BRS Gross Anatomy PDF

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Now in its Sixth Edition, BRS Gross Anatomy is a primary course review and textbook for medical students in first-year anatomy courses. Written in concise, bulleted outline format, this text offers USMLE-style questions with answers and explanations at the end of each chapter and in an end-of-book comprehensive exam. Other features include nearly 150 two-color illustrations, 50 radiologic clinical images, Clinical Correlations boxes, end-of-chapter summaries, and muscle tables. New to this edition are highlighted "Development Checks" sections on embryology. Terminology has been updated to conform to Terminologia Anatomica.

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• Series: Board Review Series
• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Sixth edition (October 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781771749
• ISBN-13: 978-0781771740
• Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 9.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

BRS Gross Anatomy PDF

There are two things I liked this book for. First, I thought they did a great job of compartmentalizing muscles in the UL & LL, making it easier to learn origins, insertions, action, innervation...although adding artery supply to the table would be helpful (it is included in the text at least). For new med students, I feel you should know that memorizing these charts will pretty much guarantee you passing, & probably getting an A, on the UL & LL written exams. Secondly, I thought there were some great figures demonstrating the actual course of nerves & arteries in the Head & Neck chapter. This was very helpful, especially concerning nerves associated with autonomic ganglia.

The good stuff ends there. This book is way too thick to be considered a review source, it's essentially a gross text with less pictures & written in bullet points. The questions are much harder than anything you'll see on your exams or boards. It is nice to have online access to the questions, but the questions are really redundant. For instance, I think there were 6 questions about subdural hematomas & bridging veins. This is pretty typical of the questions: when they aren't way too difficult, they're incredibly redundant. Finally, the clinical correlations are ridiculous in number - there are too many low yield correlations & most of them aren't very well explained. Bottom line - borrow it from a friend for the UL & LL exams, & then again in H&N if you're having trouble understanding nerves & arteries in the head. Use Road Map for everything else.

By R. D. Heath

This book is very intense. For those of you familiar with the BRS series the golden books of the series include physiology and pathology. These books are very well written and easy to understand. This is in direct contrast to what this book is. I would compare it to the BRS neuroanatomy. These books are extremely long and very detailed! Much too long for a quick board review book, so don't be deceived by the title. I cannot over emphasize enough how weighed down in detailed these books are. Although high yield facts are present in the books, they are mixed in with very low yield subjects and this makes it difficult to discern what the most important things to remember are. In other words, reading this book is not going to be pleasant. After reading the BRS neuroanatomy multiple times, I feel like throwing up every time I consider that I might read it again to refresh. This book gives me the exact same feelings. You are hardly reading anything. It is just fact after fact given in bullet point format with no flow between information, making 100% recall almost impossible even after reading each chapter 3 times (unless of course you have idiot savant capabilities). You will definitely understand anatomy more fully by memorizing this book, but be prepared to make a major investment of time and effort. As an alternative, take a look at high yield and USMLE road maps.

By William Mcfadden