Education
Anatomy education is at the heart of what we do. The Centre for Human Anatomy Education plays a crucial role in educating the future healthcare workforce
Who we teach
The Centre for Human Anatomy Education is responsible for developing the anatomy curriculum and teaching it across our suite of medical, biomedical science and allied health programs.
Our educational expertise extends from undergraduate and graduate level, through to specialist training for medical and health practitioners.
What we teach
Our team of clinically qualified educators collaborate closely with our expert anatomists to workshop authentic clinical cases. This process allows us to draw out unique and specific elements that provide the opportunity for students to apply and test their fundamental anatomical knowledge. The students engage with these curated cases via an evidence-based active learning format. Students enhance their applied anatomy skills by working through and solving questions relating to these cases, either through online discussion forums or by testing their abilities in small group settings that foster peer engagement and the sharing of ideas via collaborative learning.
Education. As each member brings with them a different perspective of anatomy, this breadth adds to the quality of our teaching. In particular, the Centre benefits from having several evolutionary biologists.
organism are related to function. It analyses the shape and form of a specific structure to predict its function. It helps to understand the mechanical principles that lead to complex movements, such as running, jumping or chewing, and ultimately, it allows to evaluate the adaptive significance of specific anatomical traits.
At the Centre, we use all aspects of anatomy to teach anatomical relationships. This includes developmental anatomy or embryology. Studying adult anatomy can sometimes be quite complicated or confusing. Students can at times struggle to find correlations between form and function. An understanding of development can synthesize and clarify these more complicated relationships. We actively teach developmental anatomy in our courses to not only better understand the human body but to infer possible variations students find in their future patients.How we teach
Our team are award-winning innovators in anatomy education. We embrace technology and new ways of teaching to inspire our students to engage with anatomy in new ways.
eness depends on many factors including the teaching context, the learner background and the course objectives. We focus on creating a nexus between our educational research outcomes and our practical classroom teaching. In this way, we stay up-to-date with the most modern teaching approaches (such as clinical case-based learning, clinical skill development, active learning) in a manner that enhances the learners’ experiences and discipline knowledge. We have active ongoing anatomy education research which informs best practice both within the centre, as well as globally across the discipline.
The Centre for Human Anatomy Education 3D Printing Lab is the world leader in the design, development, and production of high-fidelity replicas of human and comparative anatomy. Our extensive range of 3D printed human anatomy replicas cover all body regions and systems, and includes specimens appropriate for use by undergraduate and graduate students.
The Centre has the unique capacity to bring anatomy dissection together with advanced technologies, in doing so we can generate bespoke pieces to enhance our students 3D appreciation of difficult anatomical relationships. Using our world-class dissection facilitates, educators and students can create prosections that can then be immortalized through a process of 3D scanning and digitisation.
Our Centre is home to the most advanced technologies and education resources for the study of anatomy using medical imaging. We provide our students with a high level of interaction with virtual representations of real-life bodies based on clinical imaging, where learners receive a deeper understanding and insight into the anatomy of the human body.