Delivering supplemental anatomy education: the University of Queensland model

Roberts, Matthew J; Manoharan, Bavahuna; Vonau, Marianne; Stitz, Russell W; Ung, Owen A

doi:10.5694/mja11.10470

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To the Editor: The article by Ramsey-Stewart and colleagues1 reports a welcome addition to supplemental anatomy education in graduate-entry medical courses in Australia. Increasing medical student numbers are increasing pressure on teaching resources, further propagating the nationally recognised deficiency in anatomy teaching.2,3

Applied Anatomy Course Committee, Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.

Correspondence: owenung@bigpond.com

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1. Ramsey-Stewart G, Burgess AW, Hill DA. Back to the future: teaching anatomy by whole-body dissection. Med J Aust 2010; 193: 668-671. <MJA full text>
2. Medical Training Review Panel. Thirteenth report. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, 2010.
3. Craig S, Tait N, Boers D, McAndrew D. Review of anatomy education in Australian and New Zealand medical schools. ANZ J Surg 2010; 80: 212-216.
4. Manoharan B, Ung O, Roberts MJ, et al. Extracurricular applied anatomy education; a medical student pilot. ANZ J Surg 2011; 81 Suppl S1: A66.
5. Bergman EM, van der Vleuten CP, Scherpbier AJ. Why don’t they know enough about anatomy? A narrative review. Med Teach 2011; 33: 403-409.

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