Category: Medicine

  • iPad app: Skull Osteology

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    Here it is: Apple App Store – Skull Osteology It’s only a simple app, but hopefully useful for somebody. And hopefully the first of a bunch of mobile learning apps. If I can find the time I’ll get this ready for other platforms too.

  • Skull Osteology iPad app

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    Being busy is a poor excuse for not blogging. if you’re busy then hopefully you’ve got a lot to blog about, but I guess, like me recently, you’re busy with the mundane and there isn’t a lot to talk about. Twitter and the blog get ignored, and you’re only as good as you’re last update…

  • Boys vs Girls

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    I’ve started a new series of embryology lectures that will run over 2 years for each group of students. As I’ve got the whole series to myself, and as I like to run quizzes in the lectures to see how much the students take in (and for fun, and for the students themselves to see…

  • Embryology at a Glance

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    From our embryology podcast series Rhiannon and I wrote a book. A book! Wiley Blackwell have added embryology to their At A Glance series, and they asked us to write it. It has taken us a couple of years but right now it’s available to buy from book shop shelves, online book shops, in ebook…

  • A week or so of repair

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    I’ve been good, keeping my broken shoulder immobilised (well, the pain helps with that) and staying wedged on the sofa in front of the Olympics on the telly. The iPad is very handy & I’ve been able to read a lot but I got sick of talking to it. Sitting at a desk & typing…

  • In my hands: Embryology at a Glance

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    Rhiannon and I were sent our first, physical copies of our new textbook. It looks pretty good! I daren’t read it as I’ll probably spot typos that will haunt my waking dreams, but it’s always great to see something that you’ve been working on digitally for a long time in its final, printed, page flickable…

  • Tracking our Graduates’ Project

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    The College of Medicine, Swansea University is interested in understanding what happens to our graduates when they leave their undergraduate medical training. I’m not directly involved with this project, but I’m spreading the word. If you’re in your final year of study, or if you started your studies in 2006 and you were a Graduate…

  • Week 222: spinal tracts

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    Ouch – we had some monster neuroanatomy learning outcomes this week. From an anatomy perspective we want students to be aware of the major motor and sensory tracts of the spinal cord, what type of information they carry, where they run (and where they cross over from one side to the other), and what would…

  • Week 219 – blood circulation in the lungs

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    The Christmas holidays are over and we’re back to teaching (and learning). This week we went back to the lungs and added a little detail by looking at the pulmonary vessels in more detail, and adding the bronchial arteries and veins to this. As this is a teaching week about pulmonary embolism this anatomy should…

  • Week 104: the neck

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    In anatomy today we jumped between different topics in neck anatomy, filling gaps, as it were. This was probably a tougher session than previous weeks, and it might take you a while to get through this week’s learning outcomes. Anatomy will take up a fair amount of your time this year, but it is an…