the packet over and over again labeling and then checking my answers until I knew them all. (I aced both tests.)

I found that A&P was challenging, but not difficult. If you're serious about it and study, you'll do great! (I made an A in A&P I and II.)

nikki.p · Dec 28, 2008

I have gotten a n Anatomy coloring book and you have to label and fill in the blanks. Also it has the answers and suggests ways to color the pictures that are consistant. it is called Anaotmy coloring book by Kaplan medical it was like $20.00 but worth all of it.