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Teaching Anatomy

A Practical Guide

  • Includes the most up-to-date technological and pedagogical advances in anatomy education
  • Offers practical, easy-to-follow advice and guidance to gross anatomy teachers across the spectrum of experience and expertise
  • Specifically targets teaching and learning situations that gross anatomy teachers will find themselves in

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Table of contents (52 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Elements of Successful Adult Learning

    • Lap Ki Chan, Miriam Uhlmann
    Pages 1-9
  3. Learners of a New Generation

    • Camille DiLullo
    Pages 11-21
  4. Using Teaching Assistants in Anatomy

    • Darrell J. R. Evans
    Pages 31-40
  5. Engaging Residents and Clinical Faculty in Anatomy Education

    • Jennifer M. McBride, Richard L. Drake
    Pages 41-44
  6. A Significant Role for Sessional Teachers in the Anatomy Education Landscape

    • Michelle D. Lazarus, Danielle Rhodes
    Pages 45-53
  7. Gamification in Anatomy Education

    • Christopher See
    Pages 63-71
  8. Anatomy Education to the Public

    • Adam M. Taylor
    Pages 73-84
  9. Giving a Lecture

    • Lap Ki Chan
    Pages 85-95
  10. Preparing and Recording Lectures for Online Delivery

    • Thierry R. H. Bacro
    Pages 107-114
  11. Choosing Between Lecture and Briefing Sessions

    • Nirusha Lachman, Wojciech Pawlina
    Pages 123-131
  12. Facilitating Small Group Learning

    • Boon Huat Bay, Samuel Sam Wah Tay, Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan
    Pages 133-141
  13. Teaching and Learning Anatomy in a PBL Curriculum

    • Esther M. Bergman
    Pages 143-152
  14. Teaching Anatomy: Effective Use of Modified Team-Based Learning Strategy

    • Cheryl Melovitz-Vasan, Susan Huff, Nagaswami S. Vasan
    Pages 161-172
  15. Giving Feedback to Students

    • Nirusha Lachman
    Pages 173-183

About this book

The field of anatomy is dynamic and fertile. The rapid advances in technology in the past few years have produced exciting opportunities in the teaching of gross anatomy such as 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, digital anatomy models, portable ultrasound, and more. Pedagogical innovations such as gamification and the flipped classroom, among others, have also been developed and implemented. As a result, preparing anatomy teachers in the use of these new teaching tools and methods is very timely.

The main aim of the second edition of Teaching Anatomy – A Practical Guide is to offer gross anatomy teachers the most up-to-date advice and guidance for anatomy teaching, utilizing pedagogical and technological innovations at the forefront of anatomy education in the five years since the publication of the first edition.

This edition is structured according to the teaching and learning situations that gross anatomy teachers will findthemselves in: large group setting, small group setting, gross anatomy laboratory, writing examination questions, designing anatomy curriculum, using anatomy teaching tools, or building up their scholarship of teaching and learning. Fully revised and updated, including fifteen new chapters discussing the latest advances, this second edition is an excellent resource for all instructors in gross anatomy.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao Special Administrative Region, China

    Lap Ki Chan

  • Department of Clinical Anatomy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, USA

    Wojciech Pawlina

About the editors

Lap Ki Chan, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

The University of Hong Kong

Pokfulam, Hong Kong


Wojciech Pawlina

Chair, Department of Anatomy

Professor of Anatomy and Medical Education

College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Anatomy

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide

  • Editors: Lap Ki Chan, Wojciech Pawlina

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43283-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43282-9Published: 21 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43283-6Published: 20 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XX, 554

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anatomy, General Practice / Family Medicine

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access