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Before medical school you think you have no idea what classes are going to be like. You google everything imaginable to try and get an idea of what it's going to be like, how much you're going to have to study, etc. But, medical school is basically like college just on steroids. The concepts are no more difficult the amount of material just seems overwhelming. But, if you keep yourself from getting behind the amount of material is very reasonable. Gross anatomy is probably the only medical school class that everyone in the world knows about. When you say med school everyone automatically thinks of gross anatomy. Anatomy has two components: lab and lecture. Lab is fairly straight forward. Go to lab, do the dissections, learn the structures. It is very helpful if you can get the whole class to pin 2-3 structures on their body for a practice test. The lecture part of the course is a little more challenging and requires knowing the exact relationship, innervation, origin, insertion, structure, blood supply, and function of most of the body. If you know each one of these things about each structure you will do fine. I thought the textbook for the class was very helpful. As for the lab Atlas get Netter's (hands down the best).