Synopsis

Ideal for USMLE preparation and course review, the streamlined, easy-to-follow hierarchical outline format guides students through the most important aspects of each discipline. Extensive illustrations enhance the texts and convey difficult-to-understand concepts. Clinical correlations, numerous tables and charts, and USMLE-style questions in clinical vignette format help students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.

You'll never find an easier, more efficient, and more focused way to ace gross anatomy and the anatomy-related questions on the USMLE and course examinations than the USMLE Road Map. Designed to provide maximum learning in minimum time, this USMLE Road Map offers a concise, creative, and well-illustraed new approach to mastering gross anatomy.

• USMLE Shortcuts for effective USMLE preparation
• Outline Format guides you through the most important areas in gross anatomy
• High-Yield Facts promote comprehension and recall
• Two-Color Format and Illustrations make essential concepts easy to understand and remember
• Learning Tips and Tricks garnered from years of interaction with students just like you
• Clear Explanations from instructors with the experience to know the questions you would ask

Reviewer: Sandra E Inouye, PhD(Midwestern University)
Description: This is an abbreviated book of gross anatomy facts that is presented in an outline form. It is accompanied by many tables, illustrations, and clinical commentaries. Each chapter is followed by a series of clinical questions.
Purpose: The book is clearly designed to help medical students quickly refresh their knowledge of gross anatomy in preparation for the USMLE. This is a worthy purpose, since medical students need to efficiently review all of their basic science information in preparation for part one of the USMLE. The author does a good job of distilling gross anatomy down to the essentials and the clinically relevant information.
Audience: The book is written for second year medical students preparing for the USMLE. Dr. James White holds adjunct appointments in cell biology in three departments (across two medical schools), and he is a credible authority in gross anatomy.
Features: The book reviews anatomy regionally, and gives very brief (in a sentence or two) descriptions of anatomical structures. There are numerous schematic illustrations throughout the book — approximately one illustration on every other page. The illustrations are good quality sketches and many of them are clearly renderings of images from Grant's Atlas. However, a handful of the illustrations are blurry, due to faulty printing (e.g. Figures 4-4, 4-5, 5-2, 7-1, etc.). There are also numerous summary charts throughout the book, which succinctly organize and summarize information about various anatomical structures. At the end of every chapter, there are clinical problems to test the reader's ability to apply their knowledge of anatomy.
Assessment: This is the first edition of this book, and the author does a nice job of synthesizing a short review of anatomy with clinically relevant facts. It is an easy book to read, and it should be useful for a brief review of gross anatomy.

Biography

James S. White, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

and Cell Biology

Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Piscataway, NJ

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

James S. White, PhD teaches Gross Anatomy and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches both subjects at Kaplan's live board review lectures.