If you are like 99% of students, you are probably learning by rote. In other words, you become a robot - mechanically repeating the information that needs to be learned. Studying this way is extremely easy, especially with a subject like anatomy, which has rote learning written all over it. More than likely, understanding the subject is quite easy for you. And that's great! But the question is, how long will you retain the information you have learned using this technique? Do you feel that after two or three days you forget all the important stuff? Well, join the club; we have been there (and some of us still are) and we understand the feeling.Most of the students we know follow a rather straightforward method of they open their anatomy book, start reading the page, take some notes, revise a bit and hope for the best. Do you follow a similar approach? It is definitely not the worst strategy, but you'll shed a lot of blood, sweat, and tears... The good news is that there are a lot of alternatives to this strategy and we are here to show you some of them. But we'll be honest from the very beginning; there are no magic tricks that will enable you to learn everything automatically. There is no "one simple rule" to remember everything. Whoever told you that has never studied anatomy!
I've been researching better and more effective study strategies for over a year now. This little book took much of what I learned in a year and simplified it so it's easier to understand and even more importantly making it easier to apply these strategies the moment you learn about them. Useful reference I'll be using moving forward.
Quite a simplistic yet short and to the point approach to studying anatomy. Most of the basic tips given in this small book are well known in the world of studying and brain coaching in general. However it is still nice of Kenhub to provide a text which you can use as you study, and I suppose it would be quite more helpful for medical students that are not that well read in the topic. For me, it also provided quite a lot of motivation, especially because it emphasises that you are not alone in the fight of learning such a hard subject. Since it is such a brief read, I do reccomend going through the book if you find youself struggling or need a slight boost.