Category: Teaching

  • Online Calendars

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    If any of you subscribe to my online calendars to synchronise with your own (e.g. anatomy, DGR), note that I’m just about to move them to MobileMe. You can subscribe to the calendars from the links at the bottom right of the medicine page of this website.

  • Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa (continued)

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    OK, where were we? By looking at the medial and lateral pterygoid muscles we found ourselves in the infratemporal fossa. This space is bounded superiorly by the sphenoid bone (and the temporal bone), laterally by the ramus of the mandible, medially by the lateral plate of the pterygoid process and anteriorly by the maxilla. You…

  • Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa

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    In my anatomy session this week we started looking at the anatomy of the head (as I may have mentioned several times, probably my favourite area, anatomically-speaking). In this station, we looked at the movements of the jaw, the muscles that make those movements, some of the bones involved (bones of the skull – get…

  • Visible Body

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    Students saw me working with the Visible Body beta software online in the anatomy revision session on Wednesday. After today’s anatomy exam (and with the last exam of the week coming tomorrow) you probably won’t care any more, but here’s the link: www.visiblebody.com It has been in a free to use, beta format up until…

  • Away!

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    Students: I will be away next week. Most of you are asking me similar questions so if you work with each other you should be able to share this information. You might want to organize yourselves for embryology tutorials when I get back, if you need them.

  • Boys win yet again

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    The boys have won the third embryology lecture quiz in a row, Jo Bishop tells me. That’s a fantastic run, but will the girls deal the killer blow in the next one? There are two lectures & two quizzes to go.

  • Boys win again

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    The boys won the quiz at the end of the embryology of the endocrine system lecture, and by quite a large margin. The score is now 5:2 to the girls, with (I think) 3 to play.

  • Week 127 – the structures inside the kidney

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    Hey! I hadn’t taught for a while so it was good to start again, in hopefully a helpfully interactive way as we all looked at sliced and whole kidneys. In the session we talked about the cortex and the medulla, pointing out that while the cortex is outermost it also surrounds medullary (or renal) pyramids…

  • ‘iTunes university’ better than the real thing

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    Jess Griffiths, our Learning Technologist pointed out an interesting publication suggesting that students do better using podcasts than learning from lectures. It’s an unexpected result from my position as both a lecturer and a podcaster and very interesting. The researchers set a lecture for a group of students purely for testing this, with half of…

  • Dexter James DeWreede

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    Rhiannon Fish/DeWreede gave birth to a baby boy yesterday! The second year students will remember Rhi from anatomy teaching last year & of course you all know Rhi through our podcasts. Dexter James DeWreede was born at 2pm by caesarian section and weighed 9lb 8oz! There seems to be a trend in big babies amongst…