Category: Anatomy

  • Teaching next Monday

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    I feel a little (only a little) contrary in saying this, but I’m looking forward to teaching on Monday. Teaching on Monday mornings can be tough, in that you may not have had enough time in the previous week to prepare exactly as you would like, so Sunday afternoons and/or evenings get eaten up by…

  • Guess the questions

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  • Exam day

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    This morning we set up the final anatomy exam for the current 1st years. If they pass this, that will be the end of their anatomy teaching for their “undergraduate” medicine training.

  • Lack of bodies for medic training

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    “A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.” BBC article.

  • Multi Touch Sensing Displays

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    Take a look at this technology. This is Minority Report style gesture-based touch screen control of your computer. Imagine how great this would be with the full 3D data (rather than the pre-rendered images) of the interactive anatomical models of anatomy.tv. With one or two large, very high definition displays a student or teacher could…

  • Term 1 spotter questions

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    I’ve added the example musculoskeletal anatomy questions to the term 1 section on the medicine page. Remember that the real exam will not use multiple choice questions.

  • Australopithecus afarensis in the news

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    Some of the earliest human remains have been examined and discussed in Nature. That these are the fossilised bones of a child makes this discussion even more fascinating. BBC article.

  • Bat to work

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    I’m back in work again this week, as we have a week of resit exams for the first years. The first exam that I was involved in today had bats flying round the room half-way through. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come this week. We may have a plague of locusts…

  • Spotter 3

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    Today is the final anatomy exam of the year, and the last piece of the human structure module for most of our medicine students. Many of them were looking far more nervous than I’ve seen before. We’re examining the anatomy of the head and neck, which can get very detailed and intricate but is a…

  • Anatomy Finished

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    Today was the last anatomy session for the current first years (I think they were quite happy with that). That’s it, the teaching is over for another year. I’ve still got some web-based revision exercises to add to for them before they sit the exam, but they have been taught all the anatomy that they…