VERY HELPFUL | Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com (Netter Basic Science)

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	• Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com (Netter Basic Science) Frank H. Netter Saunders, 2006 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 124 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Can you imagine that the pictures drawn by Netter are far much clearer than what we saw during dissections?

I remembered that when we did dissections in the anatomy class throughout the anatomy classes of the 1st 2 years, one student per table (who do not want to touch the corpse) would be responsible to bring and hold the Netter for the entire lesson. Netter really helped us a lot! I have browsed many other anatomy atlas and have not yet found one that is better than Netter. Although some atlases contain real pictures, they are not as clear as that in Netter! I can say, "Netter + Moore" is the golden combination for anatomy!

When I studied neuroanatomy after finishing the anatomy, Netter still helped me a lot!

Netter rocks!

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VERY HELPFUL

This book is one of the best anatomy book I have ever seen!

Visual Learner

If "a picture could say a thousand words", this book is it. I am an LPN turned Medical Coder. The book has made Anatomy `come alive'. I struggled through 2 anatomy/physiology classes in the above 2 programs & still did not feel like I understood. If you are a visual learner, this book is a must. It does have to be supplemented with written text as others have said, I use a google search when my textbooks are not enough. To determine if this book would be helpful, think of it like this, if you put together a big entertainment center, which would you find more helpful: diagrams of where each screw, nut & bolt gets attached to what piece, OR by reading a description of each piece & the description of the piece it gets attached to. For me its diagrams, so the book for me was well worth the cost ($69 + tax at Barnes & Noble, 3rd edition, soft cover).

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A Single Source Reference, It Is Not.

Rather than writing a repeat of all the reasons you should buy this text, which you can read from MANY other reviewers, I'd like to leave a comment or two of what you miss in Netter's and why you cannot use Netter's as a single-source reference.

First, I'm a 20-yr vet of semiconductor manufacturing engineering (MS Chem Eng), so I wasn't as mentally prepared for med school as much younger students seem to have been. But having said that, I needed and expected a lot detail, and I mean a lot of detail. Netter's, while providing a ton of detail in a magnificent artistic format, cannot provide every angle necessary to avoid confusion. This bit is easily solved using highly detailed photographs. For this reason alone, Netter's (or any other single text) should never be considered as a single-source reference. As an example of this problem, what may be interpreted as a small fossa, may not be as apparent to the student. This is a big deal. Second, muscle orgins and insertions, at least from my personal experience (and I know everyone is different), seems to be difficult to learn from Netter's. The same goes for nerve innervations and blood flow. I have found the detailed photographic texts to be far more useful to learn innervations over Netter's art work though nothing compares to actually being in the lab.

Conclusion: If you're having to learn Anatomy, then Netter's is a necessary tool. The interactive CD is a nice feature but not completely necessary though the $30 extra is probably worth the money. But realize that you must not use Netter's as a single-source reference. A careful review of the photographic anatomy texts (my personal favorite being McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy) WILL be of great use - these two different styles of text greatly complement one another, and hence your understanding of the subject. Skip the coloring books.

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You need this one

This book is a must for a medical student! The illustrations are clear,simple and are drawn in a special way which makes it very easy to understand what you are seeing. The pictures are not always "real", they reflect what you SHOULD look for in a particular area of the body,a fact that helped me a lot. Comparing to Sobbota, this book contains more information in most of the aspects, although Sobbota may be found more useful for dentistry students due to a bigger section of the scull region. Another thing which is good in Sobotta are the more detailed carpal bones illustrations which may be of value to some students.
In conclusion, Netter book is reliable, clear and understandable both for the learning beginner and the reviewer. I know I would have never passed my Anatomy and Neurobiology without it. It is simply the best atlas there is!

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