Category: Teaching

  • Heart sounds, podcast

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    Are you learning to recognise heart sounds, or revising? Go to iTunes U and have a listen to this Medical College of Georgia podcast: Heart Sounds This is a natural and great use for the podcast format, but you’ll need some teaching to go with the sounds that you hear! As a simple anatomist I’ve…

  • Week 101: an introduction to the small and large intestine

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    In our first anatomy session on Monday we began the year by introducing the abdomen. It’s a good place to start as most of the anatomy here is fairly straightforward and it gets you thinking in three-dimensions. The concept of the peritoneum is the toughest part to understand, as are the mesentery, mesocolon, omenta and…

  • Starting the year

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    Starting the year, originally uploaded by samwebster. And so we start again. Except this time, we’re starting off a brand new medicine course. My anatomy is a little better this time, I think.

  • Podcasts

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    Rhi and I have been chatting this week about getting the podcast series moving again. It has merely been on pause as Rhi and baby Dexter have been settling into their new roles of mother and baby and we always intended to pick up where we left off. We going to dust off the recording…

  • Finishing up?

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    It’s been a little quiet recently as we come to the end of the academic year. The rest of the university finished and shut up shop ages ago, or so it feels. In medicine we’re in a revision week this week and students will be hitting the final first year exams next week. The other…

  • Game over, man!

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    So that’s it, the embryology lecture series has finished. The final result of the quiz series was a draw, with the boys winning the final lecture quiz to level the series at 5:5. Given the really simple nature of the first couple of questions (and my awesome animations that I created to teach neurulation) I…

  • Homage

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    I’m paying homage to Andrew Coogan by trying to include Homer Simpson images in my next lecture about the development of the nervous system. I must ask FOX for permission… Andrew used to give the neuro lectures in Swansea, and rumour was that he included an image of Homer Simpson in every lecture.

  • Working!

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    Working!, originally uploaded by samwebster. My job is fun. I was walking this skeleton around the School of Medicine. No-one else wanted to take the lift with him.

  • Penultimate embryology lecture quiz

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    In the pharyngeal arches embryology lecture the boys won the quiz again, bringing the score to 5:4 to the girls. I think the boys have decided to get competitive and might be paying attention to the quiz, and maybe even to the lecture itself! There will be one final lecture (that I hope will be…

  • Student tracker

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    A Tokyo University have given out iPhones to staff & students to encourage use of elearning materials (great idea). As an extra feature, students will be using the phones to register their attendance, verified by the inbuilt GPS. That’s an interesting thought. CNET Crave – Japanese university uses iPhone to keep tab of students