How To Study Anatomy Efficiently ?

Hello Young Medicos, so here we are with a new blog article on how to study Anatomy efficiently? I am getting a lot of questions regarding anatomy. Many new medical students are worried about Anatomy. It's very obvious because it's a very volatile subject. It has many jargons in it that itself take 2-3 weeks to get used to them. But Guys let me make me think very clear, if you start understanding anatomy then it will be a very easy and most interesting subject of the first MBBS. 

So, first thing first, as we all know that anatomy is the study of the internal architecture of the human body at both gross and microscopic levels. So, I would like to advise you not to study as a subject but study it as you are reading it to know about yourself internally. Start developing interest in the subject. I know that many of you will not agree with me about starting loving anatomy. here is a blog of mine regarding " How to prepare the hard Subject" I hope it will give you some orientation regarding how to approach the hard subjects. 

Why Anatomy Is So Important?

Anatomy is the foundation of many clinical subjects. Anatomy is the foundation of Surgery, Radiology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, and many other clinical subjects. If you are weak at anatomy then definitely you will end up struggling with these clinical subjects. It's the subject of basic science that covers many aspects of Surgery, without knowing the normal anatomy of the body how a Surgeon is supposed to do corrective surgery. 

You can not ignore Anatomy if somehow you managed to pass the subject in your first year without a good understanding of anatomy then this subject may haunt you in your final year. At that time you will not have sufficient time to start anatomy from the beginning. 

Let's get back to the topic, in this article I tried to convey most of the effective ways that could help you to get comfortable with anatomy. I personally tried these methods when I was in my first year of med school and it helped me a lot. So, without wasting the time let's get started.

Read from One Book only

Many of the students generally tend to refer to a lot of books for one subject. This is the worst strategy for understanding anatomy. You have to aware of the fact that you just don't have the anatomy to study throughout your first year. You can not give the whole of your time to anatomy. I admit referring from multiple can make your concepts crystal clear but it will consume a lot of time. Your standard textbooks like B.D Chaurasia or Vishram Singh are more than sufficient to learn anatomy and make good concepts. You need not refer to Gray's Anatomy every time it just consumes a lot of your time and energy. Just stick with one book till the end and you will get a good result. 

Attend Anatomy Lectures Regularly

Okay Okay, I know it's kinda hard to practice it in reality because many times anatomy lectures are very sleepy. But if you want to learn anatomy by heart you have to attend lectures. if I speak about myself, I was not very consistent in attending lectures but later I realized that I had done a huge mistake. I don't want to let you repeat the same mistake. If you don't like attending the lectures then you can go for some online lectures available on youtube or you can buy the lectures from platforms like MARROW or Prepladder. 

Try to Go through the topic before going to Dissection

Probably the best and effective way to learn anatomy is first to read it from textbooks and then apply your knowledge in the Dissection Hall. Humans are visual learners and our brain learns quickly after watching something. After reading the topic and then performing its dissection on human cadaver make your understanding better and you could retain the topic for a very long time.

After that, I don't think that you need to cram the things and have to worry about the exams.

Learn With Diagrams 

As I said earlier, we are visual learners and anatomy becomes very easy if we learn it with diagrams. with the diagram, we can get the actual view regarding the structures. I usually learn to draw the diagram first with all labels so that I could get a fair idea about the topic and then I proceed into reading the theory. This method helps me a lot and makes the anatomy very smooth and easy-going. 

Initially, you might face some problems but eventually, you find that this method is very effective and helpful.

Do regular Revisions  

As being humans our mind is programmed for forgetting things. The best thing we can do to tackle this is regular revisions. I have created a post "How To Revise efficiently " where I have explained details about everything and how regular revision works. you should refer to this amazing post. I have explained the scientific basis of forgetting and the classical forgetting curve. I hope that you will like that post as well.

Conclusion

For many students, anatomy seems very difficult. In this article, I have discussed anatomy and how to learn it efficiently. I discussed that why this subject is so important and how will it affect your academics if you don't take it seriously.

There are some of the very effective ways in the articles that helped me a lot while learning anatomy. I hope that these tips will help you a lot a well. 

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5 Things That You Can Do in Medical College.

The medical college is the one of the biggest achievement in many of us lives. Especially when the college is government. And I know that this year it's quite late for a new batch to start with MBBS IST year. But guys don't worry you will get used to the hectic schedule of MBBS life. But trust me guys if you start enjoying everything then you will defiantly love your MBBS life.

