Art Beat: Art and anatomy Edinburgh

Team Members: Victoria McCulloch, Nichola Robertson, Gordon Findlater and Kimmie Dunlop

Abstract

“Art and Anatomy Edinburgh” has several core aims:

To establish sustainable, innovative anatomy teaching for medical students, which supplements their current curriculum and uses art.
To bridge the gap in anatomy teaching between pre-clinical and clinical years by making anatomy teaching more clinically relevant
To inspire students and encourage them to consider careers in surgery
To make the anatomy of surgery more accessible to the public through art
To encourage student ownership/autonomy through management of public engagement events

Our objectives are:

To run regular sessions teaching students anatomy using art
To keep the courses free
To teach anatomy using surgical principles
To monitor the feedback of students, use this to improve our teaching techniques and contribute to the body of research into the effectiveness of different approaches to teaching anatomy
To use exhibitions of artworks produced by students as public engagement events
To further public engagement with children through local libraries (“Art and Anatomy Kids”)
For medical students to learn management and organizational skills through staging public engagement events.
To expand our course to different centres throughout the UK.

Anderson M, Robertson N, Harrison EM, Wigmore SJ (2015) Inspiring Future Surgeons - The Art of Anatomy British Journal of Surgery 102 (S7) pg 11

This article was published on 2024-02-26