How to get an A in anatomy & physiology

Have you yet figured out how to get an A in anatomy and physiology? What would getting an A in A & P be worth to you? If you are planning a career in health care, would an A help you get into the professional training program of your choice?

If you are majoring in exercise physiology, would an A in Anatomy and Physiology be a source of pride? Or maybe A & P would meet a science requirement outside your major, but you are afraid this course may ruin your hard-won high grade point average.

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Learning strategies

This report teaches 7 key learning strategies to use in developing your plan for studying anatomy and physiology.

• 1. Figure out what you already know. Everyone today knows something about anatomy and physiology – if only from hearing the news.
• 2. Focus on learning orientation and direction of anatomic body parts in 3-dimensional space. These descriptive terms appear easy but tend to be confusing.
• 3. Learn to pronounce the strange names distinctly. The long names in anatomy tend to be combinations of small words that are easy to remix incorrectly.
• 4. Make note of the repetitive use of many descriptive words in anatomy. For example, the frontal lobe and occipital lobe of the brain are covered by the frontal bone and occipital bone. The frontal bone and occipital bone are covered by one muscle the occipitofrontalis muscle.
• 5. Think about the components of physiology control schemes for maintaining order. When machines break, they stop. Humans seldom stop living when a part breaks or functions poorly. Find out why!
• 6. Examine the 3 major communication systems of physiology and how they play off each other. A clear view of the big picture in physiology is gained by focusing on the interplay between the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and the endocrine system as they respond to sudden imbalances in the body.
• 7. Focus on learning just 8 basic concepts from chemistry and physics that are used to explain the aqueous chemistry of physiology. The concepts you will find most useful are types of ions, types of chemical bonds, pH and diffusion of particles in water, osmotic pressure, hydrostatic pressure, heat transfer, Henry’s Gas Law, and Dalton’s Gas Law.

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Click here now for my Free Blueprint. With its associated 3-week e-course, this set of strategies explains the secret to psyching out anatomy and physiology exams. Having taught anatomy and physiology to college students for 30 years, I am certain that passing this course with a high grade does not have to be as traumatic as you think.

The secret to mastering A&P has nothing to do with cheat sheets. The real secret is to figure out in advance which questions are most likely to appear on your exams – and how to always have the best answers ready at test time. To do that you need a plan for how to learn anatomy and physiology.

Further reading

3 Simple Secrets to Learning Physiology

Study Anatomy & Physiology for Maximum Learning

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Margaret Thompson Reece PhD, physiologist, former Senior Scientist and Laboratory Director at academic medical centers in California, New York and Massachusetts is now Manager at Reece Biomedical Consulting LLC.

She taught physiology for over 30 years to undergraduate and graduate students, at two- and four-year colleges, in the classroom and in the research laboratory. Her books “Physiology: Custom-Designed Chemistry”, “Inside the Closed World of the Brain”, and her online course “30-Day Challenge: Craft Your Plan for Learning Physiology”, and “Busy Student’s Anatomy & Physiology Study Journal” are created for those planning a career in healthcare. More about her books is available at https://www.amazon.com/author/margaretreece. You may contact Dr. Reece at DrReece@MedicalScienceNavigator.com, or on LinkedIn.

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