A nice feature is that you can refer a friend and get 20% of your subscription reimbursed each time, while your friends get up to 40% off theirs! Currently, after you’ve referred 5 friends, you will start getting a free one-month extension per friend you’ve referred. Firecracker offers a $450 subscription for four years of Step 1 and Step 2 prep. Livingston finds that Firecracker has a more consistent learning algorithm than Anki, and if you wish to write to the company about improvements, they are very responsive. It’s great though in that it is completely free. When it comes to Anki, you have to make your own flashcard decks, which can take a lot of time, or depend on sharing decks with your friends. Many students like to use both tools for MCAT prep as well as for USMLE prep. If you prefer to study with flashcards, I recommend looking into Firecracker, which has iOS and Android apps as well as a website interface, or Anki, which has apps for iOS, OS X, Windows, the Windows Phone, and Android and Kindle devices. It recently launched on OS X, with plans to expand to Windows users sometime in 2017. The full version of Complete Anatomy can be purchased for $50 and is available on the iPad.

One of the more useful features to me is the ability to isolate muscles and watch short animations of their actions.

For example, you can highlight the origin paths for nerves (to see the whole route of the vagus nerve, for example!) and see more specific branches of arteries. Livingston prefers Complete Anatomy because you can learn a greater depth of information with it. Both of these apps are made by the same company. Livingston Martin, a fellow first-year medical student at TTUHSC, and founder of our school’s new Technology in Medicine Club, recommends Complete Anatomy over the Essential Anatomy app. This app is available on the iPad, iPhone, and OS X. I think this app could and should be used in an actual healthcare setting to show patients where different structures are in their bodies to assist in teaching them about their conditions. It has similarities to the Anatomage Table (minus the cross-sectional feature) but in a carry wherever you go format! I like to bring my iPad inside of a gallon-sized plastic zip top bag into our cadaver lab to visualize structures while I’m dissecting and when I’m reviewing. With this app, you can visualize various body systems with pinch-and-zoom functionality and nearly 360 degree rotation. My favorite app I’ve used so far this semester is the Essential Anatomy 5 app, which I purchased for $15 on my iPad mini. I wanted to take the time to share some apps that have helped me and my classmates throughout our medical education journey so far. I am about two months into my first year of medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and it’s been going, to say the least! Our curriculum uses a block schedule and we are about two thirds of the way done with anatomy.

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