Reddit reviews Gray's Anatomy Review: with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

1. Eat your pancakes every day. If you don't know what I mean, watch this video.
   
2. Use flashcards. Anki or Firecracker. Pick one (don't do both!) and stick with it. Here's the medical school Anki subreddit. Here's the Firecracker page. Anki is free, but that has it's issues. Firecracker is expensive, but you get some good stuff with it (including an NBME Anatomy practice exam).
   
3. Use a Pomodoro timer. Google it. I follow the basic scheme of 25 on/5 off, with a 30 minute break after 4 Pomodoros. I usually work through my 5 minute breaks but always take the 30 minute break.
   
4. For Anatomy → acquire a copy of the Gray's Anatomy Review book and do all the questions. All of them. Use the UMich anatomy website for more help.
   
5. For Histology → I sort of floundered through this class so I don't have much advice to give other than don't just memorize the picture, understand what you are looking at.
   
6. Treat it like a full-time job that has overtime. You're expected to work 8-5 knowing that you'll also have to work from 5pm-8pm.
   
7. I cannot emphasize this enough - lots of cocaine! - Just kidding, I saw this on a meme elsewhere and wanted to throw this in.
   
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   Are you by chance going to a school in the south? Perhaps one dedicated to Honest Abe?

Find your style, that's my biggest advice for success. My style was to watch all the lectures at 1.7-2x speed and jot down disorganized notes and diagrams on blank printer paper. I figured out early that I learn best by allowing myself the freedom to see the big picture, and then just build intuition about a subject. Didn't use anki except for biochem.

Anatomy I didn't watch or go to the lectures, for anatomy I spent tons of time trying to draw out diagrams from memory and then doing practice questions from that grays book. That grays book is gold, I highly recommend going through all the q and a for your block. It really does ask mostly high yield things.

https://www.amazon.com/Grays-Anatomy-Review-STUDENT-CONSULT/dp/0323277888

I posted this in another thread but seriously try this question book. It was money for my exams.

http://www.amazon.com/Grays-Anatomy-Review-STUDENT-CONSULT/dp/0323277888/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

I'm currently taking anatomy and the [High Yield Anatomy] (https://www.amazon.com/High-YieldTM-Gross-Anatomy-High-Yield-Ronald/dp/1451190239/ref=dp_ob_title_bk) has been a life saver.

It's the best: concise & practical. Much better than BRS, much better than my textbook (Moore's.)

Standalone it's not enough though. I would complement it with an Atlas, Netter's is what I'm using, and practice questions. I like Gray's.

Kaplan lecture videos have been immensely helpful in understanding both the anatomy & embryology. I recommend them immensely. But if you don't want to opt for a subscription, the Noted Anatomist on YouTube will help you digest the High Yield review book. (I would opt for the subscription though.)

Our Med school's anatomy and embryology course is not only conjoined, but lasts a total of three-months. So if you want to cram anatomy, yet learn it well, consider what I write.

Best of luck :)