Hi there. As a physiotherapy student who just finished all my Anatomy I really would like to share my strategy of learning.
I recommend cutting the body down to 4 areas.
- Upper limbs
- Torso
- Lower limbs
- Head & Neck
Then just start with learning in this sequence
- Bones
- Joints and ligaments
- Add the muscles (learn origo, insertio AND INNERVATIO, make flashcards yourself, don't buy them, write up every muscle with origo, insertio, innervation and function and LEARN them, this will come into handy later)
- Add the nerves, learn the basic nerves, their paths roughly and what they innervate (if you are studying the upper limbs, study the median, ulnar and radial nerve along with the axillary nerve, don't go into the cutaneous nerves yet.)
- Now learn the basic arterys (don't do the veins just yet)
- After this read over the topography of the upper limbs, now you have a basic overview of the muscles and ligaments and nerves and main veins.
- Now study the brachial plexus, it's not that hard. I recommend getting 20 pieces of A4 paper and drawing it up again and again until you know it by hand
- Know go deeper into the nerves and veins and see how they relate to each other.
- More topography (don't forget the areas, fossa bicipitalis med/lat, fossa cubiti, fovea radialis etc.)
- Review
- Review
- Finally go over lymph nodes
.....and now you have finished the upper limbs
Next up: The torso...