Clinical Gross Anatomy: A Guide for Dissection Study and Review

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Summary: Clinical Gross Anatomy : A Guide for Dissection, Study and R
Review: I am a first year medical student and this book is one of three required textbooks for gross anatomy. I was not satisfied by the content of this book for several reasons. First, there were not enough diagrams to facilitate comprehension of the text. Without fail, I found it necessary to rely on Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, another of our required textbooks. In addition, the drawings were black and white and were not labeled clearly. The information was not presented in an orderly fasion. It was disjointed and difficult to follow. For example, many of the diagrams were labeled with one term while the corresponding text used a different and interchangeable term. These types of inconsistencies were frustrating to deal with. By the end of the semester I found myself relying on the other two text books and notes from class lectures as my main sources of information.

However, this book was necessary for gross anatomy class simply because it provided instruction for proper disection of the cadaver, information that could not be obtained from any of the other recomended resources for the class. If it were not for this reason, I could have done without this book.

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Summary: A very well-written medical school textbook...
Review: I just finished taking Gross Anatomy at my medical school. Luckily for me, I was privileged to have been taught this course by Dr. Colborn himself. I felt that reading this book was almost as if Dr. Colborn were right there reinforcing the facts that he had lectured on in class. I greatly appreciated especially the fact that the book was written from a very clinical perspective - which to me is of much more value than simply having only read a dissecting guide or textbook of facts.

I highly recommend this book to any medical school student that wishes to have not only a great dissecting instructional guide but also a very informative lesson in medical gross anatomy.

Rating:
Summary: A very well-written medical school textbook...
Review: I just finished taking Gross Anatomy at my medical school. Luckily for me, I was privileged to have been taught this course by Dr. Colborn himself. I felt that reading this book was almost as if Dr. Colborn were right there reinforcing the facts that he had lectured on in class. I greatly appreciated especially the fact that the book was written from a very clinical perspective - which to me is of much more value than simply having only read a dissecting guide or textbook of facts.

I highly recommend this book to any medical school student that wishes to have not only a great dissecting instructional guide but also a very informative lesson in medical gross anatomy.