CMSRU Clinical Anatomy

Dear Students,

The following suggestions will help all of you to be successful in your clinical anatomy studies:

1. Read all the dissector instructions plus your textbook before each laboratory. Plan every step to avoid and/or mitigate  damage to structures in question. Being prepared is a crucial step for success.

2. Study with your atlas at all times. The atlas is your map! Have in mind that these are diagrams based on an artist idealization of the dissection field.

3. Complete each dissection using the "Three amigos system"; one dissecting, one reading out loud [from the dissector], as well as one navigating with the atlas [the GPS]

4. As soon as you find a structure, correlate it with all others, it is all about relationships!!! use the Visible Human Dissector to visualize these relationships. Identify each structure using the axial, coronal, and sagittal plane.

5. Practice, Practice, Practice... find the structures in your cadaver and then look at these structures in other cadavers. The more you get use to it, the better chances to cope with variations. Believe me, you do not need surprised.

Have a great discovery time!!!

All the best...

H&E