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Education:  Symposium on Anatomical education: recent advances and future developments


Posted: Wednesday 15 February 2006

As well as the regular Education Discussion Sessions within Society conferences, in September 2002 there was a One Day Symposium on Anatomical education: recent advances and future developments.

Synopses from that symposium may be found attached below.


Symposium programme
Steve McHanwell, Anatomical Society Education Committee:
Introduction and welcome

Session 1: Defining and assessing modern anatomy curricula

Barry Mitchell, University of Southampton
[1] Is CLASy anatomy good medicine?
Tony Firth, Imperial College London
[2] Relevant anatomy in limited time - the Imperial College London approach
Ian Beith, King’s College London
[3] Anatomy for physiotherapists
Nick Lock, Kingston University and St George’s Hospital Medical School
[4] Anatomy for radiographers
Ian Stewart, University of Aberdeen
[5] The Scottish Anatomists: defining anatomy contributions to learning outcomes for medical undergraduates in Scotland
Richard Dyball, University of Cambridge
[6] Setting a benchmark for anatomical knowledge and its assessment: a core curriculum for the teaching of anatomy to medical students
Philip Bradley, University of Newcastle
[7] The role of assessment in a case-led outcome-based anatomy curriculum

Session 2: Anatomy in problem based curricula

Henny van Straaten, University of Maastricht
[8] Teaching and learning anatomy in Maastricht
John Shaw-Dunn, University of Glasgow
[9]Anatomy in problem based curricula: Glasgow’s experience
John McLachlan, Peninsula Medical School
[10] Anatomy in a new born Medical School
John Hamilton, University of Durham, Stockton campus
[11] Historic perspective on problem based learning


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