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I read the article entitled “A plea for the use of drawing in human anatomy teaching”, by Clavert et al. with great interest. I was glad to read that, in France, anatomy is initially taught by building each structure or region on a blackboard with colored chalk. I find this method quite efficient for this purpose. I believe that drawing is a powerful way of teaching anatomy and therefore the blackboard deserves its rightful place beside other ‘high-tech’ media. I agree with the authors that the blackboard and the chalk constitute wonderful and powerful educational media, and that appropriate simplification and transposing (of anatomical information) in daily practice are necessary for a sufficient educational result. Among other ‘modern’ media, movies of surgical procedures could easily attract the students’ attention.

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  1. Clavert P, Bouchaïb J, Duparc F, Kahn JL (2012) A plea for the use of drawing in human anatomy teaching. Surg Radiol Anat 34(8):787–789

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Mavridis, I.N. A powerful way of teaching anatomy. Surg Radiol Anat 35, 365–366 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-012-1041-9

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