Customer Reviews

Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I found that the pictures were very helpful, but some of the text was hard to follow and more like an index that an actual paragraph.

This book was dry and boring. Nothing that I read stuck to me. The straight memorization of the BRS anatomy was much more useful than this book. However, this book does have some clinical examples that were used on my exams. It wasn't worth the money.

This book seemed like a nice quick read, but I found it rather insufficient for my anatomy course. The big Moore is much more elaborate and better suited for medical student. I ended up buying the the big Moore instead, which was great for thorax, abdomen, and pelvis. I wouldn't recommend it for head and neck or limbs--Snell's Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students is much better for that. Having both Moore and Snell is a lot of books, but it was well worth it for me.

I used this anatomy book in my undergraduate classes and it was very useful. The pictures and explanations of the anatomy were wonderful. Highly recommend.

I bought this for a Gross Anatomy class. The official book for the course was the newer edition, but I figured this would be ok and it was cheaper. I've used it, but I have noticed several serious errors in the figures (i.e. two different figures' labels may be mixed up). I really hope they've corrected these in the new edition. Also, it's a much smaller book than the new edition.

I switched anatomy classes and left this book and the teacher behind. Along with my new anatomy teacher, I found "Principles of Human Anatomy" by Gerard J. Tortora and Mark Nielsen to be MUCH better: includes Latin and Greek name origins, logically organizes the body by systems and not regions, includes a glossary, and has great diagrams. Buy "Human Anatomy Lab Manual with Cat Dissections" to compliment "Principles of Human Anatomy" and you'll be ready to tackle anatomy class.

This book was in decent condition, not as well as i expected, but still good. It shipped fast and overall I am happy.