Category: Teaching

  • A Map of the Cranial Nerves

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    What do you think of this? I’ve been putting this together, probably, for the last couple of years. I was driven by the aim to visually represent, in a format that most of us recognise and can navigate easily, what the cranial nerves link to. That is, which structures send and receive information via neurones…

  • New Podcasts

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    I’ve been a bit busy recently, but the first draft of the Embryology at a Glance textbook is written (hurrah!) & there are a couple of new podcasts that I’ve put out.

  • Week 112: bones of the hand and wrist

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    On Monday we got to the end of the upper limb and looked at the forearm, wrist and hand. We will be going back up to the shoulder and the brachial plexus in particular after Christmas. In my station we looked at the bones of the wrist and hand. Easy enough, and stuff the medical…

  • Week 107: The kidneys

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    I wasn’t supposed to be teaching on Monday but one of our clinical colleagues was ill so it was a good job I could remember a little bit of kidney anatomy. I briefly introduced the location of the kidneys, found retroperitoneally on the posterior abdominal wall. The right kidney is a little lower than the…

  • Week 103: Lung anatomy

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    On Monday we looked at some lungs. Plastic models, lungs in situ, lungs on their own, and lungs attached to the heart and great vessels. The main aim was to look at the differences between the left (2 lobes) and right (3 lobes!) lungs and develop a good understanding of the shapes of the lungs…

  • Week 202: Circle of Willis

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    Or the circulus arteriosus cerebri. Although it seems that the circle of Willis was covered many, many times on Monday it was also part of my session. As I discovered this I shifted the session towards other aspects of the blood supply to the brain. We looked at the internal carotid artery and followed its…

  • Week 201: The Otic Ganglion

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    Ouch! That wasn’t a nice way to start the second year of medical school was it? OK, so most of the session was about the tongue and salivary glands, which seem simple enough until you start trying to hook them up. Then you get into cranial nerves and the intricacies of head and neck anatomy.…

  • Teaching

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    I’ve given a couple of lectures over the last couple of weeks on the first 18 days of development and the embryology of the cardiovascular system. If you’re a Swansea student looking for my blog notes go back to Blackboard and you’ll be able to download the whole lecture plus the other stuff I linked…

  • Neuroscience podcast 4: autonomic nervous system

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    Phil & I recorded another neuroscience podcast. Number 4 covers the autonomic nervous system and we talk about the anatomy, the wiring of the neurones, and the neurotransmitters involved. I might have to listen to that neurotransmitters section a few more times. MP3: Neuroscience podcast 4 – autonomic nervous system. iTunes: Neuroscience podcast 4 –…

  • Anatomy & embryology podcast 24

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    OK, I finally finished the latest podcast in which Rhiannon and I talk about what we think are the important aspects of the anatomy of the lower limb. This is the first part of two, and is 45 minutes long. We talk about the bones of the foot and ankle, the knee, the sciatic nerve,…