Fantastic teaching Aid!
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I have been teaching Anatomy & Physiology for many years and this book is the best for; visual learning, physical, in the colouring aspect,in addition to supporting the auditory lecture. A fun yet infomative and effective method to reach all learning styles. A great asset to teaching!
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A great resource for learning anatomy
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Having just completed the first year of a medical degree, I can vouch for the usefulness of this anatomy colouring book. While I might have felt like my education had regressed somewhat after hours spent colouring in, this really is an excellent way to learn.
The diagrams are so clear and well laid-out that I ended up cutting out the pages and using them as an integral part of my notes. The page on the peritoneal sac was literally the clearest explanation I've seen anywhere. But as well as that, the actual process of putting coloured pencil to paper means that they stick in your head far better than a diagram you've just stared at in a book. It's a welcome (and often therapeutic!) respite from reading/writing notes, and the challenge of a different way of learning really makes the massive memory task of anatomy much easier.
However, as others have said, it's by no means sufficient on its own as a way to study anatomy. Perhaps its greatest weakness is that it's organised systemically, ie muscles/bones/nerves/blood vessels etc. This is an approach that's more useful when it comes to learning the muscles and bones, but it gives barely any indication of the relations to other structures - something that's essential to learn especially in a medical degree, and which my course particularly focussed on. This also means that details such as nerve/blood supply to muscles is rather weak. As well as that, the more 'physiological' pages (eg the immune system) are much more messily drawn and less clearly set out.
However, in conjunction with other resources and used alongside a more detailed anatomy course, this is a very useful book, and one which made learning anatomy much easier.
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Fab book for revision
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I brought this book half way through my first year of Physiotherapy, and found it so helpful, especially for revising musculoskeletal as it helped me put all the muscles into place, along with revising the bones and joints. It also has the nervous system and respiratory anatomy so it has been a very good buy, and ive recommended it to all my friends!
Learning while colouring sounded a brilliant option to me!
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Good as learning aid or for revision.
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For various reasons I decided to revise my anatomy this year after a break of 24 years and bought this book for entertainment purposes. In 1982 this book was in its first edition and I remember considering purchasing it, but everyone bought Snell and I wasn't prepared to take the risk. In the end I ended up learning anatomy by drawing my own diagrams so this book would have probably come in handy. The diagrams are clear and the process of colouring-in key elements helps with learning. However the textual information is superficial and the body's components are not integrated together. I think this book is well placed if you want to use visual imagery to learn anatomy or if you need a revision aid. However you will need other sources if you want to learn gross anatomy in detail from scratch.
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An excellent learning guide
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I teach anatomy and my students were, to say the least, sceptical about being made to colour in pictures with coloured pencils. But believe me, if there is a better way to learn human anatomy I havent heard of it! Excellent drawings with colour codes for each structure of all the major systems (skeletal, muscular, nervous, vascular etc), which make learning and revision for the subject a total breeze. Highly recomended.
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