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KX36 · 05-06-2007, 11:43 PM

The product is absolutely essential, it's all videos and it's far far better than struggling with textbooks for learning the first time around. For me, textbooks are really only useful as reference material.

The link to the "free online" one is a link to Glasgow's faculty of medicine's copy. (I don't think it's there anymore) I assume they have paid for a special license to provide it as a resource to their students, so I don't know how legal it really is to be using their website. Many universities worldwide have similar things on their websites; St. George's, London have it on their website, but you have to log in to access it.

Before going out and buying it, you should check to see if it's available through your own university.

Comparing the DVD (my old housemate had actually bought it!) and the online version from SGUL; the online one is a smaller picture, for streaming online, but it is well split into categories and subcategories. The DVD is a bigger res, but the quality is still limitied from the fact it was released originally for VHS, so it has all the poor quality of VHS and is very reminiscent of videos I used to watch in school science lessons recorded in the early '90s. Also, as it is VHS, it is not very well split. There are 6 DVDs, each split into 6 chapters or so; which means you end up watching 30 mins at a time covering many things in 1 big block.
e.g. the online one would split "foot" into something like "bones 1, bones 2, muscles, nerves 1, nerves 2, arteries, veins, review"... the VHS/DVD would just have "foot" that plays for 30 mins. I find that quite irritating. Also, the online one has a nice web interface for quick navigation, the DVDs play through like VHS really.

I would reconsider illegally downloading ripped DVDs from bittorrent, Shujaat. You may not know this, but doctors are supposed to have ethics.

05-06-2007, 11:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
KX36 Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9	The product is absolutely essential, it's all videos and it's far far better than struggling with textbooks for learning the first time around. For me, textbooks are really only useful as reference material. The link to the "free online" one is a link to Glasgow's faculty of medicine's copy. (I don't think it's there anymore) I assume they have paid for a special license to provide it as a resource to their students, so I don't know how legal it really is to be using their website. Many universities worldwide have similar things on their websites; St. George's, London have it on their website, but you have to log in to access it. Before going out and buying it, you should check to see if it's available through your own university. Comparing the DVD (my old housemate had actually bought it!) and the online version from SGUL; the online one is a smaller picture, for streaming online, but it is well split into categories and subcategories. The DVD is a bigger res, but the quality is still limitied from the fact it was released originally for VHS, so it has all the poor quality of VHS and is very reminiscent of videos I used to watch in school science lessons recorded in the early '90s. Also, as it is VHS, it is not very well split. There are 6 DVDs, each split into 6 chapters or so; which means you end up watching 30 mins at a time covering many things in 1 big block. e.g. the online one would split "foot" into something like "bones 1, bones 2, muscles, nerves 1, nerves 2, arteries, veins, review"... the VHS/DVD would just have "foot" that plays for 30 mins. I find that quite irritating. Also, the online one has a nice web interface for quick navigation, the DVDs play through like VHS really. I would reconsider illegally downloading ripped DVDs from bittorrent, Shujaat. You may not know this, but doctors are supposed to have ethics.