Final Anatomy

Final booklet

Assessment of final year medical students knowledge of basic head and neck clinical anatomy

Background At the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) anatomy teaching is carried out during the preclinical years by using various modalities to maximize students learning. The purpose of this study is to assess how much did final year student retain from the basic clinical anatomy of the head and neck and to determine if reinforcement of anatomy is required throughout the medical scho...

ProTaper rotary root canal preparation: effects of canal anatomy on final shape analysed by micro CT.

AIM To evaluate the relative performance of ProTaper nickel-titanium (Ni-Ti) instruments shaping root canals of varying preoperative canal geometry. METHODOLOGY Extracted human maxillary molars were scanned, before and after shaping with ProTaper, employing micro computed tomography (muCT) at a resolution of 36 mum. Canals were three-dimensionally reconstructed and evaluated for volume, surfa...

Sectional Anatomy Quiz - II

This mage-based series comprises of a quiz pertaining to the identification of salient and important anatomical structures and landmarks expected to be seen at a given level on the computed tomography (CT). The representative image is followed by a series of images showing the examples of different commonly encountered pathological entities that can be seen at this level in a routine clinical p...

Sectional anatomy quiz

This mage based series comprises of a quiz pertaining to the identification of salient anatomical structures expected to be seen at a given level on the computed tomography (CT) followed by examples of multiple representative pathologies that can be seen at the same level in a routine clinical setting. It is expected that this will improve confidence of nuclear physicians in interpretation of t...