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anatomy education
- See also anatomy taught courses
At BSMS anatomy is taught using a full range of teaching and learning skills. Within years 1 and 2 undergraduate students dissect specified regions of the human body aided by structured notes which are designed to ensure students gain a complete understanding of how structure and function within the body are so closely related and how such knowledge forms the basis of clinical medicine.
Throughout the teaching of anatomy, physicians, surgeons and radiologists all participate in lectures, tutorials, clinical symposia and practical classes alongside the anatomy team, enabling the students to observe the strong underpinning of clinical medicine with the basic medical sciences.
Demonstrators in Anatomy, all of whom are surgical SHOs work with the students both within the dissecting room and in module tutorials bringing to the course their everyday clinical experiences as junior house doctors. In year 2 of the course some dissection is still undertaken, with students also studying structure and function from prepared prosected specimens.
Living anatomy is a very important part of the course, with students learning the basis of clinical examination from the knowledge they gain of important surface landmarks of thoracic and pelvic viscera. In living anatomy sessions students also study joint structure and movement which introduces them to biomechanics as a first introduction to the discipline of orthopaedics.
A particular strength in the teaching of anatomy at BSMS is the linking of anatomy with modern day medical imaging with students undertaking self directed interactive imaging sessions in the IT suite to enhance and strengthen the knowledge gained in the anatomy practical classes, tutorials and lectures.
Postgraduate anatomy also has a very high profile at BSMS. The anatomists contribute to the MSc degree in Orthopaedics and Trauma with candidates for the degree spending valuable time within the dissecting room studying surgical anatomy relevant to their level of study as well as the MSc in Cardiology. Many of the orthopaedic surgeons from the Trust Hospitals also utilise the BSMS dissecting facility both for the running of surgical courses and undertaking research projects related to anatomical examination to confirm, or even refute, dogma in surgical practice.
'The anatomy teaching is one of the best aspects of the course. Our lecturers are amazing and dissections help you to appreciate what you are learning in a way that no text-book can teach. Regular imaging practicals also give us a taster of anatomy’s relevance.’
Mark Abel