Category: Medicine

  • Spotter 1 exam marks

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    The results from the first anatomy spotter exam are up on the notice board (and on Blackboard, I think). All the first year students were looking rather tired and not particularly over the moon about being back in studies on Monday, at the term’s first anatomy session. I hope that when they see the results…

  • Institute of Life Sciences

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    The scaffolding is coming down from the new ILS building. This is where it sits, with the School of Medicine on the right and the School of Biological Sciences on the left.

  • Exam Day

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    It’s exam day today. I would wish all of our first year students good luck, but really I don’t want luck to be a factor. I’d much rather that you had all done the work required to understand and store the information you’ll need to demonstrate a good to high level of competency. If you…

  • Term 1 spotter questions

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    I’ve added the example musculoskeletal anatomy questions to the term 1 section on the medicine page. Remember that the real exam will not use multiple choice questions.

  • Term 1 spotter questions

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    I’ve been putting together another selection of example online spotter questions for this term’s anatomy teaching. Right now 10 questions about the gastrointestinal system are up and will soon be followed by a page of musculoskeletal questions. When they’re all done I’ll add an announcement to Blackboard. They are multiple choice questions, and you’ll get…

  • Bioengineering for bliss

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    Here’s a use for bioengineering that I really hadn’t thought of: creating rings from your own bone cells to give to your spouse after exchanging vows. BBC article link.

  • Christmas Skeleton

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    I pooped into the Anatomy Lab this morning and found this. Oi! My poor skeletons suffer like a cat with a toddler. It’s a good job they’re only plastic!

  • Enhanced Podcasts

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    I’ve uploaded a podcast based upon the last embryology lecture about the development of the musculoskeletal system. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to add images to these podcasts in the enhanced format as I have wanted to: I just haven’t had enough time. I need to draw the images myself and this just takes too…

  • Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

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    A several million year old human endogenous retrovirus that is now part of our genome has been resuscitated (kind of – it was mostly rebuilt from intelligent guesswork). There’s a bit of worry about how such resurrections may endanger the current human race. I’m sure that’s the plot of a sci-fi or zombie film, or…

  • Bones photos

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    I’ve been taking photos of bones this morning for elearning materials, exams and so on. Greg popped in and this strange photo occurred by happenstance. (He was looking at the skull).