Gray’s Anatomy Review, 3rd Edition

By: Marios Loukas, MD; R. Shane Tubbs, MS; Peter H. Abrahams, MBBS; Stephen W. Carmichael, PhD; Thomas Gest, PhD

ISBN: 9780323639163

Pub Date: April 26, 2021

Reviewed By:  Brian R. MacPherson, PhD (University of Kentucky College of Medicine)

Description

This is a textbook with 482+ pages of questions based on the LCME formulaic format covering all regions of the human body. Many of these questions are distilled from other Elsevier anatomy textbooks for their importance in clinical anatomical relationships. The website contains the value of this publication with an interactive assessment format of the questions. This is the third edition.

Purpose

The purpose is to assist students in sorting the clinically important anatomy from the tomes of notes they took in medical school. This is done not by outlining these gems of knowledge but through incorporation into LCME-formatted questions. The book meets this objective, though if you accessed any of the three other commonly used Elsevier textbooks listed in the preface or referenced in the questions, you would have seen these questions before. This book has them all in one place. The interactive assessment formatted version of these questions online is the best source for student learning.

Audience

The book is primarily for students preparing for the LCME exam or any other exam that includes clinically related anatomy in health-related fields. The interactive assessment version of the questions in the online portion is the best source of student learning. All the authors are high-profile clinical anatomists with numerous publications in the field.

Features

The title alone of this textbook does not clearly outline what is contained within. One might expect a point-form coverage of each anatomical region outlining clinically relevant anatomy. What you get is a voluminous set of questions which cover the clinically important facts of each body region. Many students learn by taking and retaking quizzes, so this book is the perfect format for them.

Assessment

The online, downloadable, interactive assessment portion of this book is hugely beneficial to learners. As such, the book definitely does fulfill its objective(s) of helping sort out the clinically relevant anatomy of each body region. The preface and back cover outline the overall features succinctly and also indicate the addition of a new neuroanatomy chapter and enhanced ebook version in this third edition.

©Doody’s Review Service, 2022, Brian R. MacPherson, PhD (University of Kentucky College of Medicine)

Doody’s Score: 4 Stars!

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