A case is presented for the durability of anatomy including dissection of the cadaver and of morbid anatomy as elements in medical education and practice. It is these subjects, as consistently relevant over the centuries for medical practice as are communication skills, that are our hallmark as doctors. It is submitted that we should take stock very carefully of their relevance to us before it ...

M odern medical education relies on a wealth of resources as one of the key elements in developing students' clinical competencies. Acquiring these resources represents a considerable challenge for many medical schools, not only for financial but also a variety of other reasons, including ethical, legal, and cultural. Obtaining human tissue, in particular, faces many constraints, which, in some...

gynaecology (normal delivery, ectopic pregnancy). In combination, disease prevalence and potential for For medical education to be valid and reliable for anatomy learning, can promote validity and clinical practice there must be concordance between reliability of anatomy teaching when we consider what students learn and the demands of their future practical real life experiences of clinicians. ...

Modern medical education faces a problem of combining the latest technology, procedures and information with classic teaching methods. Simulation is a technique, which replaces or amplifies doctor-patient experiences in controlled conditions and therefore evokes or replicates substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner. The basic course of anatomy in medical education co...

Somerset Maugham is well known for his literary skills as a best-selling author. But many may not know that he studied medicine and qualified as a surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. It is no wonder that in his book “Of Human Bondage”, Maugham wrote of a lecturer advising first-year medical students that, “You will have to learn many tedious things which you will forget the moment you have...

background. acquiring and recalling knowledge can be considered as the starting point of learning; so increasing the acquisition of knowledge and information recall is one the most important goals of education. objective. to determine the students’ information recall in the basic courses of histology, immunology, physiology, biochemistry, head and neck anatomy, and microbiology in dentistry sch...

Neuroanatomy is a difficult subject in medical education, with students often feeling worried and anxious before they have even started, potentially decreasing their engagement with the subject. At the University of Southampton, we incorporated the use of Twitter as a way of supporting students' learning on a neuroanatomy module to evaluate how it impacted upon their engagement and learning exp...

Basic knowledge about human anatomy is an important education. While there has been much advances in the way the subject is being taught, there is still a very large gap in bringing these knowledge to the average man as much focus is on professional medical practitioners. Presented in this paper is an augmented reality mobile application for anatomy education. The main goal of the project is to...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE This scoping review seeks to collate and describe the body of existing literature pertaining to curricula and pedagogies used in the gross anatomy education of undergraduate physiotherapy students.Specifically, the review questions are as follows.