Anatomy - A nightmare~! (1 Viewer)

[Cab31]

Hey has anyone got any tips on remembering anatomical terms and things like that? I am doing anatomy and we have to remember 500 terms for the first 5 weeks!!

 

[Katie123]

yes its horrible. i should probably learn it instead of being on here

 

[Skeeta]

once you know it all.. its hard to forget, so study ur butt off for the first month and things will become easier

 

[inasero]

yeah join the club!
best thing is to study your butt off
no easy way to remember.

i think medicalmnemonics.com is a good site

 

[Jessisbored]

ok i have afew ways do remember it.

1. Make stupid things or ideas relate to names and you will! remember it. E.g. Patella sounds like nutella, and the knee looks like a nut.

2. Make jingles or songs or poems etc about a certain area in a clockwise direction for example. haha thats how i learnt the first 20 terms of the periodic table

3. for example if you were doing the brain and the bones or skull: you could learn two by covering them, then learn another two, then go over the four, then learn another two then go over the 6 etc.

ill think of some more strategies i use when i wake up again, but my point is make learning fun and you'll remember it

 

[Mambomeg]

i photocopy pictures of the muscles / arteries / nerves or whatever i'm learning and then i colour them in all different colours and stick them in a notebook, which i read on the train.

The colours help me remember it, and its easier to differentiate between the different parts.
In fact i think the medsoc bookshop has colouring in books like that that you can buy for human anatomy. not for vets though :-( i have to make my own.

I usuallly try to do it before the relevant prac class too, so that when i am looking at the dissected specimen i actually know what i am looking at.

 

[Katie123]

u guys are so organised...i better get cracking i wasted my week off

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

umm make learning devices..
like shin= tibia.. cos S and T are close together :$

for cranial nerves i learnt..
"Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel virginal girls vaginas and hymens"

olfactory [CN I],
optic [CN II],
oculomotor [CN III],
trochlear [CN IV],
trigeminal [CN V],
abducent [CN VI],
facial [CN VII],
vestibulocochlear [CN VIII],
glossopharyngeal [CN IX],
vagal [CN X],
accessory [CN XI],
hypoglossal [CN XII]

the more memorable the more ull remember it

 

[babez_hamp]

umm make learning devices..
like shin= tibia.. cos S and T are close together :$

for cranial nerves i learnt..
"Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel virginal girls vaginas and hymens"

olfactory [CN I],
optic [CN II],
oculomotor [CN III],
trochlear [CN IV],
trigeminal [CN V],
abducent [CN VI],
facial [CN VII],
vestibulocochlear [CN VIII],
glossopharyngeal [CN IX],
vagal [CN X],
accessory [CN XI],
hypoglossal [CN XII]

the more memorable the more ull remember it

that's one i haven't heard before lol

 

[Jessisbored]

oh gosh....well if it works

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

it does..

also reminds me for female anatomy//

 

[Skywalker]

umm make learning devices..
like shin= tibia.. cos S and T are close together :$

for cranial nerves i learnt..
"Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel virginal girls vaginas and hymens"

olfactory [CN I],
optic [CN II],
oculomotor [CN III],
trochlear [CN IV],
trigeminal [CN V],
abducent [CN VI],
facial [CN VII],
vestibulocochlear [CN VIII],
glossopharyngeal [CN IX],
vagal [CN X],
accessory [CN XI],
hypoglossal [CN XII]

the more memorable the more ull remember it

We got "oh oh oh to touch and feel A virgin girl's vagina and hymen"

Apparently the extra "a" is the beginning of an alternative name for CNVIII. Can't remember it off the top of my head though.

Oh and our resident anatomy expert tells us that mnemonics are the lowest form of learning. But hey, if they work for you...

 

[Mambomeg]

yeah thats the one i heard, the A stands for Acoustic, but its the same thing

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

We got "oh oh oh to touch and feel A virgin girl's vagina and hymen"

Apparently the extra "a" is the beginning of an alternative name for CNVIII. Can't remember it off the top of my head though.

Oh and our resident anatomy expert tells us that mnemonics are the lowest form of learning. But hey, if they work for you...

Im lucky I got a surgical consultant as a bedside tutor
and he tells me if i dun remember it im screwed and he would fail me for my FRACS if i sat for it..

12 things are a bitch to learn self directed.. lolz so even if im low.. at least ill pass.. hehe

umm Acoustic is the old one.. it doesnt take into account the balance role that the nerve plays..
hence vestibulocochlear

good thing is.. I havent need to revise it in ages.. cos i just remember all the stuff now

 

[Lexicographer]

yeah join the club!
best thing is to study your butt off
no easy way to remember.

i think medicalmnemonics.com is a good site

Damnit Wilson, could've shared that in Medland! :mad1:

 

[Katie123]

stupid anatomy ..i failed the last exam...i shouldnt blame the exam it would have been easy..had i studied properly. I AM going to pass the final one worth 75%. all MC questions tho..thats not a very good setting for it i dont think. What are all ur anatomy exams like ?

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

pins and wet specimen..
pathology pots
xrays and names the bits and deformities

i wish MCQ >.<

 

[roger321]

MCQ can get a bit tricky for anatomy though.. =( although the most bitchiest are long answer questions... ;((

i like assessments on cadavers as they are alot easier than those on live specimens. point and identifying will probably be able to get ya good marks on cadavers, although the same process will get 0 or 1/5 on your partner, where emphasis is more on palpation and feeling through structures and fibres =(

 

[Katie123]

we havent had cadaver exams yet. i dont know if that'd be any better tho

 

[Happeninchick]

we havent had cadaver exams yet. i dont know if that'd be any better tho

I'm not sure if we get cadaver exams. Do you know anything about that Katie? I'd like that!! They'd be hard, but heaps cool...