How to study Anatomy/Physiology/Biology
If you adopt our study suggestions, you are almost guaranteed to become
a less stressed, better-organized and higher achieving (more competitive!)
student.
1)
The statistics show that 50% of students drop or do not pass because they did not
listen their professors on the first day of instruction.
2) Be willing to commit yourself to studying. Set aside all distractions.
3) Anatomy/Biology takes LONG hours of study to understand. The basic rule will be= 3 hours
per unit per week. It is a lot!! Are you ready?
4) If you are working or have other time commitments, you need to have good time management
skills to succeed in this class.
5) Do not take this class if you DO NOT have background in College Biology first.
6) Highly recommend having Biology 11 (Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology) or Bio
42 (Human Biology) during the last year.
7) Develop good study habits: Don’t just cram for the big test!!
8) Invest at least 16 hours each and every week studying anatomy outside of class,
including week 1 and including the weeks after breaks – no exceptions. Unless you
are an extraordinary genius 
9) Record the lecture if you can.
10) Attend EVERY lab or lecture unless you are truly too sick or too contagious to
attend. Focus, turn off cells phones and outside distractions during lecture, lab and study
time
11) Attend lab review sessions prior to exams, and take the practice lab exam in your lab books.
12) Study out loud. Students have told us that doing so is more helpful than studying "in your
head," because hearing the material helps you understand it and commit it to memory.
13) Review the lecture notes posted on the website before the class in which the material will be
covered.
14) Review your own notes as soon after class as you can. Some students find it helpful to rewrite or re-type their anatomy notes; repeating your review of the material in different
ways is an important study tactic.
15) Divide Your Study: When delving into human anatomy, the sheer number of body parts
there are to explore can seem overwhelming. To prevent yourself from becoming bogged
down by these body parts, divide your study, either by part location or by function. As you
divide the body parts you have to explore, you can better focus your study on each. If you
plan frequent, short and intense study sessions, it will help as well.
16) Reword Explanations: When written in technical speech, explanations of body functions
can be unclear at best. If you are trying to learn how body parts work together but are
getting confused by the technical language in which these explanations are written, reword
them. Writing them out in your own language is a simple way to sort through the
information and make it easier to understand.
17) Produce your OWN graphics/diagrams/schemas or use teacher’s in a way that helps you to
fix the concept within your brain. However if you are not able to reproduce over and over
again without external help, it is a sign your knowledge is not strong enough yet.
18) Word analysis and pronunciation are critical. There are several places online to help you on
that.
19) Always contact your instructor, following guidelines from their syllabus. They are all willing
to help you to analyze your situation.
20) Make an effort to keep your grades up (70% at least) from the beginning. If after three
weeks since classes started you were not able to do it, for whatever reason you might have,
it is RED FLAG. Take action (review your study techniques, hours of studying, how focused
you can be, etc, etc) but never ignore it. BE HONEST with yourself.
21) Reading your entire chapter at least two times before you break it into little pieces, it will
give you an overall view of the subject.
22) It is very important to visualize the FOREST of the chapter before to identify the
TREES within it.
Videos about how to study Anatomy/Physiology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0zsceJ5Tps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qtrSR7ZZyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHS2CdlhDwc
http://careered.libguides.com/content.php?pid=164592&sid=1389235
https://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/get_bodysmart.html