Winking Skull

[http://www.winkingskull.com Winkingskull.com] is an interactive resource for medical students and people interested in science. Organized by body region, the user-friendly study-aid contains all the must-know concepts students usually encounter during their first year in medical school.

The American Medical Student Association offered the site exclusively to their 68,000 members for a limited period of time. Michael Ehlert, MD, national president of AMSA says "WinkingSkull.com is an excellent enhancement for students to hone their anatomy skills."

The website has an intuitive design which allows quick access to all the high-yield concepts first year medical students need to know: 'Trunk & Back,' 'Thorax,' 'Abdomen & Pelvis,' 'Upper Limb,' 'Lower Limb,' 'Head & Neck,' and 'Neuroanatomy.' There are labels on each body region that can be turned on and off. A testing feature is good for dragging and dropping labels onto the anatomical illustrations while being timed. Users may view test results to measure proficiency of the material and compare scores with other users.

WinkingSkull.com has many highly-detailed images adopted from the [http://www.thieme.com/productsubpages/pubid-455606490.html Atlas of Anatomy] series. For eight years, the medical illustrators [http://www.karlwesker.de Karl Wesker] and Markus Voll worked together on the atlas series using a digital drawing board. Thousands of anatomy illustrations emerged from that process and more than 200 of them are available on the free website.

In June of 2008, WinkingSkull.com was revised to optimize the studying and testing experience and to facilitate cross-referencing to the newly published [http://www.thieme.com/productsubpages/pubid-455606490.html Atlas of Anatomy] . Here is a quick introduction to some of the new features you will find once you browse the updated website:

• Stunning illustrations taken from [http://www.thieme.com/productsubpages/pubid-455606490.html Atlas of Anatomy]
• Regions navigation modeled after the atlas
• New technology on the study pages that enables you to magnify images with a zoom function and allows more flexibility when you're on the testing pages (you can now view answer choices one at a time or all together and change your answers)