IntroductIon: Medical education has historically been an area, which drives advances in medical research, ensuring that students receive the best skills for managing patients. Visualisation tools are perhaps the most important aspect for effective medical education. 3D printed models are showing significant potential as a visualisation tool to help comprehend and understand complex anatomy and ...

The teaching of medicine has historically been linked to the use cadaveric models understand anatomy human body; however, as awareness ethical dimension using for purposes increased, creation alternative strategies encouraged. incorporation educational technology medical education also represents a cost-efficient that allows expansion experience so more significant number students can benefit f...

In recent years plastination has begun to revolutionize the way in which human and veterinary gross anatomy can be presented to students. The study reported here assessed the efficacy of plastinated organs as teaching resources in an innovative anatomy teaching/learning system. The main objective was to evaluate whether the use of plastinated organs improves the quality of teaching and learning...

Anatomy faces new challenges in the 21st century. Exponential growth of knowledge, paradigm shifts in medical education, and the scientific trend to subcellular and molecular research make an impact on the institutions of today. We described our concept of clinical anatomy as a contemporary and innovative model for student teaching, postgraduate training, and applied clinical research. Anatomy ...

Front cover: Cover image: Behold beyond barriers: Deciphering the incredible vision of Mantis shrimp. See Bhattacharjee and colleagues, ‘On importance integrating comparative anatomy One Health perspectives in education’, this issue.

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An esteemed eighteenth century German anatomist, Friedrich Tiedemann, stated that ‘doctors without anatomy are similar to moles: they work in the dark and their daily tasks are mole hills’ [2] . Over the years several studies have reported on the importance of teaching anatomy in the medical curriculum and on the significance of cadaver dissection. The aim of this letter is not to get into this...