Category: Teaching

  • Elearning: skull bones

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    We’re looking at some head and neck anatomy on Monday, and some stations will be looking at the bones of the skull. I have an elearning thingy here to help you with bones, sutures and foramina of the head: www.dontbeasalmon.net/elearning/skull

  • Week 114: anatomy of the bladder

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    This week we pretty much finished off looking at the renal system by looking at the bladder (we only have the male urethra yet to study). We used visiblebody.com to get an idea of where the bladder is (and that it is anterior within the pelvis, right up against the pubis bones) and the shape…

  • Simbryo – embryology animation

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    I mentioned Simbryo in one of my recent lectures. If you want to find out more go to the official website at simbryo.stanford.edu. If you have, or are planning to buy, a copy of the Langman’s Medical Embryology textbook I believe that you get a copy of Simbryo with it.

  • Learning Lab podcast

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    I feature in the current Learning Lab podcast! Chris Hall interviewed and filmed me (yes, its a video podcast) a little while ago about using TurningPoint clickers in embryology lectures, something that Jo and I will also be speaking about at tomorrow’s opening of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT). Links: Swansea Learning…

  • Week 110 – anatomy of the elbow (well, movements & muscles)

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    On Monday I spent most of the morning flexing my guns and poking my cubital fossa. Our aims were to look at the movements of the elbow joint, the muscles involved, and the important structures passing through this region, with particular regard to the cubital fossa. That video makes me feel a little bit ill.…

  • Embryology quiz

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    I’m writing the quiz for my introduction to embryology lecture that I’ll be giving to the first years next week. The quizzes use the Turning Technologies interactive ‘clickers’ systems, and we use them anonymously. There’s no record of how well an individual scores within the lecture quiz – it’s just for fun (and instant lecturer…

  • Media, information, access

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    How do you access most of your information? As a learner? As a teacher? (Unfortunately this is a question you’ll have to think about, as I still haven’t fixed my comment system).

  • Week 106 – Surface anatomy of the thorax

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    When we looked at the surface anatomy of the thorax yesterday we focused on the bony bits anterior to the mediastinum. We found the sternal notch (or suprasternal notch, or jugular notch), the sternal ends of the clavicles, the manubrium, the sternal angle (or angle of Louis) and the sternum. Our aim was to look…

  • More Microsoft Courier Info – perfect for students?

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    Take a look at another video of the Microsoft Courier tablet in use. It looks like the perfect tool for students: note taking, organisation, time management, linking, information searching, information storage, and if you can view and annotate Powerpoint files, possibly the perfect lecture companion. The price may crash this idea, of course. Also, does…

  • Week 103 – Lungs! Gasp!

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    On Monday we looked at the anatomy of the lungs, with respect to differences between left and right, lobes, fissures & anatomical relationships (and the heart in particular). To discover lung anatomy we used models, prosections of individual lungs, lungs with the heart and great vessels attached, and looked at a cadaver with lungs in…