Category: Teaching

  • Podcast episode 9

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    A new embryology podcast is up on iTunes (with diagrams) and on the medicine page. We natter about the development of the male and female reproductive systems for about half an hour.

  • Embryology podcast no. 8

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    The 8th embryology podcast from me and Rhiannon, in which we talk about the development of the urinary system, is up in iTunes (enhanced AAC) and on the Medicine page (MP3). I know, we said we were going to talk about cardiovascular embryology, but Geraint Morris was very keen to take part in some of…

  • Respiratory embryology podcast

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    A new podcast, “the embryology of the respiratory system” has gone up on iTunes (enhanced AAC) and on the Medicine page (MP3). Dr Geraint Morris, a consultant neonatologist from Singleton Hospital adds much interest to our usual whittering on. Rhi and I did intend to follow it up with a cardiovascular podcast, but instead have…

  • A history of kidney study

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    Fascinating to me, but maybe less so to medical students, is “The Kidney Through the Ages”. Members of the Italian Society of Neonatology have summarised the major discoveries over the last 2400 years leading to our modern day understanding of kidney structure and function. It’s a great list of tales of precocious genius, logical reasoning…

  • Podcasts

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    Sheesh. You really shouldn’t listen to your own podcasts several weeks after you recorded them. It’s way worse than reading typos in your submitted manuscripts.

  • Teaching next Monday

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    I feel a little (only a little) contrary in saying this, but I’m looking forward to teaching on Monday. Teaching on Monday mornings can be tough, in that you may not have had enough time in the previous week to prepare exactly as you would like, so Sunday afternoons and/or evenings get eaten up by…

  • Medical abbreviations ‘pose risk’

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    The Medical Defense Union (MDU?) and the BBC commented at the weekend on the problems caused by using abbreviations in patients’ notes. Abbreviating drug names and drug doses seems to be particularly bad news, but I say that this goes for anatomy too. When teaching you’ll usually find clinicians using far more abbreviations than anatomists.…

  • Rhiannon and Sam’s Embryology, episode 3.

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    Not only did I fix the podcasts, but we finished and uploaded the latest episode to iTunes and to the Medicine page. In this episode we look at the early development of the embryo, starting just after fertilisation and following it through implantation into the uterine wall, the beginnings of the placenta, to the formation…

  • Podcasts and elearning

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    I think I’ve fixed all the problems with the podcasts and the elearning modules. It might take several hours for the fixes to trickle through to iTunes, so if you can’t get them today try again tomorrow.

  • New podcasts

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    New students, renewed colleagues, revised podcasts. Rhiannon and I are working to redo the embryology podcasts and to finish the series. She’s far livelier than me, and the two of us may be more interesting to listen to. She’s also superb at getting me to get these things done, and she has more time than…