 What is going on guys Lux here from then be journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress Today's video is going to be a question I get pretty commonly around this time of the year Which is I need help and anatomy and so luckily for you guys I am an anatomy TA is a fourth year and so I'm gonna give you my top tips on doing well in the class All right guys, let's get to the video Let's get to the tips without any fluff quick introduction for any of you guys that are new to the channel My name is Lux. I am a fourth year medical student here in Texas And we are going to talk about how to do well in anatomy is probably one of my favorite classes So if you're struggling, I totally get it. There's a lot of stuff you got to understand So how do you make sense of it all? I'm gonna give you a couple of tips and advice you can use take it with you This is what worked for me to make sure that I ace the practical as well as the multiple choice portion of the test And if you guys have more questions comment down below So the first thing I'll give you is how to prepare for your exams pretty hard Especially when you have a lot of things to cover on how you want to approach it So what I would do is during the last week before my test. Let's say the test was Friday We're looking at Saturday Sunday Monday of the week before make a list of all the things that you dissected out Or you're supposed to identify usually your dissection guide or whatever may have a list at the very end If not make a list at the end of every lab. What did I identify? What do I need to make sure I can identify in the future and then Let's say you have nine labs that you have to Study for for your test on Friday. What I would do is then go to lab on like a Monday I would usually skip class of this doesn't work for you You're just gonna have to find other hours, but I would go to the lab in the morning when everybody else would be in lecture So I would do three labs worth review I would go through my list and try to find every single thing on one to two cadavers For lab one to three on Tuesday I would do lab four to six and then finally I would wrap it up on a Wednesday with lab Seven tonight and then on Thursday I would just go back and focus on the things I struggle with so if I really wasn't able to find an artery really well Or I would be nervous if that was ever on the test Now try to find it on a different cadaver that way on Thursday where everybody else is stressing about the test I am more focused on just all my weaknesses and this is for the practical portion of the test You can make it even more effective if let's say your test is still on Friday Start studying like that the Wednesday before the exam and do this technique, but do it twice So go through three labs on Wednesday than another three labs on a two Thursday and final three labs on Friday Well, no one else's in the lab and then Saturday Sunday and Monday try to review those labs again You'll be quicker and try to do it on a different body if you can now Well, you can see the little variations in anatomy and then for the last part of the week Just focus on your weaknesses because then you've had much more repetitions in your classmates Have they probably only looked at the dissections when they were dissecting and then probably one before the test And they're freaking out because there's a lot of stuff to do But you're probably seeing them now three to four times if you make a list of things You have to go through and make sure you're able to identify it on a few bodies So I love that structure. It really helped me whenever I had to do that identification portion of the test I always did well. I wasn't really stressed. So now I'm getting to how can you identify your structures better? I would recommend a flash card system because anatomy is very visual like Anki So if you use Anki great if you don't have plenty of videos on my channel, you can check out how I use Anki I'll link one down below but try to find an Anki deck or create one Where you have the images from your dissection so use your dissection guide and Take screenshots of the images or use netters or use some online thing that you may have and then use the occlusion tool from Anki So I'll give a little screenshot how that works up here and basically the way the occlusion tool works is If I have seven different labels on one picture, then I can make a rectangle around every seven Items so then Anki is going to make one flash card per item So that way if I have seven labels, it's going to give me a flash card We're only asked about one of them to have to label it which is perfect for anatomy, especially when you have to deal with things That are really small and close together So for example, if you're doing some of the nerves or arteries in the neck things are small things are close by to each other So if you can do a better job of identifying them on a flash card, it's going to be a little bit easier in lab So use a tool like Anki Maybe your school already has one for your dissection guide There are some free ones online as well if not just make your own really quickly every day before lecture Take a book like matters and then take a screenshot if you have an e-book version And then make the occlusion items on Anki and then use those before you go to lab after you go to lab That way you can refresh and move for your test That's going to help you do pretty well on the identification portions of the test combine that with the first tip And you're gonna be able to easily label stuff For your test now let's get to the multiple choice. Obviously anatomy is just not like what is this muscle? So it's also how does this muscle work? What would happen if things went wrong? So you have to start thinking in that type of aspect, you know what nerve innervates a specific muscle But what happened if this nerve wasn't working, you know, what functions would be messed up in somebody that had some kind of injury So there's a method that I love using that I like to call the Excel method But there are other youtubers that teach something pretty similar Ali, which is a pretty awesome Met school youtuber. I'll link his channel down below. You can check out his Excel method, too I'm basically the whole idea is use something like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel and Have a question and answer section. So have your questions for anatomy. What nerve innervates this muscle? What four muscles are in this group? Like what four muscles are considered and for hyoid? What are the branches of their external carotid and then have the answers on the right side or the next column? Then when you're studying just white out Your answer column and go through the questions one by one If you have something you struggle with I like to personally make them red and that way I know like tomorrow while we got make sure you do those questions again But it's a great way of keeping track of all the things you need to know and still not being overwhelmed by having too many questions Sometimes Anki can be pretty overwhelming because you feel like you have a lot of flashcards But you can quickly get through an Excel sheet because the questions are pretty short So what nerve innervates the muscle? What's our arterial supply of a muscle? You know, what are the branches of something? Where does a nerve leave your brain in the skull? Those are all questions you can ask though There'll be questions that you have to answer on your anatomy test So start thinking in that type of context, you know what would go wrong if something screwed up and Put those in your form of a question. I think you guys will do great If you guys have more questions about anatomy and how to study as I mentioned I'm a TA so be happy to help you comment down below I can make another video But hopefully this video is helpful if you guys enjoyed it give it a like subscribe to the channel again Comment down below with any questions other classes you guys are having issues with be more than happy to help But that's it for this video. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you guys in the next one. Take care my friends