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Hello Aklami,
I'm afraid i dont know how likely you would be to get on the Anatomy BSc course as an external student. It is probably worth e-mailing the course co-ordinator to ask if you decide you are seriously interested.
In terms of course content it is important to note (and often not fully appreciated) that although the degree programme may be "anatomy", this relates almost entirely to the topic of the dissertation rather than the course as a whole. The course contains a 40 credit clinical anatomy project which involves cadaveric dissection, production of an e-learning package and a written dissertation with presentation to other students usually based on a specific surgical topic.
The rest of the modules (totalling 120 credits for a BSc hons degree) are made up from a selection from the pool of modules avaliable under the school of biomedical sciences (BMS) and you will be in lectures with other intercalating medics, physiologists, neurosientists, medical scientists, and all other breeds of science students. Unfortunately all the gross anatomy is taught in the second year in BMS at Leeds, so under the regulations of the university, you can only choose to do a maximum of 20 credits of level 2 modules and hence of gross anatomy.
The only gross anatomy module open to us last year was head & neck anatomy - which i personally quite enjoyed and all the intercalating medics did very well in. The rest of my modules were a mixture of cellular anatomy things (at a push) such as bone in health & disease / cancer biology and neuroscience. Precise details of the module options can be found on the Leeds Medical School website under intercalating - im pretty sure brianfall or WAMS has pasted in a link earlier in this thread.
The head & neck anatomy module itself was a 10 credit module with two teaching sessions per week. 1 lecture followed by a practical class at the end of the week. Practicals involved four stations of prosections which were used as teaching aids by anatomy demonstrators to expand on lecture material. The demonstrators were surgical SHOs or BMS PhD students in case u are interested. I found this quite useful to expand on the knowledge I already had from cadaveric dissection in medicine, but i question how easy it is to aquire the knowledge if you are doing so from scratch with such limited exposure.
Overall I found it to be a tough year, as did the other 14 on the course. Whilst medicine is hard work, it is a very different style to BMS and it took a lot of effort (and stress) to change style and learn how to cope with the BMS modules. I really enjoyed my dissertation topic, and the chance to do some very fine detail dissection. However, like with any large project it had its fair share of stress for all involved. Hopefully some of the bugs will have been ironed out for the next intake!
I think its very hard for me to recommend it, or not to, as it really depends why you want to do it and what you want to get out of it. If you'd asked me whilst i was doing my dissertation i would have told u that u were mad for wanting to do it. Now im back in medicine, i can see that it has taught me lots of useful skills and even if it is little use for FY1 jobs, i do think its worthwhile so long as u know what u are getting into, and are doing so for the right reasons.
If you want to know anything else, prob better to PM me, as im sure every1 else is starting to get very bored of my reply.
Best of luck,
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Academic Vascular Medicine & Surgery
Currently: FY1 in Cardiology at the Leeds General Infirmary[/color]
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