Category: Teaching

  • Learning

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    Here’s a great blog entry about learning for educators and lurners alike: Donald Clark Plan B: 10 techniques to massively increase retention There’s a lot of really good stuff in there, hopefully stuff we’re already trying to do in Swansea. Note number 9: mobile technology. The author talks about drip feeding assessment via those mobile…

  • Anatomy: the lumbosacral plexus and the lower limb

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    On Monday we started looking at the structure of the hip, the muscles there and the nerves involved in motor and sensory innervation. In my station we talked about the lumbosacral plexus. Lots of nerves! A nerve plexus is merely a lot of separate nerves (it’s probably best to think of long, individual nerve cells)…

  • Higher Education Academy mag & Turning Point clickers

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    I’ve been a proponent of using interactive feedback technology in lectures (which means I can ask questions in my lecture, students can answer using a remote control with 10 or so buttons on it and we can all see how well we’re doing) for some time. As such I’ve been occasionally pulled out to demonstrate…

  • Neuroscience podcast no. 3 – Neurotransmitters

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    Phil tried really hard to teach me about neurotransmitters in our most recent podcast. We talked about how they work and went through a list of the key neurotransmitters and gave an overview of what they do. Many of them will be talked about in more detail in future podcasts! My poor brain. MP3: Neuroscience…

  • Anatomy: the orbit & superior orbital fissure

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    On Monday we went through the bones of the orbit, what the superior orbital fissure (and inferior orbital fissure and optic canal) were, and what went through it (and them). To review the bones of the orbit look at these images. Hover over the bones to be reminded of their names. We also noted that…

  • Neuroscience podcast no. 2

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    Another neuroscience podcast is out: Phil tells me why my weight is fairly stable, what happens in my brain when I get hungry and what changes when I have eaten. We talk about the adipostat, leptin, ghrelin and obesity, why we choose particular foods and how dopamine, opioids and (probably) serotonin are involved. MP3: Neuroscience…

  • X-ray at 18 days.

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    For interest. This oblique view is more telling than the A-P.

  • New neuroscience podcast!

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    Phil Newton (henceforth to be known as Dr Phil) and I have begun a new podcast series to help medical students and others in similar need learn about neuroscience. Phil intends the series to be complementary to the lecture series in Swansea, but it should be useful and maybe even interesting to students anywhere. In…

  • Podcast episode 23

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    A new podcast is up on iTunes and the medicine page of my blog. Rhi and I finish talking about our list of things med students really should know about the anatomy of the pelvis. We include the vas deferens and the urethra, the os, the organs of the female pelvis and their ligaments, and…

  • Week 121: Skull, the temporal region

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    This week we made it all the way up to the head. To look at the anatomy of the head, we need to start by looking at the bones. Different stations looked at different parts of the skull and teeth, and I spoke about the temporal region. The temporal region (or as laymen may call…