Atlas of Human Anatomy, 7e (Netter Basic Science)

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This image by Andreas Vesalius shows “Nona Muscu, Lorum Tabvua,” [Rear View of the Body Muscles]. This work can be found in De Humani Corporis Fabrica [On the Fabric of the Human Body]. Published courtesy of the Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Presents world-renowned, superbly clear views of the human body from a clinical perspective, with paintings by Dr. Frank Netter as well as Dr. Carlos A. G. Machado, one of today’s foremost medical illustrators. As you can see, ‘Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards 4th Edition’ have their pros and cons. On one hand they have a solid illustration basis, are portable, and the knowledge is organized intelligently, being connected with more detailed images from ‘Netter’s Human Anatomy Atlas’. On the other hand, the collection is scarily complex in terms of the amount of information included, the images are not the most realistic, their aims feel unorganised, and the cards are organized by regions, to name a few. As a result, they are far from being the best resource.

The Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in North Haven, Connecticut opened its doors in 2013. In 1936, the CIBA Pharmaceutical Company commissioned a small work from him, a fold-up illustration of a heart to promote the sale of digitalis. This proved hugely popular with physicians, and a reprint without the advertising copy was even more popular. As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, Born in London, Henry Gray studied medicine and anatomy at St. George’s Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society at the young age of 25. His career progressed at St. Georges, from student to demonstrator of anatomy, to curator of the museum, and lecturer of anatomy. Dr. Netter's beautifully rendered volumes are now to be found in every medical school library in the country as well as in many doctors' offices around the world, and his work has helped to educate and enlighten generations of doctors. In 1988, The New York Times called Netter " an artist who has probably contributed more to medical education than most of the world's anatomy professor's taken together."Don’t accomplish their purpose - Spending money on a product that tries to solve a problem and then failing to accomplish it doesn’t sound like a good deal at all! The sheer amount of information found on the cards equals wasted time, decreased productivity, and retention difficulty. Your anatomy textbook already comes with those three problems, so you certainly don’t need even more of the same work on your hands! VitalSource Bookshelf gives you access to content when, where, and how you want. When you read an eBook on VitalSource Bookshelf, enjoy such features as: Illustration s are not realistic - Ok, Netter’s illustrations are definitely top-class, otherwise they wouldn’t be so popular. However, they mostly depict this utopic anatomic specimen that simply doesn’t exist anywhere in the world. A lot of times, there are huge discrepancies between the illustrations and cadaveric specimens. Many times, students cannot even find the structures in the locations they are indicated in by the images. A lot of medical schools carry out their anatomy exams by asking students to name and describe structures on a cadaver, so it’s a lot more common than you might think. Not only that, but even the colours don’t really match either. What does this mean? You need to get your hands on more textbooks, more resources, a cadaveric atlas, and much more, otherwise known as: additional expenses. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. The utopic and 'perfect' illustrations force you to buy additional resources, textbooks, and cadaveric atlases

All ICMJE Conflict of Interest Forms for authors and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ® editors and board members are on file with the publication and can be viewed on request. Contains new illustrations by Dr. Machado including clinically important areas such as the pelvic cavity, temporal and infratemporal fossae, nasal turbinates, and more.Hansen, J. T. (2006). Frank H. Netter, M.D. (1906-1991): The Artist and His Legacy. Clinical Anatomy 19 (6): 481-486. Published by Elsevier Saunders, ‘Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards’ are quite a new addition to the realm of anatomy learning. The very first edition appeared only in 2002, to be exact, the time period when the real and enthusiastic drive to bring anatomy learning into the 21st century actually began. The fourth edition, which is the subject of this review, was published in 2014, and their format looks like this: I am pleased to introduce our latest Art in Science column, written by Francine Mary Netter and Gary Friedlaender. Francine Mary Netter is the author of Medicine’s Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, MD, a biography of her father, the renowned medical illustrator. Gary Friedlaender is the Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale School of Medicine. Together, they will share observations from a fascinating vantage point: the interface of art and medicine.

a b Netter, Francine Mary; Friedlaender, Gary E. (2014). Frank H. Netter MD and a Brief History of Medical Illustration. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 472 (3): 812-819. Portabl e - This advantage shouldn’t be a surprise because at the end of the day, they are flash cards, so they are portable. While it is quite far fetched to whip out all 325 cards and start studying them on the train or bus, you can separate them into smaller batches and carry those with you instead, boosting your productivity and taking advantage of those ‘dead moments’ throughout your day. Let’s be honest, you can only study a maximum of a few tens of cards at once before your head explodes, so you won’t need to carry them all with you anyway. Born into a family of physicians, Andreas Vesalius of Brussels studied in France, and became a physician. He had no knowledge of Leonardo’s anatomical studies and illustrations, and was himself not an artist, but he was a great teacher of anatomy and received an appointment as Professor of Surgery at the University of Padua in Italy. Unlike his contemporaries, he would actually descend from his chair and perform dissections himself, instructing students and colleagues alike, and employing charts he had drawn to clarify the discussions and delineate the veins [ 14]. Soon, students began asking for the drawings. In 1538, Vesalius published his three charts of the vascular system together with three additional drawings of the skeletal system done by the artist Jan Stefan van Kalkar. This small collection of six plates was very popular and became known as the Tabulae Anatomicae Sex (Six Anatomical Charts) [ 14]. Flash cards and atlas plates are connected, allowing you to directly jump to related illustrations and view the structures from different angles In the introduction to his seminal volume, Atlas of Human Anatomy [ 7], Frank Netter wrote lightheartedly that he wondered what the truly outstanding and renowned anatomists from history—men like Vesalius, Leonardo da Vinci, William Hunter, and Henry Gray—might have said about his atlas. Through the centuries, these and other major contributors to the advancement of science have skillfully illustrated their observations. “Anatomy of course does not change,” Netter wrote in the Introduction to Atlas, “but our understanding of anatomy and its clinical significance does change as do anatomical terminology and nomenclature” [ 7].The vast bulk of Netter's illustrations were produced for and owned by CIBA Pharmaceutical Company and its successor, CIBA-Geigy, which has since merged with Sandoz Laboratories to become Novartis. In June 2000, Novartis sold its interest in Netter's works to MediMedia USA's subsidiary Icon Learning Systems, which in turn has sold the portfolio to Elsevier, which continues to make his work available in various formats. His Atlas of Human Anatomy and other atlases have become a staple of medical education. Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards 4th Edition’ come in two flavours - as a collection of about 325 laminated 10x15cm cards (duh, Captain Obvious) and in an electronic (‘eBook’) format. As you can see, portability is the name of the game - if you like to physically handle them, you can grab a batch from the box, loop the conveniently included ring through the holes and off you go. If however you are attached to your electronic device 24/7 (who isn’t nowadays?) and you want to exploit the ‘Search’ function, then open the flash cards on your phone and start studying. Frank H. Netter (January 1981), "Frank Netter: The Man, The Artist, The Surgeon", Medical Times (condensed reprint from The Saturday Evening Post, 1976)