Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of nation or specialty. Revolution in the training of anatomy has been based on the lack of adequate instructors, cadavers and the general high cost of anatomy training. This has led to the abandonment of dissection by most countries in favour of other methods of learning. At the University of Nairobi, the need for more...

Research in microneurosurgical anatomy has contributed to great advances in neurosurgery in the last 40 years. Many Japanese neurosurgeons have traveled abroad to study microsurgical anatomy and played major roles in advancing and spreading the knowledge of anatomy, overcoming their disadvantage that the cadaver study has been strictly limited inside Japan. In Japan, they initiated an education...

BACKGROUND Despite recommendations stemming from the 1930s espousing the value of a living anatomy component in undergraduate medical education, living anatomy remains relatively under described. AIM In this article, we explore the role of the living anatomy model in living anatomy teaching. METHOD Our report is based on a larger ethnographic study of living anatomy classes, undertaken at P...