Category: Anatomy
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Skull Osteology iPad app
Being busy is a poor excuse for not blogging. if you’re busy then hopefully you’ve got a lot to blog about, but I guess, like me recently, you’re busy with the mundane and there isn’t a lot to talk about. Twitter and the blog get ignored, and you’re only as good as you’re last update…
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Boys vs Girls
I’ve started a new series of embryology lectures that will run over 2 years for each group of students. As I’ve got the whole series to myself, and as I like to run quizzes in the lectures to see how much the students take in (and for fun, and for the students themselves to see…
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A week or so of repair
I’ve been good, keeping my broken shoulder immobilised (well, the pain helps with that) and staying wedged on the sofa in front of the Olympics on the telly. The iPad is very handy & I’ve been able to read a lot but I got sick of talking to it. Sitting at a desk & typing…
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An early break
I had a little tumble on my bike on Sunday. I was doing a tempo segment followed by a nice longish aerobic portion and the 12 minute tempo reps had gone really well. Lots of power coming out of my legs and I was having a nice easy spin around Tewkesbury to warm down. It…
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Week 222: spinal tracts
Ouch – we had some monster neuroanatomy learning outcomes this week. From an anatomy perspective we want students to be aware of the major motor and sensory tracts of the spinal cord, what type of information they carry, where they run (and where they cross over from one side to the other), and what would…
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Week 219 – blood circulation in the lungs
The Christmas holidays are over and we’re back to teaching (and learning). This week we went back to the lungs and added a little detail by looking at the pulmonary vessels in more detail, and adding the bronchial arteries and veins to this. As this is a teaching week about pulmonary embolism this anatomy should…
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Week 107 – kidneys, nearby viscera and the nervous system
On Monday we spent the morning looking at the kidneys and suprarenal (or adrenal) glands. You saw their anatomy and histology in other stations, but with me we had a quick look at the anterior visceral relationships of each kidney, and then talked about the overall scheme and structure of the nervous system. The kidneys…
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Week 104: the neck
In anatomy today we jumped between different topics in neck anatomy, filling gaps, as it were. This was probably a tougher session than previous weeks, and it might take you a while to get through this week’s learning outcomes. Anatomy will take up a fair amount of your time this year, but it is an…
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Run!
Running hasn’t been going very well for me this year. I made a decision to make some changes to my biomechanics over the winter that seem to have worked very well. Unfortunately I thought I could pick up the volume of running that I’d done in previous years and ripped my calves to bits. A…