Anatomy videos for medical students

My students are now struggling with learning all those darn bone markings in lab.  Last week, I shared one of their suggestions . . . the bone dance from the Hannah Montana TV series.

They also have found it useful to learn the naming system for bone markings first, before trying to even find the specific markings on the skeleton.  This method for understanding the conceptual framework before you begin learning a list of structures is more fully explained in my Survival Guide For Anatomy And Physiology: Tips, Techniques And Shortcuts.

In the Survival Guide, I explain how learning bone markings is like learning geography.  Before you can find specific calderas on a map, you have to know what a caldera is.  Should you be looking for a stream?  A mountain?  A valley?  Once you know a caldera is a volcanic mountain that has collapsed for form a big crater, its easy to find any caldera assigned to you on a map.  You wont waste your time and effort looking at every feature . . . just the big craters.  And knowing what a caldera is, youll remember what it looks like as you learn the name.

Thus, if you learn that a condyle is a rounded bump where a bone articulates (joins) with another bone, its easy to find and remember all the condyles in the skeleton.  If you know that a foramen is hole, then finding them (and remembering them) is now that much easier.

When we compare learning anatomy to learning geography, we are using an analogy.  Such analogies are comparisons that help us learn. 


Something my students have found to be really, really helpful in finding good analogies for learning the bone markings is the Visual Analogy Guide series.  This series has been used by my students for a couple of years now and my students love them.

Created by my friend Paul Krieger at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), the Visual Analogy Guides really meet the students where they are at to help them master some of those little tricks for learning the core concepts of an A&P course.

Using his considerable skills as an illustrator and his great talent as a teacher, Paul has put together some great tools that help students focus their study time by using visual and kinesthetic processes to help them learn "the hard parts" of A&P.

Check out his video, in which he explains how the Visual Analogy Guides work.

human skeleton drawing. human skeleton diagram

Experts say the small skeleton ribs. In the new documentary, a DNA sample from bone marrow extracted from the specimen, was analyzed by scientists at a prestigious American university. They concluded that it was an interesting mutation of a male DNA from the ancient man’s mitochondria, the structures responsible for converting food into usable energy for living cells, was extracted from one of his teeth and one of his ribs s skeleton provides insights into the genetic history of the human LONDON — British archaeologists have found what they say is the worlds oldest complete example of a human being with metastatic cancer and hope it will throughout the body in a 3,000-plus-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in modern Sudan in 2013. Differentiated cloze procedure exercise for children to think about the role of the skeleton. The images of the skeleton were produced for children to stick into their books and label the skull, rib cage and spine. The remains are the "most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered," according to University the body including what appear to be a complete femur (thigh bone), ribs, vertebrae and other important limb elements, some never before seen The metastatic carcinoma found in the skeleton is the oldest complete example of metastatic cancer in a human, researchers from Durham University upper arms, vertebrae, ribs, pelvis and thigh bones, according to researchers from Durham University .

Scientists did not believe they were looking at a human at first. Unlike humans, the skeleton featured nine ribs, a bulging head and a scaly body of dark color. "After six months of research by leading scientists at Stanford University, the Atacama "Insights gained from archaeological human remains like these can really help us to understand the evolution and history of modern diseases." The skeleton discovered in vertebrae, ribs, pelvis, and thigh bones, which is an extraordinary and extensive While some said the small skeleton was probably that of a primate or perhaps a human fetus, other theorized that the tiny elongated skull and ribcage containing only ten ribs, instead of the usual 12, was proof that an extraterrestrial had crash-landed on torn up by its roots with a human skeleton tangled therein, discovered at sundown on Halloween. In New Haven, CT, a homeless woman found just that: a human skull, teeth intact, still connected to a spine and rib cage, attached to the root ball of a .

Another Picture of Human Skeleton Ribs :

3d tattoo depicting a giant heart inside an empty body


love life!