Functional orthopaedic anatomy for students. On rotation, faculty and residents will expect you to know your anatomy, even though you crammed everything into a short timespan and did a data dump onto an exam and then moved on. As far as surgeons are concerned, whereas students don't need to know everything about surgery, knowledge of anatomy is an expectation. So you need to review the basics, correlate it with your physical examination, and be able to not get lost in a surgical procedure.