Product Description

A thorough but concise explanation of aspects of anatomy essential to students. Logically structured and easy to navigate, these books will be invaluable help to those finding the core concepts of anatomy difficult to grasp, or as a revision aid (they complement a standard text). Highly illustrated and supplemented with MCQs, the style is friendly. Clinical relevance is highlighted by common fractures etc. of each area.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45140 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Customer Reviews

A worthwhile anatomy book
This anatomy book covers all of the vital areas that are needed by medical students, but it is not at all reader friendly. With it being purely black and white with little interest on the pages, this book is hard work. But Persevere as it is worthwhile as it covers all the necessary areas. Although I would definatly recommend supplementing this with another book, such as 'fundamentals of anatomy and physiology' by Martini, as this will broaden your understanding immensely. but it is ok as a basic anatomy book.

Only buy it if you're examined on it
This was recommended for my course and is fairly poor, the lecturer that wrote it isn't poor however...The pictures are all black and white until you colour them in, which to be fair some people find useful, but I don't. The pictures are to be found on separate pages from their explanatory text, and solid text up to four pages at a time can be quite daunting. The detail is insufficient to get a proper grasp on the subject - you'll end up reading around it anyway. It might be good purely as a revision guide, but there are better anatomy revision tools out there - Whitaker's instant anatomy comes highly recommended. I use this series only because I know come May I'm going to be examined on their contents, but if it weren't for that I wouldn't be using them. I think it's definitely worth out forking out a little bit more for something like netter's, which works out cheaper anyway given that there are three of these to buy.

a ucl esential
technically you could pass the first year using just this as you only anatomy text at UCL, all the diagrams are used in exams and the people setting the exams wrote this book, there are even examples of multiple choice exams questions at the end of each chapter.
looking up a specific fact for reference is difficult, which is why many students use another text such as netters or grays for students in conjunction, which explain things in greater detail with colour diagrams, or even a colour atlas and text with photographs of dissections.
the problem many people have in relating this book with a real cadaver is the diagrams are very neat and student dissections generally arn't and in preerved bodies everything seems to be the same colour.
this book is useful, and a must have for a first year medical student, just as the other two volumes are essential for second years