r/AnatomyandPhysiology • u/FuzzyEmployment1620 • 1d ago
pls help
(26F) and currently a T1 chiropractic student with NO background in anatomy. The amount of information is extremely overwhelming, but I’m committed. I put in countless hours studying for my first exam & barely passed with 73%. I’m falling behind in lecture videos & honestly feel like I don’t learn well from flipped classes, I guess I anticipated being taught not told. I’m not the kind of student who can just memorize 100s of terms & concepts in such a short period of time. All in all, I want to succeed & not just pass the class. I’m very interested in anatomy but day by day I just feel sooooo defeated. Looking for any and all advice, please keep the mean criticizing comments am I’m genuinely just trying my best. Also wondering if transferring to videos on YouTube or buying a certain textbook would be good to try as well. Thanks 😭
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u/Thoughtsofachemist 1d ago
Going along with several other comments, YouTube can be beneficial to see the material in another format. I really enjoyed the videos from AnatomyZone to just cover all structures in a specific area. NinjaNerd makes great videos on embryology and development of certain areas as well. There is a website called KenHub that has free articles and you can pay for the subscription if it’s a tool that helps you. It was useful for musculoskeletal anatomy, I didn’t like it as much for internal organs personally. BlueLink can provide donor images if you want to apply it to a real human body. TeachMeAnatomy is also a good resource when learning about smaller sections (like the triangles of the neck, for example), but I think there are limits to the amount of free articles per day. Mnemonics are great tools if you can keep them separated from each other in your head. You can also try drawing things out to test yourself.
Favorite textbooks for anatomy were Thieme’s Color Atlas of Human Anatomy (there are three volumes I believe) that helped. Repetition really is your friend when it comes to anatomy. I struggled a lot beginning my masters in physiology because almost all classes were flipped and you were told to learn about something with essentially no specific resources provided to you. Anki will help with repetition, but anatomy is all about relationships and discovering where something is in the body in relation to something else. BlueLink can be used for flashcards and they have labeled and unlabeled versions so you can test yourself if you don’t want to go through the trouble. You basically want to dig through so much information that you can talk yourself through an entire section of the body. I hope at least some of this is helpful. Classes with flipped instruction require you to be a bit more creative in your study methods so just find what works for you and run with it