When I first began teaching gross anatomy I drew simple drawings of muscle groups, branching patterns of nerves, arteries, and veins, limb cross sections, etc. on the blackboard. It was my hope that my students would copy the drawings into their notes and use them to study the material and learn the textbook pattern of anatomy. Soon I started handing out dittoed sheets of textual information in tabular or outline form to accompany the drawings, and eventually the text and drawings were developed into an Anatomy Handbook. In the present version of the Handbook, almost all of the drawings from my lecture notes are included and accompanied by a table or outline of information pertaining to the drawing. I have set things up so that when the Handbook is inserted in a three-ring binder the drawings in most cases are on the left hand page while the accompanying table or outline is facing it on the right hand page (like this).
If you choose to download and print the Handbook, there are three ways that you could print it:
- You could print it double-sided on 8.5 x 11 paper. If you have a printer that can print on both sides of pages, you could just print it. If not, you could print just the even numbered pages, and then turn the sheets over and print just the odd numbered pages, making sure that the order and arrangement was correct (i.e., pages 1 and 2 on one sheet, 3 and 4 on the next, and so forth).
- You could print it single-sided on 8.5 x 11 paper, but that might be inconvenient because it is 136 pages long and you would either not have the drawings and textual information facing one another or you would have to turn every other page around and deal with all the blank pages.
- You could print the pages 2-up single-sided on 8.5 x 11 paper, fold the resulting pages in half, and put them in a 5.5 x 8.5 three-ring binder or a left over computer manual binder.
To view or download the Handbook, click the link below:
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