Here in this article, I would like to share that what other thing or hobbies you could develop during college life. These things could be beneficial for you in a long run. Here now, I am just writing a short article with the 5 best things that you could do. I hope that you will like my ideas.

And if you want to know that what you can do after MBBS you can read my article on "Career Options After MBBS" 

Start a medical blog

Blogging

So, you are going to be a medical professional. Soon you will have a lot of knowledge and information regarding the human body and every related thing to the medical field. So the best way to utilize knowledge is to start a medical blog. The medical blog is the simplest and easiest way to share your knowledge. It will provide you a good platform and exposure. With a medical blog, you could also improve your writing skills and knowledge as well.

And the best part about blogs is that you could also turn them up into your source of earnings. Yes, I know that medical education is not cheap. Definitely, you could not start earning a 6 figures amount from the beginning but if you keep on trying then definitely you could earn a huge amount from blogging.

There are many platforms where you can start blogging. For beginners, I would suggest that you could start blogging on www.blogger.com. It's easy and free. You could learn blogging from YouTube. If you want any help from my side you could comment down below. 

Improve your Public Speaking Skills

Public Speaking <Pic credits:- Pixabay>

We all are good at speaking. obviously, we are because we the social animals. But most of us are not good with a public speaking or I should say that many of us have a stage fear. Having stage fear is very common and that thing could create a bad impact on your presentations and on your personality as well. If you are up to something then you must have to have greater confidence in it. But if you are nervous during your presentation then people might lose interest and developed a bad impression. 

Don't worry guys! it is not too hard to improve your public speaking skills. You just need to practice about it. You should come up and start speaking in public whenever you get the chance. Initially, you will very nervous or might be embarrassing but trust me, eventually, you will feel more confident about speaking in front of a huge crowd. 

You could also learn some basics of public speaking from online platforms like youtube or udemy. But I prefer to start speaking and start facing the crowd and you will use to it.

Learn About Money and Investing

So, now you are in your medical college and soon you will be a very successful doctor. After becoming a successful doctor you are going to earn a lot I mean a lot... And at that time if you will not have the financial knowledge then definitely you will face troubles in managing your expenses and bills. A handsome salary doesn't guarantee you to make rich. With a good salary, we modify our lifestyle according to our salary and many people don't think about savings at the beginning of their earnings. The habit of saving and investing is the key to become rich and financially independent.

Here, I am talking about financial independence. What does it mean? In simple words, financial independence means that you not working for money you are working or doing your job because you love it. You don't have any fear of the future regarding your financial condition in any way. 

Many good books are having nice information on money and all these things. And the language in these books is so simple that a person from a non-commerce background can understand them. Some of my favorite books are " Rich Dad Poor Dad" and "The Psychology of Money"

You could find some good and relevant stuff on youtube as well.

 

Make some trips and Travel Plans

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Guys! Medicine is an endless stream and MBBS is too long. you can't let yourself confined in your medical college for the whole 5.5 years. Just imagine when your non-medico friends will go on some trips and upload their pictures on Instagram or on other Social media platforms. 

If you ask the same question from me then I will say that I will feel very bad. College life is the best time to explore the world and to get some new experiences. After college, you will not get a chance to have a good trip plan. I am not saying that you will not get time, many of you might have a lot of time. But it's too obvious that you are not going to have your friends and your batchmates with whom you could enjoy a lot. 

Everyone likes traveling and vacations but I don't think solo travel is too popular. Traveling with friends is soo amazing than traveling with family and you must have to admit this fact.

Join any Cultural Society of your College

You are in college now, and here study is not the only thing. Personally, I don't like studying rather I like to do some co-curricular activities like sports, dance, and drama. These things will help you a lot in the long run of your whole medical life. These things will teach you why balance is important in life. Trust me guys if you are not into any co-curricular activity before then it's the time for you to get into one. You will come to know that it's a good stress buster and also make you feel more confident about yourself.

In society you will get a lot of things to learn, you will know the actual value of teamwork. Till now we all have a very competitive mindset because of NEET. I am not saying that it's not good, but now it's time to change your mindset. We all should learn that we can not get many benefits in competition but if we work together then the chances of getting success increase tremendously.

Alright, we are at the end of our article and I would like to thank you all to read this whole article. I know that it might be boring for some of you hahaha... but I just wanted to broaden the view of new upcoming medicos regarding college life. college life is not about study only it contains many more things.

In the end, I want to wish you guys luck for your long journey.

Thank You