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BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series)

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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.

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.

This book is excellent! It's great if you're taking a gross anatomy class for the first time or if you're reviewing for Boards. It is complete with tables and pictures breaking down each group of muscles in a particular region of the body into their various actions, innervations, etc. THIS BOOK IS AN EASY READ! I use this book now as a supplemental text for a gross anatiomy class that I currently take and it is by far the most helpful piece of text one can read for that class. BUY IT! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!

The material is Dense and the problems are difficult but there is a detailed explination for each question. This book was reccomended to me by a professor who indicated some of his exam questions would be "inspired" by this manual.

Its a little tough to get through but hopefully it will help.

Compared to the other BRS books that I have read, the Gross Anatomy one is way too dense.

This book is a must have for anyone in 1st year taking anatomy.

-Abundant Test Questions(Like the ones that will appear on your exam and the boards)
-Good chapter summaries at the end to glance over before the exam starts
-Excellent clinical correlations
-Online access to the book lets you do practice questions anywhere and anytime

This book and a netters atlas will get you an A in anatomy. KNOW EVERY WORD!!

This book had really good questions to prepare for my Step 1 boards, and anatomy class. There was some good clinical tie in as well.

Props to Dr. Chung. He's created an amazing resource.
Plus, he works at the University of Oklahoma. Boomer Sooner! (<-- this comment has nothing to do with my rating)

this is the most recent version of the gross anatomy brs and it is much better than the previous edition since it has many semi-colored images and other updated information

I wish I had used this book when I took the course instead of reading it for board review. It is fairly detailed and requires a lot of time.