Tips for learning and remembering anatomy - with Associate Professor Michelle Lazarus. Clinical Anatomy series launch

Physio Foundations

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke to anatomy educator Associate Professor Michelle Lazarus. Michelle is the Director of the Centre for Human Anatomy Education at Monash University and a highly experienced anatomy educator and researcher. We had a really interesting discussion about the best ways for students and practitioners to learn anatomy, how to remember and retain anatomical knowledge and resources you can use to continue to build you foundations in anatomy.

This was also the official launch of the Clinical Anatomy series on this podcast – stay tuned for future podcasts on applied and clinical anatomy that you can use in the clinic.

This is a discussion aimed at health professionals and health professional students. Always seek the guidance of a qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical condition.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Welcome Michelle
• 0:28 About Michelle and the anatomy series
• 3:06 Teaching anatomy requires energy!
• 3:25 What do you love about anatomy?
• 5:45: Story telling in anatomy
• 7:28 Ask.Anatomist podcast
• 9:35 Anatomy is shared by everyone – learn from each other and embrace the complexity
• 10:40 Anatomy is vast – tips for learning anatomy
• 11:57 Tip 1 – listen to your educators
• 13:00 Tip 2 – move away from memorisation
• 13:40 Tip 3 – understand the story of anatomy
• 15:40 What makes a good anatomy educator – story telling, set boundaries and have passion
• 17:40 Principles of anatomy for clinicians
• 18:40 Expectation theory, the curse of knowledge
• 24:45 Resources to learn anatomy

Follow Michelle @InsidOutAnatomy

Visit https://www.askanatomist.com/

Michelle’s profile: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/michelle-lazarus

Michelle mentioned the novel 100 years of solitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude

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