Clinical Essential Enatomy (V.s.) Clinically Oriented Anatomy

**Genetics MD** · 12-09-2008, 07:03 AM

Hi everybody..

I am a medical student from Sultanate of Oman in the 3rd year (out of 7 years)..

This semester (the 5th for me) we have just started studying systems..

The college has introduced to us " Clinically oriented antomy " of Moore to study from.. But I was adviced by someone to use a better one which is " clincal essntial antomy " of Moore.. whish has excluded many information.. as he said: " there are extra info that you dont need in this level "

so whats your advice, is it ok to keep on depending on the smaller book rather than the big one?

Thank you

**Genetics MD** · 13-09-2008, 09:17 PM

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**yazoo** · 13-09-2008, 11:12 PM

Big Moore has more clinical information in it. So although it is bigger and more expensive, it is also more intersting and more memorable if it is clinical medicine you are after!

**Pammy** · 14-09-2008, 05:37 AM

It's probably difficult for people to comment as we don't know much about your course and itts requirements - some courses put more emphasis on anatomy, others slightly less...So I guess we can't judge what you have to read :-)
But this is my experience of the two books:
They are essentially the same in terms of content! The text is almost identical. Only, in the small Moore, they have cut out half the pictures and shrunken the size of the tables down to almost illegible. Plus, like yazoo said, they have omitted most of the blue "clinical correlations" boxes.
I didn't know any anatomy before this summer and wanted to prepare for med school by reading a book. I got the small Moore because it looked nice! But I realised very quickly that the bigger one actually makes things easier to understand (especially if you self-teach like I do) as there are more pictures. I now use both books together. I read the big one, and then skim over the small one - sometimes the small one has different pictures (simplified), and sometimes it summarises something in a nice way. But really, I don't think it makes much difference - if you knew everything in either book, you'd probably be quite good at anatomy :-)

**Genetics MD** · 15-09-2008, 08:19 AM

Yazoo and Pammy,
I am really greatfull for your valuable comments..
Pammy, thank you for this detailed info..

If anybody has other additional comments, I am waiting to listen thankfully

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