The anatomy facility is utilised by students on the MB BS and MSc Physician Associate Studies programmes, as well as students from the School of Health Sciences studying Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Paramedic Science, and Speech and Language Therapy courses. It also hosts external teaching events including surgical courses and postgraduate training days.
Anatomy is taught across all years of our MB BS course with an emphasis on clinical application. We have strong links with clinicians from local hospitals and medical practices who assist with teaching and contribute to teaching material to ensure that clinical information is relevant and up to date across all disciplines.
Bespoke resources such as illustrations, videos and workbooks are made by the anatomy team to support learning.
Norwich Medical School
Teaching takes place over a series of lectures, seminars and workshops, using whole-body cadaveric dissection, cadaveric prosections, anatomical models, bones, videos and workbooks.
Anatomy is taught mainly through dissection-based seminars in the first three years of the MB BS course. In these sessions, students carry out workbook-guided dissections of specific regions of the body with the help of anatomy staff and clinicians from local hospitals and medical practices. Anatomy is offered as a student selected study component (SSC) in their first three years of study, where students undertake a more in-depth study of a particular region of anatomy.
Year 1 MB BS students’ study and carry out a full dissection of the locomotor system, including upper limb, lower limb, back and spine. Anatomical and embryological concepts are taught through a series of lectures.
Year 2 MB BS students’ study and carry out a full dissection of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, including heart and lungs, the thoracic cavity and the lymphatics of these regions. We teach embryological concepts and module-specific seminars on the upper respiratory system, the peripheral circulatory system and the lymphatic system.
Year 3 MB BS students’ study and carry out a full dissection of the abdomen and male pelvis, including the gastrointestinal tract and associated organs, the urinary system, male pelvic organs and the male perineum. Additional seminars are delivered on embryological concepts. In addition, neuroanatomy and anatomy of the eye and ear are covered through seminars using specially prepared cadaveric prosections and detailed anatomical models.
Year 4 MB BS teaching is delivered by the anatomy staff using specially prepared cadaveric prosections, museum specimens, anatomical models and bespoke workbooks. The main focus is on the female pelvis and perineum, and embryology.
Year 5 MB BS teaching is carried out by practising clinicians. The anatomy behind common emergency and surgical procedures is demonstrated to prepare students for their first year as a junior doctor. Students are able to study the anatomy of these procedures in small groups using cadaveric material within the laboratory.
School of Health Sciences
We deliver seminars in the anatomy laboratory using specially prepared cadaveric prosections, allowing students to relate structures under the skin to those seen in practical examinations and lectures. In some seminars, students will be given the opportunity to handle specimens or take part in surface anatomy workshops.
Postgraduate Courses
Our anatomy laboratory is also available for hosting training days and courses. The following facilities can be made available upon request:
- Laboratory space for up to 60 delegates
- Up to twelve fresh-frozen cadaveric workstations
- A vast selection of high quality prosected cadaveric specimens
- A live and recordable camera feed projected over eight large television monitors
- Over 200 anatomical models
- Extra rooms with catering arrangement.
Courses recently hosted by the anatomy department include:
- Norwich Thoracic Cadaveric Simulation course
- NOSTRA and NNUH Laparoscopic Colorectal Cadaveric course
- First European Masterclass on minimally invasive inguinal lymphnode dissection and hands on cadaveric training
- East Anglian Occuloplastic Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery course
- Open Abdominal and Trauna Surgery Cadaveric course
- Anaesthetic Regional Block Cadaveric course
- BAPRAS Microsurgery Committee 1st free perforator flaps cadaveric course
- Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) WADE programme and MRCS revision course
- Third East Anglian sinus, orbit and skull base surgery course
- Orthopaedic surgical approaches
- Spinal surgical approaches
- Urology revision course.
If you are interested in using any of our facilities to host a training day or course for registered healthcare professionals, please contact us on +44 (0)1603 591104 or email us at anatomy@uea.ac.uk.