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Grant's Dissector is an excellent resource for gross anatomy lab. It includes step-by-step instructions on the most efficient way to dissect your assigned cadaver. It saves time and helps you to spare important features for viewing. Though Grant's Dissector does include some basic illustrations, you'll still need a good atlas.
Everything was delivered in a timely manner as described. Couldn't have asked for anything more.
You'll be able to find about 80% of what you need to find on your own, another table or group will have better examples of the things you screw up. It was insisted upon by our instructors, who decried my purchase of the 13th edition as insufficient for the task.I paged through this book one time before our second lab, and discovered very quickly that most medical students aren't A+ dissectors, and that much of the direction within this book is too tedious and too impractical for a medical school laboratory session. This was "Required" for my medical school class this year. This book played no role in my learning anatomy, or dissecting the cadaver, in medical school anatomy lab. Moreover, the book ends up getting oily and ruined too quickly to be of much use. Frankly, we just used an old Netter's atlas and dissected carefully. Save your money, buy a cheap old Netter's atlas, and learn the anatomy the real way. Your dissecting skills, whether pro or neophyte, will get the job done either way.
However, I realized that if I took note of the strucures and Clinical Corrs in the order/ way explained by the dissector, I was able to memorize the material more efficiently. Though the order of dissection may not make sense as you work through, it is planned with the intention of preserving reference structures for later dissections.
Tank (the author of this text) is actually our Anatomy professor. I am an M1 at UAMS, and Dr.
Tank actually recommends his grease dissector, with 2 other grease atlases per table in lab. The purpose of this dissector is to provide a concise, easily understood method for dissection while in lab.
The images are intentionally simplistic with the understanding that there are other references (such as Rohen or Netter, which is what I use) that provide more detailed at-home references while studying. I've completed a cadaveric anatomy course twice now, and actually hated this dissector the first time I used it.
THIS IS NOT AN ATLAS - it is a dissector, and as such, I think it serves its purpose.
Grant's has simple schematics to help you locate structures as you dissect, as well as references to Grant's Atlas, Netter's, Clemente ("regional atlas") and Rohen (photographic). Excellent dissection guide for a cadaveric anatomy course. Buy two, one as a "greaser" and one to keep at home to study from. I own them all and love them all.One problem: the binding is that terrible metal-coil fall-apart-the-instant-you-open-the-book style. Try to find one that is book-bound.
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