Rohen's Photographic Anatomy Flash Cards,

1st Edition
By Joel A. Vilensky

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2008

Cards: 440 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781778352
ISBN-13: 978-0781778350
978-0781778350

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These flash cards were developeddeveloped with the primary aim of helping helping
health profession students prepare for a practical exam in a typical
medical gross anatomy and/or neuroanatomy course. Although there
are many
many anatanatomomy y flas
flash
h card
card sets
sets avai
availa
labl
ble,
e, none
none are basedbased on
phot
ph otog
ogra
raphphss of cada
cadaveverr diss
dissec
ecti
tion
ons.
s. Th
Thee adva
advantntag
agee of usin using
g
photo
photogragraphphic
ic imag
images es rath
rather
er than
than dr draw
awinings
gs for
for pre
prepa
pariring
ng for
for a
practical exam seems self-evident.
All the photographs in this flash card set were derived from the sixth
editi
edition
on of Colo
Colorr Atla
Atlass of Anat
Anatom
omy: y: A Phot
Photog
ogra
raph
phic
ic Stud
Study y of the
the
Human Body by Johannes W. Rohen, Chihiro Yokochi, and Elke
LΓΌtjen-Drecoll (2006). The photographs in that atlas are exquisite
in their detail. I chose a subset of the images that I thought would be
most relevant for use in preparing for a practicalpract ical exam. Before trying
to identify a structure, the student should first become
orien
oriented
tedβ€β€”t
”tha
hatt is,
is, de
deter
termi
mine
ne what
what is medimedial
al,, later
lateral
al,, supe
superirior
or,,
inferior, anterior, and posterior. The student should use the same
approach when taking the exam itself. These cards lack the three-
dime
dimensnsio
iona
nall de
defifini
niti
tion
on th that
at cada
cadavevers
rs offe
offer;
r; th thus
us,, iden
identi
tify
fyin
ing
g
structures on these cards is probably harder than identifying the
identical structures on a cadaver. However, the dissections used for
these photographs are so good that this liability is not significant and
is equally prevalent on flash cards card s based on drawings.
Thee fron
Th frontt of each
each cardcard typi
typica
call
lly
y has thre
threee or four
four stru
structu
cture
ress to
identify. The correct answers are identified on the back of the card.
Fur
Furthther
er,, each
each ans answer
wer incl
includ
udeses some
ome import portan
antt anat
anato omica
micall
characteristic of that structure that may help the student identify it
more readily or answer a written question about it. Also on the back 
of the card is the page number of the atlas that contains the image
show
shown n on ththee fron
front.
t. Th
Thus
us,, th
thee stud
studen
entt can
can easi
easily
ly obta
obtain
in more
more
information about each image.
Performing well on a practical exam is a skill that some students find
difficult to master. I sincerely hope that students find these cards
helpful in acquiring that skill.