#20 Dr Michelle Lazarus

02/05/18 • 59 min

Dr Michelle Lazarus is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human Anatomy Education, Monash University, Australia.

Michelle joins me for a wide ranging chat about her entry into anatomy education and approach to scholarship. We also discuss the ‘hands-offs’ approach she employs in her anatomy teaching and highly successful Ask Anatomist initiative.

You can follow Michelle using the Twitter handle @InsidOutAnatomy

Here are the links to the papers we discussed:

Ask an anatomist: Identifying global trends, topics and themes of academic anatomists using twitter.

Practicing handoffs early: Applying a clinical framework in the anatomy laboratory

An anatomy precourse enhances student learning in veterinary anatomy.

Anatomy integration blueprint: A fourth-year musculoskeletal anatomy elective model.

Perceptions of anatomy: critical components in the clinical setting.

To get involved with Ask Anatomist you can use the Twitter handle @AskAnatomist and ask a question using the hashtag #AnatQ

To continue the conversation use: #AnatPodcast

Follow: @AnatEducPodcast

Visit: anatomypodcast.co.uk for more information

The Anatomy Education Podcast is supported by the American Association of Anatomists. For information about upcoming events, membership details and much more, visit www.anatomy.org.

Dr Michelle Lazarus is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human Anatomy Education, Monash University, Australia.

You can follow Michelle using the Twitter handle @InsidOutAnatomy

Here are the links to the papers we discussed:

Ask an anatomist: Identifying global trends, topics and themes of academic anatomists using twitter.

Practicing handoffs early: Applying a clinical framework in the anatomy laboratory

An anatomy precourse enhances student learning in veterinary anatomy.

Anatomy integration blueprint: A fourth-year musculoskeletal anatomy elective model.

Perceptions of anatomy: critical components in the clinical setting.

To get involved with Ask Anatomist you can use the Twitter handle @AskAnatomist and ask a question using the hashtag #AnatQ

To continue the conversation use: #AnatPodcast

Follow: @AnatEducPodcast

Visit: anatomypodcast.co.uk for more information

The Anatomy Education Podcast is supported by the American Association of Anatomists. For information about upcoming events, membership details and much more, visit www.anatomy.org.

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#19 Catherine Hennessy

Catherine Hennessy is a Teaching Fellow in Anatomy at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom.

Catherine joins me for a wider ranging conversation on anatomy education, social media and her PhD area of study on professionalism.

Here are the links to some recent papers, including the Twitter paper in ASE we discussed:

Social media and anatomy education: Using twitter to enhance the student learning experience in anatomy

Lifting the negative cloud of social media use within medical education

You can follow Catherine on Twitter using the Twitter handle: @CathHennessy and #chphd

To continue the conversation use: #AnatPodcast

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Visit: anatomypodcast.co.uk for more information

The Anatomy Education Podcast is supported by the American Association of Anatomists. For information about upcoming events, membership details and much more, visit www.anatomy.org.

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#21 Dr Kat Sanders & Janet Philp

Dr Kat Sanders is a Lecturer in Clinical Anatomy at the Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School, United Kingdom.

Janet Philp is the Head of Administration for Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Kat discusses her background and journey into anatomy education, and how she approaches neuroanatomy teaching using PlayDoh. Janet also shares her experience across higher education and discusses her book on Burke and Hare.

We finish the podcast by discussing public engagement and the upcoming Anatomy Nights – Matters of the Heart event on 14th February held across the United Kingdom. Tickets for the events in Hull, Edinburgh, Brighton, Dundee and Lancaster can be found here. Follow the event on Twitter using @AnatomyNight

You can follow Kat and Janet by using the Twitter handles @AnatomyKat and @anatomyfound.

Here is a link to Kat’s Fame Lab presentation in 2017 and Janet’s Anatomy Fundamentals website.

You can also purchase Janet’s Book on Burke and Hare here.

To continue the conversation use: #AnatPodcast

Follow: @AnatEducPodcast

Visit: anatomypodcast.co.uk for more information

The Anatomy Education Podcast is supported by the American Association of Anatomists. For information about upcoming events, membership details and much more, visit www.anatomy.org.