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Delivering supplemental anatomy education: the University of Queensland model

Matthew J Roberts, Bavahuna Manoharan, Marianne Vonau, Russell W Stitz and Owen A Ung
Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): . || doi: 10.5694/mja11.10470
Published online: 17 October 2011

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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