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Old 13-10-2009: 13th October 2009 00:13 #1 
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Does anyone know anything about the anatomy lectures on the medical courses? Any ideas/ opinions/ advice would be much appreciated. (bit last minute I know)
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Does anyone know anything about the anatomy lectures on the medical courses? Any ideas/ opinions/ advice would be much appreciated. (bit last minute I know)

They'll be different depending on which medical school you go to and the methods they use to teach anatomy.

Personally I've had both lectures and seminars with the basic anatomy then had a chance to dissect and been taught using the cadavers as well as prosections and models, with some surface anatomy practised on each other as well.
 
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The way it was taught made it boring as ****. Textbooks are long-winded and as boring as ****. Exams were difficult and required a lot of preparation, not something you can blag.

Practicals were fun though. Highly recommend a colouring book of sorts for revision and general understanding.

But then I again I loathe lecture based learning, so that could explain why I didn't enjoy it. I'd imagine if I were taught in a more "involved" way, it would have been better
 
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There was a decent set of audio podcasts on anatomy, I cant remember for the life of me what they were called, but they were pretty good. Anyone remember?
 
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Depends how precise your medschool likes to be with anatomy. but generally, you need to know attachments, insertions tendons, nerve supplies vascular supply, venous drainage and nearby lymph nodes. Then be able to spot these on demand on different cadevers, xrays and prosections.
 
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Originally Posted by martin101
There was a decent set of audio podcasts on anatomy, I cant remember for the life of me what they were called, but they were pretty good. Anyone remember?
Whitaker's Instant Anatomy? Not used them myself (Podcasts weren't really invented back in my day) but I believe they're quite popular with the Cam kids these days.
 
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On the St Georges GEP course it is mostly self directed learning. You (sort of) get told what anatomy you need to know each week and you just have to learn it anyway you can. There is usually a 1.5 hour dissection room session, in which you go around with a group to different stations for a short period of time. Each station is usually a pre-dissected cadaver that you can have a poke around in and ask questions of the demonstrator that is on that particular station. There are also models dotted around and pro-sections of various parts so you can get a better look, also there is usually a station on medical imaging so you can relate what you see in the body to what you might see on an xray etc.

We also have access to the dissection room at pretty much any time we want (with no demonstrator), either to look in the cadavers or at the models they have. We have no formal lectures on anatomy, but you pick it up in every other bit of teaching (e.g lots of anatomy is needed for clinical skills). We have also have a large amount of online resources such as the Aclands videos (which are quite good). Also we usually have to learn the anatomy which relates to the weeks PBL case as well as it is essential (usually) in understanding the case fully.

Personally I think it is a bit hit and miss, there is limited time with demonstrators and it is not always possible to deduce in a group what everything is, learning from an anatomy atlas or textbook is one thing but seeing something in a cadaver or on a image is another. Having access to the DR whenever we like is a bonus, but it is so substitute for the demonstrator led sessions.
 
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At Bristol you have dissection room sessions every week for the whole of first and second year. Although you don't actually do the dissection ( the demonstrators have already done all the cutting up) you go in and look at the specimens and learn that way. All the exams are spot exams done in the DR ( where you rotate around a series of specimen questions). Theres a chance in second year to sign up for an SSC in anatomy where you do dissect things.
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Whitaker's Instant Anatomy? Not used them myself (Podcasts weren't really invented back in my day) but I believe they're quite popular with the Cam kids these days.

Thats the one!
 
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Thats the one!
Was taught by the man himself, no need for podcasts.
 
 
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