Thursday, August 18, 2011

Learn your anatomical directions!


As you begin studying the structure and function of the human body, you'll find that you need to be thoroughly familiar with the terminology used in anatomy to describe directions and orientation.

It may seem overwhelming at first, but it's a necessary step in learning everything else in anatomy.  It's like knowing north from south and east from west when beginning a course in geography.

The Anatomy Coloring BookExtra time and effort spent to learn anatomical directions and orientation at the beginning of the course will make most of the next semester or two . . . and beyond into other courses and your career . . . go way more smoothly.  Really.  It's hard to see that now, I know.  But trust me!

Besides your learning in the lab and lecture course, and working through your textbook and lab manual, you may find this FREE mini-course to be helpful.  It's called simply Anatomical Directions and it's provided as a free service from Insight Medical Academy. It requires a free registration to use the course, so be sure to register before trying to access the course.  Here's a brief video explaining how the free course works.

4 comments:

Jerry Jones said...

I know others will figure this out on their own but you said insightmedical.com when you meant to say insightmedical.org. Thanks for the resource!

Kevin Patton said...

Thanks for the clarification, Jerry. That is an important point. I'm having trouble finding where in my post I use the .com address. I'd like to fix it but I cannot find it.

Unknown said...

In the video above at 0:21 seconds is where it states .com instead of .org

Kevin Patton said...

Thanks, Kimberly! I see now that this issue is in the narration of the video itself, which is not mine (I'm just passing it along). It's true that there's a glitch. The correct URL is insightmedical.org

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