Anatomy lectures and GEP

[niccybird]

I know it's a last minute but I want to ask anyone about the anatomy lectures on the GEP, especially the practical sessions? Any dissections? Is it guided or is it mainly self-taught?

Any opinions would be much appreciated!

Nic

[Jam]

posted this on TSR:
Anatomy lectures - The Student Room


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

[MedicMark?]

When was this posted on TSR? This sounds similar to how it was in my first year (2006) but I think the format has changed since then...

[Jam]

I posted this yesterday on TSR too.