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‘It all begins with the outside of the body, with a person wrapped in their own skin’ : How to make surface anatomy a central part of a curriculum
Author(s) -
Tunstall Richard
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.9.3
Subject(s) - surface anatomy , presentation (obstetrics) , anatomy , curriculum , gross anatomy , health care , medical education , medicine , psychological intervention , class (philosophy) , psychology , computer science , radiology , artificial intelligence , nursing , pedagogy , economics , economic growth
The majority of patient examinations and interventions within a healthcare setting rely on the use of surface anatomy; why, therefore, do so many of the courses used to train healthcare practitioners place little emphasis on ensuring proficiency, or indeed mastery, in the surface landmarking and localisation relevant to safe practice? Despite the regularity with which it is used in practice, surface anatomy is often treated as a second‐class relation to gross anatomy, as an add‐on component that students will figure out for themselves via logical deduction. To further add to the issue, many current texts present outdated descriptions of surface anatomy and fail to recognise that there is a range of normal positions within which structures may sit. Arguably, surface anatomy should form one of the core components of any clinical anatomy and medical imaging curriculum for healthcare practitioners and all graduating practitioners should be able to consistently locate and visualise structures relevant to their practice via the skin. This presentation will discuss a range of techniques, methods and resources that have be used to enable surface anatomy to become an explicit and central part of undergraduate and postgraduate training, and will highlight the challenges and outcomes of implementing such an approach. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .