Synopsis
This book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Larry R. Cochard
This is a cadaver dissection manual that is supplemented with material usually found in textbooks. The authors combine dissection instructions with study and review material to try to get medical students to achieve a broader understanding of anatomy in the lab other than just simple identification. They also state that the book was designed as a response to the trends in medical education to reduce the amount of time spent on anatomy (and all basic sciences), to indicate clinical relevance, and to include more cross-sectional anatomy. Allied health programs may have use for this dissector, but the scope, focus, and clinical content clearly target first-year medical gross anatomy courses. The soft-cover dissector and study guide consists of 36 "chapters"on the body regions plus an index and an introductory section on general and systemic anatomy. Each chapter has both didactic information and dissection instructions, with the latter in italics. Major terms are in boldface. The end of each chapter has 20 to 40 review questions with the answers next to each question, a "laboratory identification checklist" of the major structures, and definitions of some relevant terms. Where appropriate, there are tables of muscle functions, nerve components and functions, and foramina contents. Function and clinical significance of structures are stressed, and cross-sectional anatomy is included. There are more than 300 black-and-white anatomical figures, including line drawings, schematics, and cadaver depictions. Many of the figures have too much contrast or are too fuzzy to clearly identify structures, but students will still like this dissector. The tables, checklists, questions, and definitions areuseful laboratory and study aids. The authors achieve their goal of providing a book that will make the laboratory experience more than the identification of structures. The inclusion of study and review material may inhibit students from reading a standard anatomical text, but most do not anyway. This is one way to help students achieve a basic understanding of anatomy under the time constraints of many curricula.
Editorials
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Reviewer: Larry R. Cochard, PhD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)Description: This is a cadaver dissection manual that is supplemented with material usually found in textbooks.
Purpose: The authors combine dissection instructions with study and review material to try to get medical students to achieve a broader understanding of anatomy in the lab other than just simple identification. They also state that the book was designed as a response to the trends in medical education to reduce the amount of time spent on anatomy (and all basic sciences), to indicate clinical relevance, and to include more cross-sectional anatomy.
Audience: Allied health programs may have use for this dissector, but the scope, focus, and clinical content clearly target first-year medical gross anatomy courses.
Features: The soft-cover dissector and study guide consists of 36 "chapters"on the body regions plus an index and an introductory section on general and systemic anatomy. Each chapter has both didactic information and dissection instructions, with the latter in italics. Major terms are in boldface. The end of each chapter has 20 to 40 review questions with the answers next to each question, a "laboratory identification checklist" of the major structures, and definitions of some relevant terms. Where appropriate, there are tables of muscle functions, nerve components and functions, and foramina contents. Function and clinical significance of structures are stressed, and cross-sectional anatomy is included. There are more than 300 black-and-white anatomical figures, including line drawings, schematics, and cadaver depictions.
Assessment: Many of the figures have too much contrast or are too fuzzy to clearly identify structures, but students will still like this dissector. The tables, checklists, questions, and definitions are useful laboratory and study aids. The authors achieve their goal of providing a book that will make the laboratory experience more than the identification of structures. The inclusion of study and review material may inhibit students from reading a standard anatomical text, but most do not anyway. This is one way to help students achieve a basic understanding of anatomy under the time constraints of many curricula.
Larry R. Cochard
This is a cadaver dissection manual that is supplemented with material usually found in textbooks. The authors combine dissection instructions with study and review material to try to get medical students to achieve a broader understanding of anatomy in the lab other than just simple identification. They also state that the book was designed as a response to the trends in medical education to reduce the amount of time spent on anatomy (and all basic sciences), to indicate clinical relevance, and to include more cross-sectional anatomy. Allied health programs may have use for this dissector, but the scope, focus, and clinical content clearly target first-year medical gross anatomy courses. The soft-cover dissector and study guide consists of 36 "chapters"on the body regions plus an index and an introductory section on general and systemic anatomy. Each chapter has both didactic information and dissection instructions, with the latter in italics. Major terms are in boldface. The end of each chapter has 20 to 40 review questions with the answers next to each question, a "laboratory identification checklist" of the major structures, and definitions of some relevant terms. Where appropriate, there are tables of muscle functions, nerve components and functions, and foramina contents. Function and clinical significance of structures are stressed, and cross-sectional anatomy is included. There are more than 300 black-and-white anatomical figures, including line drawings, schematics, and cadaver depictions. Many of the figures have too much contrast or are too fuzzy to clearly identify structures, but students will still like this dissector. The tables, checklists, questions, and definitions areuseful laboratory and study aids. The authors achieve their goal of providing a book that will make the laboratory experience more than the identification of structures. The inclusion of study and review material may inhibit students from reading a standard anatomical text, but most do not anyway. This is one way to help students achieve a basic understanding of anatomy under the time constraints of many curricula.3 Stars from Doody