6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book if you want less than a big text and more than a review book, November 29, 2009
This review is from: Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)
The reason that I loved this book is that while my classmates were slaving away attempting to read the entire Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, I was able to get the bulk of the text read in a fraction of the time while getting the same amount of information. This text is made for students who still want a read (rather than bullets that you would see in a review book) but does not have unnecessary information that will not be on the exam.
While the BRS book is good for the shelf exam, this book is what I used for day-to-day lecture exams and it had great tables that condensed the information in an easy manner.
In addition to this book, I used netter for my large atlas and the big Moore book for the "blue boxes" (Clinical Correlations) because my professor really concentrated on those in his testing.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, February 19, 2008
This review is from: Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)
I strongly recommend this book over the big book by Moore. This book (Essentials) contains all the most important information you need to know about the systems. It is thorough and straight to the point.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I am an ECA hater and let me tell you Why, January 22, 2007
This review is from: Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)
Why I hate the Book:
1. The text is often painful to read. I remember I once spent half an hour on just 1 page full of text because it was so boring. Some of it is still "too much" for a med student to know casually, but you'll probably feel guilty if you don't read it.
2. The Text, Figures, and Blue Boxes are scattered, so you constantly half to flip the page to see what the text is referring too. This gets highly irritating.
3. If you've had no previous exposure to anatomy (like me) this text has no mercy and forces you to catch up to speed on your own.
4. It's a horrible book to study from, class notes and other resources are better
5. Much of the book was spent defining the minutiae of the specific local anatomy and there was no appreciation for the "awesomeness" of anatomy, which added an aura of tediousness to the book instead of appreciation.
The reason why the book managed to get 2 stars in my rating
1. There were abundant clinical correlation blue boxes which saved my sanity (although the depth of these blue boxes was very superficial--they are going for breadth not depth).
2. Some of the information is of relatively high quality
3. Chapter 9 on Cranial Nerves is actually pretty good/helpful/high yield.
If you can avoid this book, I would. Instead I'd suggest going with something like Gray's Anatomy for students which has gotten great reviews and doesn't look as painful as ECA.
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