Studying for Anatomy
So I’m in my first year of vet school, and I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed with the amount of content I need to learn, especially with small animal anatomy. I’m used to very structured classes, so to be thrown into a class where there are almost no lectures and they’re like “here’s your cadaver, here’s the book, here are the muscles and bones you need to know, figure it out” is pretty stressful to me. Thankfully I have a good lab group and we’re making good progress, and studying the muscles on our cadaver and other people’s cadavers has really helped. But how do I study at home? I’ve been taking pictures and labeling them, but it doesn’t feel like enough. I just have to know so many OIAI that I don’t know an organized way to study them. I feel so behind and it’s only day 3.
That’s not even touching on classes like hematology, in which we’ve gone through nearly 200 slides in 2 days. It’s hard to know how to spend my time and not get bogged on inefficient study methods.
Literally any study tips or tricks you have at all as former or current vet students would be greatly appreciated!